A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichi's dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing -- or the strangely perfect condition of that pilot's former aircraft -- Yuichi's curiosity becomes heightened.
 
"The aerial showdowns are often ravishing in their vertigo abstractions, but Mamoru Oshii's new anime is far more concerned with the existential dogfights within the characters' psyches."  Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine
"...[the] quality is excellent, with some really photo-realistic moments, and aerial dogfights that look as real as if they really built those planes and shot them in mid air."  Stefan S., A Nutshell Review
 


Editor's Note

From the director of the iconic sci-fi anime THE GHOST IN THE SHELL comes this stunning vision of a world in which eternally youthful fighter pilots lose their innocence after being foisted into a war they?re too young to even fully grasp. Innocence is lost in the most dizzying manner imaginable when one such fighter pilot, a teenage boy named Yuichi whose childhood memories consist only of visions of combat, begins to question the fate of the soldier he?s replacing.