How many characters died in Code Geass and lived? That show took its story seriously until they started fukking around with the second season.
And you definitely can't compare it to Gurren Lagann which is a show that fully announces that it's untempered fukkery.
CG was ridiculous but it never backed itself into a corner as bad as this and then came with such a shytty resolution. Some of the set pieces were just as silly tho like lelouch recording himself to outsmart his brother for 5 minutes
but when elphy got got, she got got she didn't come back on some cyborg shyt