Outlaw Star ★★★★☆

I am more fond of this show than it deserves but it’s gorgeous, has a fantastic theme song and has Aisha Clan-Clan in it. I do not know what Lenore Zann is doing with her vocal chords but her performance is fantastic. It’s most glaring problem—other than the general misogyny—is that the more the plot actually starts to happen the worse the show gets. Thankfully the show avoids that for most part. The main villains only get introduced in episode fifteen of twenty six and proceed to do very little for the rest of the show anyway. Gene still doesn’t even know who Hazanko is when he meets him in the penultimate episode. The female cast is generally underserved, too. Suzuka is interesting, gets defeated in a bullshit way in her first appearance, and then quickly settles into the background before suddenly getting a boring tragic backstory at the last minute and Melfina could have had an interesting character arch if the show had more interest in her beyond being a source of secondary angst for Gene when he’s not trying to sexually assault her. But on the other hand, Aisha Clan-Clan.