2008-12-29, 06:10 PM
Kannagi 13: There's a second season? Awesome. Tsusgumi going crazy was incredibly well done and a nice touch as the end. Her speech to Jin earlier seems to be in the style of Takako, so I wonder about that. I really didn't like Nagi's crying scene. That sort of crying was part of what made me drop Clannad Afterstory (although Clannad's was worse).
Ga-Rei Zero 1-12: I picked this up after I finished NHK last week, and it was pretty good. The last two episodes, especially 11, gave me a bunch of "holy pomegranate" moments and that's cool. And wow, so many characters dying. I still have no idea what happened the first episode though. Are they important somewhere? And, what's with the flashbacks of that guy in the Defense's team about the white-haired kid? Yomi had like the same flashback, and I don't know what's that for. I am very surprised that the white-haired kid didn't get killed, but I guess this is just the prequel. I'm also wondering about how Byakuei got transferred to Kagura so easily since her father needed a long ritual to tame it. It may be easier because he was still alive and bound to Byakuei, but she just took the gem and that's it? Anyway, I read the first chapter of the manga but I can't really go to manga after seeing the action in the anime. Apparently Yomi makes a return but there doesn't seem to be the big internal conflict anymore.
Ga-Rei Zero 1-12: I picked this up after I finished NHK last week, and it was pretty good. The last two episodes, especially 11, gave me a bunch of "holy pomegranate" moments and that's cool. And wow, so many characters dying. I still have no idea what happened the first episode though. Are they important somewhere? And, what's with the flashbacks of that guy in the Defense's team about the white-haired kid? Yomi had like the same flashback, and I don't know what's that for. I am very surprised that the white-haired kid didn't get killed, but I guess this is just the prequel. I'm also wondering about how Byakuei got transferred to Kagura so easily since her father needed a long ritual to tame it. It may be easier because he was still alive and bound to Byakuei, but she just took the gem and that's it? Anyway, I read the first chapter of the manga but I can't really go to manga after seeing the action in the anime. Apparently Yomi makes a return but there doesn't seem to be the big internal conflict anymore.