the art direction:
i liked the mech designs, character designs, the characters that mattered really looked unic, you could telll a lot about their personalities just looking at them. And the world, seemed interesting to look at, but i prefered the outside locations rather than the cities, the cities were nice, but i feel the art direction shined more on the outside designs.
the animation:
it wasn't something that will knock your socks out, but it was a solid work throught out the 12 episodes. the mechs were 3D, but the nice 3D, it blended well enough with the 2D elements.
the soundtrack:
there were a couple of tracks i know i will add to my playlist that's for sure, the op and ed were meh tho (for me at least).
now, that the good it's out of the way, let me say that after the first episode i was really looking to were the history would go, but it kinda goes nowhere, there are like 4/5 episodes i think that i feel moves the plot forward, and the other episodes were self contained ones, and i don't have a problem with that, but you gotta commit to one or the other, considering that this is a 12 episodes anime, so you gotta decide if you wanna have a linear history, or an episodic one, not the two, if they were aiming to have the two, this needed 12 episodes more at least, to have a good blend of plot and characters exploring the world, and having more development, the history felt like it didn't know what wanted to do with the world and characters.
talking about the history, there were 2 episodes, that really pissed me off, i think it were episode 5 and 6, where they were traveling, then they eaten some mushrooms and got intoxicated, to which gagamba decided that the best path to the group was look for a city with a hospital, to which memepu got mad at him, for suggesting such a thing, how dare him, her father which promised they were gonna go where she wanted, but after they were looked by a doctor, and then the rest of the group proceeded to ask gagambe what was he waiting to apologize to her daughter, excuse me, apologize? apologize for what? for taking a little detour to be sure they weren't gonna die for poisoning? i know memepu it's 9, and most of the critisism toward her could be dismissed just by saying she's a kid, but come'on, at least give me a believable reason to which they're gonna get mad to eachother. yes, she was having nightmares about her father dying, and that's why she was so eager to go to the place of her dreams, just to know if that's true or not, but do you expect me to buy, that she got mad because her father wasn't going fast enough to the place of her dreams, just to know if he really dies or not? what? wouldn't you be glad that you're getting away from the place where he's supposed to die? why are you getting mad at him? poor man it's ill, and just want to see a dr, and you get mad at him because he's not going to the place where he's gonna die?
these episodes really annoyed me a lot.
and then there was the antagonist group, they were present in 3 episodes, why introduce an antogonist group, if you're not gonna make use of them? they tried to kidnap memempu once, the second time they succeded, but it was offscreen (from episode 11 to 12, felt like a lot happenned, episode 12 begins with memempu already at the hands of the enemy, i was waiting for a flashback, to explain how that happened, but nothing, i don't know if there was an episode 11.5 in the blurays, if that's the case, that's an stupid decision, if there was not such episode, then it's an akward decision to start the last episode, an make feel the expectator, that they skippped a whole episode), and then there was the antagonist group, they were present in 3 episodes, why introduce an antogonist group, if you're not gonna make use of them? they tried to kidnap memempu once, the second time they succeded, but it was offscreen (from episode 11 to 12, felt like a lot happenned, episode 12 begins with memempu already at the hands of the enemy, i was waiting for a flashback, to explain how that happened, but nothing, i don't know if there was an episode 11.5 in the blurays, if that's the case, that's an stupid decision, if there was not such episode, then it's an akward decision to start the last episode, an make feel the expectator, that they skippped a whole episode).
this anime it's weird, it had such much potential, but it went nowhere, what a shame, also gagamba, was the best character, i wish he were in a better anime.
