Product: Air TV: The Complete Series S.A.V.E.
Rating: 2.0
Save Yourself the Money and Trouble
Save yourself the money and trouble and don't buy this series. It's not worth the price. Buy something else.Here's why: If, in some strange universe, the ending to this series does, in fact, have some meaning and makes sense, it doesn't in our universe. I don't understand why this Anime series has such high ratings when the ending doesn't make any sense.First off, I never felt truly "connected" with the characters. I feel the writers tried to shovel 24-episodes worth of emotion into 12 episodes, and you feel it. You don't get the emotional depth you get from other anime series like Clannad or Kanon.Secondly, the ending, if you can call it such, makes no sense. We get part of the way there, and then we step back and do a couple of "flash back" episodes (about 1,000 years back), and then the whole schema changes and we see a new beginning and never get to fully undertand what is happening.You want to know what the two best episodes of this series are? They're these two flash-back episodes. They're terrific! Otherwise, we are back to confusion-land where things happen, but we begin to wonder "what happened?" and never find out....In the final episode, a character we never really liked or cared about from day one has massive revelations and is the one who proceeds on to a new horizon. The characters we did like and care about are left...we don't really know where.I watched this with my 12-year old daughter and wife and neither of them understood the series any better than I did. I wasn't alone in my confusion.Trust me. Buy something else with your money. You will not be disappointed you missed this series and you'll be better off with another series to enjoy. I recommend Clannad/Clannad After Story or Kanon for starters for a "similar" genre.