2008-12-29, 06:20 PM
Salguod Wrote: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.
No idea, really. I was hoping they'd explain some more about the first episode cast (mainly his flash back and Yomi's relation to them), but they didn't at all. Maybe I missed something somewhere...? I think the first episode was just to build the destruction, tension and capture viewers' attention. It seems like a waste of cool story and characters to me, though.
And yeah, the manga is pretty boring to me. I can't stick to it.