Lets get it straight.most of the cast are all useless idiots that are waiting for the protagonist to guide them with her magical words.Gatchaman is a group of heroes that tries to protect the universe from aliens.the latest generation is leaded by Pai that throughout his battles lost his confidence and is drowning in doubt whenever a time for decision shows up and he relies on JJ the one that gave Gatchaman their powers while in his heart he knows he won’t answer,basically he runs away and because of that he becomes ashamed of himself and hurts his own self-esteem in the process and continue to run away and the circle goes on.characters on Gatchaman have problems like these that makes them real but at the same time they are not executed well which ruins it and by that I mean they act too stupid and slow sometimes while they get convinced with only words too easily after.the main problem here is Hajime-chan.she is trying to be this weird kid that knows everything while acting stupid and pretend she doesn’t know anything which could be cool if others weren’t so stupid.but that is not the main problem with her.she tries to confront everything head-on and in an honest manner while in reality only honesty won’t solve all your problems specially problems at that scale.she gets chosen by JJ as a Gatchaman probably because of her power to sense JJ (probably that is how everyone got chosen so far) and have to deal with a team of heroes that in reality are not a team nor heroes and later have to solve the problem with the Crowds.the interesting part is they really don’t know what they are up against at first either so they attack anything that looks like a threat until Hajime question this act and tries to break the rules by ignoring the chain of commands.then slowly she helps everyone to realize their mistakes with her magical words and again poor execution makes it more annoying than enjoyable even though without considering the stupidity of other characters she can be likeable.as for other members we have Joe that think of himself as someone special and coo at firstl,OD a half-human that is the second smart person in the team but can’t do much cause the consequences of his power are great,Sugane which is a Samurai-Soldier hybrid in personality and Utsu-tsu that can’t connect with others well.also there is Rui that joins them later,he is the admin of GALAX,a cool idea that allows people to be connected with each other and possibly help out each other all the time even though in reality government won't allow something as powerful as that to be run by a kid alone and at least they will consider it a serious threat and will always be on the hunt for its source but well things like that are not fleshed out at all in the story.
the good thing about the story is its villain and the main reason for it being good is its damn voice actor.Mamoru Miyano voiced Berg-Katze the antagonist of the story and really made it alive,although he is no stranger to these kinda roles which Is why he was picked in the first place probably.other than that the voice acting for others are nothing out of ordinary mostly because they are not as challenging as Katze.the music you hear most is the “Gatchman Music” in the background and the rest of the tracks are not memorable(if there is any more OST that is cause not sure all I can remember is that one track…) and not as catchy as that,although the OP is good.the animation&art are nothing impressive either not that they are bad but there is nothing special as for their gatchman form they use a 3d model something like in Tiger&Bunny.the whole anime has some sorta similarities to that anime as well but the difference is that the former doesn’t aim too big to screw it up and actually tries to make things better as it gets near to the end instead of making more questions and possible plotholes.
Anyway Gatchaman Crowd tries to talk about many subjects at the same time in its short time and while it fails because of that it has a fun weird atmosphere which is enjoyable if you are a fan of these sorta things and can surprise you at times.
