Story: 5/10
The story is pretty nonsensical and loose. In short, a prepubescent boy accidentally kisses a robot girl, and he travels around with a scientist and some other robot girls on a quest to do...something? It's all very unclear. There's also some secret science/military group out to get them. None of this is particularly exciting or done well. After the show takes itself too seriously for the last few episodes, the ending is a total cop-out.
Art: 5/10
This show is from the turn of the century and also pretty low-budget, and it shows. The backgrounds are bland, the characters look uninspired, and the animation suffers, especially during fight scenes.
Sound: 9/10
I'm going to say it right now: if you plan to watch this show, you absolutely need to watch the dub. It falls under the "so-bad-it's-good" category. The titular Steel Angel Kurumi's voice actor seldom uses punctuation and speaks in almost entirely run-on sentences. Another character swears as much as Holden Caulfield, and it's just as hilarious. The lines are pretty bad, but the execution is fantastic. I also just really liked the OP and ED.
Character: 6/10
There are 3 Steel Angels, and they're all pretty much restricted to one personality trait apiece. We've got Obsessive, Potty-Mouth, and Lesbian. That's pretty much it for their characters. The main character is an annoying brat, so that doesn't help. Most of the other characters are pretty bland, but the lesbian/pedo detective duo sticks out as the characters that I appreciated. I wish they got more resolution/an entire spinoff show.
Enjoyment: 6/10
I absolutely despised the first half of this show. It was too slice-of-lifey, and I couldn't bring myself to care about the conflicts in the show. For whatever reason, around the episode 14 mark, I started appreciating the show a lot more (it was probably because those lesbian/pedo detectives started showing up more). Like I said earlier, the ending was pretty lame. So this is that weird enjoyment graph where it's highest in the middle but low on both ends.
Overall: 6/10
Kurumi isn't a terrible show, just not really one worth watching. The episodes are 15 minutes each, so you could get through it pretty quickly if you really wanted to, but while I was watching it I just kept feeling like I could be spending my time better. And if you REALLY want to watch this show, I'll say it again: make sure it's the dub.
