Jin-Roh deserves a second look by today's anime community. And by community, I mean everyone, animators, writers, and viewers. I write this because I think it's important to point out how drastically unlike anime this anime is. This is first apparent in the very realistic style. Of course, the characters and events are stylized, all art is to an extant, but they are done so subtly here. Fuse is not some skinny saucer-eyed purple-haired teenager, but an adult Japanese man. The world he lives in is a believable alternate timeline to ours, where the motivations of influential people are muddled with personal vendettas. What occurs is a simple story of a man trying to figure out what it means to be a human being in a time that demands his humanity from him. I love Jin-Roh, and I wanted it to be the first anime I reviewed on this site because, of all the masterpieces of Japanese animation, I think Jin-Roh is the one we should be looking to as a measuring stick for great anime.
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