for that "cliche" (albeit I personally don't think it's "cliche", since imo most other anime do better in this aspect
) part...
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well, but in the end she tried to bash Altena into the larva with her own body... I can hardly call that an act of love... I really don't see why she can't shoot Altena, and if she really don't want to kill her, she can shoot her limbs or the gun or something... but now she takes the bullet (luckily that doesn't kill her) and tries to kill Altena by bashing her into the larva, and throwing herself into it at the same time, which will be killing both Altena and herself... obviously she still can't really do the Ghandi's way of nonviolence resistance I guess
Well I'd say it's just an anime with a mediocre main plot and a below-mediocre message that shouldn't be taken too seriously anyway...
Madlax is more and more interesting! ep19 is CRAZY!!!