Valvrave the Liberator is an anime about students that must fight for their lives, freedom, and independence with newfound mechs and powers. There is a lot of good uses of tropes, and it makes great use of high-quality animations. The fights are really great and so is how the students try to manage themselves (very interesting and kind of hilarious) but it falls short in delivering elements that can stand alone as great parts of the anime. It all works together well but it doesn't have any exceptional parts. If you like fights against authority or powers, this is for you. A love or tolerance of mechsis also required if you hope to enjoy this.