Number of Episodes: 12 + 2 OVAs
What Wikipedia says: "Sound of the Sky revolves around a young girl named Kanata Sorami who is inspired to join the military after witnessing a rendition of "Amazing Grace" by a mysterious trumpeter of the Helvetian Army. Becoming a bugler, she is assigned to the 1121st Platoon stationed in the town of Seize in Helvetia, where she is taken into the care of 2nd Lt. Filicia Heideman, M/Sgt. Rio Kazumiya and the rest of the 1121st Platoon. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world after a great war regressed humanity's technological capabilities back to early-to-mid 20th century standards."
KoanMan says: KoanMan thoroughly enjoyed this short and sweet series. The characters are well developed, and interact well, with well defined personalities and the right amount of cohesion and abrasion between those characters, while they are all still "comrades".
The plot is at once simple, and complex, with a depth to the storyline and the world in which they live that echoes well beyond the last episode. One wanted more, and certainly there is plenty of room in this new world for another series.
How About the Music? The music is simply great. The production team did very well integrating an esoteric suite of music that must have involved a very broad musical knowledge, or extensive research at the very least. Superb.
So How Does it End? (Spoiler free): Very satisfactorily. If in a slight rush.
Overall Grade: KoanMan rates this an A.
Addendum (by tTPO): This series felt more like a long movie than it did a series. The production values were outstanding, the detail of the city stunning, (as KoanMan said) the music, which is fundamental to the series, is outstanding, and the backstory of the world at once both epic and also unknowable. As with the characters the details of how the world got to be as it is now have been lost and as viewers we can only guess these details that are hinted at. In some series this would be frustrating but in Sora no Woto not so much, even with musicians inexplicably taking over as the mainstay of military communicaton (over say flags, or lights, or any other more efficient means of communication that may not get drowned out by the sound of war). It just doesn't matter because thats just how it is. Overall, the series is to a large extent a slice of life series which acquires a plot towards the end. Some may complain it all happens a bit fast but its all there and the OVAs return the series to its somewhat more innocent roots. Amazing Grace has never sounded so simple nor so good. Grade A.
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