Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette - 1 Recap & Screencaps.

So, I considered watching Les Mis the anime a couple of times since I saw that they made a new one, but I didn't, but when I checked fansub.tv this morning, I saw that an episode of it was there and decided it was destiny and than read that it originally hadn't been subbed all the way and someone new was doing it now, so ... I got it, hehe.

Episode 1 starts off with Fantine and Cosette, a mother and daughter, traveling down a road and they are both happy and dressed nicely enough. Cosette asks Fantine about her necklace and she tells her that it's her precious necklace and she will give it to Cosette if she will like that, which of course she gets excited about. They continue on their way and she asks her mother where they are going and she tells them somewhere that they will be safe and happy.




When they arrive in the next town Fantine tries to find work, but she is turned down twice because she has her daughter with her. You learn during this time that Fantine used to live in Paris and worked for a tailor but when he died she had nowhere to go, but no one has any sympathy for her. They enter a bakery to buy some bread and even though she tries to buy the cheapest, he gives her a bigger loaf and tells her that they are the same price, so she buys those. She then asks him if she could find work anywhere around here and he tells her no, there isn't much, but then remembers a factory that is hiring. She asks if there is a place for a child there and he tells her that he doubts it and she is disappointed.





Cosette shares her bread with her mother, but her mother is still thinking about going to the factory or not. As they are wandering around the town Cosette finds two little girls playing on the swings and plays with them for a few minutes. They are at the inn and the innkeeper woman asks if she is looking for work and she says yes, but when she says that her husband is dead the woman tells her to go Paris. The innkeeper hears her talking about her suffering and suggests that she leaves her child there with them and they would watch her while she works and he tells her that without a husband it won't do any good for either of them to stay there. The innkeeper's wife is mad at first but he tells her to play along and she insists their inn is a good place but Fantine tells them that she doesn't want to be far away from Cosette. They remind her that might not be best for Fantine and make her feel very bad and then she gives in and asks them if they could watch her. They introduce themselves as the Thenardiers and then they tell her to go find work but not before asking her she pays a little extra for Cosette's upbringing and make her pay them 57 francs and they also tell her to leave Cosette's clothes there, too. The Thenardiers tell her that she is sure Cosette will be happy with Eponine and Azelma.




Before leaving Fantine tells Cosette that she will be going by herself and Cosette will be staying at the inn. Cosette says she will come, too, but Fantine tells her no and she immediately cries and begs her to come and Fantine promises her that she's not abandoning her and she would never be happy without Cosette, she just needs to be alone for a little bit. Fantine tells Cosette she will be lonely and she will come back as soon as she can and Cosette tells her she will be waiting for her. Cosette bravely tries to watch her mother leave but ends up crying for her mother, who forces herself to look at Cosette happily before waving goodbye. Then Eponine and Azelma come to ask her to play, but the innkeeper's wife yells at Cosette and tells her to get over it and Thenardier is going on about how the money saved him and their bills.







Within moments the innkeeper's wife has Cosette getting ready to clean while her mother goes in an attempt to find a job into the night. She is crying the entire time, but she knows that she needs to find a job to support her child and thinks about her Cosette will always be in her heart. She makes her way to the factory that she heard about and asks about a factory and the women there tell her that a few years ago a man came to town and built the glass factory and now he was the mayor of the village and he would most definitely give her work if she was poor. Just then a little boy stealing a loaf of bread is running towards them being chased by the owner of the store and he is just about to be caught when the Mayor of the town saves him and says the boy's responsibility is his and he should return the bread, which he does and then he takes the boy over his shoulder and walks away. In his office, the little boy is freaking out, but then there is a knock and someone brings him food and drink and the Mayor tells him that it's for him to eat and asks him if he has a family at home, which he does and then gives him a whole basket of bread. The kid eats it hungrily and then calls the man retarded, but the man tells him that it is wrong for him to steal and he mustn't do it and that he will not stand around and watch injustice and then thinks himself that 'The Jean Valjean of the past is dead."





Fantine is asking about a job and answering the interview questions and when asked if she has any family, she lies and says no and then is hired. The boy and the mayor are making their way out and the boy finally introduces himself as 'Alain' and the Mayor tells him that he has some work for him when he comes back, but he says he won't be coming back. He then goes home and you see his two little siblings eating hungrily and he thinks about what the Mayor said.

