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As stated in the other reviews, KADO has a top-notch beginning that really gave me a lot of faith in the series. "Finally," I thought, "a mature sci-fi series dealing with the politics of first contact!"

Unfortunately, the show begins to veer off (for me) at the festival episode, and goes downhill from there. The ending in particular was very disappointing to me due to the abundance of tired anime tropes the series had done well to avoid or keep understated so far.

There is also no room left to explore the wider implications of anisotropic tech that earlier episodes seemed to promise.

Regarding the Art, ... I will say that the anisotropic structures were rendered very well and were unmistakably alien. The music was also very good (especially that opening) and gave an inspiring vibe.

It's up to you whether - knowing what you know now - you'll still want to pick up KADO. It's a difficult series to rate numerically because those first few episodes really are very good, while those in the other half are uninspiring to say the least. I take a dimmer view of the overall series because it raised my expectations only to dash them, whereas some worse series at least show you what you're in for.