Erementar Gerad 8

  
  

The gang lands at a town to do repairs on their ship, and while there, Coud and Ren meet another Adilraid, Serena. She's on the run from an Adilraid hunter, Wolks (pronounced "Volks") and his chibikko Adilraid, Tilel. Serena was originally in the custody of Arc Aile, but ran away to reunite with her Pleasure (reaction partner), Alex. She hardbors a hatred for Arc Aile for taking her away from Alex, but something worse lies in store... Adilraids live longer than humans, so when she finally arrives at the town she used to live in many years before, she finds out that Alex died the year before. After the others arrive as Coud fights Wolks, Wolks and Tilel leave. He says that he and Arc Aile are pretty much the same: only using Adilraids as things -- see his treatment of Tilel and Arc Aile's treatment of Serena -- not thinking about how they feel or anything...

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I'm not sure exactly what to say here. On its own, this episode was decent enough as a sob story, I suppose, but... I dunno what it is with Xebec recently, but they seem to not respect the original works of the anime they're working on at all (^^;;) They completely disregarded the original setting of Wolks and Tilel's story from the manga. Serena's story this time was an anime original, and while I can somewhat understand why they mixed Wolks and Tilel in, it really wasn't necessary. I'm hoping we'll see more of Wolks and Tilel later -- hoping that they'll show a bit more of Tilel's kawainess and show Wolks' change of heart torwards Tilel after going mano a mano with Cisqua. And... more SD Ren (like this or this), please ;)