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I was captured by this
series immediately and completely recommend it.
The 2D and 3D animation is fresh and breathtaking, the show is worth
watching for the scenery alone. But the swath that the creators cut across
history in making this series is wildly curious and artfully done. What
looks like a type of WWII German Luftwaffe aircraft fly in the same skies
with Civil War era battleships that feel like the Merrimack and Monitor
were transported to 3004 for battle, add in colonial military uniforms and
battle tactics, and hang a futurist gyro-stabilized observation platform
in silent orbit above it all. This is the background for a sweet and
seriously engaging story line with complex characters, their lives and
trials accompanied by an almost Irish sounding bagpipe and flute melodies
of a soundtrack complete with Japanese lyrics. Thus is the unique mix of
Last Exile.
While I am not a fan of
sound tracks, the Last Exile soundtrack is clean, sharp, and neatly
electronic. I loved the feathery Over The Sky" by Hitomi Ishiguro but the
best piece is the series opener Cloud Age Symphony by Shuntaro Okino. I
felt the price of the CD was worth it for that piece of transcendental
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