Ga-Rei Zero

[animus]

Is this based on the manga Ga-Rei? If so, the plots sound completely different.

[Buffalobiian]

Is this based on the manga Ga-Rei? If so, the plots sound completely different.

Ga-Rei Zero shares the same basic name as the Ga-Rei manga, but it won’t be following the same story. So instead of two high school kids fighting evil spirits for a government agency, this will chronicle an older special forces unit that’s fighting evil spirits for a government agency. It looks to be a lot darker and grittier than the manga as well, though I find the anime version’s character designs still pretty appealing. Also, for better or worse, this is being produced by asread in conjunction with AIC Spirits and has a lot of the SHUFFLE! staff on it, so I’m not quite sure what to expect.

-Courtesy of randomc.animeblogger.net

[KrayZ33]

Go back to Love Hina then. It's an action packed anime, like Macross Zero mixed with blood+.

You like it or you dont.

Uh... ya right. It's not that I don't like action animes btw. It's just that "bike fighting" and a guy who stands on the back shooting with 2 pistoles on a 20 metres tall monster make my eyes bleed in an instant. (even more than most of the naruto fillers)

but as I said I might have decided too quickly about this
I thought it's another wnb horror anime at first but if the ending is really so different, then I redownload it :P

[Idealistic]

Well, ep 4 was ok I guess. Yomi and Kagura kissing was very . lol at all the different weapons they had. I get the feeling Yomi became jealous of Kagura. Probably why she turned.

Ok, I know why I don't like guns and swords mixing in animes. Because the gun user is always weak and slow, while the sword user is always fast with super flashing attacks and special powers.

And because, when the 2 mix, this is what should happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLIOtBLqoU

[Buffalobiian]

The link to said ep:

Ga-Rei: Zero - 04 Aero Subs.mkv
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Dark and gritty main cast killing left behind for now, it looks like we've moved back to the more generic spirit purifying mission episodes. As if to announce that, they even put in the OP this time, which I have to say I do like. Still, the first few episodes were done well enough that I'll be sticking with this just to see how they end up there. They mentioned today that all this sparks from a single thought of hatred, which would probably be Yomi's trigger too. From episode two, she already acknowledges that she's jealous of Kagura's talent. I can't say for sure looking at the second ep, but Yomi's fiance may also play a part, since he seems quite caring towards Kagura, even if you take into account chivalry that that she's his would-be-sister-in-law.

Then you have YomiXKagura...do I need a better reason to watch this?

And the big guy's gay. That's awesome

[digitalrurouni]

Yeah I am the same way. The impact this anime had when it started out was pretty good but now its a bit generic...but I think the next episode will probably pick it up and get more and more into the characters' backstories. Looks interesting. Will definitely follow this one for sure.

[Yukimura]

Kagura x Yomi doujins are needed immediately!!!

Anyway, I'm guessing we're permanently or at least semi-permanently back in time now and we'll get to see how everyone got to where they were in episode 1. While it feels a little like a bait and switch I have to commend the producers for using the first two eps asking us wtf? and then jumping back and explaining once we're already hooked in. Hopefully they tell an interesting enough story that we'll want to keep watching till the end.

[Pandadice]

hey, episode 5 is out.

episode 5 torrent MKV

I've just downloaded it, and am going to watch it now.

[digitalrurouni]

This episode was ok but barely.

[Buffalobiian]

[Nipponsei] Ga-Rei Zero OP Single - Paradise Lost [Chihara Minori].zip

[masamuneehs]

well it's certainly changed quite a bit, hasn't it?

the action is way down, the gore even more so. I'd thought they'd get into the evil spirits a bit more, but all we've really had is some discussion of hereditary spirtual beasts and arranged marriages.

Somehow I'm still enjoying it. The humor in this show catches me in the right place, whether it be crazy Naked Michael or Nori and Yomi fighting, but I'd like to see it get back on track soon.

The second Mei first appeared with her sniveling wretch of a father, I thought, "man, she has middle of the road bad guy written all over her". That silver hair is just bad news in this show...

