I loved how they took the one-thousand-year wait so lightly. What's the lifespan of these people? I guess that's just their saying of "who knows, wait 1000 years."

The whole Yango's whole character and setting reminded me so much of Yang Guo (楊過) every time I saw him interact with Nakiami. With that final scene of him lovesick and waiting for her return, I'm certain they based his whole character design was based on him.

Bones/Aniplex/Sony have kept the animation top notch from start to finish, and I think that in itself deserves credit. As for the plot, they didn't go the way of explaining/exploring every detail before the finale. I found that had both good and bad points.

Good points was that the overall story just flowed. There wasn't any real slowing down for character development's sake (except Akiyuki, but we're looking over his shoulder half the time, so that's part of his story).

Bad point is that some may find it hard to feel "complete" knowing there are things that aren't explained, or not finished up.

In other words, loose ends.

I found that both that and the erratic releases hurt Xam'd a bit. You never really knew where this show was heading, which also killed inter-episodic tension.

I like it though. Funny that despite loading the show with content, I'd still call this a "light" anime.