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Started watching this. While it has a lot of cheesy anime cliches, I like how it actually has a female lead that actually gets to fight and kick ass. Feels like I saw this on Toonami or Adult Swim at one point in the 2000s, although I'm probably thinking of another anime with the same art style.
The protagonist Elle Ragu's design is clearly sexualized, but eh, I don't think that's necessarily an issue. She wears a skintight bodysuit; it's obvious gooner bait, but the fan-service doesn't feel too forced. Her titties jiggling can be a bit distracting, but for the most part, she just comes across as being a fit, toned woman. Her outfit highlights her physique. There's nothing inherently wrong with displaying the female body like that, and it's not like her titties are gigantic. She's obviously meant to look sexy, but not quite in a way that I feel degrades women. This isn't really any worse than buff male characters appearing shirtless or whatever.
Elle's personality is annoying and she comes across as a bit Mary Sue-ish, but you could say the same thing about a lot of anime protagonists. I guess it's basically a typical shitty Shounen-esque anime, with its only remotely notable quality being that it stars a female instead of a male. This anime came out in 1998 (OVAs in 1995-1996. Manga came out from 1992-1998), so maybe this was kind of ahead of its time.
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