Also, the series tends to take itself too seriously at times. It's as if half the staff thought they were still in serious mode, when everyone else had already moved onto a comedy scene. Take this one episode for example (I don't remember the number, but it shouldn't really matter). It starts with the family on vacation, on a tropical island, and one of the children gets kidnapped by albino monkeys with jetpacks. Ok, silly. Next we meet the midget professor who created the monkeys. Still silly. Finally, he goes into a sob story about how he wants to play god. In another context, one could take this seriously and sympathize with him. However, I couldn't get past the fact that there were albino monkeys with jetpacks.
So should you watch this series. Sure, give at least the first episode a shot. If you don't like what you see, don't expect it to get much better. On the flip side, if you like it, you should enjoy the rest of it. This series is consistent almost to the point of it being a flaw. Yuko Goto shows up later as a sweets loving butterfly girl for fans of her out there. But there are better shows with her out there. I personally don't know if I like it or not. It's fun enough to motivate me to watch another episode, but not enough to care about what is going on. So all of its high and low points average it out to a mediocre 5 across the board. Sound gets a bump up for a cute OP and the interesting idea of having different EDs sung by the different characters.
