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It's kind of hard to pin this one down as it's very multicolored in all categories. In a way it comes off as a stylistic tour-de-force like FLCL, and in other ways it manages to hold on to its plotline much better than said anime.

The first 5 episodes really put me off, as they seemed like the generic monster-of-the-week, loud-mouthed screaming of valiant sentences and slapstick-humor kinda deal. Not only that, the monsters were ugly as hell, the mechas seemed over-the-top cheesy (in this day and age), and it just seemed like the whole thing would go down the drain in a bravado of klichées ... and Fischer-Price mechanical constructs.

However, somehow along the way the show manage to evolve, things start to get serious, people start to die, something that one will be screaming for at that point. Politics starts to press in on the juvenile spirit that dominated the first part, and starts to transform the show to a more dystopic outlook.

In the end the show literally takes off into space, and starts to go deep with alternate universes, the human condition and more abstract topics (wonderfully done I might add), and explodes in a grandiose hommage to that wonderful japanese concept of "The Fighting Spirit", with all the cheesy loud-mouthedness that goes with it, and yes, here it fits in.