Burn Up Scrambles issue is it tries to take a goofy 90s OVA series and make it grounded. And it doesnt do a good job of that either. The beautiful animation of previous iterations? Gone you get budget mid 2000s Great Value artwork. The outrageous characters? Downsized into less entertaining and more annoying versions of themselves. The plot is purely episodic and mostly revolves around Rios misadventures. This is less a problem for an OVA but for an anime even a 12episode anime some kind of plot is necessary. Burn Up Scramble doesnt even have that. And it doesnt have anything else to carry it. Its all mediocre all of it. The animation being desaturated and mediocre is a huge downgrade because that is a HUGE part of Burn Up. This is flashy sexy ecchi 90s police OVA action Youre not here to think youre here to feel Rio without the 90s floofy hair and super slender fashion model proportions completely mogs the regular boring ANNOYING Rio of Burn Up Scramble. Lilica goes from a twintailed nerdy pinkette to a stillcutebutnotthesame supershy psychic. Shes kinda cute. I feel bad for her getting stuck here. Maya is the only decent character in Burn Up Scramble. She goes from green haired hairband spastic to a twin braid hairband cutie who alternates between a quiet gun nerd and a cheeky smartass gun nerd. Mediocre. Sanitized. Repressed. Those are the words I would use to describe this anime. The artstyle is no longer sexy. Its not sharp or aggressive like the OVAs. The show rarely pushes the humor to actually be any kind of fun. There is no real push to PUSH any part of the animation characters or story to any extreme nor even to any interesting level. It barely tries. Nothing of consequence happens in the show. Fine for the OVAs bad for an anime. See a pattern? Yeah. When I say grounded I mean the anime jerks back and forth between slapstick comedy in one scene and then trying to make emotional appeals for the viewer to feel sympathy for Rio who as a complete bimbo with zero sense or financial planning ability is the least sympathetic character in the anime. This is counting Yuji. The twist to the show is in episode 9 it tries to pivot from being a silly comedy series to being serious. Burn Up Scramble barely had enough energy to limp along as a comedy series to try to extend itself to cover something remotely serious with its limited resources is absurd. It doesnt work on any level especially emotionally. Emotionally this switch triggered the Im done instinct which is why I dropped it. Insufficient return on time investment or in a word bored. Its not worth it. Im done. 1/5 I wish Id skipped this.