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I'm on page 336 of the last book and Grace hasn't kissed Hadrian Farr yet. By now it's been mentioned that he's in love with her and heavily suggested that she's got feelings for him about 8,000 times by various people, but there's been no action. I'll be very upset if they don't get busy soon.
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I saw a preview for the anime before the series began, and had no interest in watching it after that, because the preview showed me this: eye-candy nuns wielding heavy artillery fighting what seemed to be demons that could erupt into tentacle-ish shapes at any time.
But I saw an AMV for it at Otakon and was interested: It seemed to have just the right amount of promise for questionable religious issues, humorous hijinks, and confused mental states to lure me in. It's proving remarkably interesting so far, even though I can't help smacking myself in the forehead for the occasional gratuituous camera angle straight up Rosette's voluminous skirt and into her bloomers, or that one time with blatant ogling of her abnormally bouncy breasts in the random pink evening gown. (Breasts don't bounce THAT LONG from one sudden movement, I'm SORRY. I'm told that there's less offensive fanservice in the manga, plus I saw a manga picture of Remington in a tanktop and started to drool uncontrollably all over his arms, so fanservice for the ladies too!)
The main character, Rosette, is a nun of the Magdalene Order in the 1920s, and she packs nasty handguns with blessed bullets and/or something I can only describe as a holy machinegun... She's like Lina Inverse, except taller and with bigger boobs -- in the anime -- and much better at PRETENDING to be a good girl for the sake of the head of the Order, Sister Kate, who is constantly mourning the repair bills that Rosette wracks up in her wake, and the apology letters she has to write to the NYPD, etc.
In addition, Rosette has a rather unusual partner. Normally exorcists (the female nuns are exorcists; the men I've seen so far on the church grounds appear to be part of the militia) are paired with one another, so you'll get a team of exorcist nuns armed to the teeth.
Rosette's partner is Chrno, whose name is nigh-impossible to type because the spelling is so blatantly incorrect, and Chrno is about half a foot shorter than Rosette and also very obviously a demon, see the pointy ears and the dusky skin, that makes him A DEMON you dumb bitches. (For some reason, the nuns had not realized that he was a demon. They just thought he was some cute hanger-on who happened to have to wear bandages after coming into contact with holy water, I guess.)
Chrno is extremely popular among the seemingly-retarded gossipy teenage nuns, but the higher-ups loathe him and try to blame Rosette's damage on him. This is not the case. He's adorable, looks about thirteen (there IS a twelve-year-old girl on staff who's his height) and he gets to be Rosette's straight man, a miniature Zelgadis to her Lina to warn her mildly when she's stepping over the lines and throw a fit when she does something life-threatening. ^^
But Chrno is a sealed demon, contained somehow by a watch? Rosette wears on a necklace. In the second episode a demon nearly breaks Rosette's ribs and sends her flying and when she lands she doesn't move, and sweet adorable Chrno gets really upset. Things start crackling and he growls, "Look what you've DONE, you filthy low-class no-name SCUM! How DARE you touch my precious Contractor?! SHE'S NOT MOVING, IS SHE?!" He starts screaming and howling and very nearly breaks the seal without any help from Rosette, totally berserk until she gets up and tackles him.
Personally, I wouldn't have complained, because without the seal, Chrno is not a cute thirteen-year-old demonling, he is a full-grown sexy bastard, so I would not complain if she took the seal off someday soon. And she does have faith in him, for what that matters; she offers in the first episode to remove the seal so he can use his power to help fight off a demon.
(Although Rosette and Chrno are obviously going to fall into one another's arms once he's tall enough that he won't be crushed, she is currently harboring a major crush on one of her superiors, Reverend Remington. And who can blame her? I actually suspect Remington is full of lies and may not be a good guy. This makes him hotter, of course.)
At the beginning of episode two we get some backstory in the form of a flashback/nightmare: 12-year-old Rosette and her brother Joshua going down into a sealed room, the wards of which melt away under her hands, and within is a somewhat wilder-looking version of young Chrno. He tells them coldly that he is a demon, something they should fear, and they should run very fast and very far.
The two children COMPLETELY fail to be fazed by this threat. Rosette insists that he's not really scary, he's just HUNGRY, she has some snacks if he'd like, and Joshua approaches all starry-eyed and gets all "Are you REALLY a demon?! SO COOL. Can I shake your hand, would that be okay?"
At the end of the second episode we get to see Joshua in person. He ALSO has grown up very sexy, although he's still like 15 or something (...thus making him older than Tezuka, I hate you Prince of Tennis *cry*) and he's apparently evil now. At least, I hope he's evil, I'd have to question his contented grin after the bloodbath he made of his private tropical paradise if he isn't.
So then, in episode three, backstory occurs: there have been born seven people in the last few decades who are Agents of God. They represent the seven Virtues that God gave to man. Azmaria, a little girl they rescue in that same episode, is the embodiment of man's charity, for instance. They have immense power that they can call upon, to the point of acquiring angel wings at the height of their pure intentions in using that power, and the demons floating around are really, really interested in these Agents of God.
