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I just saw the first episode. My impressions:

Spoiler:

The episode began with the opening which I must say was great. I love Ishikawa Chiaki (she can do no wrong really). The song was haunting and the opening sequence turned out to be the same sequence in the PV.

As for the episode, it went along slowly, but had a lot of detail in it. For example, the beach scene with the kids was drawn out a bit longer, but gave a somewhat good idea of what the characters' personalities are like. The battle between Zearth and the enemy at the end of the episode was actually done pretty well in that the mecha, although CG, weren't ugly at all. The CG was quite good actually, same for the animation which was pretty fluid.

The ending was a pretty slow song which featured visuals of the children sitting in their chairs, with an ending shot of the circle of chairs, now empty (other manga readers will understand this significance )

Overall, a very good episode as a build up of what's to come. I'm definitely continuing this series (not that there was any doubt about it as a fellow fan of Bokurano and Narutaru )