Admittedly, it’s not too accurate to call this first impressions, since I caught ten episodes of this in one day.

Well… obviously since I watched so many episodes in a day, I found it good…

Excessive amount of time has passed since the human beings were driven from the Earth. Looking for a place to live peacefully, they finally found the Land of the Covenant. It was a desolate planet where the surface of the planet was covered by the substance similar to the coral, and there was an unknown ion called “Traver” in the air. They exploited the earth, and in order to use “Traver” effectively, they built huge towers. Under the towers, countries were built, and unifying these counties, the United States of the Towers was founded.

Several hundreds years have passed since then. Renton is a boy who lives with his grand father in a Tower Country, “Belforest”. He has a complaint about his life. He was the son of the Hero, “Adrock”, who saved the world from the disaster, “Summer of Love”, at the cost of his life. It became the burden on him. Furthermore, because his grand father is a mechanic, he has no choice but to take over his business.

Only his mental food is “Liff” which is a sport gliding in the air using “Traver”. He yearns for Holland who is a charismatic Liff Rider, and he wants to travel around gliding Liff like him believing that a big wave will come to him some day.

~Taken from AnimeNFO

Haven’t caught a “mecha” anime in ages, and I thought it was a refreshing change. It helped that the anime itself is good too.

It was a little confusing at the start though, as I couldn’t really understand how the technology worked. But so far… it seems that you have these mechas that can transform into cars while on the ground. But more importantly, they can “fly” using “Traver” found in the air. It’s something like wake boarding, and you’re required to wait for “traver” ie waves, before you can soar, and the tricks you do are fairly similar.

The character development has been wonderful thus far, and the animation looks good. It’s similar to the type found in “Last exile”. But you really do end up liking the various characters though, there are a bunch of them, and you can always pick the one that you identify with. There’s also a very good mix of action and humor.
So basically for the anime so far, the main character Renton, has joined his idol Holland, in what seems to be a bunch of cool renegades. (ok. not quite the right word.. but yeah..) He’s still learning how to handle the mechas, and at the same time, developing his r/s with Eureka.

Good show… *off to watch more*