Red Garden Ep22 (It's The End isn't it?)

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Having their cover blown and with Herve as the head of the Doral, leads to a final confrontation of the Doral with the Animus. Age old rival clans battle it down for the other accursed tome in an ultimate showdown. What else you want for a conclusion?

They managed to tone down the "extra physics" dished out over at episode 16 (Sorrowful Lies), an episode which nearly make the show jump the shark, having unbelievably bad fighting scenes,bad animation. It's the "THAT's IT!!!I want OUT" moment.

However it's the last episode and like some weird GONZO tradition and if you find they like been cutting budget for the last few episodes, this is where they will surprise you with fluid animation and some tiny little nitnacks that will make the whole presentation go up by at least a level.

Bitter rivalry always is the key to setup showdowns. Kate and friends managed to band up together against Herve who was amazingly unguarded, unarmed and burdened (carrying Anna and the Tome). Well, he is considered a "Boss" character so a little handicap can up that status quo. Having bashing Doral beasts, there's still the LOL moment of a repeated joke when Rachel beats a stick clubbing Herve from behind then looking stunt when that offense didn't work. And that Rose went down before doing any moves. There's a lot of tongue lashing between Kate and Herve that actually serves no purpose. Deeper reading suggested that maybe Herve did had a soft spot for Kate just like he had for Lize. It's all too late so let's kill each other.

The order of the day is that when you got all that bombs going off at bridge, co-ordinate infiltration and standard blacksuits, you ought to get body guards. Did Herve ever played Dynasty Warriors???? I guess not.

That's why he got dig in by Lula from behind while in his all Megalomaniac moment of non-stop muttering of "I am so gonna be satisfied when I am done with you (seriously?Is it better than SEX?)" nonsense. Hmmm. Tasty. Herve is mortally wounded but Lula is seriously DUSTED so he quickly left having like suddenly remembering his sister got like ZERO SECONDS BEFORE TURNING INTO AN ANIMAL.

So God Bless Herve when he about bled to half dead when his sister woke up and find fresh meat next to her. Yum. The sound effect is awful when Herve embrace Anna to her death. It's an awful scene, the sound effect is HORRIBLE, killing off any empathy for a sorrowful moment of despair. They ought to drown the sound with the sad soundtracks (which comes a plentiful as turn up in their OST)and then some focus and panning. They didn't. So ya. It's awful. Then again it's the last episode.

So with the Tome set back to where it belongs, the Animus Elders will be getting their wishes granted (DEATH) while Kate and friends (Clare, Rose and Rachel with Lize... unfortunately everyone else is DEAD apparently) embarks for Immortality (and eventual total lose of their memory). Happy ending?

Hey wait....which body will be awake? The one in the coffin?Or the cold avatar which they had been dragging around for 22 episodes? Technically it doesn't matter (remember. IT'S THE LAST EPISODE). What about Lize????OHMYGOD. She turns to ashes and revealing the secret of the show's title.

Red Garden.


Yes. The end. Then they throw the biggest FUCK YOU to viewers after the credits finishing.

HAPPY ENDING? Never after!!!!LOL. OVA starts on August '07. FUCK YOU back GONZO.