First, talking about the opening, it’s beautiful, the lyrics are beautiful, the instrument smashes, and what I liked the most in this opening is the metaphor linked to Canary : our 7 inmates compared to canaries in the series, here I can see is that even the bird emblem of the freedom of its wings from heaven, the free world to land on barbed wire, prison, detention, as our hero and eventually fly away and returns to the free world that is the Sky, so yes this opening spoil the story but on predictable things.
This is the story of six prisoners, young prisoners, all jailed for stupid reasons, they can recall our Jean Val Jean (Hero of the miserable masterpiece of Victor Hugo), imprisoned for stealing bread, it's a bit like that for our protagonists.
These six young men, these six kids encounter in this reformer , their eldest and with him the prison violence provided by prison guards and all human faces, and together face adversity that it will come out, the friendship between men, that is all that remains to them and they therefore form any strong links especially around Anchan (Their oldest).
Besides the serious story, sad and full of injustices, as the past character I loved this universe all are important, even if their past painful it is participating in the construction of their personality, you need to know what feeling, or that we learn the ugly past of our favorite character and we're disgusted to him we would not have wanted him to live that but at the same time without this painful past it wouldn’t be our favorite character, and although there it is this feeling multiplied by seven, seven times this frustration is that you dove into the universe and that is the strong point of the series, the character development.
So this anime deserves a big 10/10 and even will deserve more. Personally, I would say it’s one of the best anime I've seen any category, it is so real and so human. It’s a great mix of emotion, struggle and drama. This anime will for sure make you cry (It made me cry several times,seriously get a Kleenex box if you watch it XD), so real, so earthly cruel, so true, so touching, so captivating that you mustn’t skip it.
