While I like the team, it was rather frustrating how in most of the conflicts with Gessen (
except when beating Murakumo) and Hebijo, they story keeps pretending the Hanzo girls just barely won while their opponents dismissed the fight by essentially saying "I wasn't really trying so I didn't really lose
". This is particularly bad in chapter 3 when Asuka takes on Ryona, Ryobi and Me-a-bee all at once, while canonically injured and tired, WINS and they still act smug and mock her about how hurt she was
. It makes the Hanzo girls look rather weak in comparison. The fact that they didn't even get a final confrontation with the Hebijo girls makes it even worse (
though the fact that they get beaten offscreen by Crimson Squad kinda helps, if it were any other team to beat them, I would be more disappointed and at least Homura says they won easily).
I'm actually surprised that they managed to develop the Gessen girls a bit in the story, even Yumi is actually presented well in here (she is still one of the most boring girls though) and in a way, both Gessen and Crimson Squad are well presented in this story meaning this arc, ignoring Hebijo's lack of presence, could easily be regarded as canon and I would be OK with it.