I generally liked the BP series. It had a few problems - none of which couldn't have been solved with a bigger budget - but overall I think that it had all the right ingredient of an excellent series that really deserved better production values than it had.
I agree that the animation looked cheap, but I think the creators did great with the little they obviously had to work with. The character designs were very good, and I wasn't bothered by the choppiness of the motion-comic technique because it did fit the nicely sketchy visual style of the series. I think it had a cool and coherent visual look that was actually amplified rather than dragged down by the simplistic animation.
The soundtrack was great, too, as others have already said. I loved the theme song. If this series had been continued, they should have definitely capitalized on the great music they had by giving it even more prominent a role in the series.
One of the things I liked about the series was that it wasn't a kids' cartoon. It was clearly intended for older audiences (from teenagers to adults) because of the slightly violent content and the slightly racy references to things of sexual nature made it kind of unsuitable for children (not that anything about it was exploitative, or even particularly graphic). Personally, I'd really like to see more comic book cartoons not aimed mainly for children because, well, I'm an adult who likes animation. I think the BP series had the makings of an animated series that could have largely appealed to teens and young adults because of the cool characters, great music, the humor, and the story that I think had the potential to become more complex and more challenging, had the series been continued.
The only problems I had with the show was that the entire thing felt like a long pilot episode, meaning that it spent a lot of time introducing the character and the mythos of the Black Panther - which is important, of course, but I do think that it would have managed with less and focused more on the actual plot. I also felt like they were sometimes trying too hard to establish how cool and tough BP is and because of that it sometimes ended up having the reverse effect. Dude, it's the Black Panther. Of course he's more awesome than 99% of the population of the Marvel universe. You don't have to oversell the idea.
I don't think that the depiction of (fictional) Africans was racist, but I do think that it was rather clichéd and stereotypical, with the all the tribal gear and ignorantly generic accents. Then again, the general tone of the series was so humorously self-aware that I didn't take it too seriously.
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