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Honestly, as much as I somewhat enjoyed this series, I can't help but think that so much of its potential was left unused and wasted.

Atom: The Beginning had a good basis upon which a fantastic series could have been established, the story was there, the characters were there, what could go wrong, right? Well, this is usually what happens when what a series has to truly offer is left unexplored, here we had the concept of artificial consciousness, AI is one thing, but to give a machine a soul, to make it sentient and aware, to have it feel and connect on a "human" level, ... it's exactly that what the series first hints that it will be focusing on, instead, it was left ignored and the application of it thrown aside until the couple last episodes, and even then it wasn't fully explored or given the attention it deserved.

Most of the episodes presented were fillers, and yes an argument could be made that those helped establish more character development, but I feel like that's something that could have been done while focusing on the actual plot of the series, instead, we get a touch of useless scenes here, a bit of useless twists there, and a side dash of drama to top it all, sigh..

Overall, this is was an "alright" anime deserving of a general rating of 7.

To be honest, the beginning first caught me off guard, it reminded me a bit of Prison School with the whole all-female school starts accepting male students, and so I first thought that it's going to be a femdom thing (not that the first couple of minutes helped sway that assumption), but in all honesty, as mainstream and as recycled as the premise of this show is, I still enjoyed it.

Story: 5
- The premise of having a guy mind control tomboyish females to use as his slaves or the like is a bit used up, and considering they didn't really add upon it in any ... way (except for changing the way by which the guy mind controls), the story gets an average rating of 5.

Art: 8
- The art was pretty slick, everything from the overall character designs to the attention to detail, it adds to the show and it's very appealing and pleasing to the eye.

Sound: 9
- Clear and sound.

Characters: 7
- It would have been an 8 but I disliked the fact they over-killed it with the gigantic breasts, sure making them a bit shaped up is pleasing but going about it the way these guys have... it just makes you disinterested... boring trope.

Finale Score: 6
- I guess it's fair to say that regardless of all of that, I found it... fine.