Brisk and fast-paced, this is some of Tomino's finest work; a marvel of a screenplay on how much narrative it packs in, and a beauty to look at in terms of its animation quality. CCA's soap opera story is edited in such a way that can only be described as "militant", the stories' themes on humanity told with little fervor or romanticism, a rarity in regards to its belongings in the realm of overblown anime. If Oshii ever directed Gundam, this would be it.

Arthur C. Clarke, with giant robots duking it out. There's some real groaners in the dialogue and some of the explanations given for character motivations and psychic powers seemed like copouts, but it's an otherwise solid anti-war toon with fairly interesting humanist, transhumanist and nihilist themes. Plus giant robots duking it out. In space. pewpew.

Though it features some great mech designs (like Nu Gundam and Jagd Doga), Char's Counterattack is far from the zenith of the franchise as which it's been described.