This anime is quite brilliant, especially in the middle part. The story is intriguing with lots of twists, but the first few episodes are quite episodic, and relying a lot on "boobs" jokes, heck, even when there are no large boobs in the episode, Sunabozu would apologise for it.
The middle part, especially those episodes with no "boob" woman, are really good and shows the various aspects of the big picture of the Kanto Desert, though still episodic.
The ending part, particularly ep 18 onwards, is really deep, but the conclusion was quite disappointing and confusing, thus I would only give the story a 7.
Overall for the story, it was mostly interesting, but there were a lot of inconsistencies regarding how some characters disappear and reappear, how they manage to stay alive and so on. Sometimes, there is just so much inconsistency in the storyline and unexplained events (e.g. surviving explosions) that I was left wondering more and enjoying less of this anime.
Art: 9
The art was basically very good given how old this series is, so no complains about it, sometimes 3D seems to be involved too. Only issue is sometimes the animation is not so smooth.
Sound: 9
Great VA, distinctive voices for most characters, good OP and ED.
Character: 5
The character portion of this anime is probably the most confusing and inferior out of all the other grading categories. Aside from strange disappearances and reappearances of some characters, there were several inconsistencies in personalities with little or no explanation. And somehow the characters seem to laugh off some of the more important character mysteries, or simply act as if they were never a problem.
Moreover, some of the main characters, esp Sunabouzu and Junko, seem to carrying several character traits that sometimes contradict each other, and especially the character of Sunabouzu seems to be very inconsistent between the first and middle, and the last part of the anime.
Enjoyment: 7
Overall it's enjoyable, since the series focuses on lightening dark topics with jokes and "laugh it off situations". However, the last part of the storyline really killed a lot of enjoyment from the first and middle parts ( score 9).
Overall: 7
It is a great show overall, but try not to think too much about the topics covered since some of it is very dark but due to the poor presentation it is neither appropriately serious nor funny. And some things simply do not make sense.
