Review of Mobile Suit Gundam 00

The main idea is very good and very interesting, basically "what would happen if a private organization with a more advanced technology decided to end war?", that's a very good premise. At the beginning, the anime has to introduce us the context in which the story will take place, and to me, that's the most tiring part. They introduce a lot of characters, a lot of organizations and a lot of links between those, giving us many different views of the events of the anime. At first, I had a bad feeling the anime wouldn't be able to develop all those little storylines that itwas showing us, but wow Gundam 00 really surprised me, because all the different fronts converge at some point and everything makes sense, and the approach of how the world leaders act, of how the organizations act, they're very mature and realistic. After this introduction of the context, the story starts to pick up the pace and things get more and more interesting. Things start getting out of hand for the protagonists and the problems start to escalate more and more. I really like how the anime doesn't split things into right or wrong, evil or good. Of course there are the extremely good characters and the extremely evil characters, but most of the others are in a very interesting spectrum.
The art, including opening, closing, animation, action scenes, it's very good from the begging to the end. It slips sometimes, but still remains very good. The opening is astonishing, one of my favorite openings of all time, to me, everything about it is perfect. I love how many elements that are shown to us connect more and more as the story follows, nothing there seems to be random, everything sounds in place. There are some...loose points about how a character joined the organization, what did they do during certain period of time, how do they live their everyday life, but the answers really aren't necessary for the story, they would be more of a character development investment in my opinion.
I had a very good time watching, I felt a bit bored in some moments of the first episodes, but then the story defined its pace and I enjoyed very much. In general, it's an anime that goes waaaay beyond "giant robots fighting", it throws us many questions, makes us think about difficult, complicated matters of life, the characters are very realistic because they are conflicting, they many times don't know what they want, they evolve, they learn and the anime shows very well how they're feeling along the episodes. I was surprised at how they managed to develop rather well the 4 protagonists plus many supporting characters, because you know, you actually care for them, they're not support characters no one cares about, each one has their own little arc and they fit very well in the story.