Comments on: 10 Things that Suck about Ga-Rei Zero

By: haebo

haebo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:08:03 +0000

I hear a lot about the pointless of episode 1, but i found one reasonable theory wherein:

After grab the sword, Yomi wants to test whether she is a Person or a Category A, or Both, because that is the critical point of her choice to accept that evil stone. So she tests that 3 times.

1. to Touru and his friends : she acts as an evil Category A. success. she’s Category A.
2. to Noriyuki : she acts as a person and his colleague. success. As she’s a person and his colleague, Noriyuki could not kill her.
3. to Kagura : she acts as a Category A and person. success. she’s a Category A and person. Kagura cannot kill an evil spirit that was a person, which Yomi knows too well even before.

Why she needs these 3 tests? before accepting the stone, she feels guilty about killing Mei nee-sang, because Yomi recognised Mei as a person, not an evil spirit to be excocised. So she difines herself as the Killer who killed a person, not because accused by her colleages, but due to her guilty. And this realization leads to Kagura. She wants to live with Kagura forever! But she is the Killer, so her small brain (or mine) reasons that Kagura must run away from her! Yomi loves Kagura so much, this thought numbs her mind, so she accepts the stone in despair.

Now, she concludes that her little reasoning is right with these three test results. She is The Killer. Kagura must left her forever. Then she wants to kill Kagua, she wants to kill herself, and she wants to kill everyone… but still she wants to protect Kagura from every harms.

I say this theory is very good ^.^

By: Isoyama Izumi

Isoyama Izumi — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:35:10 +0000

For those who didn’t know about the manga this series came from:

1:Pocky is prominently featured with the character of Kagura. Note the last scene of the anime.

2:The reason Natsuki and Touru die is because they don’t exist in the manga so you can’t just time paradox them into existence.

3: The girls were Category A for being conscious taijiya being willed by the sesshouseki. explained in the manga.

4: That’s also why there was no finish for Mitogawa, the butterfly bloke, as he’s in the manga and he’s a category A.

5: There could easily be a second season as Baka pointed out, but it’ll be a while before they get to reviving Yomi as that is in the Naraku Arc of the manga, which is the third arc. However, Yomi’s spectre is prominently featured as the main antagonist for the first arc of the manga.

6: Kagura crying too much was to explain her constant smiling and good mood in the manga. Of course, I wanted to stab her a few times for her incessant crying, too, but Chihara Minori is <3 so I can't hate her too much.

7: If you want a real "thing that sucks", consider that Yomi was in an easy position to do anything she wanted to both Kiri and Ayame, but they end up mostly unscathed and well in the end. If you wanted more lesbian pocky scenes, that was a huge wasted opportunity. =\

8: Nabuu always kicked ass. ^~

By: GTO

GTO — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:07:51 +0000

WoW, lol, i know this series make you pissed. But not because of the few lesbians in it -.-, like you included…
but because of the cruelty in this series and its kinda sad… But i liked it in general.
And what was the point of the first episode anyway… They were all dead… I dont get it. And the picture cover of the all anime, is about those in the first episode. Its really weird they had to die in the first episode.
Hope that there will be a second season, were Yumi is still alive somehow… its so sad that she was killed.
Theres alot of things still missing in the series… And they jump so fast from event to event… skiping important events

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By: Jancz

Jancz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:55:17 +0000

Yo I just started this anime. 2 episodes in and it is seeming AMAZING.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:50:23 +0000

I was actually delayed because I got sick.

In conclusion, best anime of fall 2008.

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:50:43 +0000

5. Kagura
a.) She cries too much.
b.) Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard, especially when she cries.
c.) It made no sense that she had to deal with so much shit (oh wait, this was an anime).

By: Shiro, Long Tail's

Shiro, Long Tail's — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:08:44 +0000

After marathoning the series I have to agree, it’s easily the best show of Fall 08. The first episode is a great hook and leaves you craving some slice of life to explain the character backgrounds. Production values, storytelling, motorcycle-fu and dinosaurs+fire were great all around. Although the ending was a little too bittersweet for me.

SPOILERS
Nabuu’s speech at the end made me roll my eyes. Apparently to be a successful Exorcist you need to kill the one you love; after they try to kill you by protecting you. I guess I’m just irked that Yomi took the stone to protect Kagura and continue a life where they could just be sisters. Instead we get the bloodbath of episode 1, le sigh.

If this was a standalone series and they didn’t have to worry about the continuity of the manga, it would have been pretty awesome for Kagura to pop up behind Butterfly kid at the end and some more sudden violence ensuing.

By: Cobrafire

Cobrafire — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:35:18 +0000

1. The studios have make their money back somehow…
2. Or maybe it was just the right amount of scenes. Ever considered that?
3. Yeah, the Assistant is about as heterosexual as Clay Aiken.
4. You, liking a hetero couple? What next, digitalboy liking grown women?
5. Yet she is still more awesome than Saji from 00.
6. Thank you so much for reminding me that Episode 1 still exists. Goddamn Lucas.
7. Dinosaurs are overrated. Yeah, I said it.
8. Another Ga Rei series would be nice…
9. Disagree. The music would’ve been too outta place.