A group of
kids get in contact with mysterious beings from another dimension, quantum
chaos ensues.
The basic
concept is brilliant. A full 24 episode anime series centered about quantum
mechanics? Certainly the Japanese dare to go where the rest of the world wouldn’t
even look, and they even got most of the details right (at least the details
that us non physics understand, I’m sure that somewhere now there is a
researcher snickering).
Now when I
say centered I don’t mean that they spend their time looking for the Higgs
Boson, this is still an Anime and so for the most part we have underage kids
bickering while caught in tween angst while only a fraction of the running time
delve into quantum stuff, mostly into the form of awesome fight scenes (what
did you expect, as I said this is still an Anime). Luckily is all nicely
integrated, the kids are mostly anxious about their future and so the uncertainty
principle of Heisenberg and the parallel worlds theory not only are apt
metaphors for that, they literally show what their future could reserve.
Graphically
is a mixed bag. The design of the humans various human characters is very basic
and a little pedestrian but the fight scenes, with the relative quantum superpowers,
are excellent and Shangri la with is incredible flying units is simply awesome.
Add a very good soundtrack and you get a nice viewing experience.
