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>What's wrong with it other than that?
I was too hard on it back then. It's definitely a series you can tell was made by someone with an interest in 2000s-to-early-2010s internet scene culture but didn't live it and was kept around a lot of Millennial influences, especially in how the show's humor tends to veer into a Late Millennial direction, yet not as obnoxiously as anything made by actual Late Millennials. It's the kind of thing that would be aired on Disney XD if it was still around and would be very popular at Hot Topic if it was still relevant. Unfortunately, this means the characters can be overly childish.
However, its writing improves by bounds after the pilot, despite how much the characters change from it and how obvious the creator's femdom and tsundere fetishes are throughout it, especially in how the female characters interact with his retarded submissive golden retriever man self-insert. There are some jokes that give a similar feeling, like how it's mentioned that the drones sweat and how weird that is, something I'm critical of it for more than just this. It's another reason why the drones are inexplicably cyborgs. It's also notable that his late teens self-insert paired with the heroine, who is very obviously in her early teens.
Metahumor and tryhard edginess, the latter of which is very pronounced with cut-ins and closeups, are two areas that only mildly improve throughout the series. It can get very in-your-face that the creator is an animation nerd and has interned at many studios and thus wants to point out cliches. Episode 4 is especially notable for this since murder was previously seen as horrific, but comedic murders and murders of side characters become commonplace here. Despite this, my impression of this change is that the creator understood that people were getting sick of the high school backdrop, yet this also cheapens the concept of the series, much like the total abandonment of more drones arriving and the heroine fixing the ship so they can kill humans and the importance of the rail gun to Uzi's character and the purpose of the murder drones being on the planet and what the lights on the tops of the heads of the murder drones meant in the pilot.
Like Gooseworx and Vivzie, he uses some biblical references and imagery and is between the two in how much he applies it. The nexus for this is a character called Cyn, pronounced "Sin", who is a GladOS ripoff with HK-47 speech patterns. This tendency for the creator to borderline rip-off things because he thinks they're cool appears regularly. Also like Gooseworx and Vivizie, drama is handled roughly, being a tossup between tonally never leaving sardonics, thus not leaving an impact, and being undercut because the fast plot and even faster jokes demand it to end quickly. Despite this, the rapid pace of the jokes means more opportunities for them to land, and more did with me than they did initially. He also makes occasional references to things like "the void" and "the singularity" and other amateur Millennial nihilistic concepts, which is discouraging.
The pacing is all over the place. Characters and concepts appear out of order and aren't given time for the audience to understand them. A particular case of this is when the heroine gains her powers. There's no equivalent to a superhero trying out or training with his powers. She can just use them, presumably because of their source or her focusing intensely.
The female murder drones are hot, even if they are Nier ripoffs with exaggerated My Life as a Teenage Robot personalities, and the action sequences are serviceable.
>TL;DR
You should try it. After the pilot, things like incessant corporate jokes and misandrist commentary go away, and it's only eight episodes long. Nothing in the series is as bad as the pilot.