So let's start this of with the obvious as stated in other reviews, and that is the elephant in the room. The decision to cut 2 and a bit years into 24 episodes really took away from the potential this series had.

This really limited character development of the entire team, which is a shame, as I found that it had the most human main character of all the sports anime I've seen. While the entire cast is a walking cliche, bouncy twins doubles pair, intellectual new player turned manager, attractive sister to make the horny teens lose braincells, cold and antagonistic yet caring ace olympian wanna be, lone wolf who struggles with emotions, and the stupid idiot who only knows power, the all knowing female manager, the coach who can see talent that no one else apparently can and the ex ace who returns to make sure the team succeeds where he couldn't with a long list of practically nameless senpais. The main character themselves actually feels like they grow in a non-superficial way, through issues with studies, game mental and other issues that they covered in a human way.

This is all what makes the rushed content such a shame as it blurred through all the various scenarios of the side characters, which if done in a similar manner as the main character, could genuinely have made it a great series. Regardless of how cliched they were, since cliche creates a diverse series of characters, and a broad capabilty for scenarios. In addition to this the sequences of relationships and difficulties shown, along with their resolutions were well thought of, just without the length to expound upon their severity and difficulty of resolution made the series lack depth.

Then there is the action itself, it's pretty severely lacking in all honestly, probably due to the rushed length of the series since the finale match was pretty solid. The focus in these matches is really repetitive, face close up, racket closeup and slide, then follow the shuttle cock lands and several points appear on the board. Various game results come through at once reducing tension and in general it isn't ideal.

Now, despite all this I actually really enjoyed the series and actually got pretty addicted at certain parts since I wanted to see the conclusion, even though you could guess it a mile off. Maybe I found it better than it was as I'm coming from a long break from anime, and sometimes a nice, lighthearted fast paced series is just rather relaxing after a long days work, particularly when you have been focusing on a lot more gritty, mystery, gory tv series in the mean time. I can't see why you would regret watching this series, and how I'd class it is a no-tears lower production value version of 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team in badminton form but worse for the lack of emotional impact.