I've discovered an amazing show! I've tried a few new shows lately, but haven't been really happy with any of them except Ghost Hunt. I really wanted to like Mononoke, since I really think the Medicine Seller is the coolest character design of any anime ever. But the crazy style of the show and the choppy, confusing plot is just too weird for me. I think it's one of those things that you either need to be an overly-artistic person or on drugs to understand. I really had no idea what was going on the whole time. So I picked another show that I thought looked interesting.

Remember watching Heroes? Remember how confusing but incredibly interesting it was to watch a series of events involving unrelated people and watch them slowly relate and come together. That was neat. Now remember Lost? Remember how they flashback to everyone's pasts and the audience gets to see how all these unrelated people all end up in the same place, oftentimes by interacting with one another without knowing it? Okay, so keep those things in mind as I try to explain the awesomeness of this show.

The settings are multiple and the cast is pretty large. In 1711, a group of alchemists aboard the ship Advena Avis summon a demon, who provides them with the Elixir of Life (which grants immortality to anyone who drinks it), but only the summoner will have the knowledge to make more.

It's the 1930's in America. Several mafia families are looking for a juvenile delinquent called Dallas Genoard. Dallas' sister Eve goes to Daily Days, an information selling group, to get information on her brother, only to end up getting involved with the mafia families trying to find her brother.

A young man named Firo has just become a member of a camorra. His mentor is Maiza, who was the immortal to summon the demon two hundred years prior. Firo is old friends with Luck Gandor of the Gandor family mafia. Luck and Firo weren't of the original alchemists, but somehow became immortal in 1930.

A crybaby gang leader named Jacuzzi Splots is hunted down by rival gangsters, who are pissed that he appears to be such a coward. Jacuzzi warns them to leave before things get ugly, they laugh, and then they're made to bleed.

A young boy is shot in the head, and remarks to himself shortly after how useless certain people are.

Two idiot thieves in California receive a letter from a friend, and decide to visit her in New York. They decide pull a train robbery to buy their friend a souvenir. These two thieves, Isaac and Miria often employ idiotic disguises in their crimes.

Bits and pieces of how characters met are strewn together in between the action of when they all come together on a great train, the Flying Pussyfoot. Two groups have come aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, and they're about to collide. A black-suited group called the Lemures plan to take hostages in order to have a certain person released from prison. This directly conflicts with the plans of Ladd Russo, a hitman for the Russo family. He and his white-suited gang board the train are looking to kill, and don't like it when people interfere with their fun. Meanwhile, people on the Flying Pussyfoot begin disappearing, apparently the act of train-devouring monster called Rail Tracer.

It's crazy and spastic without being trivial and stupid. And there's a lot more blood than I would have expected. I wasn't sure at first if I was going to like it because of how scattered things are. It's kind of hard to follow since it constantly switches from one story to another, but it does so in a way that keeps you begging for more. It also makes the show go by very fast. Action, adventure, humor, and lots and lots of guns. It's a brilliant 13- episode show that I recommend everyone to watch <3