First time watcher and I just watched the first 5 episodes, my impression so far...

First and foremost, I was NOT disappointed when I chose to watch this when I watched the first and second episode. Cool intro music, cool action, cool story (though that's subjective to one's own opinion weather the story is cool or not), and cool outro music, kinda eerie and yet beautiful at the same time which I like about the outro music.

As for the characters, each of them are great in their own way... Dutch the strong and strategic leader, Benny the nerdy and amusing technician, Revy the energetic gun ho and Rock... well, despite being the main character he's been like a normal guy so far. But I've heard that his character develops as the story goes on and that he'll no longer be afraid to speak his mind which I look forward to witnessing.

All and all, pretty solid so far. If all old-school animes are as awesome as this, I definitely gotta watch more of them.