Fantine is sitting in her room that night thinking that everything will be fine and she will be able to see Cosette again soon. Cosette is back at the inn dressed in rags and being screamed for not cleaning fast enough as she sweeps the floor, thinking about her mother.




Thoughts - I liked this first episode much more than I thought and when they were parting ways, I almost cried, but I did not. So far it looks really good, so I can't wait to see how the next episode plays it, but the beginning was good. Cosette was adorable and very attached to her mother, which I loved seeing and seeing them together was so cute. Fantine was beautiful and such a loving mother. Valjean was... exactly how he should be and Alain was adorable. Eponine was awesome, too, I am glad she's a brunette, hehe. The opening and endings songs were both really enjoyable, too, soft and gentle, I enjoyed them very much, especially the opening.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Hatenkou Yuugi - 3 Recap.

Hatenkou Yuugi episode 3 began yet again with Rahzel talking about a memory, but this time she is talking about how the time when Alzeid asked if she had ever been abandoned and she lied and said no - now, she is telling the story of what happened, somewhat. You see her as an adorable child in the woods holding someone's hand and she says that even though she knew he was going to leave once they started playing their game, that she refused to cry and would stand there and deal with it and that is what she does as he walks away.

It then goes back to their present time and it is night time and she is in adorable outfit with her hair in short pigtails and she and Alzeid are looking for Heat, yet again and not finding him. They are wandering around, looking for him, when Rahzel sees a little lost boy who is crying in the middle of the crowd. She stops and takes hold of his hand and then she and Alzeid get some balloons and he sits in Alzeid's shoulders as they look for his mother. When they see her, he jumps down and runs to her and they embrace very warmly and happily. After that she tells them that her and the boy, Romario, are going to the circus and she then invites Rahzel and Alzeid, too, in thanks for helping her child back to her. They agree and go with her and Rahzel expresses the excitement of a child while there.

The circus is very entertaining and Rahzel and Romario both are enjoying themselves, while Alzeid looks on bored and there is this one clown that looks very familiar with a mask on and he is dancing around and doing tricks everywhere and then a bunch of creepy clowns with knives come out of cars and throw them at him and he catches them all and everyone cheers. Within the next moment, he walks over to Rahzel and takes off the mask, showing that it's none other than Baroqueheat.

They are both shocked and then he sits with them and tells him that he works part time at the circus and Rahzel complains that they were looking for him. He tells them then that he used to work at a circus years ago and he still likes to do it part time when he can but when Rahzel asks him why he had to leave, he just makes a joke.

Then the main part of the show starts and a creepy woman ringleader magician comes out and chooses Romario from the crowd as her volunteer, commenting that he has beautiful hands. She puts him in a cage and he tells her that he plays the piano and she says it's good that he does something good with his beautiful hands and then covers it, then a bunch of the insane clowns come up and stab it, shocking the people in the crowd. The cage gets raised and she raises her hand over head and lowers it, the curtain drops and all the swords turn into doves and fly away and everyone cheers.

The show ends after that and then the three of them are waiting for Romario's mother who went to go and find Romario back stage, but she ends up telling them that he was already sent home. Alzeid, Rahzel and Heat go back to their rooms at the inn and go to sleep, but Rahzel, sensing dangerous auras, I guess, back at the circus, wakes up in the middle of the night and sneaks out back to the circus, but Heat and Alzeid obviously hear her and Heat mutters, "What is the doing?" But Alzeid says he doens't care and seemingly goes back to sleep.

Rahzel is running to the circus tent and as she approaches she starts to get attacked and throws the first clown over her shoulder only to see the female Ringleader there. She asks Rahzel what she's doing there in the middle of the night and Rahzel tells her that she is looking for Romario. The woman does not deny knowing who he is and tells Rahzel she will show him to her right now and then leads her into the back of the tent.

