Visually and emotionally engrossing but intellectually misplaced, this show struggles most at maintaining a focal core to its story, undermining its originally interesting characters. This nebulous nature is demonstrable most by disregarding the emotional struggles of the protagonist. The advancement of story plot by becoming a sports-esque shonen midway through the show abandoned our initial premise of a numbed and enervated youth, struggling with self-discovery and plagued by a fear of straying from routinely methodical thinking. The transition in show style itself is not necessarily at fault, rather that the execution lended itself poorly to the furtherment of the characters. This striking offence widens even greater when the show eventually doesn't even follow the main protagonist, who becomes relegated to a support character with no influence over the story whatsoever. After this, the rest of the watching experience becomes waiting for the show to run out of episodes and come to a close.
Art is above average. Sound is above average. Enjoyable despite culminating and then terminating without proper development or resolution of the main characters.