I have a bit of a bias, as this is my favorite anime, but I'll try and be unbiased in my review. The story is not too average, though it is in a typical school setting and has the typical characters-types (quiet one, spaz, girl-and-boy-who-start-off-hating-each-other-and-end-up-falling-in-love), but it deals with real-world morality issues, like cloning and nuclear-holocaust. There are many subtleties that you'll have to re-watch the anime to pick up, including an "oh shit" moment at the end that you have to catch the first time. Just try watching the opening after seeing the last episode and try not saying "Oh, man, how didI miss that?!", haha.

Lessee... the character voices are spot-on, and though I recommend watching it in Japanese as well as English, this is one of the few anime I usually watch in English (others being Gundam and Evangelion). A few scenes in English the dialogue changes drastically to accommodate cultural differences (in a scene where the students are cleaning the classroom, in English there's an announcement over the speakers that it's due to a 'custodial strike'; also, in the first episode, in Japanese our Title hero is accused of being a regular pervert for peering suspiciously into a restaurant where girls in cute uniforms work, in English he's labeled as a 'fast-food stalker'), but all of those involved know what they're about when it comes to anime voice-acting.

I think what I like best about Generator Gawl is the pacing. One of the first anime I ever watched was Gundam W, and that series alone was 49 episodes and a movie. Generator Gawl didn't feel like it was being dragged out; everything moved along from point to point, and in twelve episodes they're able to tell a story.

In the interest of not gushing, I think I'll end my review here. In conclusion, I gave the Art 10 of 10 because of the way it's used both during battles and outside of combat situations, sometimes even artistically to illustrate a point (as seen in a the dream sequence Ryo has). The sound is 10 of 10 as the voices are all well done, and the background conversations are all well-placed but completely necessary. Enjoyment is 10 of 10; I feel like I learned something as a person just for having seen it. The Character I gave a 9 of 10 to, as while each character gets plenty of development, they all start off as a generic manga/anime type character. The story is 9 of 10 for the same reason. Overall, I rated it as a 9 of 10, as, while this is *my* favorite anime, I recognize that it's probably not "the greatest anime in existence".