Review of SSSS.Dynazenon

Tl;dr: Visuals are sub par, writing is pretty bad and the ED theme is about this show's only redeeming quality. If you're watching more than a few shows this season or have a long backlog you wont be missing much by skipping this one. Now for the comprehensive review that contains spoilers. Story: SSSS Dynazenon is a show about teenagers piloting mechs to fight the "Kaiju Eugenicists". These Kaiju Eugensists want to destroy all of humanity. Yea, that is really it. The writing is that terrible. No real reason is ever explicitly stated as to why they want to destroy humanity despite it being so central tothe plot. The fights tend to be boring as we are never given a compelling reason to care as well as the visuals being plain bad. The 3dcg makes you feel like you're watching Overlord or OPM S2. The show additionally wastes a lot of time on a subplot about Yume's dead sister Kano and follows her and Yomogi's investigation into whether he death was suicide or not. In the end we are never given any closure on the subject which is frustrating to say the least. There is no payoff and you feel like you wasted your time at best and at worst just longing for some kind of satisfaction that you didn't get. All the time wasted on this subplot also meant the ending was rushed and a lot like how Darling in the Franxx ended.

Art:
The 2d character art and backgrounds are generally fine however the action scenes are downright awful. SSSS Dynazenon is produced by the same studio who did Darling in the Franxx but the visuals are much worse by comparison. The action scenes are now confirmed to be plagued by lots of corner cutting 3dcg. Some of the time the combatants are hand drawn in the style of the show and other times they're 3dcg. The constant jumping between styles is for no reason other than it being more difficult/costly than the producers think is worth it to draw. The smoke also pointlessly changes styles often within a short period of time showing that there was no good communication between the various animation departments during production. It's highly jarring and looks really ugly compared to Darling in the Franxx. This sort of thing takes you out of the experience and undermines the physical properties of the word. It makes Dynazenon feel less like a work of art and moe like a cheap commercial product. You're left feeling like the show doesn't have an aesthetic or doesn't look like anything. At times it felt like I was watching a tacky youtube video with cheap editing, after effects in it. I was very disappointed because I know the studio can do better than this.

Sound:
No major issues here aside from music being too loud and annoying during the fight near the end of the penultimate episode. The ED track is pretty great and the best thing about this show.

Character:
The characters are uninteresting and unmemorable. You only really remember the main 4/5 characters through how much more often they're on the screen as opposed to great storytelling. Gauma is a plot device to develop Yomogi and is sidelined during the final episodes. Yomogi and Yume never really explain why they like each other nor do they have any heartwarming moments together. Their whole relationship comes off as artificial and even cringe-worthy at times. Something like Angel Beats has vastly more compelling characters for comparison.

Conclusion:
This is a pretty bad show. 4/10 My advice would be to skip it.