I really like good background art. I love a lot of shows that put a hell of a lot of work into accurate depictions of complicated backgrounds. Thus I love Studio Ghibli stuff for its visuals (even though the characters are often too family-friendly to engage my attention). And if you can be happy just with visually ornate background art, you can be happy with Wings of Honneamise.
In a sense, the most important character in this story is the team trying to get the rocket into space. That conflict definitely gets resolved.
But the ending is something of a Gainax ending. The story took a lot of time getting me emotionally invested in the characters. There were several important personal subplots for characters that did not get resolved.
Quite a few shows have had much weirder Gainax endings. The first one that people mention is Neon Genesis Evangelion. But perhaps the most representative example was Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
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[–] zaitcev 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ironically enough, GAINAX themselves buried the ghost of GAINAX ending with Gurren-Lagann, which had a great ending. Took them many years of unsuccessful attempts.
[–] Wahaha 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Honneamise no Tsubasa is a shit anime.
Gainax died in 2004. The company is still kind of around, but what made them recognizable left the company in 2004/05 and the other talents soon got out of there, too. They are now completely dead. Last time I heard they were growing tomatoes.
Have I said that Honneamise no Tsubasa is a shit anime already? Because it is.
Panty and Stocking doesn't have a Gainax ending, it parodies one. The only reason the term Gainax ending gets thrown around was because how Evangelion's ending didn't explain shit and then they made a movie to explain things, but that one made even less sense.
[–] cjtendon 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
OK.
Good opinion.