Our communist gorilla by the name of Tsukasa immediately change the series from a promising civilisation building series into what is essentially another battle shounen, this time scienence vs brawn. Because of this most of the science stuff is related to eventually fighting the communist monkey kingdom which works the same way as a training arc in a battle shounen as they prepare for combat. If a rinse and repeat of the battle shounen story structure wasn't enough pretty much half the show is comedic relief. Gags after gags after gags, I have no idea what they were thinking, this might not be a big deal in the manga as you can skim past it but here we are constantly interrupted by chibi faces with obnoxious voices making appaling facial expressions.
The only saving grace for this show is a few episodes where we stray away from this and we get to see what this series could have been if it was done competently. Though to be honest at the same time this also felt like a punch in the face as it showed that there were competence somewhere behind this but they chose not to take advantage of it and make something new but instead opting for yet another a semi-battle shounen.
