>>23608463
Great animation, great designs, great music, love the cold war esque power struggle setup in S1, Setsuna and Tieria's character arcs are pretty neat. It's the rare case of a franchise story handling metafictional ideas succinctly. Also has some neat religious stuff. 2 of the best final duels in the franchise. The movie also takes Gundam in an interesting direction.

>>23609229
I never cared for Exia much until Ebikawa went back and created the metal build version of the design. the proportional changes there and some of the adjustments he made to the forms just gives it so much more appeal to me. It's easily one of the best figures I've ever owned in terms of aesthetic appeal.