Probably not the most appropriate picture I could find.
Uh, it's like Eva if Shinji were a cute girl and Unit 01 were his boyfriend. No, really, it's a series about sentient alien robots and the girls who love them.
A bit more background, the Idolmaster series is a video game idol management simulator that's been around in Japan for quite a while and is pretty popular. Xenoglossia is a redesign done by Sunrise (who do all the mecha anime ever) to make the series... uh... have giant robots, and considerably different character designs. I chose to watch it because the word 'Xenoglossia' is badass, so why not.
The plot holds together okay, but the mecha designs are kind of weird and it borrows pretty heavily from what I'm now seeing are time-honored tropes that Evangelion was probably not the originator of, but certainly was my first experience of, and its strange language of symbolism lacks the depth and meaning of other series like it, not to mention the ending is pretty meh. Good voice acting with some big names, though notably different from who the characters are voiced by in alternate continuums.
If you like a bit of friendly fan service, odd robot design, a mostly female-cast and not a whole lot of explanation of what is going on or why, Xenoglossia fits. But if you're hoping for some intelligently-crafted story or symbolism that isn't basically just made up to go with your girls and their kind of dickish robot boyfriends, then you're probably not the sort of person who would enjoy Idolmaster Xenoglossia.
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