well that's what i thought, after a day of watching it about half a year ago, i just gave up.
but for all you out there thinking this, or watching the first 10 or so episodes, DON'T STOP!
DON'T STOP UNTIL AT LEAST 40+, i will GUARANTEE you, it will NOT be a waste of time.
the truth is the story truly starts at episode 20 or so, the first 20 episodes is basically 10 episodes of character introduction, and 10 episodes of fillers...
i even advise you to get through the character introduction and go straight into 20 or so when the real 1st story arc starts. when it starts, it is FREAKING AMAZING, FREAAAKING AMMAAZING!!!
the best thing about it is you get to see the main character grow and progress SOO much coming from cliche burning under-wear man to calm, hyperly-tuned wtfbbqpwn mafia boss. the story so far works as fillers, arc, then fillers... then arc, then fillers... right now it's had like.. at least 50 episodes of material, and the story gets so deep now that it just sucks you right in, and you just can't get enough. every character progressively grows and matures in their own ways, it's fast-paced(so to speak.. compared to bleach or.. naruto) the stuff they come up with, all the action related things are so unique you would just never think of something like that.
but even an amazing anime like this shows some signs of typical cliche-ness one would come to expect.
for example taking over the world. of course there's ALLLWAYS someone trying to take over the world....
but the character makes up for it though, there are at least motive for taking over the world in the story.. it's some cliche-ness one would like to get rid of in action animes, because as it seems the only thing that provokes "action" is someone trying to take over the world.
overall the characters are amazing, the fillers provide deep, rich backdrop for well-played characters driven by what a normal person would expect, the best example being the protagonist, he's a wimp and doesn't want to join the mafia in the beginning, he acts like how a normal person would act, doing what normal people would do in his situations, and that's what makes him great.
the art is pretty damn out-standing, the fight scenes are well-animated, very flourish, a biiit long fights though,(a fight that occured in one night apparently lasted over 12 episodes... huh) but that's ok, i like action, lots of action.
the music is generally good, all the openings are AMAZING, in my opinion
this is a must-must-must-must watch.
but there are side effects though...
like having too high expectations of anything else anime-related...
seriously right now i'm not satisfied with anything anymore