Back there, you see a scary lab-like thing with a huge tube with some kind of humanoid-like thing in it. The woman talks about how the boy's hands were only the useful thing, the rest of the body she did not need, but she would make him more perfect than he ever was before and Rahzel looks into the tube and to her horror, she sees sewing marks on the wrists of the person inside and realizes that it's the Romario's hands and that the rest of him must have been left for dead or just thrown away. The woman tells Rahzel then that she was pregnant once but she lost her child before it was born and its spirit was still trapped inside of her so she was making it the perfect body with different body parts and I guess, puppetry magic...

The woman then tells Rahzel that she has her own special show her and of course, Rahzel gets attacked, but by a ton of clowns. She beats the shit out of them and the woman is surprised she can use magic, but then the clowns get back up, much to Rahzel's horror. She beats some more up and runs out of that area into the next area and they pursue her and just as she is surrounded, her heroes, Alzeid and Baroqueheat, come to her rescue. She asks what they are doing there and they tell her they will protect her through all and then jump to her side and whisper into her ear asking her why she didn't ask them to help her and she yells at them, blushing, saying she didn't ask them to worry about her, but quickly signals for them to listen closely and then thanks them both for coming and they tell her it's fine. Then they say it's time to enjoy the fight and they do fight the other clowns and you finally get to see Heat's weapon, which is in the opening, but finally in action! His butterfly tattoo on his hand transformed his arm into a sexy sword and he kicked their asses and Rahzel pulled off her jacket to her outfit and had an even more awesome half-shirt with a lace-up bodice underneath - it was an awesome outfit, reminded me of a gypsy and then they start to fight together. The woman tells her that it's not even her controlling the puppets, that her son, in the tube, was protecting his other even before he was born. She then asks him to use his power to protect her even though it will hurt in his unfinished form and even though he appears to be screaming, he obliges.

Much to their shock, Rahzel, Heat and Alzeid are all forced with magic into pointing their weapons at each other - Alzeid pointing his gun to Rahzel's head - Rahzel using her magic and poinging it against Heat and Heat's sword at Alzeid and they are almost forced to kill each other like that, which would be Rahzel's worst fear, I would think. Just before they all kill each other, Rahzel starts screaming no and stop and the magic halts for a moment, but then the Ringleader starts screaming about why did he stop, why did her 'Viola' stop and he needs to use his hands and start killing now and... it is very disturbing, but he does.

Instead of killing them, he gets up and out of his tub that he is in and begins to strangle her and then does strangle her all the way to death and it is very sad. Alzeid explains that it was just a puppet in the end and that it followed the exact orders that she gave it and when it heard stop, it stopped and when she said to kill with its own hands, it killed the nearest thing, which happened to be its mother.

Rahzel then askes what would happen, but before she can finish, Baroque covers her eyes and begins to pull her away while Alzeid takes out his gun and walks over to the disturbing, bandaged creature, preparing to kill it. Heat tells her that this is not something she would want to see, but she flips out and breaks free of his grasp and runs down the hallway asking who are they to decide if it should die or not and something created wasn't different than something being born, but she doesn't make it in time... Alzeid shoots it and it falls on the floor as she gets there and she collapses, crying that to her, it was just a lost, trapped child and then cries some more.

The prologue to the episode, they are in the inn and they wake her up, acting all cheerful and happy and telling her that they are going to go out and have some fun. She is still depressed, but through her tears she nods and says okay, they should go and try to have some fun and then go off..

Thoughts - This was a depressing, but meaningful episode... I didn't expect it to get quite that serious so fast and when anything happens with children, it's always disturbing, but... I assume this is going to deeply affect them since the child was basically taken right out from underneath them and they both have a child/parent complex, but I can't wait to get into it. Rahzel is amazing and I love her attitude, but Heat and Alzeid together are a great team and I love having them on screen together so much. The end, after the mother was dead, to me, was the most meaningful part, but.. despite her being so against it, he still did it, so I think that should say something. I kind of wanted it to survive, it didn't look that bad from what I could see. I also wonder... is she a doll? Was she created and not born? I can't wait to see the next episode.



Monday, January 21, 2008

Hatenkou Yuugi - 2 Recap.

Hatenkou Yuugi - 2

This episode came out really quickly and even though I watched it quite a few days ago, my journal isn't really a review blog, as much as a synopsis about the episodes I watch and the like, so expect spoilers, yes! Come here if you want to discuss the episodes with me and the like.

