As a 25th-anniversary project for Studio Bones, I was somewhat expecting this to be pretty good, at least in regards to storytelling and characters. Animation I can cut slack on, for they were making this one independently. But even from the first episode, I could tell it wasn't going to be good. I kept hoping the next episode would explain something or shift perspectives in a way that would make what they'd be doing so far make sense, but that moment never came.
The way the story and world are explained in this anime is just too much of a struggle to follow, and I don't believe it's bad comprehension on my part; it's just poorly written. All the aspects of a story set in a Cyberpunk world are there, and it has the pieces to make something good, but the way it assembles them just ends up being messy and incoherent. I really wanted to enjoy this, but in the end, I was just glad it was over.
