e. vile. arm.

[seichan]

D. Grayman 5! I think I might've watched episode 4 in a sleepy haze. Ah well, I don't think I missed much. The ghost of Mattel/Mater? tells her story. Her story touches Allen and his arm goes berserk and is able to defeat the bad guy. The arm is sorta like Ed's arm from Hagaren, so the fight scenes seem less than exciting in comparison to Hagaren's. I'm a little curious as to what Allen's sob story is. If it is about losing his mother, I'll take all the gossip about plagarism more seriously. Anyway, D. Grayman had potential for becoming a nice goth-shounen fighting series, but the mid-quality animation production prevents it from becoming great. I'll do some digging for spoilers before this too, goes in the can.

Nana starring Mika Nakashima's Hitoiro sounds exactly like a Glay song, even pulls the same Glay-ish riffs, and does not quite bring to mind the rock that Nana would sing. Anyway, it's not a spectacular song, but I'm sure it'll do well enough with all the hype. There's a radio rip floating around if you are interested.

Comments

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I don't know about plagarism, but THE reason that I got into D-G.m is precisely because it's so obviously a fanfic of Hagaren. Just look at the chara design, and yes, the arm. I'm not going to say anything else about it, since you haven't heard the backstory yet, but I'll be interested to know what you think of it when you do, and if you are/will be reading the manga, too.