Just watched BNA: Brand New Animal
Spoilers ahead, I'm not gonna bother spoiling the text because I'm fucking lazy.
It was overall disappointing.
>Plot/characters/concept
Honestly a rushed mess that magically resolves itself, wasted potential. The amount of factions they introduced halfway through intrigued me but they took care of it in such a lame and dumb way tbh, and Nazuna never had a redemption, she just magically decided that her manipulating an entire city on behalf of evil organizations to essentially kill/neutralize them all was bad, on top of what she did to Michiru, and suddenly being nice to one child makes her a star again. This was just a load of bullshit, the happy ending didn't feel properly earned and the characters development was passive or just randomly and arbitrarily happened, it's infuriating. Michiru and Oogami were the only ones who went through any character development, and Michiru kept having a lot of bad decisions. Also, consider that Alan suffered minimal consequences, all he did was fucking resign as head of the company, nothing was mentioned about prison or any kind of punishment outside of that, it's repugnant. The mayor was a naive clod, and the police chief was a literal dog (as in an unthinking tool of his masters) until he randomly decides to grow a fucking spine. This anime honestly needed like 6-12 more episodes to cook, Oogami's betrayal could really have been interesting, and Nazuna could have been properly redeemed, and these other characters could've had important realizations. Its just fucking bullshit, I'm irritated because this genuinely had potential, but they clearly just threw everything into a blender at the end and served a sludge that marks off whatever nutritional checkmark they could find.
Also, they didn't have Michiru play one fucking game of basketball, instead they had her play a fucking baseball game, I feel cheated.
>Audio/Visuals
In terms of animation and art, I didnt care for it at all. The character designs were ugly and disappointing and nobody really appealed to me. I also hated Trigger's laziness with regards to shading and coloring. Flat colors and a limited palette is not a style 99% of the time, it just looked like shit, on top of bad lineart. This feels like a frequent Trigger problem, I miss the Gainax days when they were forced to put effort into aesthetics.
Music was forgettable. Voice acting was fine. The comedy was somewhat tedious, and things felt a bit too predictable overall, which is a waste.