Some of the stronger points include a straight into the action first episode, heavy action and healthy pacing in the latter part of the show and strong female characters being the focus of the show.
Weak points include flat, cookie-cutter characters with little to no development, extremely non-believable/hard to take seriously plot elements and and a completely forgettable soundtrack.
Some plot stuff in particular was just like... come on man... Two egregious examples include when a couple of the main characters return to their hotel room to find it absolutely ripped apart, ransacked and completely covered floor to ceiling in blood. When the hotel staff discovers this, what do they do? They ask them to leave of course! It's ABSURD to believe that a cleaning lady or whatever member of the hotel staff would walk into that room- completely floor to ceiling covered in blood- and not call the police. Hotel management responding to this situation by simply asking the guests to leave is just stupid.
The other is when some of the main characters need to get in a cab as soon as possible so they flag down the first cab driver they can find on the street, which is some random guy they've never met before. This driver then proceeds to drive like a professional stuntman including down alleys that are not roads, down staircases and even up and over a bridge and onto a rooftop. Is that remotely believable? Random Joe Blow cab driver is going to drive like that? It happens only because the plot needs it to happen, but it's just stupid.
There are other similar, smaller examples of things like this but they all ultimately lead to making it very difficult to take the plot remotely seriously.
There are also a couple of scenes that are just super WTF, the most disturbing of which being when a female character decides to get naked and cuddle with at best, more than cuddle with at worst, the corpse of her male love interest. This scene was supposed to be emotionally impactful but it was really gross, really weird and really unnecessary.
At the end of the day Canaan was not the worst or the most boring anime I've ever watched, but it was ultra underwhelming all across the board. I could have lived without watching it this first time around and I can't imagine ever wanting to watch it again. This is definitely among the most forgettable anime I've seen in a while and I wouldn't recommend it.
OBJECTIVE RATING- 6
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT RATING- 5.5-6
