What exactly happens in this anime?

Written by colacat24 on January 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM

I started this anime with a very positive attitude. I had watched an AMV of it online that portrayed it as being fantastically animated with a gripping story and the first few episodes did live up to this standard.
We have our main character who is your classic anime heroin, nothing particularily special, pretty, sweet and agreeable. As this is a fantasy story this girl has the ability to see floating islands in the sky that no one else can see. We are then introduced to our male lead called Munto who is king of floating islands in the sky that no one except generic anime girl can see. (He also happens to have the most amazing eyebrows ever.)
We are given a fairly decent introduction to these two, given classic bad guys to hate and a nice build up to a good dramatic plot-line.
This continues up until about episode 4 when our two lead characters finally get around to meeting up. Then, rather confusingly they decide that the plotline they had been using for the past few episodes doesn't work anymore (even though it was fine and could be developed further) and we are thrown into another tediously similar plot-line only with more annoying friendship speeches and unnecessary scenes that are usually unexplained.
I think that was what was the most frustrating thing about the anime, the story had the potential to be very good, the characters were easy to relate to and the animation was fantastic. They just spent the remaining episodes hinting at peoples pasts and insight into this fantasy world and then never explained them. The potential romance was only hinted at about twice (wich was rather silly, why not just leave it out?) untl the end when Munto admits to generic anime girl that she means alot to him even though the two have only shared about 3 coversations, all of wich were about things that were related to the plotline that made no sense.
Irritatingly at the end the main bad guy had lost all effect and even more so generic anime girls best friends (who have had their own pointlessly dramatic plotline back home) come to the floating islands in the sky and steal the lead characters lime-light.
Alltogether I was dissapointed because the anime fell short of my expectations simply because it didn't make much sense. (And also because it's name is so rediculously long I could never remember what to type into firefox!) It's worth watching to see the very pretty animation and the interesting fantasy land, just make up your own ending only because the one it leaves you with is hopelessly open and is rather confusing.