That was awesome on so many levels! This might actually have been my favourite episode of Armed Librarians yet, even though it’s vastly different from its usual formula, and mostly just an episodic story. But the ingredients! There was hardly anything in this episode that I didn’t love to bits.
The two new characters… you can count on this series to actually turn them immediately into something awesome, in the very first second of their introduction. What kind of nutcase visits an exotic and warm country… in A WINTER COAT?1Especially that woman was beyond hilarious. Her antics, especially when she was drunk were just full of creativity. This show just succeeds at just about everything it attempts, doesn’t it?
Also, I love Minth after this episode. Out of the Armed Librarians, he’s probably the most down to earth character: he’s manly and mature, unlike the inexperienced Mirepoc and Noloty, he’s not over the top like the other ones. And yet despite his manliness he has such an elegant power, one of looking into the souls of people. This episode that dealt with his background, and shows how he came to be the character he is now really established him as one of my favourite side-characters. In most other shows characters like him hardly ever get this much attention (he actually becomes the main character for an episode), but here you can count on every one of them to get his or her share of attention.
I also wonder how this episode was done in the light novels. There was a ton of visual comedy in it that I can hardly imagine to have been written down in text. The witty direction really was one of the things that made this episode work so well.
Oh, and about that main plot: what’s up with that tree? Why does it eat books? Why do the Armed Librarians take care of it? What an interesting twist we have here.
Seriously though, if the rest of the episodes of this series are going to be as good or better as this one, and it’s also going to close off with a good finale, then it’s going to be already one of the top contenders for my favourite shows of 2010, and I can’t even see Durarara topping it at this point in time. In such a dry season as this one, it’s great to have at least one series that pushes all of the right buttons for me.
Rating: *** (Awesome)
Did anyone understand what they were saying about Minth at the end of the episode? It sounded like they sent him somewhere or something. Hamy says something like he has the right traits to be the “governor or paradise.”
Isn’t the invisible guy from the church called the Governor of Paradise? Also I thought the tree was the god Bantorra himself. Armed Librarians being the protectors of the library, they choose which books the god might find interesting and offer it up to him.
Wow,that was a good episode,wonder what’s gonna happen next.I think the tree eats “good books” or interesting books cause Mattalast was describing the books before the tree “eats” them.Maybe the tree is the governor of paradise and Minth will be fed to it when he became a book?Idk I’m just putting my theories up ^^
I might watch this someday, but for now I havent watched any anime except for gintama in 6 months. One day…
-sees previews for the next epi- Gyah now I really can’t wait. XD
Anyway I enjoyed this episode as well. It was great to get some background info on him.
nice and it also my favorite episode of the show so far , why all guy in this anime so awesome.
Getting more and more interesting. And a bit creepy. The Armed Librarians and Church appear to be more similar than I thought. Maybe its the case of same goals, different means.
And it appears Volken returns in the next episode.
Well, personally I think there were so many episodes better than this one ( take for instance, the episode where Hamyuts Meseta’s past was unraveled or the Mokkania arc when he rebelled against the Library, those were without a doubt the best ones for me)! I didn’t enjoy it as much as the previous ones, actually I was a bit disappointed, but well, I guess it just laid the ground for the major act.