From a sports anime perspective, it lacks the character development because it skips/skims over stories. The action animations are poor as well because they are rushed and lack the build up to make you really excited for the matches. Usually, sports anime will also teach you about the sport and that was lacking as well. If it were just a sports anime I would have dropped it midway.
From a work life anime perspective, I feel like they really just did a shallow copy of corporate work that just feels hollow for the most part. Within the company the characters face the type of antagonist which you can predict easily and then the poorly designed corporate challenges which will make you just smirk if you have ever worked in an office before. We sit through a presentation where suddenly a document is missing (pikachu shocked face). The supporting character who has social anxiety for the majority of the anime has to step in and continue the presentation despite his social anxiety. You would think he would choke but he actually manages to overcome his social anxiety on the spot within seconds. This is just very poor character development. Then the antagonist steps in and criticizes the product/presentation just to give the anime a little plot I guess. At the end Quality Assurance steps in, shows that the clients like the prototype and the project gets approved. Scenes like these are sprinkled across the anime and make you think: "What an anticlimactic conclusion". Overall these work life scenes were just pointless for the most part because you could predict them miles ahead and they make the overall story just shallower and empty.
Why did I give it a 4 star rating ? On the bright side it has elements of a good sports anime and the story isn't horribly bad. Also I think the story itself actually has a lot of potential but they just rushed it and didn't put enough effort to build the characters.
