Erementar Gerad 4

  
  

No need for worry out there since Ren's offer to react with Bizon was all an act so she could use her power to stun him and get away. However, even after hearing that, Coud still thinks about what she said about him not being able to use her powers to their fullest. The next time Coud and Ren try to react, it fails because of that doubt Coud has. After the fight with those monsters, they find Paal, seemingly on their side now, offering to show them the way out, but... yup, it's a trap, and Coud has to fight Bizon once again. However, this time Coud and Ren work together to draw out Ren's true power and blow him away.

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And so Coud and Ren's journey begins... It'd be nice if the backgrounds for that journey would get better so they weren't so noticibly bland as they were this episode and previously.

Putting that aside, on quite a few Japanese blogs (See Moon Phase to get an idea) I've been reading there have been complaints of the anime not being very faithful to the manga (earning comparisons with Jinki:Extend since the same person is working on Erementar Gerad), so I've been reading the manga to see for myself. It would seem the writers are doing a good bit of picking and choosing what they want from the original work to be used in the anime, as is usually the case with the jump from manga to anime. Perhaps they are taking it a bit too far with changing things, and most annoying to me, making Coud into an idiot :P I will say if they had stuck with the setting in the manga it would have been better, so hopefully they'll do a better job of making the anime a bit more faithful to the manga from now on (they could learn a bit from the Mahoraba writers, who've done an excellent job with that).

Despite those complaints, I have enjoyed things well enough so far so I'll keep on watching. I've got to have my weekly dose of Cisqua (Mizuki Nana!) SD hijinks, anyways :)