Man..just finished downloading this today, started watching, didn't stop..and now I've got nothing to do over summer without my internet..I have to say, this is probably the only tear-jerker anime I've actually cried to. I'm a guy, and I have to say, this and Elfen Lied are my all-time favourites. I don't care about action that much anymore, cause I could just go hit myself with a stick or something dumb like that for an adrenaline rush, can't experience something that brings a tear through emotion rather than pain, all that easily. There was a lot of foreshadowing as to what was going on, but I was skipping the 'dream' scenes at the beginning because I thought they were all the same stuff, like the opening. Definately worth a few more days of my life to re-watch, not saying much there with the way things are going right now though.