Let's start with the best part - the animation. It's great. Looks like Scissor Seven had noticeably higher animation budget than usual Chinese animated series and it shows. This combined with the unusual (at least for anime) character and setting designs makes for an enjoyable parade of animation with plenty of sakuga moments. I would honestly say that the animation alone is enough reason to watch this.
That said, this somewhat fails at the rest of the departments. Well, maybe "fail" is too harsh of an expression, but they are certainly not that interesting. This show is episodical and unfortunately except for the first episode and the finale it follow exactly the same formula - the protagonist accepts the contract, the protagonist tries to fight the target, some sob story plays out and the protagonist ends up not killing the target for reasons. While some of those self-contained stories were fine, mostly it was just somehow predictable meh. A little twist here and there to the usual format would have been nice. Maybe we'll get that in the 2nd season. Something that I'm not also very fond of is that almost nothing is explained, be it the scissor telepathy or the transformation that are both used frequently or even the world setting where a teenage boy just nonchalantly accepts the idea of becoming a killer of hire without any moral stutter. Maybe those are all secrets that are planned to be revealed later, but I doubt that as they were all presented as a matter of fact that shouldn't be questioned and because from what I experienced of Chinese fiction so far, it frequently doesn't really dwell on explaining the stuff.
"But dude, it's a comedy, who cares about the story?" is what you might be asking. In that case I regret to inform you, the reader, that the department at which this series fails at the most is the comedy one. At least for me, because of course comedy is something considerably subjective and hard to rate/review, so I'll just note that this series didn't make me laugh even once. To be fair it did make me raise the corner of my mouth twice or thrice, but I don't consider that satisfactory for a comedy series.
Overall, it still belongs among the better Chinese anime I've seen and it might even work as an introduction to that. Just don't expect wonders.
