MG: The direction by Mahiro Maeda. It is beautifully paced, allowing very realistic timing and quiet scenes that reveal character, and the choreography of the action sequences which are a stunning contrast. The character designs are attractive and intriguing, and the cast is made up of a great variety of racial and cultural representatives.

SS: I love the powerful idea of the strength within community. You see it in both the human and the mutant worlds and you see it in the intersection of the two worlds, when Hayami befriends Mutio. It's there when Hayami and Belg finally face each other, although the brutal pounding Hayami receives shows you the price that often comes for seeking such things. The entire show has a lot to say on the subject of trust. Why it's valuable. What it costs us. How it really defines who we are, if not at least the role we find we must play.

MG: Hayami is a talented mini-sub pilot with a checkered past. He leaves the Blue Fleet after being wrongly court-martialed over the death of his friend and co-pilot, Katsuma Nonaka. He sinks into a gutter existence of drug addiction, making a living as a freelance salvager. He is asked to return to the Blue Fleet, and after initially refusing, decides to rejoin the crew of Blue Six in hopes of salvaging his own self-worth.

JC: Well in addition to voicing one of Blue 6's crew, Gusuku, I play Mutio, the mutant fish/cat girl who is rescued by the human hero Hayami and forms a sort of non-aggression pact with him. She later saves him and is banished from her people for it.

SS: I play Belg, the commander of the mutant army. Physically he's somewhere between a Great White shark and a Minotaur. He see's himself as Zorndyke's son, even calls him Papa. Though he commands a massive armed force he's still very much an impatient, rebellious adolescent.

MG: "The easiest answer is not always the correct one."

JC: Well, it's almost letting go of ideals with Mutio. She's all about finding out that your ideal is flawed and then having it taken away completely. By the end she's decided to reconcile with her own world. But I get that the hope for an alliance between her world and Hayami's is Mutio's experience, and how that can't help but change things.

SS: Belg's looking for the all-important "validation from the father." At the same time he's rebelling against dad, too. So his ideal is pretty self-centric. He has completely demonized humanity and this gives him a target for all his rage and fear. He's ruthless, cunning, and highly motivated. A dangerous combination.

SS: Belg is helping to drive the conflict.

JC: Mutio is helping along the resolution.

MG: Hayami is the only character that is interested in finding out why Zorndyke is set on bringing about man's extinction. He has a great capacity for compassion that enables him to treat others with a fairness that he himself wasn't afforded.