Against my better judgment I watched through 11. I'm struggling to describe this as anything other than a slow train-wreck with no explosions to distract the audience from the humanity of it all.

You can be stupid; You can jump Fonzie jumping a shark; You can roll down the rabbit hole; but you can't be boring. And that's what SF has become since the shock of the change and the slow realization that there was/will be no 'reset' to the scale of the show prior. Not that that direction had any better of an entertainment prospect aside from being coherent.

It's not like this is the first time an anime has done this, but it is the first time I've experienced it in a while at this magnitude. I would be very interested in watching a dramatization of the design, deliberation, and creative work processes that produced such a mess as Samurai Flamenco, just to put that out there.