Story:
Thrilling pacing with an addictive flow. It is a beautiful blend of simplicity and complexity which carries over well from the manga. There's plenty of meat to get one's teeth into and yet it doesn't overload the mind, and it represents its somewhat complex dynamics in a highly effective and clear way.
Art:
Consistently very good with no jarring sequences and many truly splendid battles filled with scintillating direction and dynamism.
Sound:
Some of the best music in a TV show I can recall, though it's a little lean. The tracks are memorable and paint the moods exquisitely and often profoundly. The added dimension introduced in the soundtrack toward
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Apr 3, 2021
Generally exciting, though the dialogue is often clumsily and laboriously handled. Brief moments of humour tend to fall flat and the plot is quite convoluted and not the easiest to follow. That's both a good and bad thing, for it's a deep and multifaceted show which doesn't collapse into the hackneyed formula of good and evil, and as such it's highly nuanced and refreshingly perspectival. At the same time, some will find it hard to really have a grasp on what's happening and might get frustrated and bogged down in all the painstakingly laborious attempts to paint the narrative through lengthy dialogues.
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