It drops you into a slam dunk from a five-story robot and dares you to stay skeptical. BASQUASH! takes street basketball, straps it into 3DCG Bigfoot mecha, and lets Dan JD wreck half of Rollingtown before anyone bothers explaining the rules, because the point is the rules are boring and the crash is beautiful. Satelight's early episodes are genuinely gorgeous, all neon dust and moon-glare, with Mooneyes hanging in the sky as a permanent reminder that somebody up there has it better. The soundtrack and openings go embarrassingly hard for a show about robot hoops. Be warned: the art quality starts sliding around episode 10 and never fully recovers, which is exactly why this thing splits rooms into people who dropped it and people who still hum the OP. If you watch for Coco and stay for the spectacle, you already know which side you're on.

On the planet Earthdash, people look up at the moon and at Mooneyes, the technologically advanced city built there, with a sense of wonder. Down on the surface, Dan JD is a boy from Rollingtown who finds himself drawn into Bigfoot Basketball, a quick, high-speed game played with enormous robots called Bigfoots. The result is a science fiction sports story told through mecha action.