It's urban fantasy with no isekai elements or anything but great dark and engaging themes where you explore BOTH sides of these factions that seems to have understandable motivations as we explore their story further and further. There's good use of political intrigue, similar to ACCA 13, the setting of FMAB and it keeps you wondering at times.
It's a show that does visual world building and story-telling, you can understand the character motivations without them monologuing half the time to you and it's what I really want from shows like this.
The characters of this series are really good and they all have their backstories and really distinctive personalities, even the smaller but very memorable characters like Schaake, Benjamin, Arnolt and Irma.
Ultimately, the series kind of does a dual main character viewpoint with more weight on Inumanuel than Leo but both have their roles to play. Inu is my favourite MC of the year, he has this cowardly streak about him but it's really satisfying to see him grow and even though he can be a bit of a coward, his heart is always in the right place and this is what makes him so compelling to watch. The emotions are always on point with him, he alone can carry this show.
Leocadio is also a very interesting character as he balances the morality of his actions against the logic of following an order, haunted by the tragedy on its past. And so many more other characters that we see their viewpoint from which makes the world so much more interesting, yet never feeling bloated at the same time.
Music is awesome by composer of Gundam IBO and YLIA, background art is freaking awesome and this show was just made for me. The animation does suffer near the 2nd half of the series but honestly, the story carries the series very well and I much prefer a really good story than stellar animation.
At the end, it's a pretty unique series, tackling serious dark urban fantasy themes with some supernatural elements, with an amazing and underrated cast of characters. This show deserves more love but at the end, give it a chance, it's a hidden gem for a reason.
