The backstory is nonsense:
"The big creatures appear from <Doesn't even say where> and *Always* attack this one city. And to combat them... they "build?" semi-living creatures with humans in them... then for not particular reason design them to inflict pain upon the pilot. (Yes, that's a design decision.) And they design them to only be piloted by the most emotionally stunted early teens."
The entire human race is threatened... and you design it to only handle teen pilots... then design it to torture them as well? AND you're going to send them into combat with *zero* prep?
Then enemies are just "one after another" random "WTF ever popped into someone's mind while they were tripping."
I love anime.... and this was not great anime. Maybe the series was... and ppl are projecting the quality of the series onto the movie... but this movie simply wasn't good.
The entire movie is 3 combats... designed to torture the teen pilot... and the movie ends.
The entire human race is threatened... and you design it to only handle teen pilots... then design it to torture them as well? AND you're going to send them into combat with *zero* prep?
Then enemies are just "one after another" random "WTF ever popped into someone's mind while they were tripping."
I love anime.... and this was not great anime. Maybe the series was... and ppl are projecting the quality of the series onto the movie... but this movie simply wasn't good.
The entire movie is 3 combats... designed to torture the teen pilot... and the movie ends.