I'm still trying to figure out why there were none. It really made no sense. Formal tops and underwear? Why not just make a military bikini for Christ's sake? First episode I thought maybe the chick was on vacation when she went to pick out the girl and that's what she wanted to wear. Whatever. Then I thought, hey maybe it's some kind of hazing by the second episode. Then I remembered it was a Japanese cartoon and just shrugged. I also have no fucking clue why they transformed into or channeled animal spirits as that was never mentioned, never got a resolution with her father and never really found out how they won. Oh, and outside the propulsion I still don't know why they needed magic unless their weapons were also magical but that was also never covered. The whole show was a fucking mess. They did manage to put a few good moments in there with some of the older characters that approached a semblance of mature story telling.
But I think the concept was cool. I really just want a show that follows one squad of something in some era through a war and is halfway decent. I'd prefer WW2 but they can put it during the Napoleonic era or fucking antiquity and make Japanese styled Spartans for all I care. Gundam sucks and so has Macross for a while as well, so I was hoping maybe I missed something good. Just pick a small squad, forget about the big picture and focus on them for a whole series.
Thanks, I'll look out for it.
Oh and I know I already answered but I want to make one thing clear: I do not expect any anime to come close to the epicness that is Band of Brothers, when I say close I mean it as a relative term taking into account the obvious differences in quality between the two. I'd honestly be surprised if any cartoon in a hundred years from anywhere approached Band of Brothers.
Ah, that would have worked as well, lol. Anyways, the one thing I didn't see happening was a happy ending. It was a pretty good series though.
