Short Synopsis: The car breaks down, while Nadie and Ellis stop by a quiet restaurant.
Good: Every character seems to have different intentions and goals.
Bad: The daughter chose an awfully convenient time to return to her mother.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
And the second week of the spring-season has started, which means that I’m going to have to decide which shows to blog, and which ones to just watch or drop. It’s quite interesting now that I started to watch this entire season raw, as opposite to the previous fall-season (in which I watched about 50% of the shows subbed), as I’m now noticing that I can make an actual viewing schedule. Sunday will remain the day to blog Les Miserables, while Tuesday will feature El Cazador. Saturday is going to be very difficult, as it’s got no less than four shows worth blogging. ^^;
Anyway, the second instalment of El Cazador pleasantly surprised me. It starts out as a mere filler, but throughout the episode, so much new information is given. First of all, Ellis seems to have killed someone she referred to as “the professor”. Nadie, meanwhile, has a dark past of her own, as we see in a flashback. Not only that, she seems to be working for the secretary (Ms Heiward, code-named Blue-Eyes) of the rather evil guy we saw in the previous episode (called Rozenberg, apparently). Blue-Eyes, meanwhile, seems to have different ideas than this evil guy, so I’m not sure whether Nadie also works for him. Meanwhile, we’ve got ourselves a guy who keeps following Ellis undercover. He seems to be in love with her, though I think this is turning into an obsession. What was also up with that strange orgasm the two of them had? And let’s not forget the shady man and his daughter (Lilio). I still don’t quite get what they’re after, but the man definitely has something against Ellis.
It seems that this will be another one of these anime to feature random cases the protagonists run into. Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen anime with this concept for a long while, especially now Jigoku Shoujo finished. It’s quite strange, as I tend to love these kinds of random stories. This one is about a former bounty-hunter, who stopped her business and opened a restaurant after she killed a person. Her daughter, however, hasn’t wanted to see her for over ten years because of this. At the beginning of the episode, I wondered why Ellis was treated so nicely by this woman, but it seems that she bears close resemblances to her daughter. It’s only natural for a mother, I guess. A biker who frequently visits her shop told Nadie about all this. Quite interesting, if I say so myself, though I dislike how the daughter chose out of all moments this one to come back to her mother. Still, I’ll forgive it, as the results were quite interesting.
Oh, and I’m glad to see that the music still rocks as always. :)]]>
El Cazador de la Bruja – 02
Am I the only one to think that we have Noir 3? This show really disapoints me.
Wasn’t that obvious right when this anime got announced? Still, having seen Noir, I admit that there are similarities, but there also lots of differences.
A director’s interview right around when Madlax was announced stated that this was going to be a trilogy.
it’s like if you take noir and make it sucky, you get madlax. if you take madlax and make it sucky, you get el cazador. haha. not that that makes this automatically a sucky show since noir was just that good, but so far it hasn’t really impressed and seems kind of lazy and tries to stay too lighthearted
Well, in the first episode right in the beginning – it shows Ellis and the “dead” professor. She also mentions it like “I killed someone, I’m a murderer” so that’s definitely not new information.
Well, it definitely is more light-hearted than Noir, yeah. But I like it so far.
Jojo: oh, my bad. I knew she killed someone, I just didn’t know it was a professor, due to my little knowledge of Japanese. ^^;
Good to see that Ellis is not as dull as I had thought of her at first. She’s perfectly normal when nothing special is going on, even somewhat funny. So … that’s an improvement. Anyways, the scene where she and that sicko dude are orgasming to the fire .. was .. weird.