Angel Sanctuary 6
Posted: August 20, 2008 Filed under: Angel Sanctuary 5 Comments »Wow. Okay. One more post before bed. I’m officially behind schedule on reading this, but this post will at least keep me on schedule for the site.
There’s some interesting things going on in both heaven and hell. Remember Tiara/Tialiel? Yeah. She fills her role. I’m a bit angry that so much time was spent fleshing her out. Oh well. Rosiel is one evil bastard, and he does a fantastic job foiling a plot against him in grand style. There is resurrection. Naked resurrection. Speaking of evil bastards, Sevotarthe is officially a bad guy, at least in my book. He is extremely terrifying.
So on to hell. I forgot about Lucifer’s role in hell last time, but luckily Lucifer didn’t forget about me. He sends his agent in the form of Mad Hatter, a character at least one of my friends was obsessed with. Mad Hatter is extremely awesome, as he is both insane and evil as well as a clown. So, we have Enma-O, who holds souls for judgement. He sends those souls going to hell to Uriel, who casts them into the flames or into the non-existent Gehenna, where they are tortured by our freinds Kurai and the evils. Gehenna is a top layer of hell, and there are layers below it. At the bottom lies Lucifer, but other stuff comes in between. I can accept this.
Setsuna and a friend face off against Enma-o so he can get back to his body, since there is apparently no way out of hell, only ways in. He rumbles with Enma-o a bit and things go crazy, he may not have a body to go back to, blah blah blah. He’s coming back anyway, and that’s the end of the hell chapter. At least I think it is, anyway. I have a feeling most of the story will take place in hell, or at least that’s where Setsuna will stay for awhile.
Alexiel and Rosiel have now been cast in Cain and Abel roles. Cain loves God, but God apparently only loves Abel, and Abel is the most beloved. In with that comes the knowledge that the most forbidden taboo of all for angels is to love God. What.
Lots of stuff happens here, which is good because I think this is the end of this section of story. I’m still waiting for more movement from the very powerful angels and more very powerful demons to be introduced. Plus, there’s a fairly decent complication concerning Setsuna now, and I’m looking forward to how that will be resolved.
You and one of my livejournal friends are reading both this and Fairy Tail. Because I wanna play too, I’m gonna start both in the coming weeks. :)
Great! I’ll be able to see if I’m actually reading the mythology remotely correct, plus I need to see someone else’s reactions to it who went into the series neutral.
Is the other person a fan? And is it the type of livejournal open to the public?
She is and it is. She also reads Skip Beat! and other interesting things. Her livejournal ID is meganbmoore.
I’m not entirely neutral. I did read the first volume a few years ago and saw the OVA, but here’s the extent of what I remember:
1. Setsuna beats people up.
2. He loves his sister a little too much.
3. There’s a dark-haired bishounen guy whose name starts with K who may actually be a sword?
4. Setsuna is the reincarnation of a pissed-off lady angel.
I’m glad that you’ve been kind of writing in a way to help yourself make sense of it; that’s part of why I decided to get reading now, so I could avail myself of your comments.
Is the OVA any good? I remember seeing it around a long time ago, during a time I watched a lot more anime, but I wanted to read the manga first. I’d watch a 3-episode OVA based on the series if it was decent.
No, it isn’t. I beleive it’s just a one episode thing and only covers, like, volume 1. Maybe a shade beyond, but I remember being entirely confused by it.