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(from ANN)The story follows a boy named Akiyuki who is heading to school with two friends when an explosion occurs. In the mysterious light from the explosion, Akiyuki transforms into a creature called Xam'd. Xam'd goes on a rampage which is only stopped when a red-haired foreign girl appears. (wow, talk about abridged version. -_-)
It also seems to include two warring countries, a character that's almost laughably similer to Nausicaä. And some freaky mecha.
So far this series has blown me away. It's by studio bones, so the art and character design is very similer to Eureka7 (indeed, some plot elements are so close as to be considered eureka 2.0 IMO). The animation itself, is amazing. The entire thing has an incredibly huge number of keyframes, occasionally the actual framerate seems to drop somewhat, which makes it seem like the character is having a conniption, but in general it feels like almost movie quality. There's also large amounts of screen motion, I can really see this as amv material. Lastly, the main character's personality for once seems to strike a nice chord between doormat and obnoxious.
Oh, and it has a really classy opening.
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