I recommend watching.
Interesting take on future in stylishly futuristic sharp black and white colors. I do actually like these colors, but somehow creators overdid it: it's hard to tell characters apart sometimes. They should have been more fancy with hairstyles, why no girl has Hatsune's style twin tails for example. Yes, they have to be black.
However, scratches and marks do take away from brand new futuristic feel of this color scheme. They sure do not keep the ship in the most pristine conditions, some areas are dilapidated and drab, all too often futurism gives way to simple brutalism of grey concrete walls and rusty metal rails.
There are some gimmick characters like that bear woman, but they actually make it worse somehow.
It's somewhat of a scientific futurism. They float many interesting hypothetical ideas such as human photosynthesis. For those of you who do not know what it means: photosynthesis is getting energy from sun directly like plants instead of getting it from food like humans currently do. However other of their ideas are weird and uncomfortable.
Just like with Unbreakable Machine Doll, first few episodes are rather unlikable and mostly consist of various people abusing Tanikaze for various reasons. This show uses brutality in an unappealing way.
The show is mean enough to just take the best girl (Hachijiro) away from us in episode 5. They just do not want us to be happy. If Tanikaze and Hochijiro would have ended up happily together I might have given it higher score.
They do other mean and nasty things from time to time, but it gets better closer to the finale.
On the plus side its 60% stylish and scientifically curious. On the negative side its meanspirited and ugly 40% of the time. Some episodes are better than others. I guess it sums it up to 6.5 on the balance.
Overall, I can recommend watching it.
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