I am glad that I watched this.
I would probably recommend this to others.
I have watched this once, subtitled.
I probably won't watch this again.
---- Positives ----
The engineers vs. executives battle is moderately interesting.
I'm not used to watching series about internal company struggles, so I thought that this concept was fresh.
The A-TEC characters seem competent.
Although there isn't much detail explaining to what degree and for what reasons they're competent, the A-TEC members each seem to hold their own during their crisis, in the end at least. Some of them had a shaky path, one in particular. Besides proper A-TEC members, Kiryuu Nagisa is also shown to be very competent. Competent male leads can be in low supply at times, so this difference is welcome.
Despite negatives, the series is still entertaining.
Although there isn't much impact throughout the series, it was generally entertaining to follow.
Glasses-wearing ninja office lady.
Because how often do you see that?
---- Negatives ----
A-TEC nonchalantly overcomes an impossible hurdle.
When A-TEC's budget is slashed and they're relocated, they pull off the miracle win by still accomplishing their large goal through willpower or unity or something, but even if they technically say that it was difficult, I never felt any sense of difficulty or real urgency. There ~was~ urgency on paper, but it didn't ever feel like there was. This series is similar to Amagi Brilliant Park in format, and in that series, there was a very well demonstrated sense of urgency. There were multiple reasons, in fact, for why they had to fight back, so it was easy to get behind the characters and cheer them on. This series? Not so much.
Opportunity for cancel: None. There was ample time that could have been spent on this instead of other areas of the series, such as all the focus on Kiryuu Nagisa vs. the executives.
They're fighting for their jobs against a company that apparently wants them all gone.
The worst case scenario for these characters seemed to be leaving the company that was actively trying to get rid of them. Unemployment isn't fun, but their future at Kirishina Corporation didn't seem like it would be pleasant at the time. "No! We must persevere and show the company that hates us that they shouldn't hate us.".
Opportunity for cancel: Yes. Apparently, there was some motivational history behind this company, and the company had access to high-tech machinery, so the fight back may have been mainly reactionary, and not meant as a long-term solution. Regarding that, things work out nicely in the end, helping to counter this negative. The company tries to get rid of them, so they continue trying against the odds, and what happens at the end wraps everything up nicely.
The romance is out of the blue.
The romance that sprouts in this series was missing a lot of supporting scenes. Because of that lack of scenes, the romance just sort of happened suddenly, and I didn't feel anything on behalf of either of the characters regarding the romance.
Opportunity for cancel: No. This series could have divided up its time to more effectively support events like this.
Should-have-shot-them-when-you-had-the-chance.
There's one scene near the end that was terribly unnecessary. It's a moderate spoiler, but it gets resolved unremarkably without any large impact on the plot, so I'll talk about it without mentioning specific characters. Person B is evil and is doing evil things. Person A and crew break in to stop the evil deeds. Person A has Person B cornered. Hooray. Person A is furious and is in a position to strike down Person B. However, Person A decides not to deliver the final blow, saying that the higher-ups will deal with Person B's punishment for doing evil things. Person A then runs off to stop the main evil deed, without binding Person B. Just. Leaves. Person B. There. Does nothing. Surely Person B won't run around and come for revenge. Surely we shouldn't hand them off to someone else to keep an eye on them. So, literally 40 seconds later [or less, depending on when you start counting], Person B sneaks up and shoots Person A. It's just sad. The series doesn't pull stunts like that for all the prior episodes, and then it just has to pull that near the end. Although good for another reason, the oddest part is that it doesn't largely effect the next episode, so I'm not sure why ~that~ event was chosen by the writers.
Opportunity for cancel: No. This series seems to be an original series. Even if it wasn't, and was instead based on a light novel or manga, and this scene was in the original, I'd consider it cringe-worthy enough to write out of the anime.
Time wasn't well-spent.
This negative relates to the other negatives. Basically, time wasn't divided up effectively, and on top of that, how the types of time slots were spent didn't effectively push the series. So, both high-level scene planning and low-level scene planning could have been better.
Opportunity for cancel: No, but the series was still enjoyable to some degree.
