Darth Walrus posted:

OK, so in the current arc, we're following three guys with young female assistants. Two of them have dead wives. Two of them regularly kick around the girls following them. They're facing off against a heavily gay-coded villain who is implied to be somehow responsible for killing the two wives. The female lead is one of these guys' assistants. He regularly kicks her around. She is a partial reincarnation of his dead wife built by another guy in memory of his own dead wife (who may also have been killed by the creepy gay guy, though that's not seriously evidenced yet).

In another show, like, say, Victory Gundam or Evangelion, I might think that this was a result of a creator in a bad psychological place pouring his massive psychosexual hangups into his work. Dimension W seems too bland, derivative, and thematically incoherent for that, though - it feels more like the creator was pulling bits and pieces from famous works in neighbouring genres without pausing to consider what it all actually meant and what those other creators had been trying to do, bringing in a pile of extraneous, unexamined gunk that slowly builds up into something... kind of unfortunate.

The end result is hilariously loving weird, though.