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Angel Heart – episode 10

“Angel Smile”

Wrap up for the Zheng Dao Fei civil war in the first half, with a return to comedy and also to emotion. Even Xin Hong gets an SD scene! That’s how far Angel Heart has come.
I love Kaori and Ryo too damned much, and I’m definitely glad to be fixed up after the last incident.
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Angel Heart – episode 9

“Shanin: her lost name”

With this, I’m out of Angel Heart until who knows when. Come back to me, anime with ambiguously drawn battle lines!
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Angel Heart – episode 8

“True friends”

Ryo breaks the implausibility barrier for the sake of entertainment and Glass Heart’s satisfaction. Again, good stuff … but where the hell is Miki?
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Angel Heart – episode 7

“I should love this town of mine”

An excellent episode, and the strange part is that it all feels natural: Ryo and Glass Heart go together as if they were made for each other, even without the involvement of Kaori. There are some new ideas for old characters here, and they’re weird; still, this episode works perfectly as an extension of what was already a living world, contrasting perfeclty with the theme of fatalism that runs as the subtext.
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Angel Heart – episode 6

“Reunion”

Many aspects of this series are brought into sharper focus, and make for an overall more compelling story. It’s a mixture of revelation and picking up on things that I missed that brings us to this stage … a stage that maybe does lend credence to the idea that Ryo has a slightly different past.
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Angel Heart – episode 5

Images to follow if I can get the raws

“Yongbie (Goodbye) … Kaori”

Glass Heart tries something that never would have worked, while clever cinematography makes the viewer just as blind as Umibozu.
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Angel Heart – episode 4

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“A Lost Heart”

Pawns! Mild psychosis! Ryo getting angry! It’s all on in Angel Heart.
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Angel Heart – episode 3

“The City of XYZ”

The march of time has changed the sweeper business. How can Glass Heart hope to ever get in contact with City Hunter when there is nowhere to write XYZ?
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Angel Heart – episode 2

“Kaori has returned”

Considering that Angel Heart is easily my most anticipated program of the year, I really should have tackled this much earlier. However, if you consider how long it took me to get around to it you may understand the depth of my funk.

That aside, this episode shows that Angel Heart very explicitly states some things that City Hunter treated in an unspoken, but not exactly subtle, fashion. The tone that we may come to expect is set fairly well, and in all we’re given a satisfactory introduction to what comes after the fall.
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Angel Heart – episode 1

Wow. This show is so much better when I can understand all of it. I’ve only got a little bit to add to this article; mainly just some factual information that helps me understand the show better, and stuff that might not have been picked up on.
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