Sound of the Sky

Although it’s set in a post-apocalyptic future where the world is teetering on the brink of destruction, this series from director Mamoru Kanbe is not all doom and gloom. In fact, it’s the story of a young recruit name Kanata Sorami who joins the army not to battle bad guys or fight for her country, but to learn how to play the bugle. Assigned to the all-girl 1121st Platoon of the Helvetian Army, Kanata and her crew have a series of mini-adventures, but the fact that the single tank in their tank corps doesn’t even work lets you know that the series is family friendly and a lot of fun. The addition of a plotline involving the past of one of the members in the last few episodes of the series comes along just in time to add some intrigue to the girly adventures add some depth to the story.