Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova- · review
Loved the animation, loved the ships and character design. The opening song is good enough to listen to repeatedly. Another thing I loved is that this has the set up to be a harem (1 guy, tons of powerful, attractive girls) but doesn't turn into one. There's only 1 love triangle and all the other mental model girls have their own motivations. The mental model characters are fleshed out very well and think is one of the best female supporting casts I've seen. Iona is probably the best character, with all of the ship mental models following closely second. On the downside,the actual human cast is rather one dimensional. I don't understand everyone's fascination with the MC Gunzo, except Iona. This is probably due to only having half a season, but that doesn't excuse it.
Also, you have to give this the 3 episode test, because it really doesn't hook until ep 3, IMO.