Angel Sanctuary 2
Posted: August 19, 2008 Filed under: Angel Sanctuary Leave a comment »Just as a warning… I am going to try and keep all major plot revelations under wraps, but I’m going to summarize the more general parts of the story, mostly for my own benefit so I can keep track of what’s going on. Normally I try hard to avoid spoilers, but I’m not going to be able to keep things straight here unless I write about them.
This volume was almost all about Sara and Setsuna. I said before I don’t like incest, and I’ll say it again, I hate incest, but it’s handled so well here that I find myself feeling pretty sympathetic for the couple. The spotlight is more on the taboo and the repurcussions than how true their love is, which also helps, I think.
Sara’s mom catches her and Setsuna in a close moment, and after being taken down a couple notches by her, Setsuna says the most terrible things he can think of to drive her away and make her fall out of love. Fate is not so kind, though, and Setsuna’s love is used against him by Rosiel for blackmail. After rumors go around the school about Setsuna and his sister, only his friend Kira’s words keep him from flying off the handle. Kira basically says that they’ve never been in his shoes and can’t know what it’s like to fight yourself over the forbidden love he has. Setsuna just needed to hear that he wasn’t the most evil person on earth for his feelings, so this made him feel much better.
Then, it made him feel much worse later during another scene with Kira. Towards the end of the volume he loses the will to live, and I really thought the main character was going to die in volume two since this would unleash Alexiel (Alexiel can’t live unless Setsuna dies, but I suspect there will be a way around this later). Instead, two new characters are introduced, one of whom is apparently one of the most powerful angels in heaven. He’s looking for Adam Kadamon. There’s another new character too, an Archangel-in-Training that replaces Rosiel’s Cherubim-rank angel.
Just a plot summary, sorry. I still have no opinion on this story other than it’s very busy so far and I like the doomed romance. Here’s hoping something awesome happens next volume.
