YMMV / Cannon God Exaxxion

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The manga really does have some important things to say about the nature of heroism and the truth. All anyone seems to talk and/or complain about are various scenes involving Akane, though.
• Cliché Storm: The story starts out looking like one. Alien Invasion, a teen with a Super Robot and a Mad Scientist grandfather... characters even lampshade the fact that "it seems like an anime". By the halfway point, though, people in-story are wishing it was more like those anime shows...
• Les Yay: Did you really think a Sonoda work would get away without some of this? Most of it focuses on Akane and Isaka. Akane is eventually taken off the market, though.
• Moral Event Horizon: Although not all Riofaldians are bad, the Riofaldian government as a whole crosses this very early into the series (particularly Shes'ka, who doesn't even care about his subordinates). Hosuke himself also crosses it, as well as a bunch of secondary characters. In fact, you could say the heroes are only good because they don't cross the line like everyone else.
• Narm: Hoichi and Akane's sex scene. "Oh my god! He's that big!? He's like a porn star!" Pfffftttt. The voyeuristic Bridge Bunnies do not help matters on this front.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: Especially in light of the occasional review like this, it perhaps does need to be said that the start can come off as very cliche. That's sort of the point; it needs to line up all the pins so it can start knocking 'em down one by one. It only begins to play with the expected tropes in the last parts of the first graphic novel volume, and only in the second volume do all of the old cliches start to fly apart messily.
• Squick:
  • It's a Sonoda manga. Though there's nothing too terribly explicit, there's a lot of (topless) nudity and some pretty freaky stuff is going on with Hosuke and the Bridge Bunnies. Then there's the violence, which, while usually not too gratuitous, is rendered very realistically. And let's not even get started on the Processing Plants...
  • Not to mention Miss Kin'ba's rape, which is made even worse by the fact that there was fanservice all throughout. Of course, titillating and then making the reader horrified at being titillated may well have been part of the point, in this case.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: The Hino family outside of Akane and Murata & Kin'ba eventually enter this territory, as there doesn't seem to be much of a point to the Hinos after they get rescued (despite something like a plot still getting dangled), and the whole Murata-Kin'ba thing doesn't really go anywhere, possibly due to Sonoda ending the manga a bit early and ditching extended plans for them. Most obviously, Murata gets a Cannon Glove and Suit... and then proceeds to do fuckall with it. He doesn't even appear again until the denouement.

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