Definitely one of my favorite animes ever...now let's go into my impressions category by category:
1)Story 11/10.:
Its rare for me to put an 11 to something somewhere...this anime's story deserves it....Take Lord of the rings, mix mechas, alliens, human charactered animal creatures add a huge ass portion of badass and masterful story telling, and you have TTGL...
Just by the time I was saying to myself...if this keeps going on this'll get lamne, they throw in SUCH A TWIST that turns the whole story upside down and keeps you watching...definitely phenominal script with even more amazing timing of events throughout the series.
2) Art 10/10
...it was very very good. Although I like art style with a more mature feel to it and am not really a fan of mecha animes, there are three artistic aspects this anime is probably one of the best at.
1) Humongous super epic battles..things get more and more massive, and just as you think, you can't get bigger than that, they prove you wrong...time and time and time again. The scale of actions in this anime is truly second to none.
2)Explosions- there are only so many ways you can make explosions interesting...TTGL probably used every artistic tool out there to make explosions look just plain beautiful and interesting.
3)Superpowers-every time you think they're done for, they'll pull out a new totally unrealistic but nonetheless super amazingly awesome superpower and kick everybody's ass...well almost every time...but no spoilers...you'll have to see it yourself to be surprised.
Character design as well as some parts do lack animation though...I heard 40% of TTGL's humongous budget was spent on a few last episodes that are absolutely gorgeous, but some episodes are just good, about hald are masterpiecelike a quarter very good and a quarter good ones(judging by art quality only. Characters seem unpolished and whether it was meant that way or not that was one thing I was unhappy about.
Sound 9/10:
Amazing explosions, great theme song great voice acting, overall flawless sounds. 9/10 because I don't give 10 for something less that outstanding, and masterpiece like(which would require being perfect + something fresh/unusual) But you should now that I have the soundtrack on my phone and periodically listen to it....raw raw fight the power!
Character 9/10:
Beautiful...you have the teenage boy, learning to be a man, you have single most manly man in history, a cool and sexy female sniper and a lot of trustworthy friends you can entrust your life to. The aspects that made this anime great were the contrast between the Kamina with his unbreakable optimism, mabliness and later revealed weaknesses and the weak, normal, anti-hero like Simon, who hopes to one day be like Kamina. There is also the pragmatic no it all, that does the most rational thing with best intentions, but in the world of TTGL its THE FIGHTING SPIRITT that decides it all. (you'll understand me after you watch the anime)
Again for such a great anime, the character design used was such a shame...so I'll take one point away here too...
Enjoyment 10/10
The whole thing...is definition of the word epic. By the end of the anime, you'll love all the characters(or almost all) even the villains.
I loved it.
Overall 10/10:
Definitely a masterpiece. I'd even give it the rare 11/10 if it wasn't for the crappy character design.
