Product: Air TV: The Complete Series S.A.V.E.
Rating: 3.0
I just couldn't get behind this one... A near miss.
I just couldn't really get behind this one. I feel like it's so close to being a great anime, but it just missed the mark by like 1/10th of an inch. It had all the elements of a great story --a lone hero; a damsel in distress; and ancient curse; and magical winged beings of incredible power. The only problem with it was that they put in a lot of stuff that just wasn't pertinent to the main story. It felt like episodes 2-5 were mostly filler material in order to make Yukito into a heroic figure, but they didn't really have to do that. The reason I stick to that is that after the two girls stories were finished, they didn't appear anywhere else in the rest of the show, really. That makes them filler that wasn't necessary.There were some plot points that also bugged me, but I don't want to give away too much. You'll see it if you look. All I can say is that over a thousand years of storing magic in the doll, the best that they could come up with was that? Also, they really didn't make the details of Lady Kana's life fold into the story in any kind of coherent fashion. It seems to me, that if you've been searching for the girl in the sky for over a thousand years, you would have been able to pass on more than just a doll and vague stories. It didn't really make sense to me.Aside from that, there were some real touching moments. I was disheartened by the character's fates, and it showed some really sad moments. If you like to shed a tear, I've no doubt that you will watching this. It's sad in a lot of ways. The animation is great and the English voice cast was excellent. I would recommend this to a friend, but I personally just didn't like the way it seemed thrown together.