Weird tittle but the anime's pretty kool. Love the maid.

Why not use subtitles for the alien speak?

Having a character translate what an alien said to another character works okay sure. when a character is alone with an alien and is repeating everything the alien says to themselves so that we the viewer knows what it said, that's stupid.

I really appreciate the abnormal direction of the anime. Sure it's very unrefined with a lot of problems and could be much better done, but even so there's some decent concepts here. I mainly like the fact that it's not a simple good vs evil, heroes vs villains type of story. It's a small detail too but there's something amusing about the fact the heroes have but ugly mech/whatever, and only the antihero gets a cool looking mec-whatever that thing is. It's also pretty cool how the anime has a team of typical heros who think they're heroes fighting villains but eventually realize it's not that black and white.
A lot of the character's backstories seem kind of hamfisted and cliche, but the main character has a bit more going for him and his issues really hit hard in ep8, making it hard not to sympathies for the guy in a moment where in other anime of this sort someone would have slapped or punched him and told him to go fight the aliens like a good little anime protag.

This anime might not be great, but at least it feels different.

>>31782
If you like it, you might want to read some of the author's other works. He likes those kind of themes.

>>31784
Thanks for the tip, although I'd say this still has many many problems. A few refreshing themes and ideas don't really make up for all the other flaws this anime has. It's still very cliche after all is said and done.

Five years latter and he's not only still living with her and that cat, but they've all been wearing the same outfits this whole time too?