......to what's going on here, you will be amazed at how incredibly well-written the screenplay/storyline is in "The Orbital Children"!
To think I would discover an anime as complex as this, it's as if I was watching an animated version of a film by Christopher Nolan!
The characters were a bit cliche but not completely 2-D as each person played a pivotal role throughout the series as the animation itself literally lights up your screen into a dazzling, awestruck color pallet of light and dark! Meanwhile, the music elevates the mood into the atmospheric proportions that this show is making an effort to achieve!
However, there are some things that hold the show back from gaining steam with the mainstream audience:
1.) It's main subject: To create something as ingenious but complex as this and transform it into a form of mainstream media, like anime, takes guts. That's because the audience can either look at this genre of storytelling two ways; Either it amazes you as you immerse yourself in topics that hover beyond your wildest dreams or it confuses you as complex vocabulary and high IQ screenwriting cloud your sense of understanding as you attempt to figure out what on earth is going here. Thus, this original idea of a complex space voyage turned completely on it's head is ironic. Not to mention, it acts as a double-edged sword in terms of either the idea as a whole sticks with people as they fully immerse themselves for more a breathtaking, adventurous experience or the idea doesn't stick and people find themselves confused, not being able to follow along the story as complex authoring of said context could turn out to appear incomprehensible to some.
2.) The characters: Now, I know I said that this cast as a whole isn't 2-D since everyone pretty much had a role to play when it came to how the show transpired from episode 1-6. However, character development only went so far for Toya, the MC, and Konoha, his fellow partner as the story progressed. There were some other characters that I felt curious about learning as well, such as Chief, when you find out more than what what you originally assumed. Yet, even though it wouldn't be such a bad idea to expand on this, I can't trust that Netflix will continue with this story as they tend to create more new anime shows rather than continue off of some pretty solid content, such as "BNA". Speaking of story.....
3.) Clifhanger?: The story doesn't seem to end by episode 6, even after the story reaches it's main resolution; as long as the staff, actors, and the many people who were originally on board still hang around for a continuation of the series, with the backing of Netflix of course, there could be a chance of them furthering their storyline. However, as I've said before, with the issues of a double-edged plot alongside the inconsistency of Netflix-produced anime, I highly doubt that they would even think about something like this as Netflix moves on with other plans.
Nevertheless, this show is for those who wish to expand their thinking and perspective of how an anime is made as "The Orbital Children" really checks of all the intellectual boxes. Otherwise, if you're looking for something simple that goes off a genre that has already been utilized, this isn't for you. However, it still wouldn't hurt giving this anime a try as you find the moral of this story touches reality in more ways than one!
