Shinigami no Blog

I watched this series while it was airing in Japan, but I’ve had lots to do these few past weeks so I didn’t have the chance to blog this series yet.  Therefore I’ll just treat it like a series I’ve seen as a whole and just give some remarks on the series.

First of all, I never thought Zero no Tsukaima would know such popularity among anime-fans.  It seemed cool to me, but usually those magical-fantasy shows aren’t too popular.  I think the whole "Harry Potter-hype" may have made some people watch this show.  The show starts of rather slowly, but they manage to work out all elements in 13 episodes so that’s good.  I know many people are now hoping for a second season, but I think everything got resolved nicely like this, so there is no real need for a second season.  If there would be one anyway, I’ll be sure to watch though ^_^

At first I didn’t really like Louise, but I didn’t really dislike her either.  I did think Kirche was a real bitch in the beginning, but she turns out not to be all that bad.  She’s a really good friend, certainly for Tabitha.  It was clear that this would be a love story, and of course Louise doesn’t want to admit her feelings, but she does get angry when Saito is just talking to other girls.  I know that’s a typical anime character, but I always think it’s irritating.  It’s clear that Siesta also has feelings for Saito, but I think he just sees her as a friend, and he just wants to talk to her, there’s nothing wrong with that.The love-potion incident was very funny: suddenly Louise became a lot nicer, I don’t understand why Saito would want to change her back, personally I liked her a lot better that way.  The kiss with Henrietta was also funny, I wonder how one can be so stupid XD I guess you need to be an anime-character to do such a thing.  Or perhaps Saito did it on purpose :p 

I immediately hated that Ward-sama.  I figured out pretty soon what was going on.  Furthermore, I just didn’t like his attitude, acting like he’s so perfect.  Of course he knew Louise was actually pretty strong, but he wouldn’t have been able to make her full power appear anyway, she needed her Gandalfr for that ^_^

Overall this series was really good.  I admit it was rather short and I would also have liked more episodes, but I think they managed nicely to put the story in 13 episodes without leaving us with questions.

As usual, for a more in-depth description of the series see Random Curiosity. 

Our heroes have finally arrived in Heaven.  When they want to go and see the Seraph, they are stopped by the army of angels and Vulcanus.  He accuses Flonne of committing a sin in the netherworld, by hurting other angels.  Laharl realises it was Vulcanus who led the humans to the netherworld and wants to attack him, but he lets the army attack.  They are easily defeated, but then Vulcanus calls some demons he’s made a deal with.  Of course Etna and Laharl defeat those demons, but Vulcanus escapes before Laharl can attack him.  Flonne wonders what’s going on and she suggests to go and see the Seraph for explanations.  At the shrine, Flonne is very happy to see Lamington-sama again.  She asks him why he hasn’t stopped Vulcanus of attacking the netherworld, and Lamington-sama says it was to help the netherworld.  Laharl gets angry from his explanations, because he thinks the Seraph is only trying to talk himself out of things.  Vulcanus however, thinks that Flonne and the demons have influenced the Seraph and he takes his sword to destroy him.  But of course Lamington-sama is stronger and he punishes Vulcanus for his sins, by turning him into a frog.  Etna thinks this is very funny, but Laharl gets angry with the angels for using such methods.  Lamington-sama explains he sent Flonne to the netherworld to awaken Laharl, because he knew that the netherworld wouldn’t know peace as long as Laharl was asleep.  He wanted Laharl to learn about love.  Flonne is surprised to hear this but she’s also happy.  Laharl on the other hand is getting more and more annoyed.  When the Seraph tells Flonne that she still has to get punished for her sin, Laharl and Etna get really angry, they think Flonne has done nothing wrong.  Flonne accepts the punishment and she asks Laharl to hold onto her pendant for her.  Then she gets enveloped in light, and Laharl takes the pendant: it doesn’t hurt him anymore.  When the light disappears…

I’m going to let you watch for yourselves (if you haven’t done so yet ^_^)  I’m a bit disappointed that not everything gets solved in this last episode.  The series as such wasn’t all that good either, but it was enjoyable enough ^_^

  
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