It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

*The story is explained at the beginning of the first episode, so you can discount this as being a spoiler, since if you plan on watching you will find this out within minutes. *Sophie, our protagonist, is living in an orphanage since her brother disappeared 3 years earlier, and while searching for him, she runs into a whole different world of "Horrors" and Makai knights and alchemists(the good guys). Sophie's growth throughout the series and the action scenes really make the anime worth watching, but if you're not into over-the-top fights between good and evil, i guess you can give this one a skip.