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Ookla The Mok · 2008-05-10, 01:40

Okay, I finally finished watching the last 4 episodes. There was so much stuff done much better in the manga. The sequence of events in the last 3 episodes just doesn't make much sense. Sigh...

Baroqueheat's introduction in the manga is better than the nonexistent introduction in the anime. His actions during the Vincent arc in the manga make so much more sense, because he hadn't been traveling with Rahzel before that point. The dynamic is totally different; in the anime when she's handcuffed and talking to Baroqueheat, it just doesn't work well. In the manga she's actually scared because she doesn't know Baroqueheat or what he's going to do, but in the anime she's talking to him like always.

Sera's introduction in the manga (in volume 8) is way better than his intro in the anime. It's hilarious when the four of them meet on the street and Baroqueheat doesn't know that Rahzel is his brother's adopted daughter and Sera has no idea his daughter has been hanging around with his degenerate brother for so many months.

Also the anime doesn't give any clues that Sera and Baroqueheat know who Alzeid is (and how much they hate him) like the manga does. That connection is just missing.

And in episode 6, when Baroqueheat is shivering from the cold? Never happens in the manga! The manga makes a big point about how Baroqueheat is always walking around in sleeveless shirts even when everyone else is bundled up, and you get cold just looking at him! (Soresta is also quite different, from his character design to the whole magic-string thing that's not in the manga.)

Errgh. The anime is such a hodgepodge. It's not made at all clear in the anime that the reason Sera has come to collect his daughter is because he's afraid of the redhaired guy at the end! I wish they had given this series a longer run and gone through things chronologically instead of picking most of the filler chapters to animate, and especially not skipping so far ahead in the last episode.

All of volume 7, 6, and 5 (except for the first chapter) were skipped, and those are crucial volumes, especially what happens in volume 6. It has a lasting effect on Rahzel's psyche, and she's never going to get over it. And the biggest arc early on (in volume 3 and 4) was skipped as well, and it involves the redhaired guy's plans for the game he mentions at the end of episode 10.

Again...sigh.

2008-05-10, 01:40	Link #344
Ookla The Mok Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Torrance, CA	Okay, I finally finished watching the last 4 episodes. There was so much stuff done much better in the manga. The sequence of events in the last 3 episodes just doesn't make much sense. Sigh... Baroqueheat's introduction in the manga is better than the nonexistent introduction in the anime. His actions during the Vincent arc in the manga make so much more sense, because he hadn't been traveling with Rahzel before that point. The dynamic is totally different; in the anime when she's handcuffed and talking to Baroqueheat, it just doesn't work well. In the manga she's actually scared because she doesn't know Baroqueheat or what he's going to do, but in the anime she's talking to him like always. Sera's introduction in the manga (in volume 8) is way better than his intro in the anime. It's hilarious when the four of them meet on the street and Baroqueheat doesn't know that Rahzel is his brother's adopted daughter and Sera has no idea his daughter has been hanging around with his degenerate brother for so many months. Also the anime doesn't give any clues that Sera and Baroqueheat know who Alzeid is (and how much they hate him) like the manga does. That connection is just missing. And in episode 6, when Baroqueheat is shivering from the cold? Never happens in the manga! The manga makes a big point about how Baroqueheat is always walking around in sleeveless shirts even when everyone else is bundled up, and you get cold just looking at him! (Soresta is also quite different, from his character design to the whole magic-string thing that's not in the manga.) Errgh. The anime is such a hodgepodge. It's not made at all clear in the anime that the reason Sera has come to collect his daughter is because he's afraid of the redhaired guy at the end! I wish they had given this series a longer run and gone through things chronologically instead of picking most of the filler chapters to animate, and especially not skipping so far ahead in the last episode. All of volume 7, 6, and 5 (except for the first chapter) were skipped, and those are crucial volumes, especially what happens in volume 6. It has a lasting effect on Rahzel's psyche, and she's never going to get over it. And the biggest arc early on (in volume 3 and 4) was skipped as well, and it involves the redhaired guy's plans for the game he mentions at the end of episode 10. Again...sigh.