== In praise of *Sora no Woto*

*Sora no Woto* is the most interesting show I'm watching this season.
Despite having a cast that mostly consists of cute girls and telling
fundamentally heart-warming stories, it's going in a more complex,
deep, and serious direction than it initially appeared, and it keeps
surprising me.

(I'm also pleased that one character's incompetence at her job was not
kept as a plot point for very long.)

One of the interesting things for me is the intriguing and carefully
mysterious setting, which *Sora no Woto* has been progressively
revealing more and more about. However, I'm not sure if the show is ever
going to actively explore it and answer our questions, or just keep
using it as background material for the character stories. I wouldn't
be surprised if it was the latter, since so far *Sora no Woto* has been
more character oriented than plot driven.

(I'm not sure that other people will enjoy *Sora no Woto*, though,
because it mixes light-hearted entertainment with a more serious
background, and not everyone considers these to be tastes that go well
together.)

=== Sidebar: an attempt at a summary description

So what's *Sora no Woto* about, beyond the [[bare
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=6783]] [[summary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Ra_No_Wo_To]]? It's about a girl
joining a small group of other girls (of assorted personalities) and
fitting in, character driven stories, and through the stories we
explore the mysteries of the setting around the characters. It has an
intriguing setting with lots of things hinted at and a bunch of well
realized secondary characters to go with the lead ones. The stories are
heart-warming, and things are somewhat stereotypical but not to the
degree that they annoy me. Music plays less of a role than the bare
summaries make it sound.