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Mon, Jan 02, 2006
Gilgamesh, Vol. 4: Under a Blood Red Sky
The Show: The fourth volume of Gilgamesh has some interesting twists in the plot that will entice fans of the show, but is still hampered by stylized animation and a slow moving plot. That wouldn't be so bad, but the gaps in plot development are fill with teenage angst that really has been overdone in anime recently.
Series Background:
Fifteen years ago the Heaven's Gate project, a scientific organization with unknown goals and methods was about to be shut down. A lone scientist who was working on the project and also lobbied for its termination, Dr. Madoka, enters the inner core of the project and sets off a reaction that has global implications. A wave of energy races across the planet and alters the sky, making it shimmer and reflect lite, blocking out most of the... Read the entire review
Gilgamesh, Vol. 4: Under a Blood Red Sky