Anime Like Majestic Prince
It sells you a goofy cafeteria comedy about five washouts, then drops you into vacuum combat where the maneuvering actually obeys physics and somebody could die. Team Rabbits earned the nickname Fail Five honestly: Izuru scribbling superhero manga in his notebook, Tamaki angling for a rich husband, Kei thinking about lunch, Suruga being Suruga, and Asagi carrying an inferiority complex the size of Jupiter while calling every shot. Orange's CG on the AHSMB units, Red Five, Blue One, Gold Four, Purple Two, Black Six, was years ahead of what 2013 mecha TV had any right to look like, and the hand-drawn crew work on top of it never clashes. The Wulgaru aren't faceless swarm either, which is why Jiart's rivalry with Izuru lands as something closer to recognition than hatred. Watch it for the fight choreography. Stay because five engineered kids just want to be normal students who complain about the food."}
SYNOPSIS
Humanity's expansion into space came with an ugly necessity: breeding soldiers designed specifically for combat. These genetically modified teenagers, called Princes, pilot massive mechanical suits meant to protect human colonies from the alien threats lurking beyond Earth's borders. Izuru Hitachi is one of these engineered soldiers, trained alongside his peers in the floating academic city of Grandzehle. But Izuru carries a secret that sets him apart from his classmates. He's fundamentally broken at what he was created to do, yet somehow he keeps winning battles anyway. As Izuru and his squadron are deployed against increasingly dangerous enemies, the weight of being humanity's manufactured hope becomes harder to bear. His natural limitations shouldn't allow him to survive combat, let alone excel at it. Something else is driving him forward, whether he understands it or not. This is a mecha series that swaps the typical gifted-pilot narrative for something stranger: watching someone with every disadvantage gradually discover who he actually is, independent of what his creators intended.
