Tengoku Daimakyo

Tengoku Daimakyou has a lot going for it - it follows a clear line through the mysteries it presents, and follows that line with likable enough characters, great pacing, and interesting post-apocalyptic set pieces.
I very much wanted to like it, but even from the first episode, the signs of trouble are there. Of course, it's promptly revealed that our main character, dancing around naked for no clear reason is, in fact, of age, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt and moved on.
This was a mistake.
Someone, perhaps someones, influential in this show has a serious problem with misogyny, pedophilia, toxic masculinity, and a dubious understanding of consent. These are, of course, standard for the medium, and so it's put upon any serious artist to avoid them, not only for the obvious and compelling moral motivation, but beacuse it makes shitty art, you know? And these problems bleed into the show quite heavily. Really, given the obscure nature of its messaging, these themes easily overpower anything productive that might have been going on. Rather than thinking about... human nature? I don't know, the main point of the show is that shooting things and having sex are really fucking cool. Consent isn't cool, what are you being such a dweeb for? Make the kids more suggestive. These are the themes of the show, as far as I could tell.
This all culminates in the climax of the series, or as it seems for now, the climax of the first cour. Yes, good news, it's all downhill. I'm remaining vague here, but the show's treatment of Kiruko is so utterly, so utterly, utterly dissatisfying, from a "normal" human perspective. Naturally, we get to resolve some of their character moments to close out the series and... oh. Oh my god. By the end of the 11th episode, I was despondent, and by the middle of the final episode, I was considering dropping it, rather than resolve the final ten minutes. I'm inclined here to resolve the rest of the review screaming "fuck you" to whatever shortener made those decisions. To introduce so many interesting elements, only to wrap them up for the time being in your shitty male power fantasy. Male power fantasies, plural, in fact. You have two fun, diverging plotlines and that's what you're going to wrap it up on? Again, fuck you.
Because really, it was mostly tolerable until the end of episode 11; my score was going to be decent before that, of course with the many caveats, but this is a site for anime fans, so that's nothing new. But now I'm left disdainful that they didn't wrap it up in one season, because I'll probably check out the next one, too.
Maybe tone down the abhorrent stuff, you know? It's not too late to come back. Like, just consult one person who isn't a man, and you're on your way.
Anyway, if you do have that tolerance and you're interested, listen to any alarm bells. It will not get better. On to season 2! Fuck you.