Okay, for you guys out there who have already watched the first episode, think again. That was the exact reason why I wasn’t interested in watching in the first place (well, actually Inigo showed me parts of EP 4, which turned me off, but we all know that episode was mindfuck and was considered fail.)

Watch it. The characterization of the people inside the story is so vivid that it was the very reason I wept. The story is awesome, with certain parallelisms as expected from an anime, but they say that you cant understand proper English without parallelisms (circa: ENG13).

Although the story itself is awesome in itself, It couldn’t have attracted my attention for more than five minutes if it wasn’t for the execution of the story. The universe is so surreal that you wonder from time to time if their lives were scripted or something (which, as we all know, is ironically true). But it was done with a dash of realism that is very refreshing from the usual crap of stories that try to make things as real as possible. There was so many expected crap as you would watch out for in traditional anime that you eagerly wait them and assume “Ah, This is the part that…” and wait for your conclusion to manifest itself onto the screen.

BUT NO.

HAHAHAHA

Just when you assume, the story curves in a way that you will literally (at least I did) go, WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED? In a good way, of course.

Also, this may be a small spoiler but: I’ve never seen an anime who used death as awesome here. They made it realistic so that you would shed a tear each and every time one of the pilots die.