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I'll start this quoting a running gag:
Double Decker is not an anime about heroes and dreams,
It's about a bunch of people who can seamlessly turn between 2D animation and CGI.

art:
No, seriously, the whole series has a combination of 2D animation and 3D animation, and while the 3D segments look and move really good, the 2D animation sometimes fails, not because the movement is bad, but rather because the lines seem more like a rough sketch than the final deal, it's especially noticeable right in the opening, where there is a rather large sections where the images pass from these solid illustrations to something not ... quite as good looking, it still retains it's good looks when it's important.

Sound, Music:
Talking about the opening, while rather generic, when it comes to soundtrack, it is not terribly bad. The soundtrack and ending tho, is really good to the ears. The ending might lack animation, but it's quite the bashing song (if you like it), you can tell the band itself made a couple of changes for the official release of it, but that only fixes little things that don't impact the feel of the song. The other music in the anime is also good, but you'll have to pay attention for it as it doesn't stand out as much as other anime soundtracks. The sound effects are rarely unfitting, so I'd say that's not evidently bad, the guns actually sound really good, and so do the voices as you'd expect.

Story and Characters:
And all of the voices fit the Characters well, although most of them don't get over an episode to develop, but when they do, they become better. Kiril is the main guy, but also the guy who develops the most, and definitely the most enjoyable, that said, all of the characters bounce well with each other as soon as they apear for over 2 minutes at a time, because some characters are definitely left to the side and barely explained and one of them specifically only starts being "part of the group" towards the latter episodes.
That doesn't mean that the characters are perfect, some characters just get a cool trait for the sake of giving them a cool trait and some others do stuff for no interesting reason other than "Something like this happened to me" or a bunch of uninteresting reasons.
The way the anime tells a story is really unique, see, the characters do develop over the episodes, but each episode can be viewed individually and you'd understand them just fine. That does break the immersion, but the fact that it works towards the latter episodes is really good. Each episode has some sort of story development that will come on latter episodes, and similarly to older anime series, the important stuff does come back on the latter half of the anime but it's heavily wiped out in the last episode, so that was rather disappointing.

TLDR: The characters are good, but they are much better towards the latter half of the series.

Finally, I do gotta say that if you like detective story anime, your experience will be much more solid. It's a great anime regardless!
So when watching this series; Don't Think! Feel so Good!