YMMV / Blue Comet SPT Layzner

• Anvilicious: Unlike Gundam, which was at least a little subtle about the whole thing, Layzner's second half is brusque, up-front, and unflinching in its criticism of Imperial Japan and its colonialist practices.
• Awesome Music:
  • Run Like Melos LONELY WAY and La Rose Rouge
  • The V-MAX theme "Toward The Approaching One" as well.
  • The second version of LONELY WAY is definitely a treat for the ears too.
  • The third version's nifty as well. Yui Horie takes up the VERY difficult mission to measure up to Airmail from Nagasaki and Hironobu Kageyama... and succeeds.
• Complete Monster: The monstrous Gosterro is a sadistic, brutal Gradosian officer whose only joy is in murder. Gleefully leading his forces in the Gradosian invasion of Earth, murdering soldier and civilian alike, Gosterro cheerfully catches his own men in his attacks, enjoying the deaths of his own soldiers while referring to those he hunts down as "prey" or "meat". Utterly without honor, Gosterro sets up a duel, only to use hidden snipers on his enemies so he can have the joy of murdering them after. With a body count of innocent and soldier alike that eclipses many Gradosians, Gosterro is later made into a cyborg and escapes after committing several more murders, intending on returning to kill all in his path just to satisfy his thirst for blood.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Gosterro, in a Love to Hate kind of way. Let's see, in Shin Super Robot Wars, he's the True Final Boss inside the Devil Gundam, and gets his own theme called Heavy Blow for Super Robot Wars OE. Not bad for a low-level starter villain-turned-miniboss.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Le Caine may be a rather skillful Evil Prince badass but what the HELL is he wearing?!
• Heartwarming Moments: The end of the OVA. Anna and Eiji REALLY earned their big damn kiss.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The Gradosians cross the line in the first episode already by brutally massacring the defenceless exchange students and personnel. And they just keep on running from there!
  • Gosterro in particular keeps having his own episode-after-episode following his debut: Eiji takes Gusten, one of Gosterro's wingmen hostage and threatens to execute him, hoping that Gosterro would call off his men and retreat. Gosterro calls his bluff, then later brutally kills Gusten himself after Gusten tries to kill Gosterro in revenge for his complacency. When the other wingman, Roberia, hears Eiji accuse Gosterro of killing Gusten, he questions Gosterro about it, who just ignores Roberia and implicates himself. When Roberia tries to capture Gosterro and bring him before a court trial, Gosterro kills him in cold blood with no hesitation. In the next episode, when Gale's SPT squad is going to chase after Eiji, Gosterro hijacks another SPT and kills the Gradosian soldier inside, laughing about it. Posing as Gale's wingman, he then tries to backstab and kill him after Gale questions Eiji about the deaths of Gusten & Roberia and then casually kills Gale's other wingman. At this point Gosterro has only been on the show for 6 episodes.
• Narm: Now with its own page.
• The Scrappy: Arthur, who has clearly mistaken abject stupidity for comic relief. He becomes slightly more bearable in the 1999 arc, if only because, as a now-chubby member of the elite who ineffectually tries to collaborate with his friends in La Résistance, he's in the show much less.
• Spiritual Licensee: Some have compared the second half of the series to Fist of the North Star.