Short Synopsis: Teito ends up at a strange church.
Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good)
I may be a bit late in noticing this, but this season features a lot of shows with excellent soundtracks, doesn’t it? We have Pandora Hearts, Phantom, Shin Mazinger, Full Metal Alchemist, Cross Game, Shangri-La, Guin Saga, 07-Ghost, Eden of the East, and I probably missed a few, all of them with some rocking background tracks.
In any case, I’ve decided to blog this show because it looks surprisingly solid despite the at first sight rather childish character-designs and voice actors (but then again, this is just typical of Studio Deen). I’m not that worried about the shounen-ai undertones getting in the way, simply becaues I HAVE SEEN SHINING TEARS X WIND. There is NO way that this show is going to be even as remotely disturbing as one particular scene from that show. Besides, so what if some of the characters are possibly gay? This episode showed that this series avoids the big pitfall of nearly every single shounen-ai series: the complete absence of straight people, and that’s enough for me. This show has shown so far that there are enough straight people.
In any case, this episode mostly was building up, and introduced the rest of the main cast apart from Teito and Ayanami, and we learn why this show is called “07-Ghost”: Teito gets saved by some priests from a nearby church who happen to run into him, and this church turns out to be a famous sacred place in which people come to get healed. It seems to have been founded by seven ghosts, hence the name 07-Ghost. Makes sense.
I’m interested to see what the creators can do with this series, and I like the mystery in it so far. There are some hints that Ayanami didn’t simply kill Teito’s father because he’s evil, and I’m curious to find out the reason behind it. At the same time, if the creators plan to go for 25 episodes, I wonder what they plan to fill the rest of the time with.
The staff behind this series isn’t the most solid, but it’ll suffice. Natsuko Takahashi is doing the series composition, and the great thing about her is that she’s got a huge amount of experience in this field. Since the source material is already looking excellent, she can use this experience in order to keep the series on track. The director meanwhile has worked on mostly uninteresting shoujo series like Hatenkou Yuugi, but he did direct Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club, so there is potential in this guy, especially if he can stick to the manga like he’s supposed to.
I’m not watching this show yet, although that may or may not change in the future…but from what little I’ve heard of the soundtrack it didn’t really impress me, though Nakagawa is in fact a very good composer (who’s apparently also working on Cross Game this season).
As for everything else, I’m going to wait and see.
Well, well, well season took horrible start, but now it is becoming quite enjoyable. Good to see you’ll be bloging this nice thing. And btw, YOU HAVE SEEN SHINING TEARS X WIND?! I couldn’t stand it long enough. What’s the scene you’re talking about?:)
Nomus: I’m still not sure what made me keep watching that show. The scene I was referring to takes place in episode twelve, in which…
[spoiler]
the two lead male characters profess their love for each other… Really, with no hint prior whatsoever to that. I still count that as one of the worst episodes I have ever seen.
Thanks for answer, I couldn’t imagine it would go that way… I have nothing against shounen-ai, but sometimes it would be more fitting to remain shounen-yuujou.
Whats wrong with Shounen-ai you do know that erm Pandora Hearts is also shounen-ai XD
About the show’s soundtrack… I know I’ve said this before but is Naoki Maeda handling the soundtrack of the show?
Umm…I like 07 ghost manga but I have to say it got kind of turn into generic shounen manga in later volumes which makes me feel a bit bored with it but still reading coz wanting to know the conclusion of the mystery. Compared to Pandora hearts , I think that one is better in keeping the reader alert by dropping hints here and there and yeah the horror but 07 ghost has nothing of it. Anyway, I think the production of the show is good enough, still enjoy watching even if knowing the story already and all. There are many famous seiyuus in here too. Well, Hatenkou yuugi is not so bad when it goes to some episodes in the latter half of the show so I will keep watching this and your blog too.
AKI: ANN says the composer is Kotaro Nakagawa and has a couple of news articles on 07-Ghost which re-state it.