>>132804419In fairness, it also managed to actually be intelligent. It tried to tackle themes like 'what is humanity', and is probably alone in Sci-Fi for having a race of incredibly advanced human beings fully capable of ascending themselves into transhuman space cyborg robots or whatever, but whom actually have a reasonable and well thought out justification for it rather than just shrugging and saying 'were humans because our actors are'.
Gargantia would have been a lot better if it was longer, had more of an actual story, and focused more on the interactions of a high technology vs low technology living.
As it was, it was a confused mess with too few awesome bits.