I know I never update here but I'm nearly through an anime called Xam'd- Lost memories (weird name, I know) and I felt like rambling about it a bit so why not?
First of all, it struck me as basically all of miyzaki's movies put together, plus some other Ghibli films (looks like a little grave of the fireflies snuck its way in there). I can't quite place it, but the way the characters are... characterized, and the way they interact feels a lot like it.
There's a lot of sappy morals being thrown around, and a lot of colorful sparkly and downright goofy effects in this show, so much so that it's sometimes pretty easy to forget just how utterly