- For as much as I've read about this show representing the logical extreme of real robot as a genre (an accurate assessment, I should clarify), the titular VOTOMS move a lot more humanlike than you'd expect from that description. In fact, a lot of what makes the show compelling so far is Chirico's movement during fights: the aforementioned VOTOMS movement accentuating how deeply war has conditioned him to understand himself as a soldier that he only appears to move naturally while fighting.
- Chirico's friends really are the Gang from It's Always Sunny but dressed as Sunrise characters, aren't they? All they can ever think about is how to exploit him for their own gain - hence why Chirico tends to be the one to come up with plans (ironic for somebody who's so hideously unlucky throughout the story) - which always fails because they simply can't conceive of anybody's self-interest extending toward something that isn't reducible to money.
- By the way, I encountered this snippet from a test dub. The actual translation is fine, but I can't help but feel the direction misses the point of the source material by emphasizing that generic sense of tense action you'd find on the Sci-Fi Channel late at night in 1999.
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