Also, due to the Type A being around at the point of the cliffhanger in episode 02, I've got a very strong feeling that eventually they're going to have to come back to that point. It'll probably just be Kagura vs Yomi, with Kagura finally summoning the Ga-Rei White Dragon as the big predictable climax, but... Maybe they can pull it off... I have a hard time believing this show will end on a "yeah, you saw the end first, now learn all about the happy times that were destroyed" note. It just doesn't have that kind of feel to it at all.

edit: also, i totally agree with Yuki. Whether it was nice or nasty or whatever, the way they did those first two episodes was ridiculously awesome. God knows I'd never be watching this show if it hadn't started so well, and now I'm invested in the characters, even knowing how they end up.

It was all worm at the outset, but even now that we can taste the unpleasant bitterness of the metal, and we know it's going to probably be a tough haul to shore, the hook is set deep in the gut of us viewers, the fish. At least, this fish here's swallowed the barb whole, and so I might as well follow it to land, because even if the line grows slack and I wriggle away from this one, I sure won't be getting over that hook any time soon.

Final Fantasy Tactics, Gungrave, and the first episode of Naruto Shitpudden also did this fairly well too (Shitppudden actually doing it best out of those three, I feel).

[Kraco]

Three episodes of a continuous flashback of an already deceased character. This series is pretty hard to figure out, but I'm sure there must be some relevance out there, hidden quite deep so far. I could have lived without this flashback, though, which is also why I was in no hurry to wacth the last couple of episodes. Eps 1 and 2 were promising in their morbid cruelty and constant reek of death, but these last three have been somewhat uninteresting.

[Pandadice]

yeah, that's what I thought up until the end of episode 5. which was a great ending.

[shinta|hikari]

I don't think they will continue the story from episode 1 and 2, and simply proceed with the flashbacks until the past catches up to the first two episodes.

I personally like this setup, since you already know the tragic ending, yet you start to get attached to the characters despite knowing so. I am personally a Yomi fan, even if I know she will go evil in the end.

[Pandadice]

I don't really like any of the characters :\

[Nadouku]

[AnYoshi] Ga-Rei Zero - Episode 6: Download

Hmm, sensing some malicious intents coming from Mei!? The title was misleading, since I thought it was gonna be Mei's attack on Yomi and Kagura. I guess next episode should be the one.

[Ryllharu]

And Ryllharu starts watching this show because he liked the OP!

I still have an episode or two to catch up on.

This might be a little late, but the whole point of all the flashbacks are to establish why Kagura and the others are so shaken that Yomi became a Type A. That means that not only is she now dead, she turned into a malignant spirit that hates all of them (from my understanding of the lingo in the first two episodes). Her resentment is so high, she became a high-level spirit. In the flashback, Yomi and Kagura's extremely close relationship is established, so we can finally understand why Kagura was so unable to purify Yomi the same easy way she did the Type B.

Of course, the delicious side to the series is the anticipation of how Yomi went "missing" months before leading to her eventual death and rebirth as a creature of hatred.

With the introduction of Mei as a bloodline successor and her apparent odd attitude about Yomi taking control of the family, more and more potential outcomes for Yomi's untimely death begin to rise.

Episode 7 is out by the way:

[AniYoshi] Ga-Rei​ Zero​ -​ 07​.mkv

[Kraco]

This might be a little late, but the whole point of all the flashbacks are to establish why Kagura and the others are so shaken that Yomi became a Type A.

I must disagree. The whole point of this long flashback arc is to explain why killing Kagura was actually a coup de grace. She's so annoying a character that she's better off dead than lingering in that job she's so ill suited for. Mei's father is also so annoying that I hope Mei the Zombie kills him at some point soon. No wonder Yomi might snap, especially if that man becomes the new leader (Yomi wasn't yet officially inaugurated, after all).

I don't know if I can watch this much longer. The awesome, relentless brutality of the first eps has surely been replaced by something else.

[Everon]

I think the saccharine middle section makes a nice contrast from the first two episodes. It makes Yomi's fall from grace much more tragic. We can see how fragile her happiness is. Its all layed out for us: A dangerous exorcist lifestyle, a leadership role inherited from an unrelated father, an out-dated planned marriage, a 'sister' who looks up to her.

Everything is going to go downhill from here (the mood, that is). Her status and her happiness depended a lot upon her father being there. Now that he's gone, a lot of things are going to get harder for Yomi.

[shinta|hikari]

Indeed. Those episodes were for development. If the entire show was composed of tragedy and brutality, I doubt anyone would care if anyone died in the show.