Joshua was one of the Agents of God -- the embodiment of man's hope. But it looks like he was twisted by the demon Aion, and now... Well, now he's fucked in the head.
I want the manga, and I want it right now -- ADV seems to have licensed it, and thank GOD, they corrected the spelling to Chrono. I have twelve episodes of anime on my computer that I will watch as soon as Grace and Hadrian get married and have a million kids, but while the anime is pretty, the manga is fucking gorgeous, plus the creator of the site where all these pictures come from seems to think that the anime is not fit to lick her boots. I think she's being ridiculously overdramatic -- if she thinks adding fanservice and tweaking plot is the worst thing you can do to a manga-turned-into-an-anime, she hasn't compared much manga with anime -- and also deeply dislike her for the truly deeply obnoxious bandwidth-stealing deterrent she's got going -- please note that all links are on Dual.
And in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles news, Fai and Kurogane are not having sex yet, but every day they creep closer. In the latest volume they fight together to fend off demons and Fai gets badly wounded because he refuses to use his magic after he's lost his weapons, so Kurogane whips out a heavy-duty shounen attack and obliterates all the enemies. Then he heads over to where Fai is injured but still grinning and still babbling ("That was very impressive, Kuro-sama, don't worry about me, I'm fine, ahh, what's this, it seems like something's wrong with my leg, can't seem to stand up, oh well, I'll...") and steps on Fai's twisted ankle. Fai shuts up and loses the grin for once -- he almost looks afraid -- and Kurogane goes into a short speech, reminding Fai of all the people he's killed without a whit of remorse.
"But the kind of person I hate most," he says finally, "is the kind of person who has no regard for his own life."
After a long moment, Fai musters a fake smile for him. "It seems like I'm the kind of person you hate most."
Less than an hour later they're in a club listening to Oruha -- who is still the most beautiful woman CLAMP ever conceived of -- sing her omnipresent Cloversong, and Fai is wistful. He finds the song, with all its angsty lyrics about wanting to love you and being unable to and wanting to be taken away to someplace happy, to be touching... Kurogane does not. Kurogane grumpily insists that if you want to go someplace, go there, don't sit around and wait for someone else to take you there.
Fai says, smiling, "Well, of course you would do that, since you're Kuro-tan. But I have always been waiting for someone to take me away..." Kurogane watches him seriously as he daydreams to the melody, and then Fai adds, "I guess that's part of why I'm the kind of person you hate most, right?"
Don't worry, Fai. Kurogane doesn't hate you. Not a chance in hell. And I bet he's going to help you get where you want to go, even if he does make you go there on your own two feet.
I'm on page 336 of the last book and Grace hasn't kissed Hadrian Farr yet. By now it's been mentioned that he's in love with her and heavily suggested that she's got feelings for him about 8,000 times by various people, but there's been no action. I'll be very upset if they don't get busy soon.
Random but on the Intended Topics:
I saw a preview for the anime before the series began, and had no interest in watching it after that, because the preview showed me this: eye-candy nuns wielding heavy artillery fighting what seemed to be demons that could erupt into tentacle-ish shapes at any time.
But I saw an AMV for it at Otakon and was interested: It seemed to have just the right amount of promise for questionable religious issues, humorous hijinks, and confused mental states to lure me in. It's proving remarkably interesting so far, even though I can't help smacking myself in the forehead for the occasional gratuituous camera angle straight up Rosette's voluminous skirt and into her bloomers, or that one time with blatant ogling of her abnormally bouncy breasts in the random pink evening gown. (Breasts don't bounce THAT LONG from one sudden movement, I'm SORRY. I'm told that there's less offensive fanservice in the manga, plus I saw a manga picture of Remington in a tanktop and started to drool uncontrollably all over his arms, so fanservice for the ladies too!)
The main character, Rosette, is a nun of the Magdalene Order in the 1920s, and she packs nasty handguns with blessed bullets and/or something I can only describe as a holy machinegun... She's like Lina Inverse, except taller and with bigger boobs -- in the anime -- and much better at PRETENDING to be a good girl for the sake of the head of the Order, Sister Kate, who is constantly mourning the repair bills that Rosette wracks up in her wake, and the apology letters she has to write to the NYPD, etc.
In addition, Rosette has a rather unusual partner. Normally exorcists (the female nuns are exorcists; the men I've seen so far on the church grounds appear to be part of the militia) are paired with one another, so you'll get a team of exorcist nuns armed to the teeth.
Rosette's partner is Chrno, whose name is nigh-impossible to type because the spelling is so blatantly incorrect, and Chrno is about half a foot shorter than Rosette and also very obviously a demon, see the pointy ears and the dusky skin, that makes him A DEMON you dumb bitches. (For some reason, the nuns had not realized that he was a demon. They just thought he was some cute hanger-on who happened to have to wear bandages after coming into contact with holy water, I guess.)
