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The show itself is actually another entry to "The Kagerou Project", starting with a series of songs starting in 2012, Light Novels, Manga, a anime, all of it seems to be part of a single overarching story. sadly the story (or atleast, this piece of it) ruins itself trying to fit the 12 episode standard, with a shallow and VERY forgettable story, spending 8 episodes characterizing these versions of the characters, and the final 4 are a rushed attempt at a plot ending in the most anticlimactic "power of friendship" ending I've ever seen.

Final Recommendation: Skip if you don't want to dedicate all your free ... time to consuming all of the media in order of it's release date to experience the full story, because the Anime simply doesn't have any legs to stand on it's own.

Being upfront, I came into this series with poor expectations as-is, The title card on Hulu invoked Appleseed (The 2004 3D anime) and that had a story that sorta rubbed me the wrong way and Zone of Enders, that gainaxed mech combat game. but comparing it (seasons 1 and 2) to Zone of Enders, or even Appleseed was a mistake because that would have been a somewhat refreshing step away from abused norms, into some interesting graphics or at least combat that carried some weight behind it instead the show is a shameless clone with hardly a original idea in it's body.

Most of the ... main plot is ripped various seasons of Gundam and its' spinoffs. The Martian humans' attack on Earth humanity, comes from the original Mobile Suit, and the special alien-made engines powering Suits which is debatable of having came from either 00 or Code Geass, the Deucalion's Season 1 design is basically the Egg Carrier from Sonic Adventures (see the bonus rant at the end), with everything else being a spoiler-laden mass robbery from Gundam Seed. The story had only 2 unique plot-points to really call it's own, the first in Season 1 with awesome nods to WW2, training highschool students to operate the latest military hardware in preparation for war, something any war history buff would squee at, and the second plot point being the sentient eye implant, both ultimately squandered being introduced and plot-relevant once and after 3 episodes never impacting the story again, which brings me to the animation quality.

The series' graphics leave something to be desired, oft notably dropping animation quality during 2D moments most notably while characters are emoting especially dramatically, dropping below the "cinematic" 24 frames standard in non-interactive entertainment (tested true by rewinding the scene where Princess' servant breaks out in tears and replaying it several times), and with the 3D models occasionally loosing focus to the backdrop during action-heavy scenes I can't say the show holds up visually. Audio doesn't hold up much better, character's lines don't always sound right as the Mic's condenser kicks in mid-line and they suddenly get quiet mid-emote with a few episodes outright sounding like the entire thing was recorded through a tin can.

Overall, the series is kinda disappointing even though I went in with low expectations it failed to meet even those by blandly copying countless other shows and not doing any of it justice by being better in any way.


Bonus Rant:
I'm not usually the type to outright rip on or get VERY mad at something in Anime, but I can't let this pass, the series' Deucalion ship design (for the majority of season 1) is a Chinese knockoff of Dr. Gerald Robotnick (aka E.G.G.M.A.N.)'s Egg Carrier, taking off from being disguised in a heavily forested area, with diamond-shaped rear thrusters, the VERY distinct hull shapes designed to house the front and rear Beam Cannons with their distinctly placed and shaped shrouding perfectly intact, the fore-deck rising launchpads designed to aid in mass-deploying jets, the similarly designed deck cannons that break same when attacked, the only notable changes are that they slimmed down the overall shape to be more flat and reduced the enormous wings to a vestigial spoiler-like thing dangling haplessly off the back end. This annoyed me a TON and nobody seems to have noted the thinly veiled plagiarism it represents in their reviews. Shame on you Gen Urobuchi and Pinakes for stealing designs from the magnificent Doctor Robotnick, I won't let you get away with this! >:(

I'll Preface this with a bit of personal honesty, I grew up with this show during my early years watching on Adult Swim back in 2002 at age 6 (against parental advisement) with my uncle, watching for over 10 years, with 190+ episodes by the end of its "Final Act" in 2013. so no duh I'm HEAVILY Biased when it comes to this Action Shonen. I watched it even more than most kids my age at the time had watched Pokemon, which is now considered a rite-of-passage by most early parents my age. But watching with the blinders-off, after all these years later it hasn't ... exactly aged well when compared even to Fullmetal Alchemist's first off-cannon run.

-Story-
Blinders-On: The story held well for me, with Inuyasha and Kagome growing in complexity as I did, gaining romantic subplots as my young mind was beginning to grasp the idea of truely loving a "stranger", yet keeping my young Carnage-obsessed mind distracted enough to keep me from questioning L-O-V-E too much or getting distracted by whatever was on the floor. The more disturbing and sexually suggestive things (Daemon Egg/Pearl in Sango's Vagina, various things involving tentacles) passed right over my head as a kid, though it contributed to things like the V-Chip to becoming standard in TVs back then.

Blinders-Off: The story takes its own pace, often allowing for a level of distraction in a world with a very real Daemon problem. but at the same time it can get very filler-y at times, with nearly every other episode being a filler EP after the first 30 or so, varying from hardly noticeable to blatant filler where nothing much happens for 25 minutes and nothing develops in any way. The sexually suggestive moments today come off as a bit overtly perverted, with the previously mentioned Vagina Pearl episode bordering on censored pornography.

