Sunday, January 31, 2016

D. Gray-Man Season 2

Episode 52: Invasion

Episode 53: Fallen

Episode 54: Beginning of the Night's End

Episode 55: Howl

Episode 56: Delete

Episode 57: Disappearance and Reunion

Episode 58: Asian Headquarters

Episode 59: Road of a Vow

Episode 60: Title

Episode 61: Sinking Darkness

Episode 62: The Saint-Girl Falls into Darkness

Episode 63: The Ship of Evenness and the Girl Who Didn't Return

Episode 64: Message

Episode 65: Landing

Episode 66: Disturbance and Impatience

Episode 67: To Edo

Episode 68: Silence

Episode 69: Invasion

Episode 70: God's Clown

Episode 71: The Signed Name

Episode 72: Decisive Battle

Episode 73: Kanda Engages in Battle

Episode 74: Edo's Annihilation

Episode 75: Clown and Auguste

Episode 76: Key and Noah's Door

Episode 77: Skinn Bolic's Room

Episode 78: Taboo, Three Illusions

Episode 79: Noah's Memory

Episode 80: Twin's Trap

Episode 81: Debt Crisis

Episode 82: Bad Game

Episode 83: Jasdevi, Enters

Episode 84: Bloody Krory

Episode 85: Dark-Colored Rhapsody

Episode 86: The Weak Person

Episode 87: Critical Point

Episode 88: Lavi

Episode 89: The Voice of Darkness

Episode 90: Black Carnival

Episode 91: Judgment

Episode 92: Shadow of the Musician

Episode 93: Melody

Episode 94: Homecoming

Episode 95: Sheep and Dog

Episode 96: Yet the Hands of Time Move Onward

Episode 97: Headquarters Under Siege

Episode 98: The Power of a General

Episode 99: The Noah of Lust

Episode 100: Level 4

Episode 101: To the God I Hate

Episode 102: Exchange of Promises 

Episode 103: It Echoes in the Long Morning











Pros

- The action sequences are much improved. This is due to more challenging adversaries as well as the fact that the exorcists work in larger groups as opposed to just pairing off.

- The soundtrack continues to impress and it adds a lot of weight to several scenes over the course of the series.


Cons


- None of the ongoing plot lines are wrapped up in any particular fashion.  Questions are raised and never addressed again and the finale offers no closure whatsoever.

- Lenalee becomes useless for a large portion of this batch of episodes.

- The dungeon crawl setup for the episodes in the ark was OK, but it brought the story to a halt and took too long getting back to Earth.


Overall

This was a big step up from the first half of the episode.  There's more tension and more emotional weight.  Sadly, it has its own fair share of setbacks.  While it's one of the longer series out there, it's a decent watch.  Though go in knowing that the show doesn't resolve anything by the time you get to the end.  If incomplete stories bug you, this will do just that.



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