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by Gia Manry,... up a couple of times throughout the episode. ⏎Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector ⏎ Rating: 3 ⏎ The first five minutes of Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector has, on the surface, very little to do with the rest of the episode...at least if you're someone who hasn't watched any previous Super Robot Taisen series. Beyond that, however, the episode is mostly comprehensible to a layperson-- the only hard part is in the battle scene that takes up roughly the final third of the episode, because you don't know who's fighting for which side (unless you cheated and looked it up). ⏎ For the newbie, however, a little cheating plus The Inspector might make for an okay introduction, assuming you don't have access to earlier titles (but do have access to Wikipedia). Sure, the nipples on the female pilot seem to grow in every shot, but hey-- there's a real female pilot! And she appears to fight for the good guys! (Ahem, Gundam 00, with your effeminate-but-not-female Tieria and your psycho Nena Trinity.) As an added bonus, the female pilots shown so far are both over the age of 13. Astonishing. With a couple of exceptions that appeared in the OP or ED, the characters all could legitimately be in their late 20s to 30s, at least by anime standards. ⏎ I won't profess to being much of a mech afficionado, but both the machines and the characters in the series have strong designs...mostly. One military character looks like the goofy would-be captain from Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and another sports some pretty ridiculous shades. Also, half of the pilots wear helmets while piloting their mechs and half of them don't, although that may just be my lack of mech familiarity showing. The characters themselves seem reasonably strong without being over-the-top single-trait shells, although the aforementioned female pilots who appear in the episode aren't going to win any stereotype-breaking awards so far. ⏎ Veteran Super Robot Wars fans probably already know whether or not they want to check this out, but if the idea of a slightly aged-up Gundam-esque political mech drama appeals to you, The Inspector may be worth your time. Just make sure you schedule yourself enough time to pause, Google, and read up a couple of times throughout the episode. ⏎ Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector is available streaming at Crunchyroll ⏎ Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ⏎ Rating: 1 ⏎...