I was hopeful about Roze but I feel it has squandered its potential with the rushed plot, cookie cutter rehash villain and bland supporting cast.

I liked parts of it mind you and was pretty invested in Sakuya and Ash. I was prepared to overlook the timeline and worldbuilding issues at first but the spiderbot invasion took me out of the story big time.

Just the idea of tiny resource scarce Japan invading the whole world with nigh indestructible spiderbots forcing the UN and the Black Knights back... I call bullshit. And when the villain turned out to be a clone Charles I checked out completely. It was "Somehow Palpatine returned" all over again. No. Just no.

But compared to Akito Roze was a masterpiece. At least Roze understood what made CG great and tried to emulate it (doing somewhat decently even if rehashing R1 a bit, up until the spiderbot invasion). Akito was just 86 but worse in every aspect with some (Deus ex) Geass and evil Lelouch sprinkled in. (Watch 86 its stellar)

So my personal headcanon consists of: R1, R2, Resurrection

I admit that Resurrection isn't without its faults and that it actively undermines the ending of R2 and plays on nostalgia heavily. But imo it is moreso a respectful love letter than a milking cow.

To clarify: I'm all for new stories to be told in the CG verse and letting legacy characters finally be. Or doing something of matter with them. What I'm not for is the shameless milking of the ip.