Ga-rei -Zero- #02 — Rocks Fall; Everybody Dies

October 12th, 2008

  

Is this going to be a recurring theme through the entire show?

Impressions:

We apparently get the cheesy RPG weapons this week, as there was a guy with a team of ferrets, a man with a pair of briefcases with miniguns in them, giant twin black men with pistols, a guy with a giant drill on his arm, and a girl with a katana and some kind of crazy trick gunsheath. I don’t even feel bad for not learning their names since… well… they all keep dying. Everybody fought the giant CG rolling dinosaur again, this time cutting the critter in half before the headcrab zombies swarmed. Of course, just like the end of the first episode, the evil swordsgirl, Yomi, went to town and appeared to kill the main good guy for this episode, her sister, Kagura, (or maybe just close older female friend, who knows) the girl with the gunsheath. The rest of the Team of Ridiculous Weapons seemed to survive, though I wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest if they were all eaten by a grue within the first five minutes of the next episode.

So we’re at two episodes in, the protagonists keep dying. Well, I won’t believe Kagura’s dead until I see a corpse as the show went to black as Yomi swung her sword, and the same goes for the very last guy that got cut down at the end of the first episode, but man… I still really have no idea what direction this show is really going and it feels a little bit refreshing. I also liked the action in this episode a lot more than the first. For all the ridiculous weapons, almost everybody was more of a melee fighter, which is far more interesting to watch than rolling dinosaurs chasing people on motorcycles. So… I guess count me on board for at least another episode, and by this point, I’ll probably be sticking with this one to completion. I’d still love for this show to get an OP so I have any clue whatsoever who I’m supposed to be actually paying attention to here and who will survive beyond one episode.

I’m not sure whether I want to keep covering this or Macademi. Neither is really enthralling me, but neither is that bad either. At the moment, I’m leaning towards Ga-rei, but I guess we’ll see.

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9 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Zan says:

    Maybe there’ll be a red ranger team up near the end of the series?

  • Kurosama says:

    It look more like the manga now..(the new members peopple to die or survive)…Maybe its the past???…

    NOTE: BAAD English…Bu.xD

  • scott says:

    haven’t seen this ep, but my guess is the male protagonist from the 1st episode is alive just because of his old relationship with the evil sword girl – seems fitting for them to be enemies..

    probably won’t start watching till they give a protagonist that actually lives though, bit dark for my preferences

  • So this is a “day in the life” series, then? (heh)

  • Zan says:

    Oh yeah, slipped my mind, but they’re inserting main characters into the anime now, it’s looking to be more and more like a prequel of some sorts. Yeah, it really is, that sword she’s using is later used by the male protagonist in the manga. The ferret dude is in the manga as well.

    But she seems to be working in a different department, if she’s in the same department as those of the previous episode.

  • Gummi says:

    I think this is something to stall time for more chapters, I mean if they plan on finishing the manga and anime together then this is a good attempt by showing the past a little earlier.

  • […] dead unless there is a corpse, I am totally intrigued on how the series will go now. As noted by Aroduc, the uniting element of both episodes is the relationship Yomi has with the “main […]

  • Kanako says:

    umm lets hope this doesnt turn into tenjou tenje and show the past for the whole series.
    but good serie

  • At least, her big sister still be human.