Strange use of budget this episode: a lot of still shots, far-away shots, distorted faces, and yet absolutely stunning backgrounds, and a really great fight between Guin and that strange kid, who turns out to be some sort of strange monster. With this however, I’m certain of my Top 3 of the past spring season: Phantom, Shangri-La and the Guin Saga comes in third. Sure, there are still a bunch of shows that aren’t finished yet, but technically the same also goes for this series.
The strange thing is that this episode pretty much wraps up the current arc… and there’s still one episode left. Heck, it has already started to introduce the upcoming arc in which Scar heads off to Nosferas, Amnelis gains the favour of the kingdom that captured her and Istvan returns back to Guin, Remus and Linda. The next episode should probably continue these introductions.
And with that, Guin Saga joins the long list of series that still need another adaptation. I think the most annoying thing is that at this point, there is no way to know whether it’ll actually get one. With the announcements of new seasons of series as Inu Yasha and Harukanaru no Toki no Naka de suddenly appearing from out of nowhere, it could even take years for the next season to be announced.
Rating: * (Good)]]>
Guin Saga – 25
I hope Guin Saga wont suffer the same fate as the other great series, 12 Kingdoms whereas a second season never comes to materialize.
Twelve Kingdoms at least had a great way to wrap up the main character’s story arc though, so the lack of full closure for one of the additional storylines isn’t really too much of a big deal for me.
How much of the published works has this series covered?
12 Kingdoms doesn’t have a sequel because the author didn’t continue the novel series and the producers didn’t want to go ahead with the project without knowing in what direction it was intended to go (I’m sad that they just had to stop before the Taiki retrieval arc).
Guin Saga, on the other hand… it had received A TON of offers for an anime adaptation before this one that the author had all rejected (apparently, she believed only Hollywood could do it justice). This was the one offer she finally accepted. Sure, she’s dead now, but Guin Saga is such a famous series in Japan, I don’t think they won’t make another sequel to it. Or four.
Praise be to Yandalzok-sama!
Why would anyone believe anything coming out of evil boy’s mouth I don’t know.