Ga-Rei Zero

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Ga-Rei Zero

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

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<b>Plot summary according to ANN:</b>

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...

<b>My thoughts:</b>

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.

<b>As for the first episode in brief:</b>
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How often do you see people fighting with a motorcycle as their weapon!? There was plenty of action in this episode. I'm thinking the next episode is gonna just be recovery along with some character developments. Most of the people looked liked they died. It's strange to introduce so many characters and have them die on the first episode but w/e. All I care about is that Natsuki Kasuga lives lol... The designs for the beasts/ghosts are pretty solid, the storyline seems solid too. Toru Kanze apparently lost someone dear to him by the antagonist, a powerful ghost. He's hunting him down now and has(Or i guess had since most of them look like they died) a team of select people with unique skills/abilities for ridding the ghosts. That's all I can say at this point.
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.
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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.

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

Pas1990 wrote:That being said, your plot summer<b>y</b> 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.
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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.
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Post by Ishbalan » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:17 am

Um, WTF.
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The episode ended with all of the charcters being brutally murdered.
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.

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

Finished watching the second half of the first episode. Damnit this was awesome.
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The girl who kills the entire team is actually Kagura's older sister (for those of you that don't know, Kagura is the female lead in the manga).

I was really surprised when I saw her appear, and this is already a sign that the two stories will be more closely linked than I previously thought, which is a good thing since I really love the manga.
Anyway, with how episode 1 ended, I'm very curious to see what happens next.

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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 :P

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 :?
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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 :
More action, was pretty badass. I take it the youngest kagura sister is the main chacter here but it looks like she died at the end of the episode though i doubt she did. The older ones a real evil bitch thats for sure lol... I like how she can shoot her sword from its holster, thats a pretty unique trick.
If they keep ending every episode like this, I'ma die from anticipation for the next ones.
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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.
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Oh my god. Those cliffhangers are so mean : ( Everybody just dies. Fighting with a holster is indeed a cool skill.
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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 :roll:

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