Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:14 am
I've seen the whole series, and I loved it, mostly! The animation is sharp and pretty, and the smoke/steam effects are amazing. The music is great, and it's rather an original setting if you ask me. Very enjoyable, lots of character development as well as action (yay Vanships!).
The objections I have about the series is that it never takes enough time to explain things enough, so you have to sort of figure things out as the series goes along, and hope you guessed right (not about mechanics of the world, but about motives and things like that). Then there's a scene that I hate, because it seems very out-of-character and doesn't really seem to serve much purpose because no one ever mentions anything like that again.
And, like many animes, the ending is rather weird, unexplained, and slightly unsatisfactory. Not the worst ending I've ever seen, but not the best either.
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