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All in all, I like OOO a lot but don't love it. I think it has a really good cast of characters, with Ankh and Date being two of the all-time greats, and I love the suit designs. I'm not huge on the overall story, though. I think there are just too many elements of the show that feel like Kobayashi went in with a basic plan and decided to just wing it from there. Not a unique problem to OOO; there are several shows where original plans changed as the show developed. There are just a lot of places where I feel like the seams weren't smoothly hidden: Gotou taking over as Birth feels very delayed after all the early set up, it feels like the show doesn't know if Cake Boss is going to be a villain or not for a long time, all the stuff that's been mentioned with the multiple plans for the fifth Greed, etc. It just all doesn't fully come together for me in the end. I'd never say it isn't a good show, but it's not one of my personal favorites.