Didn't do it for me

Unfortunately, I couldn't feel the atmosphere of the anime/manga in the series. And the acting seemed poor to me. Maybe only Chizuru was portraited somewhat okayish, and Yano maybe a little. But everyone else was totally off to me - emotions, expressions.
Also the series covered so much material in such little time, I think if I didn't watched the anime or read the manga previously I wouldn't understand anything at all.
Overall I couldn't build any connection with the charachters, and the anime was the complete opposite, leaving very strong emotions in me.