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+============
+ Last Exile
+============
+:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:47
+:Id: anime/review/last-exile
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/last-exile-complete-season-1-collection
+
+The setting: the two countries of Anatoray and Disith are engaged in
+an endless war, governed by strict rules enforced by the Guild. Most
+of the battles are fought with flying vessels, armed not only with
+batteries of cannons, but also with rifle infantry (yes, people on
+ships, shooting at each other in the sky). A postal service via small,
+fast flying machines connects the various parts of each country.
+Communications between the countries are nearly impossible: the Grand
+Stream stands between them, a large region of constant turbulence. The
+two Anatoray protagonists, Claus and Lavie, are orphans, their fathers
+having died years before, trying to cross the Stream to deliver a
+peace proposal to Disith. Now, they're charged with delivering young
+Alvis to the mysterious ship Silvana, and the Guild does not seems
+completely pleased about that.
+
+It's not a totally original story, but it does not matter much: the
+characters are interesting, their interplay is well written, and
+most of the plot is tight enough to let you ignore the occasional
+issue. I think the last episode makes a bit of a hash of things,
+skipping a few explanatory scenes that would have much helped to
+understand what's going on, but if you watch it a couple of times you
+should get the gist. Mind you, I also don't *like* the ending, so my
+opinion may be a bit biased.
+
+There's echoes of Miyazaky's Nausicaä in the set-up of the war, and of
+Matsumoto's `Harlock <../captain-harlock/>`_ in the crew of the
+Silvana; in `Fractale <../fractale/>`_ (8 years more recent than Last
+Exile) you can see that the power dynamic between the Temple and Lost
+Millennium is very similar to the one between the Guild and the
+Silvana.
+
+The society, technology and the aesthetic are the now familiar
+anachronistic mix of steampunk: Victorian-era military uniforms,
+stylised military rules and honour-bound officers, brass and leather
+and goggles everywhere, machines running on steam and non-obvious tech
+(here, mostly anti-gravity). The main exception is the Guild, with
+much more advanced technology and completely different aesthetic, but
+that only serves to mark them as different and to support their "right
+to rule".
+
+An interesting detail: the title of each episodes references an aspect
+of the game of chess, relevant to the plot of the episode
+itself. Given how the Guild is playing the two countries against each
+other, and the complicated and strict rules under which the war is
+fought, this choice is not just a quirk.
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