Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
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.
...except this series is marketed as a prequel, and we know Kagura survives this ordeal. Not that I have read the manga, but I imagine she is considerably hardened from the experience, and acts a great deal more mature perhaps more like Mei before she got run through with her own weapon.

Like Everon, I expect the cold brutality of the show to return.

But the series really has little to do with Kagura. She has her own series. And while the intro episodes and certain parts of the series focus on her, the real protagonist of this series is Yomi. She just happens to be the kind of protagonist we know will suffer horribly before she died, and must be killed by Kagura to end the cycle of death that butterfly-boy causes.