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5/10 is what happens when you take an otherwise fair sci-fi adventure-story with a clear premise, married with artwork from one of the most prolific designers of the 80's and 90's, bundled with interesting characters, supported by a competent musical score and enjoyable OP/EDs, only to completely and utterly buckle at the knees from the apparently overwhelming responsibility of providing the audience any sort of intelligent ending.

You like space capers with a young male protagonist who is a lone-wolf against the world? Who shoots from the hip and has unique skills such as being able to run remarkably fast or talent of being able to ... show absolute indifference toward his cute and adoring girlfriend? Then buckle-in for eleven episodes of cool only to be slapped in the face with a twelfth episode of WTF.

The bad guys are a ruthless monarchical pirate family who killed your parents. Your best friend is a bad-ass womanizing priest and your ride is an unrivaled starship. You travel planets, meet people, fight evil world-conquering ambitions, get involved in a few romantic tensions along the way, explosions.

Hi-Speed Jecy seems to have it all. Except an ending.

Even if the staff behind this series closed half of the boxes it opened for us, Hi-Speed Jecy would be your vintage 7/10 series. A gem lost in the shuffle, waiting to be discovered.

The subtitle translation work is top-notch. A lot of care went into this. But after spending more than 4.5 hours leading up to such a non-nonsensical conclusion, I really hope the people behind the localization effort find something more deserving of their craftsmanship. 5/10.



P.S.: This studio sponsored a cut-in character competition where the winning design would be included in the final episode. But the character wasn't in the final episode at all.

Just epitomizing how Hi-Speed Jecy rivets off the starting-block, makes good stride, but on the final turn decides not only to stop sprinting, but maybe, sort-of, kind-of cross the finish-line. Huh.