No, this is not a bad anime. Keep on reading if you want to know why. I feel obliged to comment to clean the reputation of a jewel from a bygone era. Starting with the characters, strong girls were a favorite type in Japan anime during the 80s. It stemmed from the real life sukebans and bled into fiction in many shapes and forms. Military themes were included in these. Group of secret agent and women soldiers that more or less echoes the cold war -historical important moments that the world was undergoing at the time. The reader just needs to imagine the newspapers of theera to realize why these themes were interlaced with the archetype of a popular character of that era.

It is not slow-paced. It just doesn't have tik tok editing rhythm. Frames are not frantically changing and, even though, it has upbeat music (and good one! I encourage to check the soundtrack) is not something you'd hear today. It remains true to its time. I urgr the prior reviewers to try and practice focusing attention since it is good for brain function. The pace is average, an average is good. The kind of average that makes the story coherent. The editing pace had significantly change in 2020 with the massive consumption of fruitless 1-min videos.But get a grip this is not social media. It is a piece of art.

In true honesty, i see more action than violent scenes. And I deemed them necessary since help the viewer understand the power of the esper and create a menacing atmosphere around this being. It could be also because this is an OVA meaning not release on tv and they find the loophole in censorship. Animators wanted to show something otherwise unattainable to the anime fans.

The story makes sense and it's true to it's era. I've seen much much worse. Don't mind the angry short-attention span 2010 watchers that don't have the capacity to understand visual language from different decades. If you like biotechnology plots and mad scientist you'd definitely enjoy these! And did I mention the soundtrack? It's a blast.