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The animation is squeaky clean. The colors are bright and vivid; even dull hues appear to glow. The animation is always flooded with colors--but never to the point that it becomes too busy or painful to watch. In some sequences they even use real photos of historical events like World War II. In other cases they use computer generated rooms and perfectly animate the characters within them, leaving a pleasant, uniform look to the animation.
Naturally, no matter how soothing such a world may be, it would be dead boring if pink were its only color and frothy fun its only tone. And so threads of other darker, more compelling colors are woven throughout. Ryuki initially has a guileless charm that belies his authority and reputation, but he has unknown depths that give him a sharp edge and make one wonder just how much of that guilelessness is genuine. Shurei may be a gentle romantic naïf, but she's a sharp customer otherwise, driven by a genuine passion springing from a vulnerability that offsets her vitality. And for how well everyone in the government seems to get along (Government officials who like and respect each other? No way.) not all is flower petals and sweet buns in the imperial palace, as at least one continuing and potentially deadly plot is afoot in the king's residence.
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