Just Anime

I looked up Samurai Showdown and I'll have to agree with @Sonata here. It was an adaptation of an boring fighting game (unfortunately speaking from renter's experience), so it sounds more like some 1-star bull.

Inspired by this thread I decided to take a look at Knights of Ramune. I'm only 2 episodes in of the 6 total, but so far it seems very lighthearted and silly. There are a lot of cliches (it even makes a few jokes about that fact) but the animation, character design, and action sequences are all very typical for that era. The giant robot versus giant robot combat is no better or worse than any 1990's Gundam show. The character design is reminiscent of Magic Knight Rayearth, The Slayers and Saber Marionette J. Now there is a healthy amount of lewd comedy (boing-boing!) and a moderate amount of nudity, but I don't find that alone enough to ridicule a show. Maybe something will change in the following 4 shows, but so far it's frivolous but harmless fun. That is unless someone is offended by gratuitous juvenile humor and fan service.

As for the others, well it's been a decade since I've seen Pilot Candidate on Cartoon Network, but I remember liking it at the time. I was looking for something similar to NGE and that somewhat fit the bill. It even had a cat-girl if I recall correctly. The other show I remember from your list is Reign the Conqueror. I didn't like this one too much. It was ugly in my opinion and it looked too much like Aeon Flux. Stuff like that meant a lot to me back then. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it now. I just don't have any compulsion to watch it again. I did decide to watch an episode of Aeon Flux over on MTV.com, though. That show was pretty cool, but I preferred The Maxx.

Pilot candidate is garbage , that would be ok.