Ga-Rei Zero

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:40 pm

Plot summary according to ANN:

Freshman Nimura Kensuke has the ability to see ghosts, and his life changes when he meets Kagura, a girl with the power to summon a "Ga-Rei" called Byakuei. The two work together to find evil spirita and devour them with the Ga-Rei.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has an anti-paranormal special forces group called the Supernatural Disaster Prevention Agency. They are the ones responsible to protect Japanese soil and its people from supernatural and paranormal events. However, things didn't go so well in one of their missions...

My thoughts:

The first episode was epic by itself tbh. I don't know really anything about the anime at this point or the manga. Just watched it recently, so I can't answer any questions even if I wanted to. This anime has promise though if you go by how awesome the first episode was.

As for the first episode in brief:

Spoiler :

Can't wait for the next episode. I just consider it a refresher from your common action anime at the very least. It appears there's gonna be some good drama too.

Pas · Post by **Pas** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:36 pm

As a fan of the manga, I should tell you that the anime is (not entirely) unrelated to the timeline of the manga.

It takes place several years before that of the manga with a different cast and an alternate story. That being said, your plot summer and related picture are both for the manga, not the anime.

I've only seen the first half of the anime, which was decent in every right. Very nice animation quality, and the story was (what I saw of it) pretty solid. My only irk with it was that I didn't like the characters all that much, whereas in the manga the characters were all very likeable.

Still, given that I haven't even finished watching the first episode, I'll give it some more time and continue to follow it.

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:04 pm

Pas1990 wrote:That being said, your plot summery and related picture are both for the manga, not the anime.

Actually the picture is for the manga. Your correct. I used it cause it was the best looking picture I could find.

Well... The summary was copied from ANN. The first part of it goes hand in hand with the manga. The part below it covers how the anime starts. I've not known ANN to give false summaries for animes >_>...

From the looks of it it looks like the first episode is just a story of before the manga started according to what you have said. Now its gonna start the part with:

"Freshman Nimura Kensuke has the ability to see ghosts, and his life changes when he meets Kagura, a girl with the power to summon a "Ga-Rei" called Byakuei. The two work together to find evil spirita and devour them with the Ga-Rei."

But... I could be wrong. Either way, I'm still waiting for that next episode.

Niwa · Post by **Niwa** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:34 pm

I'l check it out but I was hoping more that it would be based of the manga.

Ishbalan · Post by **Ishbalan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:17 am

Um, WTF.

Spoiler :

I'm assuming that this episode was just an introduction to the setting and that the real plot and real protagonists will take over next episode.

Pas · Post by **Pas** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:00 pm

Finished watching the second half of the first episode. Damnit this was awesome.

Spoiler :

Anyway, with how episode 1 ended, I'm very curious to see what happens next.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:15 am

I checked the episode after it´s release and than I checked the manga because I was interessted.

Alright it made not really sense or connection, but I´m still really interessted into it. There is action, there is style and there is a good potential that the charackters are interessting and have some stories behind them. It depends now on how the next episodes can please me. I´m also interessted how the serious will look like with all day scenes. I doubt that every episode only shows a mission

The end of the first episode was just awsome and makes lust to check out the next ones. Did you noticed the unusal outro? There wasn´t one! Just a black screen, with the credits as text and the sound of fire in the background. Cool.

I hope it goes more into direction of the manga. I want him to have this nice sword. He doesn´t really look good with the two pistols for me

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:53 pm

damnit, they sure like to impose cliff hangers at the end of episodes.

Ep2

Spoiler :

If they keep ending every episode like this, I'ma die from anticipation for the next ones.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:50 pm

Now I saw two, well three characters from the first 5 manga chapters! The anime keeps on the quality of the first ep. I hope that they´ll bring in more background stories of the characters. There´s still quite potential for good plots.

Spoiler :

LeapofFate · Post by **LeapofFate** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:36 pm

I wish they would spend this awesome animation production on the manga adaption then this prequel