YMMV / Hades Project Zeorymer

• Anticlimax Boss: After learning about her origins, Yuratei basically invites Masato over to assist her in suicide. Even by Zeorymer standards that's anticlimactic.
• Complete Monster: Masaki is the mastermind behind the events of the series and the creator of the titular Zeorymer. Formerly a scientist for a secret organization who planned to betray them, Masaki creates his own clone as the pilot of the Zeorymer, and uploads his memories to the Zeorymer before his eventual death and implants them inside his clone Masato Akitsu in the future. He was trying to overwrite the clone's personality and happily uses Zeorymer's power, without caring about the cities caught in the crossfire.
  • Manga: Masaki Wakatsuki betrayed his partners before his death, creating clones of himself and his partner's wife before dying. Years later, when his clone Masato pilots his masterpiece Zeorymer to fight against the organization Nematodo, Wakatsuki's memories take over his mind. Later he rapes Miku, the clone of his partner's wife, while commenting how he cannot understand why her adoptive father never raped her. When Masato attacks Nematodo's headquarters in an attempt to destroy Zeorymer, it's revealed that Wakatsuki used a prototype of Zeorymer to resuscitate himself in a flawed body and take control of Nematodo by killing their leader. While fighting Masato, Wakatsuki wants to take over his body. When he is outsmarted and defeated by his clone, Wakatsuki tries to activate the self-destruction of the world-destroying machine inside Miku before being killed, which triggers the self-destruction of Nematodo's base in an explosion capable of destroying the world. A petty megalomaniac, Wakatsuki would destroy the planet rather than accept his defeat.
  • OVA adaptation: Masaki Kihara creates the mechas for the organization Hau Dragon as well as the Artificial Humans to pilot them before betraying the Hau Dragon to steal the Zeorymer and dying. Years later, when his clone Masato Akitsu pilots the Zeorymer, Masaki's memories start to take control of the clone's body during his combats against the pilots of the Hau Dragon. During these fights, Masaki exploits their genetically designed emotional flaws to happily kill them without caring about the civilians caught in the crossfire. After taking near-complete control over Masato's body, Masaki stops to pilot the Zeorymer, tries to rape his creation Miku and tells her about his plans to allow the vengeful Hau Dragon to destroy the world, knowing that he will rule by using another clone inside the organization if they win.
• Designated Hero: In the manga. See that guy who rapes a girl over and over again? See him treat everyone around him like dirt? See him suddenly go back to normal because "It wasn't really him" and accept no responsibility for any of his actions? That's our hero. Averted in the anime, where Masato is horrified by Masaki's actions and at one point asks Miku to kill him to prevent Masaki from taking over.
• Fridge Logic: If Ritsu is neurotic about his feminine appearance, why doesn't he just cut his hair? Also if his face is too feminine for him, why couldn't he just afford a plastic surgery?
• Nightmare Fuel: The flashback in the fourth ova which shows Miku going through an experiment that forces her to age from a child to her current appearance. She sits naked, by herself in an isolated room, several electrodes attached to her until the button is pressed. At that point she starts trembling and moaning, clearly in pain from the experience. She stops covering her bare chest with her arms in order to clench the chair arms where she's sitting from the pain she's going through. All the while Oki, one of the "good guys", watches on stonefaced.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The ideas are good, even provocative. However, the show fails to properly use them. For example, having all of the villains come with built-in Fatal Flaws for Masaki to exploit? Clever. But, rather than actually show them exploited, the show prefers to just let Zeorymer nuke 'em into submission.

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