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There's more than meets the eye.

In the raging around warfare of dreams, this anime is a powerful weapon. A weapon I would love everyone to wield.

It portrays a model of an enlightened person whose level of awareness is well beyond normal, which allows her to live her game of life in full harmony with her being and help those around progress in their personal quests.

It doesn't bore the viewer with excessive introspection, but leads by example, carefully constructing delicate situations, bringing to attention important considerations and showing a conscious resolution.

It also raises timely questions about our future as a species. How do we wish to ... overcome our planetary crisis of consciousness? A whirl of ideas presents itself.

And all that wrapped in a beautiful engaging play of color, sound and emotion!

Weak spots are story and antagonist. And most characters serve as a background against which the protagonist may shine. But these can be forgiven for they are overshadowed by a lot of amazing work put into this anime.

Thanks to those who made this a reality!

They're just eating 70% of the story time... and that's it...

Other 30% is some other utterly boring routine loitering, imposing an imitation of a bleak trace of emotion on totally cartoon characters.

I can't possibly fathom the stark emptiness of lives of those who consider this anime even slightly entertaining.

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They want the review to be 500 chars min, but there's really nothing to say about this particular piece. So the only thing I can do is apologize for wasting your time - the only thing you have in your life - by writing more words than you need to read.

Food-centered.

About 50% of the show time can be described as: "and they decided to have a meal...". Should one pay enough attention to the content, it will become clear that this can't be a mere coincidence. Maniacs kept the studio staff in a cellar with no food so they couldn't think of nothing else? Doubtful. More likely that, though unofficially, this was funded by people with not the least influence in japan food industry.

You like watching ads? Cooked with a pathetic pretense of a "plot"? Spiced with unsoundly repetitive and totally unoriginal "humor"? Served to a hub-controlled zombie "characters"? Then this one awaits you! :)

There ... are still a few good episodes though, or moments in between, mostly in second part. Arguably worth the trouble.

If you ask me what is this anime about and why the name mentions skies, I tell you this.
Don't expect surfing clouds or such. Only near the end I finally realized it.
Skies are a metaphor. A metaphor for Romeo's view of life. His lightheartedness. An inner power to fly over every hardship, of which there are many, and not descend into regrets. A power to inspire everyone around and give them a feeling of flight as well (look how the friendship blooms!). An ability to see the wonders of life and feel excitement, no matter what comes. To look your enemy right into the eye, ... yet without any hostility, accepting him for what he is and seeing a part of him which he himself can not admit: a better part. Like a bird looks down on a street dog...
Only a few people are strong enough for that. Feel how Romeo feels, see how he sees, and you might find your life becoming a little better.
This is what this anime is about.

Now for less interesting part. Some advantages and disadvantages are these:
+ Quite a deep drama reveals itself in the end. Makes me cry a lot.
+ An artistic feel of the city. Lots of people. Street dangers. And then the freedom of roaming the roofs... cool! very romantic.
+ Good detailed visual art, especially that of the scenery of the old Italy. No caricatures.

- Often, especially at first, the story is too artificial: predictable and unrealistic. One can simply laugh ironically at how things turn out for Romeo: if there is any chance of possible or impossible trouble ahead, he will surely get into it. Firstly, because of his unbelievable naivete. Secondly, because there is a bunch of classically bad guys who is acting classically mean by all means. Though the younger audience won't notice this right away, yet for me this issue requires a bit of getting used to.
- Only a few characters are detailed. The others are just background.
- Angeletta was thrown out of the story somehow weird.