Story:
Plot holes, plot holes, plot holes, oh the humanity! The story around this of course sets itself up in a future aspect, but never thoroughly goes into any detail of why that is. Eventually this gets worse with repetitiveness. It seems Gonzo had wanted to play with the beautiful art design as an distraction for all the amount of loopholes the stories situations provide. The introduction has a great start for the first 2 episodes, but fall utterly, and (I put huge emphasis on this) flat face down with all the cliches. It goes in the sense of one character going to one spot, leaving, and then coming back to a different place with the exact same background/environment only for the character to acknowledge it as a separate place, not to mention bringing up events that have been nowhere near close to be noted in the past to be subjected to horrible director writing skills. The story did have it's very very small times where it kept itself up high, but tripped,and failed disgustingly later.
Art:
One of the two saving factor for this anime was the great character designs by Gonzo. Their high quality,top notch animation never inconsisted to fall short of what good reputation Gonzo has. Although the downside is Most if not all female character I saw had huge breasts( enough to cause spinal injuries, and burst out in their entire) it went far enough to give a young 12 year old a pair even. :/
Sound:
Originally I played off a episode first sub then to dub, and in the end they both had their ups, and downs. Justin Pate's performance seems off throughout casual scenes, while Daisuke Ono just sound like he got tired for the most part. The opening, and ending are very nice, and come to fit somewhat well for the series, the soundtrack is okay, but a bit self reliant on repeated notes that ironically give it a great tone for their well chosen scenes.
Characters:
Cliche city, how I wished this wouldn't have to come to this. Character personalities? Pfft, what of them? 3/4 of the entire cast make 180 turns out off their original presented personality that it completely blows development aside. The typical romance of calling each others names for the entire series becomes so incoherent you want to listen to an Inuyasha, and Kagome monologue. Other characters tht have compete loyalty to another in the beginning of the series of solemn protection begin to doubt who they are. (Despite proclaiming well in the past they've made me mind up) While another goes from loving to out of the ball park begging his so called hated friend to save his other.To top it all off only the supporting cast practically get anything in short of solid character personalities In short very,very,very,very badly done by Gonzo, and the director.
Enjoyment: Obviously i've dropped this series short in, but aside that I can't say there weren't times that I did enjoy it. The first 2 episodes set up a great premise if handled better would've made, a MUCH better piece of work from Gonzo. However in the result of it all I was entirely disgusted with how this anime was soon handled, never have I encountered such a horrible dialogue and slow paced plot in the face of Gonzo, or any anime i've seen thus far.
Overall: I give this series a 4 based on a very sad reason of the side details, not the plot, or characters that make an anime what it is, I utterly hated how Gonzo executed this series in a "Great cover, low value" kind of way. I enjoyed the great character designs that made characters beautiful, but that it from being focused on that in attire made sick with fervor of how it could have been if handled in a much better way. In short I geuss I could saw this was a bigger disappointment to me than any anime i've seen.
On a side note i'd really like to reflect on why Funimation got this series again? Ugh.
