Mmm… I can sort of see that. There are some impressive special effects that accompany the future technology that were likely dazxling for the time. And the CGI for the backgrounds likely was state of the art (and certainly better than, for example, Initial D).

Still though - the character animation seems pretty poor regardless of age, and the contrast of rough, fuzzy character art with simple, rigid, entirely rectilinear CGI backdrops is distracting.

All that said though, I don’t want to focus on the art too much. It’s a thing I noticed, so I mentioned it, but more to the point, the story is very good and intriguing and (so far) well plotted and paced, and the characters are well developed, and I’ll forgive pretty much anything for a good story with good characters.