From its cute and immediate presentation to the almost hip-hop montage during its peak moments, I've never felt so disarmed by an anime: everything on the screen stays for about five seconds before dying, moving, or screaming. All goes faster, then slower - because there's a character we need to introduce, so here's the camera pan from the bottom to the top and a shiny sound effect - before going crazy again. All of this in seven minutes per episode, which, at one point, becomes unbearable.
It's understandable that Trigger may have went for a crazy approach with the series: "Luluco's a tame girl in a town. But there's aliens, so that changes everything, and it's funny!", filling the market with some other content, some other merchandise, something meaningless on which people will talk and thrive on about. The introduction is average, the music is average, the characters are... there. They do stuff. They look pretty. Something weird happens. They look even prettier when they move, and that's all.
Space Patrol Luluco is the fast food equivalent of anime: get a fix of quirky content, chew onto something, but not for the quality, just for sake of it.
Trigger says "style over substance", I say it's time to stop.
