Alright lets get this on the road. CANAAN is not unique, it does not offer anything special or new, on the contrary is rather average. Why? This show has been covered with a high animation budget, therefore it looks better than most anime. You have to admit anime trailers with good animation tend to stand out than other trailers. With good animation comes good story, isn't that what you had in mind?
WRONG (watched 9 episodes), you might tell me to stick to the end before reviewing this anime entirely, but I'm writing this review for you before considering watching an average show. If you are still not convinced, read on.
CANAAN starts rather odd and might throw people off balance, which was for me a bad thing, it didn't intrigue me to watch further but since I try to have a policy of watching at least 2 episodes before judging. The main story is about Canaan, a typical stereotype gunslinger girl who obviously has issues from the past until she meet a friend who tries to get back to ''normal life'' (who is a very annoying stereotype). We meet people related to Canaan, not in the family way, they just share some sort of blood mark because of some incident. And that incident gave them some abilities, either good or bad. As you might have already guessed Canaan drew the longest straw in that contest, thats how average it gets.
The action sequences and animation is nothing new in the anime world, a little bit high jump and there, some dodging bullets, some villains doing the same here and there. It's not the same after Trinity showed how its supposed to be done. The antagonists are as stereotypical as Canaan herself, uncharismatic stereotypes, apparently they share some past ''cough''.
So is there anything good with this show, besides the good animation? Yes the sound, they actually put a lot of work in the little English that is spoken there.
If you just recently started with anime, this definitely is a good watch for most.
And if you must watch crazy girls with guns with good animation, watch Black Lagoon or Full Metal Panic Second Raid (And yes I know its mainly a mecha show.). If those girls don't impress you then nothing does.
