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Last Exile has all the ingredients which could have made for an excellent anime series-- beautiful animation, many interesting characters, a driving central mystery, and a world setting which feels like it was thought out as a whole (although on close inspection, some of it does not fit together well).

What makes it merely an average anime series despite all of this is that the story falls apart badly in the last several episodes-- and I mean really badly. There are unconvincing things that happen in earlier episodes, but the final episodes are unconvincing from beginning to end. Characters live or die seemingly at the whim of the writers. What started out seeming like an interesting mix of clashing political motives ends up in the flimsiest good-against-evil scenario imaginable. The representative of evil develops gratuitous nasty character traits which are completely irrelevant to the plot. And so on.

I was actually rather hooked by the earlier episodes, despite the fact that while proclaiming a message of peace, the series nevertheless glorifies the alleged virtues of war just as much as the many shamelessly pro-militarist anime. But I was so disappointed by the last third or so of the series that I ended up wishing I hadn't wasted my time on any of it.

Well mates this anime is good not perfect but really good.