Mirage wasn't a bad time necessarily. The idea was good and there was a lot of content that I could have enjoyed but the presentation was just so sub-par. I watched all 13 episodes in under 4 days and I was very interested in how everything was going to pan out. There are many different factions headed by warlord's spirits and they are all after power, going about it in different ways and making alliances etc. I like that sort of political intrigue. The thing about Mirage though it that we have all these characters that get one or two episodes that I thinkplay important roles but I have no idea who they are or what they want. Instead, we follow our main group as they face their current issues and problems with each other and then ... some guy decides the solution to his problems is to set a forest on fire. Why? Who knows. Then the story is over, leaving our group in pretty much the same position they started with.
Aside from poorly designed episodes I really hated the art. Now I watched a less than perfect quality copy of this on gogoanime but I don't think that was my main issue. Half of the characters looked the same. You were either a guy in charge, a flunky, a child boss, or a woman; and if you were x you looked like all the other x's . It was confusing and super boring.