Reception
The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, and placed on YALSA's "2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens" list. THEM Anime Reviews called the anime adaptation "complex" and "beautiful", stating that it features "sophisticated storytelling and complex plot weaving, memorable characters, godly production values and excellent pacing". A review at Anime-Planet described the series as a "breathtaking tour de force of amazing suspense and surprising intelligence". Another review from the same site called the series "a true gem and a rare anime masterpiece" despite its "daunting length". Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz called the series "his favorite guilty pleasure" in a profile for Time Magazine. Animation critic Charles Solomon was among the minority of critics to dislike the anime, claiming that it "plays like a prolonged soap opera" and finding that "its suggestions of child abuse and neo-Nazi imagery reflect a regrettable lack of taste". He specifically criticized the work of anime director Masayuki Kojima, alleging that " leaden pacing robs the story of the suspense it should generate" and that "more skillful filmmakers could present the same material in half as many episodes and make it compelling".
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