The fact that Takt Op. Destiny was made to promote a gacha game was all you needed to know to not expect much. Everything gacha touches turns into sludge. The result is yet another series that is all animation and cute girls but nothing else. Not only that many times the animation looks hilariously ugly and still frame power point presentations make an awful lot of appearances for something thats been getting praised so much for its animation. Heres an anime about music even though there rarely is any. They could have at least tried using some lesser known works to be more unique. Even rarer than that is character develop. This series is a prime exactly of how not to do character development. Takt is an annoyingly bitter piano player who is also stinky. I did develop a bit of a soft spot for him because of his struggle to write a good song but mostly I felt bad because his character was overly poorly done. His character goes nowhere in the series from beginning to end. All that build up to write a song they only showed you 3 seconds of. Its like they ran out of budget or time to compose one more piece and it was the most important one in fact. Ana somehow became one of the most useless and irrelevant characters I have ever seen. They cheated by making her relevant out of nowhere at the last second. Near the end they decided to have her do something that made no sense because there was no build up to it and she still had no development other than being reduced to a piece of fan service. It was the writers last ditch effort to make her relevant. Its hilarious that the whole time the viewers thought Destiny would consume Takt but it was really Ana who consumed Destiny for the sake of the plot in the end. Then theres Destiny. She is yet another boring and bland Violet Evergarden rip off done wrong. After having no development for a large part of the series they rush through it towards the end and her emotions flipped 180 degrees so fast it was executed terribly and felt awkward. After that she goes back to her apathetic ways. Her personality is so deceased it became annoying. Cossette was a much more likeable character that sadly got barely any screen time. If I was to try and justify it maybe emotional Destiny was so bizarre and out of character because it was Cosette coming out. A split personality would have been better for this character. Destiny and Cosette were truly a tragedy. It felt like an insult to them for the writers to just toss them away when the romance between her Takt was what actually had development and build up. Of course Ana had to come out of nowhere and Cosette sadly became a ghost forever after episode 2. The plot itself is a boring road trip across the United States. They couldnt even make that fun and instead infested the series with irrelevant side quests. It felt episodic and episodic anime feels mostly hit or miss most of the time at least in my experience. Sakugan is another series suffering from this. The D2 represent something that annoys me about several series: The inclusion of nonsensically written villains that are too easy to beat and thus there are no stakes or risks. They appear aimless and are there for the sake of animation and just being something for the protagonists to fight. They feel so hollow as they have no clear motivation goals or proper backstory. Monster writing in To Your Eternity and Wonder Egg Priority fell this way also. By the time they try to introduce bigger villains who were actually in control they come off as hilariously badly written and bland. Hell was amusing at first but with no development since not doing any is this series specialty her character got too hollow and eventually too annoying with her over the top personality. Was there anything good or respectable? Titan and Lenny were and they deserved better than what this lump of coal of a series gave them. Theyre much better than Takt and Destiny as main characters and should had been the main ones. I have little complaints about Lenny besides him rarely being there and Titan at least had character unlike that pale ghost with the pretty colors. An amusing fact about Titan and Lennys voice actors is that they worked together before in The Aquatope of White Sand as Kukuru and her boss. Now that I think about it Ive been enjoying Scarlet Nexus and Deep Insanity: The Lost Child more than this. This is a series that almost offends me. The only thing it really excelled in is being one of the biggest disappointments of the Fall season considering how much many viewers were looking forward to it. Its a soulless disaster hardly worth talking about. Speaking of this promoting a gacha game have fun playing it it got indefinitely delayed.