One: "The world will know true pain, and fear of that pain will put an end to war...It will lead the world to stability and peace." - Pain; Naruto. It's a increasingly annoying anime cliche now. It's like creators aren't reading works to the end to understand why "the human instrumentality project" is a bad ideal.
Two: Sequel limbo. Do I want to see more of this? Is it a complete work? Is there more story to tell? I see room for more but is that what we want? One doesn't think this about top tier anime. I'd want to see more but more seems to water down the whole. And I wouldn't want to watch these characters endure stereotypical high school anime episodes. The beach, summer festival, valentine's day, some one's birthday etc.
Three: The end of heartache. So if it's not a sci fi adventure series it must be about unrequited love triangles. You know my least favorite thing in anime today. I won't spoil it here but I'll just say they had plenty of time to solve their problem. It just so high school.
For the record my favorite character is Yoshiharu Hisomu and this is the primary reason why this otherwise great anime suffers from "Beautiful, but not perfect syndrome." I don't want to spoil anything here but my fundamental understanding of this character took away from this series a bit. Needless to say he's the character needed to bring this situation to a close, that's why he's introduced last. Any earlier and he can solve this problem. Were he motivated to do so. That's what made him great his motivations. Conclusion, watch it unless you're a die hard action fan.