Hatenkou Yuugi starts off with someone asking Alzeid and Baroqueheat if they like their partners and they both say no and that they are not satisfied with their lives, but Rahzel chimes in with the fact that they should shut up and she will make their lives more interesting. After that, you see them getting their mugshots taken and the two guys are asking if being in jail is her idea of fun and interesting and if so, then they miss their old, boring lives and then they tell you that yes, this episode will take place from inside of a jail!

Rahzel and Alzeid are wandering around in the city and Alzeid comments that Rahzel should not lead the way since she gets so lost, but she says that he should blame the city for having roads that lead to dead-ends and that the whole city should be redone, to which he responds, "If only you were King." It was really funny, haha, his dry, sarcastic Cloud-voice is just wonderful.

In the beginning of the episode you see a flash of Alzeid and Rahzel's first day together again and you learn that he is after the woman that killed his father and even though his father was killed As they are wandering around the town, apparently looking for Heat, a little boy that looks just like Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist runs into them and begs Rahzel for help saying that someone is chasing him, but she immediately 'rejects' him and he is shocked and whines about she is so mean to little children but she tells him that if he is in trouble, he should go to the police, but he tells her that's who is after her and that they will kill him like they did his father and all of the sudden Alzeid responds and actually cares and says, "Tell me about it.". The two of them appear interested for a moment, but it is too late because the police are there in the next instant and the three of them are arrested, with the little boy leaning up against Alzeid for protection. They do not struggle at all and then are thrown into jail.

Once in jail, the three of them are in a cell and handcuffed and without looking perplexed at all, Alzeid tells the little boy to tell his story now and then Rahzel thinks to herself that Alzeid and the boy are just the same. At this time, you go back to the first day they met again and the two of them in the restaurant and he tells Rahzel that he is chasing the woman that killed his father and even though his father was the one killed, he feels as if a piece of him was killed, too and because of this it is as much of a revenge for him as it is for his father. When it goes back to present in jail, the little boy then starts his story and tells them that his father was thrown in jail for something small and was supposed to be released quickly, but he wasn't, so his son went there to ask about him. He ended up asking the Warden/Owner of the jail and without any care at all, the man tells the little boy that his father was killed just the day before in the prison and when he asks why, the man tells him he can't remember every case in there. Obviously upset, the little boy throws a rock at the man's window and then the man yells for his guards, the police, to catch the little boy so that he can suffer the same fate as his father and that is how he ended up running into Rahzel and Alzeid.

Suddenly, you hear a familiar, cheerful voice in the next cell and it goes over to show Heat in the next cell also handcuffed, waving cheerfully at them. Rahzel asks how he got in there and says they were looking for him everywhere and Alzeid says that he probably got caught with a bunch of ladies and beaten up, but Heat says that he does not need money to get the ladies - it's funny. Alzeid then responds, "Spoken like a true pervert." Ah, I love his sarcastic voice, hehe. Heat then tells them that he is pretty sure that the boy's father was killed solely to make room in the prison and explains that no towns really want to house a prison, so all the towns send their prisoners to this one prison, which made it vrey overcrowded and instead of building something more, they just started killing them for more space and by chance, that's how his father was caught up there and killed.. so it was really for no reason. The little boy is horrified, but before he can continue a guard comes to his cell and delivers his meal and Heat apparently enjoys jail food because he gets really excited and goes to happily eat, but is interrupted by Alzeid saying that he has decided to help the boy.

Then, with no energy at all, he stands up and breaks the chains of the handcuffs and Rahzel yells that he is deciding this very fast and then breaks her handcuffs with magic and in the next cell Heat whines that he hasn't even eaten his food, but is picking the locks of his cuffs, too - they could just get out any time, they rule.

Then the escape happens! As they are on their way out, Heat comments that they have very good security here and Rahzel reminds him that it is a prison, so of course they do and he asks what kind of security, like ceilings that crush you and big mean dogs and she laughs and tells him no, that is far too classic, but... within moments, those exact things happen!

