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The plot intertwined the aspect of sports with the aspects of human emotional growth and romance well. Well enough for someone who only cared about one of those to still enjoy it. It certainly doesn't reveal any deeper humane philosophical purposes but contains enough mental stimulation to certainly rise above any other Sports anime. This is a Sports anime for people who don't like Sports anime.

The character design is very appealing. They also develop somewhat realistically. We can see Yuri's journey from despair to confidence, from emanating a pork cutlet bowl, to wanting to be attractive to Viktor. There are certainly however many unrealistic moments ... in the character's behaviour.

Graphics and animation quality is generally relatively high, albeit flawed. Russian Yuri's skating is animated terribly despite being apart of the main cast. There are also a few issues such as colour switches in the jackets between frames.

The music is is nice, especially the opening. It would have been nice to have Yuri maybe skate to one more different song.

The overall enjoyment and entertainment value is this anime's strong point. It gave what we wanted and didn't get from other sports anime like Haikyuu and Free to keep the fujoshi watching. (I really wanted one more kiss though!!)

Let's hope it doesn't pull an AoT, and we get our second season soon!

To be honest this anime is probably intended for a very young audience . It gets extremely boring and has really no purpose. There isn't even very much material to discuss. It can be described as a very good anime for young children. There are generic morals to be learnt, cute "animal sidekick", appealing art, and interesting concept. Overall it just isn't very enjoyable for older individuals.

The one thing that this anime has is quality art. The characters are generic and not remotely interesting. (DON'T BE FOOLED THERE IS NO YAOI.) The humour is non-existent, the plot is nonexistent. The soundtrack can be ... described as nice but nondescript.

I believe this is an anime where the watcher must be that age to understand. It just isn't the type of thing that middle schoolers can really appreciate on more than a surface level. Many may not enjoy it for the lack of a "purpose" or antagonist but that is what I think makes this anime better than things like Servamp or Sword Art Online. It isn't like Tokyo Ghoul either in dressing up a lack of any psychological purpose or life meaning with nice graphics, sound track, and likable characters. Despite this, the series really isn't the Masterpiece some believe it to be. It ... just doesn't reach the level of deeper humane life understanding nor does it have a very intricate Masterpiece of a plot like Death Note does. Parasyte is about the simpler aspects of human nature. The story gets even a little "shounen" like which is extremely detracting. The ending was a little forced.

The art is rather average, but it is obvious that thought was put into realistic and attractive character design. The animation remains high quality throughout the entire series.

The soundtrack was excellent, a variety of music and sound effects fitting in the right moments. Not Tokyo Ghoul level but great all the same. The ending is particularly nice.

Characters were realistic, balanced. Not "cookie cutter" like Akame ga Kill and none were very annoying. However not particularly loveable either. Shinichi's character growth happened a bit too fast, we didn't get to see enough of the old him before his "change". (He really reminds me of Percy or Jason tbh)

The overall enjoyment of individual episodes varies extremely from high to very very low quality. As a person who has seen a pretty large number of anime I can say that this series is certainly better than average but really not much more than that. It just doesn't have any of the elements of a 10/10 anime. (Deeper psychological understanding of life, intricately planned plot, high enjoyment/entertainment value, or quality graphics/sound.)