This OVA was based on a novel idea that was expressed pretty well in its opening thesis "lets make the Mech shows we want to watch" Unfortunately it does poorly in its execution of this idea. It tries to cram a 12 or even 24 episode season's worth of ideas and info into a SINGLE episode, and ends up messing up pretty badly. The characters themselves seemed decent to fairly interesting, but they were ruined by trying develop them in a one-episode story, and the sound/animation were both pretty stock.The usage of energy-based plasma aliens and a dimension jumping sword turned me off like an EMP.

The one amazing thing was the pacific rim deployment of the robot.

That's pretty much it.