Angel Sanctuary 7
Posted: August 21, 2008 Filed under: Angel Sanctuary 3 Comments »I’m not sure how many posts I have in me tonight, but I promise I’ll make up for it tomorrow. I’ve been on some type of road trip every day since my vacation started, most involving Pittsburgh for some reason. Tomorrow I’m not leaving the house. The next day I’ll probably be in Akron. Again.
Setsuna comes back, and this time he’s… different! I was definitely expecting this, but it happened much sooner than I thought. It’s pointed out to him that the people around him only see Alexiel and not Setsuna Mudo, and for some reason, it was like a big revelation for him. I mean, has anyone actually been calling him Setsuna all this time? He’s surrounded by people who gathered BECAUSE he’s the reincarnation of Alexiel, for pete’s sake.
He’s handed some sort of subquest. I have little faith in this diversion after what happened to Tialiel last time, but maybe something will come of it later.
The most important among the things that happen, other than Setsuna’s transformation, is that Mad Hatter introduces himself to Setsuna and gives him secrets and… some sort of alliance? He actually propositions Kurai too, and I’m not sure what Kurai has to think about. I mean, she can’t turn down what it is that Hatter offers. It comes from higher up. Or lower down, as the case may be. I like Hatter a lot since she is sufficiently insane and very, very evil. Kaori Yuki did it again though… dammit, stop fooling me with the genders. Hatter points out that none of that matters though, and she’s got a point.
Michael and Raphael are finally introduced. They’re about what I expected given the descriptions of them we were given. I liked Michael a lot. It’s interesting to see where their allegiances lie in the heaven power struggle though. That situation is still kind of messy in my mind, though, and I think it’s necessary to see what Sevothtarte has in mind before everything comes clear.
Adam Kadamon saved the day though, and spelled out the seven layers of heaven and seven layers of hell clear as day, though, and what he didn’t cover Kurai went over later. It doesn’t explain everything, but it helps.
This volume was the end of the Hell chapter and the beginning of the… lower floors of heaven chapter. The elemental angels will probably start to come into play more and more, and I’m looking forward to seeing Setsuna in his new form, which I suspect he’ll keep for awhile unless Kaori Yuki really hates drawing it as much as she says she does.
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Cool writeups Connie, Angel Sanctuary caught my eye in a Taiwan manga cafe a long time ago and it remains one of my favorites. Since you refrain from spoilers I will too (though it’s hard!) but random comment, I was thinking how far removed the story has come from the beginning volume. I mean “Angel Sanctuary” as it first appeared was a computer game… The author really takes the reader on a strange trip through her worlds.
Also these volumes are for me the high point of the artwork in this series, very beautiful.
Thanks! I appreciate the comment. I forgot to mention the weird computer game in the earlier reviews. After hearing so much about this series and its wars and reincarnated characters and whatnot, I was surprised the first volume or so was based around a computer game that possessed humans. Even after reading the first volume a long time ago, it’s a totally forgettable detail, and I was surprised again when I read it recently.
The artwork is one of the reasons I was initially attracted to the series. It’s been getting better and better, but I’m starting to have problems with somewhat similar male character designs now that more and more characters have been introduced, but I usually figure things out after the character has put in a few appearances. For whatever reason, I was really blown away by the small detail of Alexiel having the exact same face, recognizably, as Setsuna. Normally when two characters are supposed to look alike, they just don’t, but Alexiel recently really has been long-haired Setsuna.