Cobra: Time Dive is terrible. I mostly watched it because some idiot blogger called it or other Cobra thing "sexist", and these days it stands for "strong female characters who do not conform to the feminist stereotype" or "attractive, positive heterosexial women". Thus, "sexist" tends to stick to wonderful anime (like AKB0048) and in absense of other information it adds points.

Ironically, Cobra TTD is not even sexist. There is merely a bunch of women there, with a hint of involvement, and most of them get killed in action, even by direct action of the titular protagonist. If you saw how Ayato killed Asahina in RahXephon, you get the idea. It's tragic, but hardly sexist.

The difference is, what is breathtakingly tragic in RahXephon is predictable and flat here. The lovable scoundrel archetype is so copied from Han Solo, it hurts. The ex-machina manipulation is blatant, details like breathing in space are cartoony. The whole thing is trying to reach for the "so bad, it awesome" line, but cannot. Perhaps the animation is too good.

Oh well. At least now I can bash Cobra from first-hand experience.