Editing Exosquad (section)

== Themes ==
''Exosquad'' had a serious approach to the plot with several intertwined [[narrative thread]]s and a number of characters displaying a full spectrum of human emotions, relationships and experiences, such as friendship, love, hatred, tragedy, treachery, and responsibility for others. Michael Edens, the story writer and editor in the second season, credited the show's [[realism (arts)|realism]] for much of its success. Prejudice and racism are recurring themes in the series,<ref name="evabeast">{{cite web|url=http://reviews.evabeast.com/exosquad.php|title=Reviews: ''Exosquad''|author=Moses, TG|access-date=2007-10-30|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071122080218/http://reviews.evabeast.com/exosquad.php |archive-date = November 22, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=January 2013}} as both Terrans and Neosapiens are shown to harbor hatred and a sense of superiority towards each other. Interplanetary politics and space space war typical for military science fiction were presented with an assumption of the fictional [[future history]] of the Solar System up to that point. The Able Squad's duties became more spread out as the second season unfolded, and there were separate story arcs on Mars, Venus, Earth, and in space. Espionage and intrigue were often featured instead of straightforward battles.

[[Will Meugniot]], the executive producer of the series, once compared anime series ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' and ''Exosquad'' to the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|Pacific]] and the [[European Theater]]s of World War II, respectively.<ref name="WM_WW2">{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime/msg/34beb481026001eb|author=Meugniot, Will|title=rec.arts.anime entry|publisher=[[Google Groups]]|access-date=2007-07-18|date=1995-07-08|author-link=Will Meugniot}}{{better source needed|date=January 2013}}</ref> Michael Edens recalled in an interview that the plot was supposed to remind of the Second World War, too, for example with the Neosapien reconquest attempt of Venus, capture of the [[Moon]] and battle for Chicago paralleling the battles of [[Battle of the Bulge|the Bulge]], [[Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]], and [[Battle of Berlin|Berlin]], respectively.

The series is named after the multi-purpose [[mecha]]-like [[powered exoskeleton]]s mostly utilized as armored combat vehicles or reinforced [[body armor]] by the characters.