-Art-
Blinders-On: Not much to say for someone like me here, It was perfectly standard to me with few other points of comparison from the time frame and none that really WOWed me consistently enough to be above or below anything else, not particularly stand-out outside of a few episodes with epic landscapes that wowed me at the time.

Blinders-Off: Today the art is substandard, under-detailed, and sometimes flatly colored, leaving something to be desired outside of the rare landscape shots filled with detail, presumably to prevent the viewer's eyes from wandering too much.

-Sound-
Even less for me to say here blinders on or off outside of the common absence of overlap between words and sound effects in the background... It was perfectly fine then and still is perfectly fine. no need to fix what isn't broken eh?

-Characters-
Blinders-On: The characters where fresh, and outside the clueless female protagonist first shown here in the USA in Sailor Moon, where completely unique to me and perfectly acceptably written, ignoring the awkward initial dynamic between our leading duo. Inuyasha was always cool but not infallibly so, sometimes showing his more personable side, Kagome was trustworthy but unlucky, sometimes creating hilarious moments with monsters and double-entendres.

Blinders-Off: Today, the archetypes used for Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango have been beaten to a sometimes literal death by the new blood coming into the Anime industry having also grown up with Inuyasha&Co., using copyright-dodging stand-ins with more boring designs to echo the characters into their own works. the occasional filler Inuyasha episode will pick at the characters, revealing details about them previously unexplored, leaving no stone unturned by the ending. some details, and by extension episodes, being more mundane than others.

-Appeal- ("Enjoyment"? The level of being able to be enjoyed? Lets go with Appeal.)
Blinders-On: This appealed highly to my young mind and continued to far into my teens. The action, the characters, the twin settings, it was all perfect in my mind back then and to this date I have trouble critiquing it honestly on its faults and merits.

Blinders-Off: It's very dated, if it where made today people would call it a bland mashup of well abused character archetypes, settings, and attacks that will have far outstayed its welcome. completely bypassing the taboo 50-episode limit most modern anime set for themselves. -Begin American Anime Otaku Rage- creating major plot points then commuting seppuku all over the place, before they *dare* have any negative impact on the LN/Manga they now exist purely to sell, though those things never make it to America, and the episodes will sell for exorbitant amounts in box sets with far more Blu-Ray discs than they have any right to come on for being a sub-50 episode run, it is expensive bullshit that has no right to exist. -American Anime Otaku Rage End-

-Conclusion-
Overall, Its a great anime that had a lot of great ideas and story telling for the time, but today it would never survive the expectations of the modern anime buff thanks to being the most heavily copied from anime ever. If you want to know where the most infamous and abused tropes in anime came from give it a go. otherwise please let my darling Inuyasha rest... The years where hard on him. :,(

(Scores based on the most unbiased opinion i can provide comparing Inuyasha to modern anime, though there's probably still a bit of bias there. my true bias-included score would likely be solid 10s)

Outwardly, this show sounds amazing. A Japanese anime NOT set in Japan, that kills off its first protagonist in the first few episodes and nukes all the second protag's shit, with zombie-like creatures that merge with vehicles, nano-machines and mechs galore, Sounds like a action junkies' dream come true right? Well if you agreed you'd be all wrong and a bag of chips when it comes to Blassreiter, but more on that later. For now lets start with the positive.

The animation is great, the 3D sections are done with a similar rendering method to MMD but its been so finely tuned, that shifting from ... the hand/digitally drawn artwork to 3D isn't jarring, and keeping 3D things 3D without looking out of place even when the scene is mostly 2D must have been rather difficult to pull off. S-Rank Animation!

The world is fairly well fleshed out, with the tech making sense in its own mythos, a subtle Angels vs Daemons aesthetic contrasted well by a morally grey world where Angels will make Monsters from Humans because it suits them. A-Rank World Building.

The sound is good, with only some minor clipping when things explode that isn't severely noticeable unless you're using a theater sound system with the sound jacked up, otherwise the sound isn't particularly special, a lot of the effects get recycled with only just enough variance in tune to avoid getting stale. all the voices sound like they've been recorded with bog standard condenser microphones, which sometimes produce contrasting audio to the sound effects, which sound like they where recorded in differently sized rooms to the voices, but all these things are minor problems only audiophiles will be bugged by in any major capacity. B-Rank Sound

At the 13th episode or so I gave up. Reviewer Integrity be damned. I was SO BORED of the constant whinging these people do when they aren't busy having the shit kicked out of them or yelling for various uninteresting reasons, and the Story does NOTHING of interest with the great world its built, leaving it all bland enough that mid-episode I started playing Monster Strike out of boredom. Yes, I was so bored I started playing over-complicated digital marbles. FFF-Rank Enjoyment and Characters! Worst Possible!

Overall, It COULD have been been a great show with a well-built world, excelent premis, and well done 3D that meshes well with its drawing style if its boring characters and poorly-written story didn't cock the whole thing up a rusty drain pipe... D-Rank Overall ranking, just barely not bad enough to hate, but so boring and dry like straight uncooked tofu most (American?) people will walk away.