It has a strong start, but starts falling on itself around the halfway point or a little earlier. After getting used to the new pacing it quickly devolves into introducing characters and killing them off almost as fast for shock value. It gets to the point that near the end so little character development is given for new characters/bad guys that you barely know their name and maybe their title.
One of the better parts of the Anime is the attempts at character development, at least compared to contemporary short-lived shounen. Where other like shows would decide that having a tragic background was good enough, most of the cast does infact slowly change at least a little by the end of the show. Even the main badguy.
Thoroughly an enjoyable anime and has a very promising start. It follows through well enough but starts to become rather tedious and monotonous around the 75% mark, then onward it starts to decay into a somewhat complacent routine of introducing reasons for action scenes.
A pretty decent anime and even though it's only decent because of some obvious mistakes, it shouldn't be passed up or overlooked. It's basically a show you must watch at least at some point, so you can get a good fill of the elements it does right that many others failed. The biggest being the sense of uneasiness and usually not knowing what will happen next, while not being filled with Dues ex Machina moments.
