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This anime follows the journey of Balsa, she is a spear wielder who has her own unfortunate history which brings about how she deals with a situation where she is asked to look after a child. You follow the journey of Balsa and this child, seeing both characters blossom and by the end of the series, you are satisfied with the magnificent ending, one of which most animes do a poor job of doing and it really does make you feel like you have wasted your time watching it.

The art and animation are good, unlike animes such as 'Kingdom' it does actually show animation of ... the fights rather than use suggestive lines and close ups to cheat there way out of it. The sound was satisfactory but hearing it only in dolby digital may reduce its impact on me, as for the score, whilst it worked well, other than the weird broken English opening, it doesn't have the same impact as some other animes and could be considered quite generic but still serves its purpose well.

The characters is truly where this anime shines, as said previously, you follow this forced relationship where it slowly blossoms and in the end, you can tell the two have truly bonded like mother and child. I would give it 2-3 episodes to truly understand what this anime is like, it did feel somewhat reminiscent of Avatar: the legend of aang due to the presence of another 'world' but it is only briefly explored.

However, the ending is truly what set it up for me, I would probably have given this a 8 or possibly 9 but the ending just felt complete. Another anime I enjoyed was Attack on titans but I was so disappointed in where it got up to that I marked it down and whilst this doesn't have much to go on, it is a great journey which I hope more people watch and enjoy.

So I am going to be quite kind to this anime but really you need to end up reading the manga as it really leaves a big gap, it just randomly stops.

However, the premise of the story is, this young lad gets some weird power. He then goes to prison for something he didn't do and finds out this prison is completely nuts.

By the ending, he doesn't find the 'red man' and he only just manages to do a pretty amazing move. The major let down for this anime is purely that it doesn't continue to a proper ending.

Initially, I didn't think much of this, wasn't a huge fan of the random blood out of eyes thing that happens with this blue flame business but I decided to watch the entire first episode and then I thought, actually this has substance.

So without giving anything away, the protagonist of the show always seems to be angry and he doesn't quite understand why himself. He has a brother who the two of them whilst respectful of each other seem to have some rooted problem.

For me, who recently just got into Anime itself and decided to go for the Ecchi type of anime for a while ... now, this was a good venture away and onto something more serious. Whilst there is some magic in it, it's not really the main part of the show, the story isn't great either but the characters and their relationship and the fact the protagonist has to keep a certain part of his identity secret whilst knowing he has the power to help his friends is a brilliant way to bring tension to the show.

Overall, 9/10!