To begin with, what the anime does well, the characters while being quite generic, are likable and have some good interaction, the main duo (Chidori and Sousuke) works really well both in the comedy and more serious scene. The world introduces is interesting and believable (at least at the beginning) and the comedy is quite good but that subjective.
The problems begin to appear in the second arc (from ep9), mainly because everything is really confusing:
- we know nothing of the enemy but some character are for strange reason connect to them
- the terrorist goal makes no sense
- for some reason the commander is left without any protection
- ...
But while that arc is confusing it's far from being as annoying as that pile of shit that is the third arc.
First, the enemy of the arc is again Goron. Second, what should have been an elite team from mithril is a group of morons unable to listen to the info they are given or the man added to their team because he is a specialist.
They have tactics on par with a shonen protagonist (attack from the front, without cover and without knowing where their target is), and to add to their stupidity they know of the borderline magic lambda drive and that the enemy as one but don't act accordingly.
Unfortunately, Sousuke isn't better, and never uses the lambda drive outside of the final battle when it would have been very useful against his former friend. And obviously, he never confirms the kill, so that the final arc villain can be Goron.
I will be short for the fourth arc because: it's like the third but a little less retard, and with some development on the plot.
Overall it was mediocre with a good start and a really bad third and fourth arc, in fact, the filler episodes, more focus on comedy and characters were way better than the regular episode in the second half of the series.
To conclude the author should have stick to comedy where he is quite good, which is confirmed by Full metal panic fumaffu being way better.
