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Fun anime with a lot of great characters, but the quality can vary quite a bit throughout the show. This anime's worldbuilding, powerscaling, and consistency are all over the place, but the characters draw you into the story and make it hard to resist the temptation to watch just one more episode.

If you want an anime that makes sense and has compelling worldbuilding, this is not the anime for you. If you want one that gives you a compelling cast of characters who keep pulling wild solutions out of thin air while still feeling like the characters earned it, then this is the anime ... for you.

This anime would probably be a 9/10 for me if not for the awful drag that was most of the Chimera Ant arc (dragging my rating down to 7/10). Even that arc, however, pulled through in the end and led into a very well done final arc.

In this show, we have a refreshing and masterfully executed combination of existing Sci-Fi formulae; time travel, robots, trauma, and an exploration of humanity are nothing new to the genre, but this anime handles all of the topics with awe-inspiring precision. Moreover, the show puts an interesting twist on the passage of time, encapsulating the overarching plot within mostly-2-episode stories. There's never a dull moment, and the show successfully balances Wit's top tier animation with brilliant characterization, a compelling narrative, gorgeous music, and a number of emotionally touching stories.

From a gripping opening scene that shatters any preconceived notions you may have brought in ... from the title card to a beautiful, poetic conclusion, this anime remains a 10/10 the whole way. At only 13 episodes of the usual 20ish minutes each, it stands as a testament to the idea that "less is more." Nothing feels out of place in Vivy; each moment in the show is carefully considered, each episode meticulously crafted, and this show dodges the annoying or distasteful handicaps and tropes that might make me hesitate to recommend other shows.

Though this show certainly doesn't re-invent the wheel, it shows you exactly why the wheel has been used for so long; the Sci-Fi foundations of the show are nothing new, but this show takes your expectations and blows them out of the water by demonstrating that it can use the old formula in a way that dwarfs most.

This anime manages to fall short in every area. It has some great moments and sequences, but they're buried within a pile of rubbish. The writing is garbage, the animation is underwhelming, and it overall feels like a cheap attempt to copy the likes of Invincible, The Boys, and The Great Pretender--an attempt where the writers of this show completely missed what makes the others great. The show seems like it has promise in the first several episodes--the characters have interesting premises and the powers are creative--but it just keeps getting worse and worse in the middle.

Super Crooks is a show that tries to ... simultaneously juggle being a fun, goofy superhero show and being a more serious take on the superhero genre, but it fails at both. These different tones end up completely undermining each other, and the setting has no internal consistency. When the situation is tense and emotions are high in one particular scene at the end of the middle arc, the scene is resolved with something so jaw-droppingly stupid that it makes Sword Art Online's "Why'd you do this?" "I forgot the reason" scene look good.

The show does somewhat redeem itself in the last few episodes (which end up feeling like a completely different show), but not enough for me to recommend it.