I know: these charts are stupid as hell, but it helps get my point across. The show isn't going to go anywhere for a while. Military outpost in a backwater village, soldiers who don't really give a shit about war, etc. Jarhead, without the chronic masturbation. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like it'll be as useless and fluffy as K-On! is. With the presence of the characters' run-down tank/mecha and the way that the plot hints that the city of Seize is really some part of postpocalyptic Japan, the show will possibly experience a genre bait-and-switch in later episodes. In other words: shit might happen. Of course, this could just turn out to be another stupid Lucky Star/Azumanga Daioh clone in a military setting.

Also, for those who haven't noticed, I'm actually trying to make posts that are more than one or two sentences long, but years of not writing much has taken its toll on me. :V