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Reading the intro, I had an idea what the story was about, but it also nailed the point home with a kamehameha x9001. In the first episode, wound up bawling, and I didn't know any of the characters names yet. I'm your classic man's man (at least, according to other people), so this is soooooo not my thing. This show kicks you in the feels, burns you alive, then throws you in acid. If that's your thing, more power to you. It wasn't my thing. It's not a fantasy story with some realism, this is one of those stories ... that makes you bawl, and it certainly delivered that.

They didn't explain why the elf was the way that she was, but just glossed over it. In such a detailed realistic story, the other elves would have taught her these sorts of things, and there's no way she would have been that aloof.

They touch on realistic points like PTSD, watching your war buddies die, survivors guilt, and the titular long lifespan of the elves.

I don't understand why "bad" and CGI have been conflated such that the entire internets think all CGI is inherently bad. I liked this CGI, and I prefer visual shows to have motion. Unlike most anime that becomes a slideshow to save money. After a minute or so of getting used to the visual style, which I liked, it faded into the background. The full motion that good CGI can bring is amazeballs, and they really delivered here. it's like full motion cell shaded graphics, which I think turned out well.

I could tell this was written by people who knew military life, ... or were adjacent to it. The details were awesome and spot on, things were gritty and realistic, and the final episode was just a chef's kiss. Not because I like loli mecha fighting, but because it's a big FU you to loli mecha teen angst. If you read the comments on YouTube, you can see many other veterans chime in and say that the details were spot on, for the most part.

10/10, need moar.

I've live to see this continued, and I'd love to buy the mecha toys if they weren't smaller than my laptop's power supply. Not even kidding, they are 3" tall. I have no idea how they crammed that much detail into a tiny toy, but mecha should be big and massive, not teeny tiny.