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The story is complicated, but understandable, and is quite interesting. The plot seems to go no where with the first few episodes, but it definitely picks up as the anime progresses. - 7

Art is amazing, with great character detail, and the battle scenes are fantastic, the show in general is well animated. - 9

The soundtrack fits the anime well, and is very good in general. - 8

Characters in this anime are quite unique, and certainly a refreshing change from your typical loli tsundere voiced by Kugimiya. However, with such a huge cast, it's far more difficult to develop characters properly, yet somehow for the ... more main characters, their personalities have been developed enough, and it is quite easy to see who they are by their personalities. More focus on the minor characters (as in currently, the minor characters are too minor, even by minor standards) would be better. - 7

On the whole, I've enjoyed this show immensely - I'd compare it to Baccano in terms of understanding, until you've watched enough it won't really make all that much sense. - 9

Overall, I give this show currently an 8/10.

However, the main reason why I wrote this review was to just convince those that the extremely low score, by MAL standards, that this is not "the worst show ever". By no means it is.

The reason why most people are giving this show such low scores is because it doesn't seem to make any sense.

The directing is not exactly the best in the world, but making out the situation isn't too difficult if you think about it. Understanding a bit of the background certainly helps and I can see why it'd be difficult to understand certain parts. Five minute research isn't too difficult however.

The main reason why people think the story is so terrible is mainly because of the subtitles.
I'm quite sure a considerable amount of MAL users stream (not that I have anything against it personally), but streaming sites tend to upload, for the newer releases at the very least, the quickest subtitle release.

The first few episodes (one to four I believe) were speed-subbed poorly by a certain fansub group which shall not be named, which is the reason why it makes very little sense. A show with a relatively complex plot, combined with poor subtitles spells for disaster.

If you think I'm just being too harsh on the subtitles, translating "get me the officers on this ship" as "get me the list of things that are heavy on this ship" is one of the many reasons why this show wouldn't have made sense to those who stream.

I recommend watching Commie's releases, as they make the story at the very least, more understandable. If you didn't like the show at first, because it truly did make no sense, I really recommend to try watching it again with a better subgroup.