People hate on "Final Fantasy: Unlimited", and I'll admit that it's bizarre and hard to get into. I watched it through to the end, though (not that it really had much of an ending, since it lost funding), and found that it really had some depth to it. I also thought that their take on the "Summoner" class was wholely unique - sort of a Gunner/Summoner/Alchemist hybrid, that combines different elemental bullets to summon different summoned monsters.

After it was over, I looked up information on the series, and found that it was actually intended to last another two seasons, during which a lot of the more inexplicable things in the anime would have been more-or-less explained. Made me kind of sad they weren't able to see it through to the end.

All that (over?)generous support aside, given SE's track record with animated adeptations of the Final Fantasy franchise, I'd be just as happy if they don't bother to try again.

- Final Fantasy V: Barely connected with the original game at all, and introduced buglike alien invaders for no apparenent reason. At four episodes, was too short to tell anything resembling a deep story.

- Final Fantasy Unlimited: WAY too ambitious an undertaking, with a ridiculously convoluted storyline that only doled out tiny, rare tidbits of what was going on. In the end, no one could really follow along, and there weren't enough Final Fantasy references to keep the hardcore FF fans interested (pretty much just Chocobos and summoned monsters).

- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: Barely had anything resembling Final Fantasy in it at all for the FF fans. For non-fans, it was kind of a boring Sci-fi flop that doled out cliche after cliche. Real pretty, though.

- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Probably the closest thing SE has to a successful animated adaptation, it only thrived because it was a check-yer-brain-at-the-door action fest solely targeting FFVII fans that gave them what they'd been asking for for years: closure. Of sorts. Or at least reassurance that someone survived Holy besides Red XIII. Unfortunately, it catered way too thoroughly to the fans, bringing back popular characters who were implied to be dead (Rufus and Tseng???) and turning the Turks (who'd done some pretty monstrous things) into lovable comic relief villains. Honestly, the script read a lot like a bad fanfic. It, too, was real pretty, though.

So, yeah - enough animes, SE. Stick to what you're good at!