ho hum

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2002)

After all of the raving I heard about this I was expecting a lot more. The characters weren't interesting and none of them made me care about them. The character development was weak.
It seems to me that drama is hard to do with animation because they can't do as much with the facial expressions. Perhaps it's too difficult to be subtle with animation (or anime).
The story was only mildly interesting. It didn't have any epic qualities about it. The animation may have been great but these days with computers helping them it's hard to be impressed by mere glitz.
The scene near the end with the forest spirit turning into a headless monster gave me the feeling I was watching an animated variation on the Godzilla theme.
Very run-of-the-mill overall I'd say.