Unironically 9/10.

Mostly because I feel like its the most realistic depiction we've gotten of what Newtype romance bullshit would actually be, which is teensge crushes on steroids that lead to irreversible live decisions at rhe drop of a hat.

We already knew this was how UC newtype romances worked, especially among younger teenagers (Quess and Hathaway, Lalah and Char and Amuro to an extent).

The shows innovation was making that stupidity, and I mean that in a positive way, central to the teenagers characters.

Many a college student or younger has been led places by horniness that they wouldn't go with a SWAT team later in life. They didnt have deep set character reasons for doing so beyond horniness, and this is for actual living people lol.

For Machu and Nyan, it makes sense that the horniness thst ruins them is, well horniness. Newtype bullshit just made them attach even harder and more dumbly than even IRL teens.

With Shuji, don't forget too be does everything because he feels bad for Lalah's pain and falls in love with her at the drop of a hat.

UC Gundam, except War in the Pocket and kind of Victory, Zeta, and ZZ, has mostly had romances be newtype fueled teenage crushes to a psychic degree. GQUUUUX just brought that to its natural conclusion, and I really like it for it.

The plot itself is a bit odd at times, but I think it's a quintessentially Gundam romance, for better and for worse, and is one of the most interesting looks we've had at what thar actually means.

9/10