I’ve sat here for more than ten minutes now, thinking of something sensible to say about this episode. It was completely amazing, and yet in completely different ways that I expected. And it’s one thing for the twists to be stunning here, but this episode really ended up shining because of the results of these twists. Talk about atmosphere here!
Of course it’s a bit strange that Hazel and Garrard sent this young girl to poison Connor because it wouldn’t cause suspicion, only to blow up the entire abbey, but apart from that I really loved this episode. Tings really started with that new piece of soundtrack with just a piano playing, and I’m still amazed at how well the creators did justice to the story of that cookie baking girl. The main event of this episode, the Gaichuu eating the hearts of all of the nuns, went off really well because of that.
And then Gauche suddenly popped up! And he actually got shot by Lag. I really hate the creators for pulling the cliff-hanger card in order to make us wait on what it exactly did to him for next week. In fact, this episode pulled a lot of cliff-hanger cards here: what will remain of the giant Gaichuu? When will Nichi come back? What will become of the nuns who lost their heart?
Rating: *** (Awesome)
“I’ve sat here for more than ten minutes now, thinking of something sensible to say about this episode. ” Ditto xD I still don’t really know what to say about it..besides that it was brilliant.
yeah I’ve got nothing more to add. A damn fine episode of Letter Bee. Makes me want to read the manga.
Don’t Taka, you’ll spoil yourself. The manga is as awesome as the anime. A real faithful adaptation, if you ask me.
It’s not really *that* faithful. They keep changing stuff around. But I really approve most of the changes, they mostly fix continuity problems. Although I disagree with some of the reordering of events they do.
For example, in the manga Sunny didn’t deliver the cookies in person. She just left both the cookies and letter near Connor while he was sleeping. Anime handled it better and it made more sense (in the manga Connor could have just read the letter before eating the cookies).
MANGA (and possible anime?) SPOILER:
Also, the inspectors (Hazel and Garrard) weren’t yet introduced in the manga at this point. So those scene showing them blowing the abbey stuff were anime original… Also I don’t think the manga has showed them working for reverse (I’ll have to go double check), which is interesting…
Hazel and Garrad bring actually most of the differences between anime and manga as they alter the continuity.
Lesser differences such as about Sunny and the biscuits really aren’t that important.
Spoiler
Hazel and Garrad were introduced later and they seemed to work for the government, acting as officer ordering around the bees.
/spoiler