The Series (4/5)

    Human Crossing was a slice of life anime series that aired originally in 2003, and got a DVD release through Geneon soon after.  The series is based on the manga by Masao Yajima and Kenshi Hirokane. Unlike many slice of life animes, these don't follow a specific character throughout their day.

 Human Crossing  attempts to show the interconnectedness of life in Tokyo, and how everyone poor to rich, and all classes and people in between are all part of life here. It's an interesting premise, that is mostly successful due to the quality of the stories they tell here. That being said the stories can be hit/miss, and some stories I found myself getting into quite deeply, while others I just watched due to committing myself to the series.

    The animation here is solid, and colorful which is a bit out of step with slice of life animes, but it fits the tone of the series quite well. The writing throughout is very well done, and each of the stories told seems to have a certain amount of care to flesh out their characters and lives. Human Crossing overall is a solid and entertaining series that attempts to do something a little different and mostly succeeds.

Audio/Video (4/5)

    Sentai Filmworks has begun issuing titles on SD Blu-ray.   This is one of the first of those, and honestly it looks quite solid. Blu-ray offers more space than DVD per disc, and as such the Bitrate here is probably higher than the DVD could get, and with all episodes on 13 discs, I did not note any compression issues. Overall image is solid, nicely detailed, and colors are well reproduced.

    There are DTS-HD MA 2.0 tracks in Japanese and English which is the most "HD" part of the release. Both tracks are solid and all audio comes through clear and clean.

Extras (0/5)

    Nothing.

Overall

    Human Crossing is an interesting experiment in slice of life anime. The SD Blu-ray has a solid transfer and good audio. No extras though, RECOMMENDED.