An excellent story with compelling characters. A very strong lead female character, and mostly interesting, complex villains, but many secondary characters are sort of flat (perhaps because most of the character development is spent on the lead Erin and the beasts/animals she interacts with?).
This show doesn't offer a clear view of good and evil, rather, it shows a rather deep, complex view of life.
Very unusual art stylized like some older anime.
This show's atmosphere is sort of heavy and oppressive, even though it has some happy moments it also has many depressing moments.
This show seems to suffer from limited funds. Lots of reused graphic and music (and some of the graphic looks really... cheap (but the show also has some some very artistic, beautiful graphic segments).
This show is plagued by an unreasonable amount of flashbacks and retrospection, and feels unnecessarily stretched. (even has 2(?) episodes which are pure retrospection). While in a way this helps in creating a more nostalgic, melancholic feeling, it can be far too slow at times. Feels like the whole show could have been done in 26 episodes rather than 50, I don't like skipping anything in a show, but this show has forced me to skip through some episodes every now and then, it was just too much repetition of the same scenes over and over.
This show has a very satisfying ending.
