Tengen Toppa Gurran Lagan is a good series. It is however, less good in the first quarter and spikes and plateaus regularly. Things don start to pick up until
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As a whole, I recommend it. And it's pretty fun later on, but havin gone through all the learning I have with our writefriends on how characters and narrative structure can and do work, some parts were very "... Oh, how convenient. Insert trope. Insert joke. Insert rhetoric. Guy gets punched. Catchphrase." *watches as these come true in short order*