 The 2007 anime adaptation received mostly positive reviews from critics.Theron Martin of the Anime News Network gave the series several positive reviews concluding, ""Toward the Terra" is not a top-rate series, but it tells a good enough and engrossing enough, and acceptable enough, story to be worth a look.It never much more than toys with the serious underlying issues it touches upon, and has definite flaws elsewhere, but through this span of episodes it is still less shallow than most typical series."