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8 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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comic space opera in which a trio of protagonists bounces through a series of loosely connected adventures on alien planets; as a protagonist, Dandy is not that easy to like, and the decision to open up the anime to many guest directors means unevenness - many episodes come off as lazy on the part of everyone but the dub voice actors and animators, the latter of which do an especially good job of doubling down on colors and action sakuga. (Both aspects are apparent as early as episode 1: totally lame plot and characters, great animation.) Some episodes are failures (I was particularly disappointed by episode 25, which seemed like it might be developing into a cool mystery, only for it turn out out to be multiple deus ex machinas.) Still, some episodes are well worth watching, perhaps more than once, with a noticeable improvement in season 2: episode 2, "The Search for the Phantom Space Ramen"; episode 4, "Sometimes You Can't Live with Dying" (an amusing zombie utopia); episode 9, "Plants Are Living Things, Too" (extremely questionable ethics aside); episode 10, "There's Always Tomorrow" (Meow, surprisingly, winds up being the best characterized person in the whole series); episode 16, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" (existential risk); episode 18, "The Big Fish is Huge" (Ghibliesque); episode 21, "A World with No Sadness" (meditative death dream sequence with surreal Italian Renaissancesque worldbuilding set to progressive rock pieces by OGRE YOU ASSHOLE); and episode 24, "An Other-Dimensional Tale" (_Flatland_, and the secret of FTL travel in a multiverse).
