I’m generally not a watcher of anime, so the story of how I came to know Last Exile is somewhat interesting. It was on a vacation in Italy that I saw the end of a Last Exile episode on TV (and it was dubbed in Italian too!). I was fascinated by the steampunk/retro-futuristic setting and managed to memorize a few of the characters’ names from the credits — no matter that it was anime and I’m not very fond of the anime/manga artform. However, I couldn’t find the anime title from what I remembered, so it was a while later that I saw the setting again and discovered it was Last Exile. Earlier this year I got to watch it all through with a friend.
Last Exile is set in a retro-futuristic world, where the two nations of this world are at perpetual war. Read the rest of this entry »