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Ok, hear me out.
I'm giving this a 10 because of all the potential.It was the first manga that where i thought "Hey this manga could be great if the author had more time and budget to write the story".The start was amazing and not a cliche like other manga/anime, so thats a bonus.The art was goergous i really enjoyed it.
Now the problems come from the plot and character development.
Since the manga ended prematurely there was really no good character development or plot depth and the ending was REALLY rushed.
Now like i said, i gave 10 because of it's potential. If this manga was given another ... chance, i think that it would really deserve a 10.

This is my first review but i'll try my best.
I first heard of kuromukuro from a friend of mine and he described it to me this way "A samurai dude comes from the past and kills these mecha called Ogres while piloting another mecha".
Hearing this i didnt expect much but when i started it i really liked the first 2 episodes and had really high expectations, and maybe because of that there were things that i didnt like after watching all of it.
The story even if there's the whole alien mecha cliche had some original plot like the mc being samurai from the ... sengoku era that was sleeping inside an "Artifact".
The sound and art were really good and was way better than most anime out there.
Now comes the part i really hated, the characters, some of them were really annoying and pretty dull. One that i really hated was Ryoto Akagi, the writing for him was really lacking and that made him the stereotyipical "i love the mc but will never get together with her" and this was seen since the beggining.He tries to act tough or say that he'll defend her without any apparent reason shown in the anime, the only reason that we see is that he "likes" her.Another one is the female mc Shirahane, what i didnt like about her is that the anime makes it seem that she's important to be kennosuke's navigator but that's not really true, and we can see this in the 9th episode (i think?) where kennosuke tells her that he can pilot even without her (and, this is what i think, couldnt there be another navigator because first there was the hime and now shirahane, so why not another?), so why write her as being scared and not wanting to pilot and then instantly 1 episode later make her change idea even if she didnt have to?
This was just a try to make the character seem more deep then it really is.
Oh, almost forgot, she explicitly says, by her mouth, that she didn't want to be born from her father, just because some elementary or middle school (i dont remember specifically) called her a liar.Well, so much for family bonds.
Kennosuke was alright, a loyal samurai that after finishing his mission wanted to commit seppuku for his master (at least at the beggining).
Ill just finish with this last one, Jundai. Boy oh boy now this is a pretty dumb one. This guy loves to stream and videotape stuff, and now that these aliens came to earth he literally kamikaze's his way through military area to film the Ogres fighting, and the military does literally NOTHING TO STOP MILITARY INFORMATION FROM LEAKING.
Well overall a good anime and people may find it better than i did, since characters are mostly about opinions, but i would give it a 7.
Could have been better with a little bit of tweaking.

(If you find any info missing or wrong pls pm me,Its been a while since i saw this anime and i couldn't find some info on the net.)