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0/10 - Don't waste your time!

After several long weeks, finally managed to watch all the episodes of this terrible show.
Without giving away any spoilers, I can tell you there is little substance to this show.

This show is all over the place and the main character is a stubborn kid with no real focus on accomplishing his main goal. We are introduced to new characters throughout the entire show and none of their stories are fully flushed out. There are often times when the main story line has something interesting happening, but then for 3-4 episodes we are stuck watching random side characters ... over think minor details. By the time we get back to the main story all the tension that kept you on the edge of your seat is gone and the resolution is often anti-climatic.

You know a show is poorly written when they have to waste minutes and sometimes even entire episodes to actually explain why a certain action would have the consequence that it does. A good show would set up the conditions for its "magic" and then through action show what happens.

Example: Death Note. We are told about the rules of the notebook and then through out the show we see it put to action. The narration doesn't have to literally tell us that killing certain people will result in the protagonist being discovered as a murders. We are trusted as an audience to just know that. In Hunter X Hunter we are held by the hands and literally told what the consequences of an action would be, nothing is left for the viewer to figure out.

I always looked forward to these at the end of every episode. It's just a short comedy sketch that over exaggerates what is happening in the main show, but more than that it shows how the Tachikoma have personalities and are not just mindless AI.

If you or someone you know has never seen anime before, this would certainly be my first recommendation. This show would immerse you so deep in the characters lives and story that you will not know what to do with your own life after you finish watching all the episodes. I recommend this to people new to anime because the traditions and life styles portrayed in this show are for the most part very western, however the art and certain gestures are very Japanese. For someone who is not used to Japanese symbolism's this show will be very easy to watch and understand.

If you ... are someone who has seen many amines and have not yet seen this one, what's the matter with you?! The story and characters in this anime are guaranteed to make even the most stone cold emotionless people feel some sort of sadness (I speak from experience.)

This is really one of those anime's that are top notch and truly deserve a 10/10 score.

ADDITIONAL NOTE:

I've seen this anime in both English dub and Japanese dub+English subtitles; I've seen them both separately and at the exact same time side by side. Unless you understand Japanese better than English, I strongly recommend the English dub. The voice acting cast for the English dub is superb and the subtitles don't do the show enough justice.