The biggest problem comes down to characters, or more particularly their interactions. For a show with plenty of little conversational moments, it's striking how consistently it misses the mark on achieving any semblance of legitimate human interaction, even taking the element of cartoon exaggeration into consideration. Scene after scene rings unfortunately hollow, bizarre mannequins reproducing their ascribed personalities in obviously false notes. The story and thematic work in the first three episodes doesn't fare much better, considering how foundational character work is to it and how sloppily it deploys its setup of cutesified secret police.
The thread being unwound from the inciting incident could go somewhere interesting, but again, it's hard for me to place too much faith in the idea that it will right now. It's going to become crucial for the story's development to either grapple legitimately with the heavier elements that are currently incorporated awfully or, if that proves impossible, to at least ease out of that direction. Ultimately any shift would be better than the current approach, which does not even give enough weight to things that need it for tonal dissonance to be raised as a complaint, but simply feels weightless and illegitimate across the board.
To toss in another positive note as a cap off, there's some solid action choreography in the second episode, if you can overlook the bullet dodging implemented and animated in a way that doesn't quite work. I wish I could throw in more miscellaneous positives, but the most I can muster in most categories is neutrality.
