This episode was evil. The more I think about it, the more I want to curse the creators. To end with such a cliff-hanger, how are we supposed to wait another week for that?!
Seriously, the majority of this episode was so incredibly sweet. It was very sappy, but with this series it only makes sense for Lag to be overjoyed that he can finally spend time with Gauche, and actually carry out a number of deliveries with him. It’s finally time for Gauche to pick his life back up where he left of and the reunion to Aria and Sylvette was really sweet and emotional.
And then Thunderland came with the announcement that he just realized that Gauche might have been putting up an entire act. It was built up really well and worked as an excellent plot twist. What exactly went on in his mind though is a complete mystery. We know that he regained his memories of both his time as Gauche and as Noir: if he still was the old Noir he wouldn’t have gotten along with Lag this much; he could easily have smacked him in the head and ran off. At the same time though, the bugger found his duties as Noir more important than his family. I’m really dying to see his thought-process there.
On a completely unrelated side-note: it seems that Bleach is actually going to end (there is no way that that band would screw something like that up if it wasn’t true). Great news, because that means that Studio Pierrot finally have more resources available to make interesting stuff again. Having them adapt both Naruto and Bleach at the same time really hurt their output of interesting series. Perhaps Level E is the first sign of this. Or perhaps Beelzebub is going to take its place. To be honest, I hope that that last thing isn’t going to be true.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Actually, Bleach is not going to end and that band did screw up when they made that statement because “recording director assistant of Bleach Anime, Yosuke Morita, had mentioned on his Twitter account that the broadcast schedule for Bleach has been planned quite far into the future, thus Bleach wouldn’t end anytime soon”. Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-10/band-posts-about-bleach-last-season-deletes-mention look at the update. Anyways, I like your reviews and keep the good work!
Ok no more spoilers from the manga, but know that they’re runining it all. This very same plot twist was completely different in the manga and made far more sense.
Damn, they adapted faitfully the worthless part of this only to fuck everything at the climax. Holy Shit!
Solaris, Id like to be spoiled about this show, do you know where I can find the spoilers at?
Carbuncle, just read the manga here: http://jacgroup.zetsuboushita.net/
Anime reached manga by the last episode. Now they’re at the same point in the story.
PSgels, if linking this is a nono, well, you know what to do. ^^ Excuses.
manga is a little bit ahead actually (only a handful of chapters though), it’s just that no more chapters are translated.