MSG Iron-Blooded Orphans - G-Tekketsu

[Roko]

Although that ending definitely felt a bit rushed, I like how realistic it was. On the one hand, it's a bummer our protagonists didn't 'win', but on the other hand, any happily ever after would have been a cop out. A bittersweet ending for sure.

It was a bit odd that Rustal basically did what McGillis wanted to. There seemed to be nothing to hint he would do so--wasn't he a supporter of the status quo? A few more episodes to flesh out the events after the battle would have been nice.

One last thing: Ride totally gave me Setsuna flashbacks when I first saw him at the end there.

[Kraco]

It was a bit odd that Rustal basically did what McGillis wanted to. There seemed to be nothing to hint he would do so--wasn't he a supporter of the status quo? A few more episodes to flesh out the events after the battle would have been nice.

No, I think Rustal doing this was logical enough. If you look at him, he was a man with no principles. It's kind of funny he wasn't that different from McGillis, he even told Julietta that he's one of the bad old men. However, there was one huge difference, which was keeping his head cool and not believing in ideals but believing in using ideals to his advantage. That's exactly like terrorist leaders can use ideals to make people kill themselves in suicide attacks for whatever reason, be it nationalism, political system, or religion. Rustal wanted two things: The restore Gjallarhorn to their place as the heroes of the Solar System (they had become that originally by defeating the faction that created the mobile armors), but over time they became corrupt through and through. As opposed to that, McGillis pretty much wanted to destroy Gjallarhorn. Rustal's second objective, of course, was to make himself the biggest hero of the new, reformed Gjallarhorn. For this reason he also needed big villains, which role McGillis and Tekkadan filled.

we all know that kudalia is just making the best of the situation, she knows that rustal ordered mikas execution but at the same time she know that this is the best deal she can get to mika's cause, in the end he fought for a new future and if kudelia thrown it away it would be meaningless.

I never said Kuudelia isn't doing well now, even to the point of dealing with that scumbag Rustal. She's certainly doing her everything to build a better Mars and being successful at that. I just wish she had had the guts to give Tekkadan the honour and recognition those guys deserved. They fought and died for the same thing Kuudelia is now making better, after all. It's pitiful if the official truth even on Mars teaches Tekkadan was a bunch of opportunistic criminals. Tekkadan are the guys that saved a whole Martian city from a mobile armor that idiot Iok of Gjallarhorn carelessly woke up. Surely they are teaching that to children at Martian schools!