It hands you a 49-year-old divorced-in-all-but-name dad as your mecha lead and dares you to complain. James Lynx isn't a chosen teenager, he's a washed-out LEV pilot hauling cargo between Earth and Mars because he can't let go of a wife the military says is dead, and his own kids won't look at him. Then he ends up bonded to Dolores, an orbital frame with the cheeriest voice in the solar system, and the show quietly becomes a family road trip through space where the real repair work is emotional. The OST is the thing nobody warns you about, it carries scenes that should not land and lands them anyway, and the grounded, non-glossy character art has aged better than most of its 2001 peers. Yes, ZOE game fans came expecting Idolo's grimness and left grumbling. Their loss. Watch a man rebuild his standing as a father one awkward dinner at a time.

James Lynx has spent years running from his pain. A former military pilot, he now hauls cargo between Earth and Mars, drowning his sorrows in alcohol and the vast emptiness of space. The death of his wife, a Martian scientist, shattered everything: his children blamed him for letting her go and turned away, and hope became a luxury he couldn't afford. Then he receives Dolores, an orbital frame sent by his supposedly dead wife. Suddenly, the old fire returns. Maybe she's alive. Maybe there's still a chance to fix what he broke. What follows is a wild, chaotic adventure as James sets out to learn the truth and bring his family back together, mixing comedic hijinks with mecha action and a story about refusing to give up on the people you love.