Power Dolls is totally unremarkable mecha slop, with a poorly defined, generic conflict, washed out visuals, and wooden dialogue. In no way is this title worth anyone's time, because it's not even bad enough to be comedy material. It instead just languishes in that lower third of the quality curve, where all the titles that are on the bad side of mediocre find their final end. To begin with the story, there's a war between Earth and the colonists of a planet called Omni over Earth's "oppressive immigration policies". What do "oppressive immigration policies" even mean in this context? Is the Earth preventing them fromimmigrating to Earth, or is Earth depriving them of potential colonists, or is it some secret third thing? Why do the Omni colonists care so much? It's just sloppy writing, and serves only to justify the existence of the titular Power Dolls- an all-girl team of mech pilots who fight against the Earth government. Also, there are certain moments of hilarious attempts at English, like calling the self-destruct function the "oneself blast system". If nothing else, this anime gave us the best name for a self-destruct button that I've ever heard, and that's worth something I suppose.

The art is generally mediocre, but still better than the story. While the mech designs are alright, the visuals are washed out and the animation is extremely stiff. Despite being produced in the late 90s, it feels in every way like an 80s anime, and not in some purposeful callback fashion, but rather in a kind of technical limitation capacity.

The sound is completely unremarkable, and there is nothing of note to say about it.

The characters leave much to be desired, and feel as though they possess no depth beyond what the story confers to them post-hoc. All in all, even if the second episode has an alright fight in it, this anime nonetheless remains a waste of time, and I wouldn't recommend it, even to people who consider themselves mecha fanatics- there is little of value to be found in this title.