Alzeid picks the little boy up and bolts down the hall and Heat comments that he only cares about himself and sweeps Rahzel up into his arms and starts running, too, before the ceilings crush them. She screams at him to stop taking advantage of the situation, so he stops confused, but she then screams at him to keep going and he does so, happily. Up ahead of them is a huge door, which excites Alzeid because they rush through it and he kicks it open and it's sexy.

Then the dogs come and instead of fighting them, which Rahzel doesn't want to do, Alzeid just stares them down and then they comment that he is scarier than a beast and Heat says most men are like that and he will show Rahzel the beast in him, but she asks if he wants to be whipped and he backs away very frigthtened.

The poor boys finds something that belonged to his father on the ground and Heat and Alzeid have a little disagreement because Heat points out that Alzeid was using the little boy to help with his own revenge problems and Alzeid asks if he wants to fight, but Rahzel interrupts them. Then the main event occurs.. well, the first part. The room they are in stinks and there is a huge gate on the other side that is scary and dark and even though you do not see what is there, you can assume it's all the dead bodies from the prison. They do not get any closer to it, however, because then the floor drops down into an elevator and they are brought down into an arena inside the prison.

The evil warden man then tells them that they will have to fight their way out against all the prisoners in the prison and the last person standing wins. Alzeid says that it's a bother, but Heat says it's fun. Rahzel says no fun, but they kick the shit out of the prisoners anyway. After that, the warden laughs and says they did a good job and he will release them if they kill the boy there, but they obviously ignore that... Actually, they all start calling him a 'baldie' since he is bald and says that nothing he says or does matters because he is a baldie. He gets really mad, but before he can do anything Rahzel and Heat do a combo move and she jumps up on his shoulder and with her magic, breaks the window that was protecting the warden up in his box seat and takes him out with magic and drops him on the floor.

In the next instant, the boy is there with a gun and holding it to the man's head, swearing he will get revenge for his father, but the evil man grins and asks if he can do it. He is confused, but you then see Alzeid and Heat surrounded by a bunch of guards and he tells the boy that if anything happens to him, that they will die right away. He looks hesitant for a minute, but he is about to do it when Rahzel explains to him the most effective way to do it, with the most blood and this freaks him out, but once again, he is still ready to do it, EXCEPT -

Rahzel pulls a gun on him and points it to his head...

He asks her what she's doing in shock and she tells him that the second he pulls that trigger, her friends are dead and that, to her, is the only thing that matters, so she will then take her revenge. She tells him he will kill him instantly, but not just him, everyone in the room because no one takes her precious things from her. She tells him that after that, someone will hunt her down and it will just keep going like that, but tells him again to shoot the gun. He cries about not wanting to kill them, he just wants to kill the warden, but she says it doesn't matter since he made the choice with knowing the consequence and he yells at the man and asks him why so many people have to die just for pathetic him and she says she knows it's unfair, but that's how revenge and killing work - they are an endless cycle.

He drops the gun and runs to her, crying and apologizing and she hugs him and tells him it's okay. Then the warden, unguarded now, reaches for the gun the boy dropped, but Alzeid and Heat stop him and tell him that he would really regret that, but they will make him regret it anyway and they will him pain in a super extra workout and that he will enjoy it. From there, you hear a scream from the prison, as they beat the shit out of him.

Once the three of them are back on their travels, Heat asks her about the things she said back there and she tells him that killing always leads to more killing. Alzeid tells her not to mind herself with his business and she kind of ignores it before Heat asks if she really would have gotten revenge back there, but she responds with the fact that nothing will ever happen to them, or her and they will love and grow old together and she will be as cute as ever and the two of them end with saying, "Leave that to us." It's awesome, I love them...

But what a serious episode, wow.. The first one was supernatural, but not anywhere near this serious. Episodes with children always bother me because people that would put children in danger like that are really evil.... As I was watching this, Fullmetal Alchemist was on Adult Swim on the television with the volume down and I kept thinking about FMA anyway, so it was funny. The little boy looked like Edward, hehe.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Hatenkou Yuugi - 1 Recap & Screencaps.

I was pretty blown away about how much I really liked this first episode, especially after reading beforehand from other people that the episode seemed random and out there, but I did not find it to be that way at all. The voice actors also immediately caught my eye as the main girl, Rahzel is Nyu/Lucy from Elfen Lied, the beautiful man Alzeid is Cloud from Advent Children and Heat is Urahara from Bleach, so everyone had a good voice to begin with, especially the first two.

