Review of Texhnolyze

This is an incredibly skillful anime. It is also depressing as all get-out. Any anime that really wants to depress its viewers has to have some amount of skill, or else it will lose its audience. "Now and Then, Here and There" is my typical example of a depressing anime done with minimal necessary skill. "Texhnolyze," on the other hand, is the work of a mad genius who went off his medication during production. Oddly enough, the creator started working on this series while doing a much less depressing series, namely "Charcoal Feather Federation." Rumor has it he needed to do a depressingseries to balance out the uplifting emotions from "Charcoal Feather Federation."

So, yeah, the creative talent behind this show is literally insane. Therefore I recommend watching it with a certain amount of self-restraint. If you like the ultimate direction of the storyline, I recommend "Gilgamesh," a similarly epic story that I enjoyed much more. Both stories tend to tell a lot with just visual images, silences, and implications rather than lots of verbal exposition.