I think the anime world must think that Leiji Matsumoto fans will put up with just about anything. As if the Maetel Legend OVA wasn't bad enough, they double-down on it by expanding that story with this crap series. Sure we get to see some nice retro character designs and a great CGI Death Shadow, but the writing on this series was just about as bad as I've ever seen in all my 30 years of watching anime. The scripting of each episode was so abysmal that it was making me physically angry. Ofthe 5 1/2 hours the series runs, I would say there is 30 minutes of combined awesomeness and 5 full hours of forgettable garbage. Things have gotten so bad that the climactic battle includes Promethium using a giant Death Star . . . I mean it IS the Death Star. Pathetic.