The episode starts with the adorable Rahzel sitting in her house reading a book and her father asks her if she thinks it is good for people to travel the world, as he thinks it is good for them and confused, she says, "Yes?" and simply that, before he kicks her out onto the street, telling her to go and explore the world.





She goes and sulks for a bit, but only for a few moments, talking to her stuffed teddy bear, her only companion and complaining about how she would not have eaten her side dishes that morning if she had known this was going to happen and what a mean father she had. This sulking only lasts a few moments, though, before she decides to go and start her journey, stating that it is pathetic to act like humans, suggesting she is not a human, which I already got from the hints of her sexy father, even though they did not show him all.




She walks down the roads of the little town talking to herself and stating that she needs some kind of travel companions for protection and entertainment, when just at that moment a beautifully handsome, mysterious man appeared before her with silver hair and grey eyes. At first she stares at him from an angle where we can't see him all, but after that it goes around and you see that he is holding a gun to some guy's head who is laying on the floor.





As she says something, the man looks at her and the culprit of whatever makes a run for it and then the man turns on her and puts the gun to her head asking what she wants. She is not frightened, at all, however and smiles and tells him that she swears to make his life more interesting and mysterious, so he will not live a boring life anymore.






This is how Alzeid and Rahzel met.

In the next scene, which I guess confused some people, Alzeid and Rahzel are in some woods at night staring up at a beautiful ghost in a tree. She is very sparkling and sad looking and Alzeid says something along the lines of, "This is more interesting? Frolicking with ghosts in the middle of the night is somehow not boring? Oh yes, interesting. Very interesting." All very sarcastically and Rahzel yells at him to shut the hell up before going on about how the ghost is not really that bad and she didn't really want to exorcise it, but she had to because .. and then it switches scenes again.





In the next scene, Alzeid and Rahzel are eating together in a restaurant and she asks him how he usually makes money and he tells her that he usually just takes it from who ever in the alley, but he is also very good at cards and gambling and she seems to like this insane masculine dangerous attitude because she is not bothered by his answers at all.





They decide they have to find some kind of work, but they do not know where to go, but as they are wandering around the town, Alzeid approaches a guy and attacks him, throwing him against the wall and staring down at him with a very evil, intense glare. Rahzel tells him that certainly is not going to work, but the camera continues to go back and forth between Alzeid's red eye and the man's stressed out and scared eye before he finally breaks and tells them that he knows of a place where they can get work, obviously surprising Rahzel, but amusing the utter hell out of me, haha. Alzeid is beyond awesome, he knows that he can just stare down people and scare them from being insane looking.







He looks like Chrno from Chrno Crusade in demon form, but without the demon markings and with different hair and hair color, but he is so beautiful, I am so in love.

From there, they go to a man's mansion in the town and he tells them that there is a horrible ghost haunting the people of the woods and so far she has not hurt someone and usually just guides them back, but she might eventually hurt someone, so he wants her gone. They say that they do not ask questions, just do their job and then head off to the woods she is haunting.




They find her pretty quickly and Alzeid asks Rahzel what she is going to do to make the ghost leave and she says she has not decided and he tells her he is not going to help at all, just watch since she was supposed to make his life more interesting and she tells him good, to watch and be entertained. She then stands out in the opening and tells the ghost to leave the woods so as not to tarnish Rahzel's reputation and pride in front of Alzeid, but the ghost just ignores her and goes on about how she is waiting for someone and if Rahzel would like to hear the story, she will tell her.






Rahzel immediately says no, she does not want to hear it, but the ghost starts up and Rahzel gets bored and goes and plays a game in the dirt with Alzeid, at which she loses a bunch of times, as the ghost tells a story about her being a farm girl and falling in love with a rich man and they were supposed to run away together, but one night when they were meeting, she tripped and fell... Yes, tripped and fell and she has been waiting her since. Rahzel then stands up and tells her that she should stop waiting for someone like that and they say that if the person really loved her that they would have come to lay flowers or something. In a rage she flips out and attacks them with scary white magic and she tells them to be quiet and she will wait forever and the next time, she will not be so nice and then vanishes.







