Story(7/10): The story was interesting the storytelling follows the summer, fall, winter, spring type of storytelling archetype. The story continues in a summer-type feeling all the way till episode 7. In which the main character learns about the society of the Gargantia which is a ship in which people are living on and the world seems to be covered in water. He has to adjust and learn customs and a culture that greatly differed from his life in space, where the greater good was the most important and people spent most of the their time fighting. At episode 7 you experience "fall" in which the character "falls" not literally but metaphorically, his world is rocked by learning about the true nature of himself and his basic existence are put into question. Finally "winter" where the story seems rather bleak and it seems the character has turned his back on what he has learned since coming to earth. Spring comes, well I think you get the picture, as spring is the time of rebirth/regrowing.
Overall, I personally love this type of way of storytelling, it is easy to follow. I gave it a 7/10 since it felt familar, as far as the idea and main question of the series of "what is a human? what is living? What is humanity? I do not believe the story approached these questions in a new way, but it was entertaining. A main crticism is, 6 episodes were dedicated to summer, which is fine but it dragged on, if this anime had not been finished and I could watch the next episode I would have dropped this during the season and watched it after airing. Episode 7-13 the pace picks up.
Art: (7/10) There was some gorgeous things in the anime. A lot of the scenery was gorgeous. I felt the characters were drawn buy a number of different people. For instance the 3 young girls and the brother are all drawn in bishoujo/bishounen way. While the other characters are pretty as well, the roundish faces with big eyes are not as prevalent. I likes the flying scenes in which they fly on these personal flying contraptions. The mecha fights weren't very new, as they have all been done before in better ways.
Sound:(5/10) Well I can't say I listened to the opening or closing except the first episode. I did not like them, maybe they fit the anime but I did not like them, so I rated it low. Nothing outstanding in the general sound or soundtrack. I thought the voice actors were good and picked out well for their parts.
Character(6/10): Well other than the main character and his robot AI, I can not say I really loved any characters. The fact remains all the characters except for them are static characters that do not change in the anime. While it puts focus of the main characters, there seemed to be a lot of extras that just filled up space (and a lot of useless characters being introduced).
Enjoyment: (8/10): while I felt the main question of what is human? What is living? What makes us different than others? Are questions that addressed in a lot of anime, it still does not make me tired of seeing it. Even if it is a rehashing of old ideas mixed with some new ones, in a different setting. I love sci-fi and fantasy. The other stuff (barely there swim suits, beach episode, the death of the old fleet commander) well, what can I say I realize that the anime was not made solely for me (lol).
Overall 7: I feel like it is a little high, but meh I feel like it would be a little sad for it to be a 6 or a 5. Since I place most points in enjoyment overall, at the end of the day as long as I watched it all the way through it means I liked it a bit.
