Kyoukai Senki/AMAIM
The current Sunrise mecha show of the season. It's going for that fairy tale feel that Gundam SEED went for during the latter half of that show. The heroes are "terrorists", which translates into not committing any actual acts of terrorism, but instead doing Boy Scout service projects like painting houses and stuff. And occasionally blowing up mechs but fortunately they're all unmanned so our heroes never have to feel bad. Most bloodless war for freedom ever. It sounds ridiculous, but the ridiculous feel good nature of the show is what makes it stand out among the sea of real robot anime.
It also nice that the show is completely 2D animated. I haven't seen any 3D CGI whatsoever, not even for cars or background extras, which is a huge plus in my book given. Some of the fight scenes are pretty decent (for a modern anime fight scene), such as the battle against Ghost at the end of season 1. It feels bizzare to me that this brand new IP gets the 2D animation treatment, but Hathaway's Flash, the long awaited adaptation of an infamous Gundam novel written by Tomino, got the cheap 3D CGI stuff.
Ascendance of a Bookworm S3
We're finally out of the intro arc. Seasons 1 through 3 altogether should've been compressed into a single season, but at least it's over. Wonder how many years we will have to wait until S4. When this show is finished, it will need a fan-edit like Naruto Kai that cuts out the filler and boils down the show to the essentials. I would dread to recommend to people that they slog through the unedited show with the sheer amount of padding it has.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake
The remake is overall inferior to the original OVA series. The OVA series had straight up better aesthetics, and had better directing that gave it that huge operatic feel. It also made use of the narrator to give exposition to the audience as quickly as possible, whereas this remake bizarrely tries to use a lot of "as you know" dialogue, which is unnatural and takes way longer than it should. The remake is also much more slowly paced. That being said, the remake is interesting at times. It is better at presenting the fleet movements during a battle than the OVA series. I would also take the OVA's classical music over the remake's forgettable soundtrack any day.
The one positive thing I will say is that Muller and Kempff got more focus and are more sympathetic in the remake than I remember from the original OVA series.