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After watching ep.0, I was very intrigued and had high hopes that this anime could be something great. But by the time I finished the last episode, I was crying inside because I knew I would never get back the time I wasted on this utterly horrible anime.

Spoilers ahead (obviously).
Note: I did not read the manga, so this is purely a rant about the anime.
MCs will be referred as K (Kadode) and O (Oran).

The genre bait-and-switch
From the beginning, it’s clear that we’ll have aliens, a post apocalyptic world, some sci-fi, and cute girls who will probably die horrible deaths. However, ep.1 decides that actually, this ... is a slice of life anime now! Oh well, I figured with 17 episodes total, not all of it would be action packed. But episode, after episode, aaaafter episooooode, we get 15 minutes of mundane schoolgirl life/activities, followed by 3–5 minutes of actual interesting content regarding the alien invasion. And next episode we are back to the daily life of schoolgirls!
For example, ep.8 ends with literally hundreds of aliens falling from the sky (broadcasted on the news), with people in shock. But then ep.9 starts with O preparing for her college entrance ceremony! And this constant pacing whiplash isn’t even the biggest issue here.

The "protect just one person" nonsense
The main theme (as far as I can tell) is voiced in ep.5 by O’s brother: "Protect one person. You can’t worry about everyone. Just one is enough." And boy, does the anime commit to this idea in the worst way possible!
We get a backstory episode where the girls first find the alien few years ago. Then, in an attempt to prove that humans are good, K (using alien technology thingy) goes full Light Yagami (but with a much lower IQ and a childish approach). When things inevitably go south, she acts like some tragic heroine, and by the end of ep.6, this barely likable character becomes completely unbearable. And then she just jumps out of a balcony! Buuuut here’s the thing - ep.6 ends before we know what happens to her. Then ep.7 starts in the present day, with everyone alive and happy. Some side character goes on a date with another insignificant character who never appears again..
For a few episodes, we don’t get an answer about what happened to K. Since we didn’t hear a sound of her actually falling on the ground, maybe she survived? But her personality seems too cheerful... so was her memory tampered with? Or is she dead and possessed by an alien? (We already knew that was possible from the start.) But nope! Turns out, time travel exists!

The anime explains (sort of) that your mind can go back in time and change stuff. But how much of the previous timeline do you remember? Who knows! So, O uses this machine, "travels" (transports part of her mind?) back, and intentionally avoids meeting the alien. Because of this, a few years later, an entire alien ship appears, Tokyo gets destroyed, and almost everyone dies (including MC's friends and family members). But hey, it’s fine because O and K survive the explosion and still have each other!
On the same episode O asks K, "what would you do if the world ended and it was my fault?" And K responds, "even if everyone in the world became your enemy, I will still be on your side." So, basically, the MCs are both selfish lowlifes with zero regard for anyone but each other. Sad.
Actually, based on how most of the characters are drawn, and how they act, maybe it was the author's intention to make the viewer hate the entire human race?

If the story had ended here, I might have been somewhat content. At least they’d have to live in this harsh world and deal with their loss. But just when you think you can’t be more disappointed, the anime says, "hold my beer - here comes the last episode!"

The ultimate deus ex machina
In the final episode, K’s father, a cold and useless man who died on the day the alien ship arrived, was actually possessed by an alien for eight years before regaining his consciousness (don’t ask me how. The anime tries to explain that it’s his strong will, even though nothing in his screen time suggested he was strong in any way, shape, or form).
Anyway, this re-awakened man, with the help of some side characters, finds the "time machine" again and goes back 12 years. But even before he does anything, things are already different: K have a different color glasses, K’s favorite manga has different characters, etc. (Why? Who knows! Maybe we’re already in a multiple-times-altered timeline?)
He tells K to befriend O, and boom! Time skip! Everything is fine, no alien invasion, nobody dies, they grow up, find jobs, and are all friends. Happy ending! Hip hip-hooray!

Final thoughts
Loved the random Trump (a.k.a. Patron) appearance.
Hated the government spaceship plotline.
So many plot points were introduced and then completely abandoned.
*O was given a pill (cube) to suppress her fear but she never takes it, and it’s never mentioned again.
*The aliens casually drop the fact that they were actually the first ones to live on Earth, but no further explanation, no backstory, nothing!
*What do the aliens actually look like??? And how come with such an advanced technology they are so helpless??
*If they have the ability to transfer themselves into dead people, why don’t they use it more?
*Add what was that giant finger from space that pressed the "destruction button"?!
*The weird white space where the D's father went through, is it the same place where the little aliens went after they died? and it had the little earth and these four hands with pointing fingers, what was that? What was the purpose of this anime? I guess we'll never know.

Conclusion
If you introduce multiple plot points only to barely hint at them and never explore them again, maybe... just don’t? Maybe just pick one and actually develop it??
I suspect a lot of these plot holes are explained in the manga, but as an anime-only viewer, this was beyond frustrating.