Review of No Game, No Life: Zero

This anime has nice art and music and some interesting moments here and there, but feels ultimately RUSHED and extremely underdeveloped( No real spoilers here Pluses: + Nice art + Nice music + Somewhat atmospheric, at moments + Some dramas felt nice (felt nice, yet still were set back by core show minuses) + Cute robot girl?Neutral point:
± More serious than No Game No Life series

Minuses: (unleash the words!)

- EXTREMELY RUSHED - plot jumps forward with the speed of light, leaving no time for development of anything: characters relations, world, nations, war... Most things were either described with too few words or non described at all!
- Feels fake, shallow - again, so many BIG concepts are thrown around, only to be ignored. There is this big fantasy world, there are a lot of nations, there are gods, robots, there are weird devices with weird names... All of those were out of focus and, as such, haven't really felt serious.
- Too much talking - this is the kind of the show where heroes talk much more than do something, and I can't say that it was useful or deep or something.
- Characters could have more dimensions, also there could be more of them.
- Bad logic - at those rare moments where there were some details to understand what's happening - logic usually felt distant or non-present.

In the end, I couldn't really enjoy even the main focus of the anime - hew main heroes and their relations. Those relations also were either rushed, either relied on unexplained situations and characters.

For me, this anime falls in similar niche with Ergo Proxy, Madoka magica (film especially) and Furi Kuri - weird and with unique atmosphere, yet all of those I disliked for their vagueness. However, No Game No Life film beats pretty much all of them in this parameter (because of being EXTREMELY RUSHED, yep).

It's subnormal pace and non-explained world and races actually feels like manga propaganda,

All in all: No Game No Life Zero is rushed and vague anime to the point of extreme - with such a plot and a world that it should have better had 2 anime seasons with 24 series, or something. In a current format and with current focus - it just lacks depth and logic, so emotional and active moments doesn't work as a result. (that is, if you try thinking)
But... It has nice art, and was somewhat interesting and unique, so I will put it at 5. Yep.