This show looks like it's trying to be something cohesive and completely abandons that halfway through. The visual direction is striking enough to carry you through episodes that don't know where they're going. You meet Felia in that underground lake and the show crystallizes around her for just long enough to make you believe in the mystery. Then the plot unravels into pure chaos, but by then you've already fallen for the world of Gift and the weird alchemy between Sōgo's earnest crystal collecting and whatever apocalyptic machinery the story keeps introducing. The mecha designs work because they feel like they belong in this world, not imposed on it. If you can surrender to watching something visually gorgeous fall apart in real time, there's something genuinely memorable in that collision.

Sōgo Amagi is a crystal collector living in Garden Indigo, a prosperous mining town on the planet Gift, where precious crystals called Giftjium lie buried in the ground. When a quarrel among his classmates Kaon, Roman and Otto draws him in, he loses his way and ends up at a lake hidden deep beneath the old mine ruins. There he meets Felia, a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. The two grow close, but a secret organization is chasing Felia to exploit her powers, and Sōgo and his friends set out to protect her while uncovering who she really is. The series blends fantasy adventure with action and mecha battles.