Magical masks give people superpowers. Cops try to stop the masked people.
The plot is nonsense. There's some mumbo jumbo about how the masks are actually based on science, but it's nonsense, too. Pretty much nothing in this show makes any logical sense, but it's anime, so I guess it gets a pass on most counts. If you were expecting adult science fiction, you should probably just skip it, though.
It seems to be set in near-future London. A special police force seems to operate without any rules at all. Or, if they do have rules, they can ignore them whenever they like. All of the cops are incompetent idiots except for one, who is an unstoppable ninja cop. He's our protagonist, of course.
The characters are generally pretty likable though stereotypical for anime. Most of the time, I thought the English voice acting was fine. Sometimes it degenerates into 1980s Saturday morning cartoon voices, though, like having bad guys laugh evilly. It would be nice if Netflix got some more grown-up animation, like Love, Death & Robots.
Those the worst problems, though. The pacing is terrible. Some episodes feel like they go on for hours. The characters stare off into space so often that I almost fell asleep a few times. To make matters worse, the frame rate is also terrible. It feels like the entire show is in slow motion, and some sequences reminded me of a motion comic.
For a series, the art is alright. Some of the characters have no face in crowded scenes or distant shots. The characters are designed well, though, and you won't mistake one for another. It's in a fairly realistic style, but younger characters have freakishly large eyes sometimes.
It took a few tries, but I pushed through the brutally slow pacing. It's alright. The art is sometimes good, and I liked the characters. If you like scifi, you might be able to finish it, too, but I can't recommend it to people without caveats.
If you're a huge scifi nerd or you love anime, you might add another point or two to my rating.
