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Unimpressed.

Technical side is well done: animation is fluid and interesting, characters are drawn in a semi-realistic way which gives the anime a more serious and mature tone, backgrounds are nice, the soundtrack is excellent.

According to the one who made the story of this anime (or manga, if you want), "perfect intelligence" is a purely quantitative construct. Really? That's it? How absolutely underwhelming. Apparently, "perfect intelligence" here is nothing other than a sum of all individual human intelligences that exist in the world (which therefore is equal to the number of humans, in anime that is 9.9 billion of them), and since you would need almost ... an infinite amount of computing resources to simulate them all at the same time within the same robot, not to mention the necessity to resolve all the contradictions between them (of which there are many, just think of different worldviews those 9.9 billion hold), the authors then conclude that "perfect intelligence" may exist in theory, but in practice a robot having it never "wakes up" (that is, never begins to actually function upon being loaded with all those 9.9 billion individual intelligences), and therefore - "perfect intelligence" cannot exist in practice.

That is laughably bad. Just how asinine people behind this creation are, exactly?

What this anime, or this whole idea, story and plot, want to tell you is that intelligence is purely and only quantitative. So a "supreme intelligence" likewise is purely quantitative, a sum of individual intelligences. By necessity then, there is no inherent quality to human intelligence and, what is also important, there are no human intelligences inherently superior to other human intelligences. So a genius of Beethoven, of Buddha, or Jesus, or Mohammad, is based on an intelligence no higher, no better, than an intelligence of some low-IQ petty criminal, or what have you. But that is absolutely false. Not to mention that the whole idea of quantitative intelligence that this anime peddles is logically NOT proven by it. Just because, as anime portrays them, some of the brightest minds state that something is this way or that way, does not mean they are correct. This should be obvious, no? But anime never, EVER even tries to discuss the premise it puts forth, never even tries to bring a character that opposes this idea. Instead we are to take it at face value and proceed like it is a settled matter.

Which, then, causes a whole lot of issues. No, you do not "need" to insert EMOTIONS, especially supposedly "unbalanced emotions", into an intelligence, in order to actually make it a functional intelligence. Because emotions are subordinate to intelligence plain and simple! This is why human intelligence is superior to that of a cat, even though both humans and cats can experience possibly the same kinds of emotions. Why exactly does one even need these supposedly "unbalanced emotions"? It is not like half the people are permanently hateful, the other half being loving. The anime wants me to accept how a "perfect intelligence" is not only primarily quantitative, but also that 9.9 billion individual intelligences are simply in a state of "equilibrium" between all the possible states of mind. But most people are peaceful. Most people are loving. Most people condemn crime. Etc. There is no, actually, equilibrium the anime implies.

Well now I got a bit lost in my own considerations here, and I cannot express myself quite coherently just yet. I finished this just an hour ago.

I still gave this 5 out of 10, on account of high-quality production values, music, compelling first several episodes, some very good characters and so on. But I was getting increasingly annoyed by the end of it, that the last episode I mostly just spent skipping through.

P.S. Might edit the review later. "Later" including months, years and who knows...