Rahzel, being the weirdo she apparently is says that it will be the easiest to just find the person that the ghost was waiting for and bring him there so she can go rest in peace. But before that, she stops somewhere to eat and Alzeid comments that if she was hungry, she should have just said so and this is not gathering information, but then the man who gave them the job's people come and say that he wants to talk to them. They go to visit him and while there Rahzel says she knows exactly who it is - the man that ordered them to exorcise her and she says that since the ghost has hurt no one so far, it only made sense for someone that was close to her and didn't want her around, to want her gone. Then he goes on about how she was just some farm girl once and he couldn't give up his money and life for her and it was just convenient when she died, but now he wanted her gone from the woods, too, and to stop bothering him and Rahzel is annoyed that he always knew, but tells him that she will deal with it because it is her job.







As her and Alzeid are making their way out of the mansion, the man who hired them tells his thugs to take care of them. As Alzeid and Rahzel are walking she tells him that if she were the ghost, Noma-san, then she would just kill him and make him suffer a lot. Alzeid asks her if she has ever been abandoned and after a flashback of her as a child and being abandoned, she lies and tells him no and then he tells her to not say such heartless things then because it's annoying. She stands there confused a moment before following him inside. Outside the thugs are coming to beat them up and a mysterious man in the shadows smoking a cigarette with a butterfly tattoo on his hand warns them to not do anything like that or they really might regret it.







Rahzel seems like she is talking to herself in the next scene as she goes on about how she was careless and she should have been more thoughtful on saying things since she knows that Alzeid is out for revenge for his parents. You then see that she is actually talking to the person in the alley, who is sitting on the roof above her, smoking a cigarette and sitting with a little black kitten. She asks him if he thinks there are any feelings that remain after death and he asks her why she's so serious all of the sudden and while they are talking you see the thugs from before laying unconscious in the alley. The man tells Rahzel that he knows something he would hold onto and when she asks what, he tells her, "Rahzel-chan, of course!" and he also tells her that he will prove it through her body and she tells him to die once to prove it. She then says that she realizes there are some things there are no point in thinking about it and he tells her to just burn through it with her own beliefs. She then asks him to do some shopping for her and to get lots of sparkly and bright things.







Once in the woods, Rahzel wanders around and yells for the ghost to come and she immediately does, stating that Rahzel does not need to yell, but Rahzel goes on about telling her what happened and instead of acting surprised the ghost gets really mad and says that she just wanted to keep resting in peace before attacking them with wind. Rahzel, though, is apparently a magic user with little rose petals of power that she likes to shoot with a gun and when the ghost is surprised, Rahzel just says that she does not find it odd, just like ghosts and they fight for a moment before she breaks the ghost down and tells her to stop waiting for someone not worth it and even Alzeid tells her to not wait for someone that would only hurt her and Rahzel tells her he's just one man.






In an attempt at spite she floats over to Alzeid and asks Rahzel what she would do if she took Alzeid from her now, assuming he is her lover.





She is really funny, though, and at the end of the episode she goes to the man's house and floats through his door while he's sleeping and tells him that she has planted bombs all over his house and she will be gone forever after that. You then see the rest of the scene in the woods where Rahzel called the ghost an idiot and she wasn't sure where she came up with that conclusion, but her and Alzeid were just traveling together and had no promise to each other. He bugs out and screams and cries, but they lock the door and as he is freaking out inside, a bunch of fireworks go off outside, so there wasn't really a bomb at all, just fireworks with Alzeid and Rahzel.








In the final scene, the three of them are walking down a path, so apparently they both know the man, whose name is Baroqueheat and they call him Heat, and they are all walking along and Alzeid asks her if she wants a promise, talking about how she said they had no promises to stay with each other, but she just acts all happy and says that this is what they have for now.









I love the first episode, I am presently up to episode 3, but I wanted to start writing about them before I get too far, or it ends. This is simply an amazing anime so far, I am really entertained, I adore the characters, they have an awesome relationship and I really like all three of them. I am going to add some screencaps in a bit, but as I said, I just wanted to make sure I got something up.