Chrno is extremely popular among the seemingly-retarded gossipy teenage nuns, but the higher-ups loathe him and try to blame Rosette's damage on him. This is not the case. He's adorable, looks about thirteen (there IS a twelve-year-old girl on staff who's his height) and he gets to be Rosette's straight man, a miniature Zelgadis to her Lina to warn her mildly when she's stepping over the lines and throw a fit when she does something life-threatening. ^^
But Chrno is a sealed demon, contained somehow by a watch? Rosette wears on a necklace. In the second episode a demon nearly breaks Rosette's ribs and sends her flying and when she lands she doesn't move, and sweet adorable Chrno gets really upset. Things start crackling and he growls, "Look what you've DONE, you filthy low-class no-name SCUM! How DARE you touch my precious Contractor?! SHE'S NOT MOVING, IS SHE?!" He starts screaming and howling and very nearly breaks the seal without any help from Rosette, totally berserk until she gets up and tackles him.
Personally, I wouldn't have complained, because without the seal, Chrno is not a cute thirteen-year-old demonling, he is a full-grown sexy bastard, so I would not complain if she took the seal off someday soon. And she does have faith in him, for what that matters; she offers in the first episode to remove the seal so he can use his power to help fight off a demon.
(Although Rosette and Chrno are obviously going to fall into one another's arms once he's tall enough that he won't be crushed, she is currently harboring a major crush on one of her superiors, Reverend Remington. And who can blame her? I actually suspect Remington is full of lies and may not be a good guy. This makes him hotter, of course.)
At the beginning of episode two we get some backstory in the form of a flashback/nightmare: 12-year-old Rosette and her brother Joshua going down into a sealed room, the wards of which melt away under her hands, and within is a somewhat wilder-looking version of young Chrno. He tells them coldly that he is a demon, something they should fear, and they should run very fast and very far.
The two children COMPLETELY fail to be fazed by this threat. Rosette insists that he's not really scary, he's just HUNGRY, she has some snacks if he'd like, and Joshua approaches all starry-eyed and gets all "Are you REALLY a demon?! SO COOL. Can I shake your hand, would that be okay?"
At the end of the second episode we get to see Joshua in person. He ALSO has grown up very sexy, although he's still like 15 or something (...thus making him older than Tezuka, I hate you Prince of Tennis *cry*) and he's apparently evil now. At least, I hope he's evil, I'd have to question his contented grin after the bloodbath he made of his private tropical paradise if he isn't.
So then, in episode three, backstory occurs: there have been born seven people in the last few decades who are Agents of God. They represent the seven Virtues that God gave to man. Azmaria, a little girl they rescue in that same episode, is the embodiment of man's charity, for instance. They have immense power that they can call upon, to the point of acquiring angel wings at the height of their pure intentions in using that power, and the demons floating around are really, really interested in these Agents of God.
Joshua was one of the Agents of God -- the embodiment of man's hope. But it looks like he was twisted by the demon Aion, and now... Well, now he's fucked in the head.
I want the manga, and I want it right now -- ADV seems to have licensed it, and thank GOD, they corrected the spelling to Chrono. I have twelve episodes of anime on my computer that I will watch as soon as Grace and Hadrian get married and have a million kids, but while the anime is pretty, the manga is fucking gorgeous, plus the creator of the site where all these pictures come from seems to think that the anime is not fit to lick her boots. I think she's being ridiculously overdramatic -- if she thinks adding fanservice and tweaking plot is the worst thing you can do to a manga-turned-into-an-anime, she hasn't compared much manga with anime -- and also deeply dislike her for the truly deeply obnoxious bandwidth-stealing deterrent she's got going -- please note that all links are on Dual.
And in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles news, Fai and Kurogane are not having sex yet, but every day they creep closer. In the latest volume they fight together to fend off demons and Fai gets badly wounded because he refuses to use his magic after he's lost his weapons, so Kurogane whips out a heavy-duty shounen attack and obliterates all the enemies. Then he heads over to where Fai is injured but still grinning and still babbling ("That was very impressive, Kuro-sama, don't worry about me, I'm fine, ahh, what's this, it seems like something's wrong with my leg, can't seem to stand up, oh well, I'll...") and steps on Fai's twisted ankle. Fai shuts up and loses the grin for once -- he almost looks afraid -- and Kurogane goes into a short speech, reminding Fai of all the people he's killed without a whit of remorse.
"But the kind of person I hate most," he says finally, "is the kind of person who has no regard for his own life."
After a long moment, Fai musters a fake smile for him. "It seems like I'm the kind of person you hate most."
Less than an hour later they're in a club listening to Oruha -- who is still the most beautiful woman CLAMP ever conceived of -- sing her omnipresent Cloversong, and Fai is wistful. He finds the song, with all its angsty lyrics about wanting to love you and being unable to and wanting to be taken away to someplace happy, to be touching... Kurogane does not. Kurogane grumpily insists that if you want to go someplace, go there, don't sit around and wait for someone else to take you there.
Fai says, smiling, "Well, of course you would do that, since you're Kuro-tan. But I have always been waiting for someone to take me away..." Kurogane watches him seriously as he daydreams to the melody, and then Fai adds, "I guess that's part of why I'm the kind of person you hate most, right?"
Don't worry, Fai. Kurogane doesn't hate you. Not a chance in hell. And I bet he's going to help you get where you want to go, even if he does make you go there on your own two feet.