After a slow yet strangely gripping start it’s time to get down to some serious drama.
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Clean opening
Clean closing
Character artwork
Production artwork
Contextual notes (reverse cover)
Behind the scenes with English VA’s for the Orga
Preview of volume #3
ADV previews
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Kiyoko has been taken by the Gilgamesh children in order to have a chat with her and it appears they are working with her estranged father, Kiyoko will have none of it though and wishes to be returned to her brother.
Isamu believes he has a lead on where they might have taken Kiyoko and so the three Orga along with Tatsuya track her down to an old airport.
Kiyoko is returned to the hotel suffering from stress, to add to it, the countess really doesn’t like her and treats Kiyoko with nothing more than distain accusing her of willingly going with the Gilgamesh children in the first place. Alienating her even more from her brother who is bonding more and more with the Orga as he learns to use his own powers.
An evening meal (minus Kiyoko) is a little bit creepy where they talk about the fact that they are a bit of family and Tatsuya is tormented for maybe having a bit of a thing for his sister buried under his concern for her.
The Countess; adamant of driving a wedge between the two siblings succeeds when Kiyoko runs away again but is swiftly brought back a former shell of herself by men in black recruited by the Countess. Kiyoko then finds herself locked up. Even Fuko and Toru begin to realise how harsh the Countess is being and aid Tatsuya by teaching him to teleport so that he can see and talk with her down in the hotels rather large underground.
The countess is ever present however and Kiyoko leaves the residence as to a new contract written up by the countess more than Kiyoko, where by she will lead a normal life but will forever have to pay the monetary debt she owes to the Countess
So far covering three episodes on the disc the story then shifts for the last as the cast go to the Core Settlement a big city and we are introduced to another element of the story, not really covered outside of the opening prologue: Investigating the Heavens Gate side of the story again and the incident that mirrored the sky. The countess is reunited with an old work colleague and it appears the countess is one of those that worked on heavens gate in the first place.
While I am enjoying, and am going to enjoy how Gilgamesh plays out it’s going to fall into one of those shows that for me at least is hard to write about to convey that enthusiasm. The series look is different and that in itself is either a good or a bad thing, just like with the first volume those looking for a break from the norm’ this is it and for those who were unsure after the first this one really continues and improves upon what was laid down there.
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Much like Texhnolyze; Gilgamesh is a show that the battle of preference was most likely fought and won or lost on the first volume, for those that were unsure, stick with it volume to improves all round. "
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