Speed Grapher has a very abstract story line. It sometimes gets confusing and changes pace quite often but it doesn't entirely make it a bad anime. While throughout the most of it's slow paced moments, it leaves you wanting so many answers for things and it takes its sweet time to answer them, sometimes not answering them all. at about two, thirds through, It gets to the point where it seems like the writers didn't know what else to do. So they just made up new, odd powers and gave them random people. But none of them survive past 2 battle encounters with the main character, which makes Europhein fights almost bores you.
Art is easily sub par. characters lack proper emotion in their animation, and too often you can easily distinguish static backdrops from animated pieces. Colour palates are most times dark making everything dull. The lighting with tones and shades never really added much to the scenes them selves as most times it wouldn't have changed the mood regardless of time of day.
Sound is the toughest category of this anime as it had some really good original pieces however it reused the same ones far too many times. Occasionally even adding famous music pieces. It lacks sound in some places where there really should be, making it seems like its either jumped a mute section or they cut corners with their sound budget.
Character development can be confusing as at one point the main female character hates her mother and the main antagonist, another moment she cries and almost does a complete 180 on her feelings to them. The main villain seems to have no real goal at the beginning apart from wanting to rule everything but at the end it's revealed everything that was though about him was wrong. It's a decent development but it really does your head in.
Overall enjoyment isn't terribly high, as mentioned in the sound, it plays some of its original pieces way too much to the point where it ruins what could have been a good feels or action scene. Some episodes are good enough to make you re think a few of your opinions while others seem to drag on pointless aspects with added important factors that almost make you have to watch the fillers so you don't miss something.
