As someone who grew up in 2003, I was exposed to tons of good Western Animation and Anime, and it fueled my deep love for both the genres. That's why when I heard that a show that was combining both genres, I was excited.
And oh god I wish I wasn't.
This show is exactly what the problem of every modern genre of Western television is. I know that sounds absurd but you'll understand as I explain.
Let's start with the most important part of any story, the characters. The main characters are Alex and Daisy, two New Yorkers who are roommates. What are their traits? Well, Alex is lazy and a brat who doesn't like putting effort into anything with no redeeming qualities and Daisy is a hardworking pushover, and while she's miles better than Alex, she's not an interesting character in general and offers nothing unique or special to the story. You can swap her out with any of the background extras and it wouldn't make a difference, because everyone in the show has the personality of A) An ice lolly stick after it's melted or B) A complete rhymes-with-brass-pole. She's also a mouthpiece for the creator of the show's opinions and fires them off at random. Half her lines are unfunny jokes or references to other media. We learn nothing about the story and who she is from the dialogue, it's just John Wick reference after John Wick reference or something critiquing capitalism.
The characters give us no reason for us to root for them because apart from being jerks they're straight up idiotic. In the second episode, instead of using their powers to further the story and progress the plot, they waste it on fake celebrity paraphernalia. I should also mention if you are disgusted by bodily dysfunction jokes, then avoid this show, because this show mentions Daisy's gross habits a lot and Alex uses her period blood as a weapon in episode 3. It's ironic how this show criticizes geek fanboys (in one episode, there are three dudes with T shirts that have the words "Pepe" and "Gamergate"...like dude, Gamergate was YEARS ago, not even the people in Gamergate talk about it anymore. And nobody wears shirts like that) but expects us to root for Daisy despite her degeneracy (she blows Alex's hard earned rent money on underwear and writes fanfiction of her dating Scully. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, we all use fanfiction as an outlet, but why is Daisy portrayed as in the right and the Gamergate fanboys are depicted as in the wrong?).
The show feels like a sitcom where they take all the magical girl tropes and do nothing new or unique with them, it has the sitcom humor, the characters going on long speeches about political opinions (like Brian from S8 Family Guy) and a boring plot. The villains looked more interesting, but they, like the heroes, were also later shown to be flat as cardboard and petty (Veerus and Nut are exes and Corvin changes sides on a whim because Veerus is too stupid to appreciate his work for her).
Also this show tries too hard to identify with the millennial/Gen Z demographic. It's not just the constant dropping of references, it's the fact that Daisy's entire schtick is that she's a stoner and smokes. And for a show that tries to highlight the difficulties of being a millenial in this day and age, it fails at that because Alex and Daisy literally can send a mushroom species to space and not face any consequences for it. That and Nut makes no effort to improve them or prepare them as warriors. Instead she joins in with their laziness .
The animation is horrible too, I hate the way they move. It seems like they took a page out of 2016 PPG. There's no flow or smoothness to follow up on. The story makes it obvious that there's no writing staff. I'm surprised how this even got to air on TV and I'm 100% sure it's because of connections and networking.
If you want to watch this genre done better in parody form, Panty and Stocking has got you covered.
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