Moonrise

This show is extremely annoying because it constantly invokes the trope of characters not communicating key information to create conflict. In fact they constantly withhold information from the audience, and only the audience, when all the characters involved know what's going on.
I kept on watching because I wanna know what's going on but guess what, they simply don't tell you all way till the end. The more I watched the more questions I had, and then the show was over, leaving me frustrated and wishing I never watched. I liked the characters and wanted to know how they would react to information not communicated to them but guess what, they never found out either, or at least not on-screen.

I love to scrutinize si-fi settings and this show seems like it wants to be somewhat hard si-fi but utterly fails at it. As other reviews have pointed out for example, they have programmable matter that can transform into weapons but they mostly just transform into normal guns that shoot normal bullets, so why even bother with this setting, it doesn't seem to serve any purpose in the story compared to a normal gun holster, but it's more stupid than that. For they specifically mention in the show that mass is conserved when it comes to this programmable matter, ok so I guess bullets cost them this ultra high-tech material which is dumb enough but wait till you hear this, THEY DISCARD SPENT MAGAZINES! Yep, it's empty so might as well toss it on the ground.

Ok first of all, if you have programmable matter why does the gun even use magazines in the first place? Surely bullets can be supplied without a magazine or any external ports because it's programmable matter!? Secondly why not you know, keep the fucking magazine so you can turn its mass into more bullets?

They even get a space ship that's supposedly entirely made of this programmable matter and can transform into other vehicles at will, which sounds really cool and has amazing potential for some action scenes right? Guess what for basically the entire show it's just a normal armored bus that drives the cast around. What even is the point of this si-fi super material gimmick?

Speaking of vehicles, this show has some of the worst looking space ship designs ever put to anime, they don't even look like they belong in the show because the 2D animation is good, even great at times but we get these.... extremely amateurish 3D models of what are supposed to be space ships, it's just awful.

Believe it or not the actual story is not predictable at all, not in any detail, because nobody would predict things like two characters with a serious misunderstanding, who have hours and days together, but somehow they don't communicate what their misunderstanding is, so the problem does not get resolved, and they keep fighting the next time they meet. You might then think ok maybe the broad strokes are more predictable then? Well no because one of the biggest threats in the story showing up half way into the show, is never explained in any way. The show is over and I'm still not sure what's that about. The only predictable thing about this story, is you can easily tell who's actually the bad guy all along just by reading the synopsis, because other things that happen in the show are either out right unexplained, or because two characters won't communicate key information for no reason at all, causing a misunderstanding.