Actually, the first half of the series does offer a bit of worthwhile content. Having the Funimation to justify licensing the title and think that enough people will watch it to be worth dubbing it.

Except that this is not good fan service, unless one is a fan of grossly oversized busts done in a style similar to the Witchblade anime, with which it clearly shares a character designer. The busts on some of the female characters - especially Major Garnet of the Giroaurd Army and Dorctor Yuri - are so exaggerated that they can be counterproductive in attempting to generate prurient appeal; they just look ridiculous, and ridiculous is not sexy. In fact, the ample but not oversized Toa and the more modest Akira and Nanami are both sexier. (Sieglinde is a harder case to call since she has a loli look but a more developed figure than the norm for that type.) For a series that needs to depend on its fan service for , there isn't enough of it, either, unless women hanging out of clothing that is unprofessional and inappropriate for the roles that they are filling works for you. They are not the only ones dressed inappropriately, either, as Mr. Cyril looks like a senior citizen who is more concerned with showing off his athletic studliness than demonstrating any sense of professional decorum.

The series also has other problems that run deep. Although the series technically has a plot involving dealing with Thanatos, most of what happens is just an excuse to have numerous battles involving human-looking individuals who can transform into dragon-like mecha. The rest involves trying to establish Jin and Toa's very troubled relationship, which mostly involves Jin trying to chase down Toa and Toa vacillating between wanting to be with Jin and needing to be away from him so she can half-heartedly fulfill her Purpose. This gets more tiring than interesting after a while, as Jin's pursuit of Toa is more another example of obsessive behavior than actual love. (Yes, Toa fills that hole in his life caused by the disappearance of his family, but this is not a healthy way to do it.) They make a decent enough couple but not one that, at this point, is going to carry a series. Despite some background flashes, none of the rest of the major cast have been developed much by the end of episode 13, and what has been shown about them does not distinguish them much from stock characters from any of a number of other action series. That the logical structure of the indeterminate future makes little sense is an additional consideration.