This series has a quite obvious young target-audience, although some of the themes and subject matter is above their heads, but in doing so it does try to demonstrate both visually and in terms of its drama, how solutions to long-term needs as well as on-the-spot needs can be at-times worked out with expertise in science,..

... it would be difficult to watch this series and not-notice that last point, considering how frequently the word is used by characters,..

... which suggests it is introduction-purposed, while not needing to explain fully every part of the plot or on-screen action or characters' reasons,..

... however ;

Although the brats-while-in-school does mellow out by the time everyone's surviving in the country, the constant striving to be the best gender and role stereotypes persist throughout the whole movie, not that i'm saying there is no gender-crossover, i mean moreso with roles, characters are VERY disposable, and yet despite all the fighting, there is very little visible-reality of violence, no blood, etc, which is needed for DISincentivisation towards violence, (amongst other things) , and apart from natural causes and disease, and the aliens, almost? No-one dies full-stop, so if it was made with an attempted reduction in deaths/death, there is a constantly annoying delayed-conclusions to life&death situations, where tedious things like a 3/4 minute long step-by-step explanation about how some part of a single moment in a action scene, works scientifically, is supposed to be being spoken-aloud, while everyone stands around waiting-for-the-how in what-is-going-on, which gets VERY annoying when wanting to just follow the scene, especially if doing several things at once, and not being able to split ones attention for that long and keep in mind what was happening before, during, and after a confrontation scene, if you drift-out from boredom half way through, and are then disinterested in the resolution to the scene afterwards unless you can remember what was going on.

Or similarly, scenes drawn-out with over-acting / exaggerated/absurd emotion, also becomes tiresome when what might be expected from some pressured school child in Tokyo thinking they need to maximise their efforts and whatnot, is coming out of the mouths of the in-plot-setting several thousand years old neo-apololyptic survivors' descendants who have regressed back to stone-age/iron-age tech and cultural development.

Similarly, the writing fails in many areas, such as why things like vaults, gold in electronics, cities, etc, do not still at least partially exist and have not been sought out and LEARNT-from, especially considering that while the main characters have de-petrified several thousand years later, the direct survivors from the astronauts, could've gone to the cities immediately, or at-least after finding emergency bio-hazard gear or something to protect themselves from disease while they scavenge, and continue to go back and forth to amass especially knowledge to supplement and add-to what they've retained.

The writing is full of plot-conveniences in other words, so if that is unwatchable to you, ruins-it for you, then do not watch this with your child, while they might get excited and learn a new word ... "science!" ... you will find it dismiss-able and of limited relevance.

For example, a ridiculously in-depth and without a single word 'misplaced' message, survives intact 'as-a-story' , which considering the grammar in it, is clearly of no kind of story whatsoever for it to've been kept passed down from mother to daughter dozens of times ... despite no-one having even a dictionary, to check up on what words one remembers. Not a single word off? Not a single edited-along-the-way sticks-out-like-a-sore-thumb editing, by one of the mums?

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Give me a break!! You want to teach your child something that counteracts such laughable non-reality?

Then teach them about how the victors change history (some if not most-of the time) , how things like Empire and Dogma have irrevocably destroyed culture, language, and even identity , and how the retainers of it, STILL DO LITTLE, to try to undo all the damage they've done such as the Romanovs, and how inflated their minds and descendants of their boot-licking toadies still-are.

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Regular production values wise ... there has been a fair amount of effort put into the visuals and individual character creation, although the side-switching character in the pink/purple cloak? Was too much.

Sound and lighting, etc was OK, except for the music, i have to also say - at times the music was poorly chosen, either in terms of the right crescendo or swelling , either off in terms of timing, the wrong choice in terms of scenes-ending and the mood not matching the scene, or at other times, wayyy to sentimentally strings-based, when if it was to be EXCITING kids in terms of getting them interested in science, there could've been more drumming, if not also heart-rate accellerating types where tension was rising in-scene. Instead, nothing but tediously repetitive and in literally ALL characters calm-before-the-storm or calm-when-dealing-out-death scary BS was in every scene i can remember, which might be fine for fencing and swordplay, but hmmmm... what was i watching ... the Olympics just ended ? Mmmm no ... i was supposed to be watching desperately deciding-mankind's-future characters that should've been full of anxiety, worry and concern, such as there is too much of, in say, Demon Slayer, where the suitability of the emotion is fine , there's just too much of it and it goes on for too long sometimes... this is WORSE - at times the length is longer,.. and the emotions are too bland / seen-it-before , especially if big-reveal!! Music, is supposed to be significant for some reason that you weren't paying attention to.

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Unless you're specifically wanting to try it to get your kid into science, forget it. And even if you do, don't forget that it's stretching things too much, like with the mothers-to-daughters perfect-memory-and-no-intent-to-change-the-story-given-the-opportunity BS.

Also, this series had a suspicious number of possible consumerist-industry-primers in it ... the guy in the pink/purple coat thing ... is swayed with a bottle of coke ... or the practically already-offensive ... 'Ramen noodles should not be thought of as a failure of a parent to've provided their child' patronizing BS , made a appearance, compared to say ... the tribe has a welfare system or something similar to it, and the tribe has to take-away from a bad-parent, their children, who then get a better life - no mention of that, but 2 'helpings' of appreciate what your parent has afforded you, or you've afforded yourself, but never-steal, and just look on in AWE, about how-committed corporates above you must be, to earn what they do.

How about they visit the mainland, and there's roving bands of neo CCP marauders, who although having baffling politics to the islanders, DO have opinions to-share about auto-personal-wealth-portfolio maintenance, and income-insurance, and grill the islanders about it, get a bunch of blank stares in response, then double check them to make sure none look like a pumpkin-headed monster , and then tell them that they're free to go.

THAT might've given you kid some idea about POLITICAL SCIENCE ... oops!

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Oh wait, no,.. I forgot ... in Anime-Disney land, that's not a 'real science',..

in Anime-Disney land ... 'real science' just gets you stuff so you can throw the rubbish in the ocean and pretend as though it's someone else's problem.