Yeah, the first volume with Misa is good and the second decent, but then it goes downhill fast.
I finished all the anime I was watching and am currently looking for some decent ones. Ones such as Pumpkin Scissors:
The setup is like an allegory to second world war - the Empire has had a bloody long war with the Nation of Frost(curiously like Russia and Germany) and now it has finally ended in a truce. The world is finally picking things up where they were left at the start of the war, but everyone is desperate for supplies, sanitation and general war relief. Soldiers have become bandits and local aristrocrats rule almost autonomously, distancing themselves from government and becoming local despots. Into all this comes the Imperial Army State Section III - Pumpkin Scissors. A tool against corruption, hunger and war damages, named so by it's tomboyish would-be hero field leader, Alice Malvin. While doing a routine reconnaissance mission, they hit the jackpot and find corporal Randel Oland. He joins the regiment in hopes to perhaps remedy his past sins.
Now here's where it becomes animeish: Pumpkin Scissors(which seems to have only six working members, one of them a golden retriever with a tendency to bite the wrong stuff) slowly starts to find bits of information on the silent but kind Oland. He's a huge giant of guy, but seems okay once you get to know him. Well, that is until he opens the hatch of his blue lantern and suddenly gains superhuman tenacity and can take on tanks with just his antitank pistol. Neat ability, too bad it also comes with compulsory nightmares of red soldiers marching on a killing field and chanting "T