Okay firstly, Geobreeders is overall a hell of a lot of fun. It falls into the category of 'everything explodes, including the cat' action comedy like Nuku Nuku or Birdy the Mighty. Also for once, main male lead Taba is a really cool likable guy, not a slacker, a womaniser or a silent bishonen type. He's a bit like the little boy from Nuku Nuku grown up a decade.
The artwork is good, the story's bizarre but well put together, and the action is stunning. The last episode in particular honestly has some of the most jaw-dropping set pieces I've seen in anime. It's quite a package.
Looking at it from that angle, it's a shame some of the deal doesn't stand up to scrutiny. For instance the kidnap and torture part of the plot line is played straight and doesn't pull any punches, which is way WAY at odds with the rest of the show's storyline which largely involves a lot of things blowing up and an awful lot of slapstick. In fact the kidnap subplot really got on my nerves, because it seemed totally pointless and took the focus away from the entertaining premise of cyber-cats trying to invade the earth.
Then there's the fan-service. There's not an awful lot, but it is there and I've hit a point where I'm so used to the Japanese' bizarre ideas on what's acceptable during a comedy that Geobreeders seems totally inoffensive on this front. I mean we're talking about 10 seconds of fan-service tops. It's more fan-service from a 'hang on a sec why are these trained security ops turning up to a shoot-out in their swimsuits?' Gunsmith Cats/Burst Angel point of view than a 'ohmigod, I feel dirty now' Agent Aika type angle.
As a final point against it, I've got to point out that with a few exceptions, the female cast are unavoidably vile, funny but vile, and therefore pretty hard to empathise with. They continuously heap indignity after indignity and bill after bill onto male lead Taba and never really seem to have any chemistry with each other, which is funny for a while but they never really develop as characters which is a bit lame. Geobreeders is largely populated entirely by unpleasant people, and that'll either make you laugh or start to grate, and in my case it grated.
So...it's very funny, it's pretty good fun and the action rocks. But you've gotta make sure not to pick at it or expect too much from it in the process. It has barely any explained plot, the main female leads are kinda nasty and at times really irritating, but what it has in spades is hilarious set pieces, and an awesome finale. I sound like I didn't enjoy this much I know, but the last half-hour really pulls it back from the brink. Check it out, and keep your mind open to it's stealthy charms.
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