[DangerMouse]

Originally Posted by Crimson Cloud

Spoiler for more episode 1 rant... sort of ^^:

I usually don't post more then once about the first episode, but somehow I'm really thrown off my seat here. I know people will say that Kanade's death was a whole point, you know, that ''shockingly good'' stuff that made you like an episode. But it's not good to me when I'm really digging an character who could actually hold the show alone on her back. As DangerMouse stated, she was beautiful in every aspect. An kick ass heroine singer that also fights was something that I always dreamed of in Ar Tonelico game. Her personality, the figure, the colors, the weapon of choice... in two words = marriage material. She would be one of the reasons that I would watch a show even if everything else sucked. It's insulting if Hibiki throws in a wig or something to fill that lost place.

The show can go ether way from here. They can do a heavy rewind to the point where the two heroines first met and tell a tale of first monster invasion and so on. But knowing what happens later makes it a bit painful to watch...

Spoiler:

This, I know on some level it had a "purpose" or perhaps the usual making her the influence on the heroine but screw that. She was strong enough in all those aspects above to hold the show on her back alone even in a show where she wasn't going to have to do that, to think we were so close to getting that and more in other characters and we get "Hibiki" (even if we know she dies later)...it throws me off so much that I was so close to liking this...