Did we? Don't recall... but basically, I didn't get any sense of simpatico from any of Gasaraki's characters, the abstract concepts behind the series didn't strike me as particularly compelling (whatever they were; I don't have much specific memory of them now, other than medieval (p)reincarnation flashbacks), and, well, the whole series just felt to me like a beautifully-crafted but inert lump.

"Sucked" was probably too strong a word, in that I don't think the series lacked production values or overall thoughtfulness, but none of it made me much care one way or the other about what was going on; i.e., Heydt's eight-deadly-words maxim of "I don't care what happens to these people."