This anime's excellent first half came to a screeching halt later, thanks to a generic Nietzschean villain and a total absence of thematic resonance. People have compared this to Dr. Stone, but Dr. Stone was always about science, even when there were baddies to fight and people to rescue; this anime drops science, creativity, and exploration in favor of... friendship? Punching?
There are also some fundamental quality issues that I started to notice in the second half, maybe because the story became less engrossing; villains appear out of nowhere from the middle of the desert, a time bomb randomly fails to go off, and a key character backstory winds up totally unexplained and unresolved. (That same character gets the same, exact flashback scene six or seven times, which really bogs things down.)
Still, I might recommend the first 4-6 episodes as standalone material, and I'm interested to see what the author/studio come up with next.
There are also some fundamental quality issues that I started to notice in the second half, maybe because the story became less engrossing; villains appear out of nowhere from the middle of the desert, a time bomb randomly fails to go off, and a key character backstory winds up totally unexplained and unresolved. (That same character gets the same, exact flashback scene six or seven times, which really bogs things down.)
Still, I might recommend the first 4-6 episodes as standalone material, and I'm interested to see what the author/studio come up with next.