I LOVE this series the subject, themes, characters, art, musical scoring, all of it is so enjoyable. I tend to re-watch this about once every two years whenever I feel like giving any other anime a 10 I will use this as my yardstick.
The story is very inspiring and keeps things interesting diversions in the forms of side episodes focusing on either one a side characters, love interest, or learning experiences.
On that note Makoto Yukimura is big on character development and even characters who only appear in one or two episodes or show up sporadically tend to have their own developments going on in the background as the story progresses.
This anime was made in 2003 and its 16:9 and the art puts modern anime to shame. The smoothness of the animation and the excellence of the design is nearly unparalleled.
The OST alone with out the show gives me chills its so epic Cheers to Urakami Yasuo!
the use of the Theremin is at genius and ads to the spacey feel of the show.
