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Rating: 9.8/10

Overall Series Rating: 9.7/10

Impressions:

Man, now I’m sad. Not because this series has a mediocre ending or anything, but because it’s just so good in my opinion, that it’s quite hard knowing there won’t be any more for who knows how long. Perhaps never even. Stratos 4 has turned out to be one of my all time favourite shows, and it’s pretty disheartening to see it finish. As for this final episode though, I feel that it doesn’t have enough closure. There are still many things to resolve, such as Miharu and Sako’s daughter. The relationship between Karin and her…brother(?) also remain uncertain. Perhaps if there were more episodes, another conspiracy could develop regarding the parasite infections and using it to better or worsen the world. Apart from that though, the crisis-averted ending is a nice conclusion to this sort of series anyway, so I’m content with that. Overall though, I feel that the three new meteor sweepers didn’t get enough character development. I guess though, being an OAV, there wasn’t much time to include an episode that doesn’t advance the plot.

Speaking of that, over the course of Statos 4 Advance, there is no single, dominant plot which the show follows. It does make up for this by making al the small missions exciting and enjoyable though. I had been hoping from the start that these 6 (or what became episodes would be one continuous story, with a nice climax in the second to last and last episodes. Although that did not happen, it was highly enjoyable none-the-less. Maybe, just maybe, there will be another OAV…Oh and if you’re curious, when I say this show is one of my favourites, I mean I like it more than any of the fall season shows including Kanon, Death Note and Code Geass. By far. I wouldn’t put this in my top 5, but it’s in my top 10 definitely. I’d also like to mention that this series is not a mecha, which may put a lot of people off. The original television series starts of rather slowly, and I did find myself rather bored of the first half of the show. However, if there is ever a sequel, you’ll know which series is at the top of my priority to-watch list.

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