I don’t think I’ve seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not? 
Here’s what I’ve had going on -
Completed:
Good:
Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still - Great OVA! I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys G Gundam since the first few episodes of this essentially helped Imagawa get the job as the first non-Tomino TV Gundam showrunner. From what I know, they didn’t license the actual stories from the manga, so Imagawa and crew made shit up whole cloth and use characters from miscellaneous Yokoyama manga. It gives it this really manic energy when guys with random super powers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters are all fighting each other like a kid playing with a box of their parents old toys. Very light on actual robot fights, but the animation is gorgeous.
Getter Robo: Armageddon - More 90s super robots. I didn’t like it as much as Giant Robo, but this goes pretty hard and was enjoyably edgy as fuck.
Rose of Versailles - Delightful 70s classic. It has me wanting to watch more Dezaki stuff - maybe Space Adventure Cobra will work its way in soon.
OK:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 - Wasn’t bad, but it just didn’t have enough to interest me.
.hack//Sign - This was a favorite of mine back in the old days. It’s good for an advertisement/prelude for the PS2 games, but I don’t think I would recommend it otherwise. I also watched the Intermezzo and Unison OVAs - they’re eh.
Kill La Kill - I watched this on a whim after watching Cutie Honey (1973). It’s not bad, it’s just not really my thing.
Musha Knight Commando: SD Gundam Scramble - Probably cool if you were like 10 in Japan in the early 90s. 
Bad:
Cross Ange - Please check CWs before considering this, but wow is this an interesting train wreck of a show.
Ongoing:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 30/110 so far. Still liking it a lot, but I’m just slowly working my way through this one. I couldn’t imagine binging through it.
Wow I didn’t know anyone else had watched cross ange. Interesting truely is the only word to describe it.
i’ve also seen cross ange! terrible show, can’t believe my ex didn’t break up with me sooner after i suggested she watch it with me
That made me cackle. For some reason it’s lived in my brain since I saw it, probably because there are so many scenes that are, uh, stimulating.
now in my defense i also didn’t know how bad it was, i’d never seen it. i just knew we’d been watching some good mecha anime (ibo, some of votoms) and thought it’d be fun to watch some bad stuff and didn’t anticipate HOW bad it was. not even the horniest lesbian anime we watched together, though the other one was a million times better (yurikuma arashi)
Comparing Ikuhara with Fukuda is hardly fair lol
that’s true, maybe the biggest coughing baby hydrogen bomb situation every conceived lmao. at least among anime directors i would be hard pressed to think of any Auteur’s (not that either is solely responsible for the failings or successes of their respective works obviously, auteur theory is at best extremely limited and at worst complete bullshit) who are as far from each other in quality (though i haven’t seen the entirety of either artist’s output)
It’s comparable to The Room with how awful it is. The worst part is that Cross Ange probably has people who are unironically fans of it.
Misread what you said. I don’t know if there are real fans. Maybe I count. It’s fascinating because they succeded in what they wanted to do (horny bad mech show), but someone on the writing staff kept trying to do more. There are these occasional glimses into it being a show that has something to say. Not just a show with a plot, but also an actual message. But the message keeps changing and the horny comes first.
the bit with tusk magically coming back to life with no explanation is one of the most unintentionally funny things i’ve seen in an anime but it also runs any goodwill i had towards any read of the show that suggests the good things were on purpose