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✦Story
Aside synopsis. I felt the story and development was actually quite well done and finalized. Most of things got answered, some mystery remained and as usual for clamp works. The story is dark, tragic and fairly grim.
Now to the issues. First things first it felt very theatrical, unnecessarily tragic and dark. And the whole fate premise makes somewhat world and life in general absolutely useless. If everything is set to stone on what is your fate and how your life will progress. Then whatever you think, do and so on, won't simply matter. Because it is your fate. Every thought of yours and so on is set by fate. So yeah, I find that idea a bit stupid.
Other than that, the amount of death and tragedy this series had just straightforwardly felt it being type of story that simply tells you "f you".
But as whole, it was fairly interesting, complete and odd story.
✦Art & Sound
Considering it's quite old Anime, I think the art and animation was damn good. A lot of combat and magic was absolutely stunning and the whole style to it felt quite unique. Although the design felt very boy's love type of a art.
Same for music, there were quite a lot of old-school feeling great soundtracks.
✦Character
Plenty of characters with interesting background stories and types. Although I didn't really like MC Kamui as much. Especially early on. Other than that, characters felt fairly nice, their relationships, bonds, development and such, were fairly nice. I didn't feel too impressed nor got too attached to any character, but as whole it was good enough.
✦Enjoyment & Overall
Not much to add. I did now and then fast-forward, because the contents of a lot of dialogues felt very stale and same. As mentioned before, I felt this Anime was unnecessarily tragic with concept of fate, that gives you image of life being pointless in general. Considering how everything of your life (thoughts, actions, meetings, death etc...) is laid by brick and brick.
But as overall. It was good, unique and odd Anime.
