Argentosoma - Getting Even (Vol. 2)
Diminutive, whispery-voiced Harriet continues to control the alien cyborg she  calls Mr. Elf in battles with hostile alien robots. Harriet may have an alien  fragment embedded in her brain that enables her to communicate so well with  the cyborg. Unfortunately, none of the characters communicates with audience  effectively. The script starts and stops arbitrarily, leaving story points  hanging: in episode 9, an army of alienmechaattacks a city, but the  viewer never sees anyone stop them. Most of the action focuses on the  one-on-one combats between the Ex-1 cyborg and various robots who look  suspiciously likeEvangelioncharacters. There's no sense of a story  arc: the incidents don't build and the characters don't evolve. Harriet  remains annoyingly infantile; the disfigured Lt. Ryu Soma is as aloof and  uncommunicative in episode 10 as he was in episode 6. (Rated 13 and older:  violence, minor profanity)--Charles Solomon