Kaze no Stigma

[Kraco]

Looks like AniYoshi got back from their vacation and released episode 15. I hope they will soon catch up so that I won't need to dowload all the future episodes two times...

Episode 15 - AniYoshi

[shinta|hikari]

The bat was a joke. I think they used that only because they suck so much at inflicting pain that anything else would have only tickled the bastard. I mean, after being beaten by a bat he comes back after three days without any serious injury? Even a kid can kill with a bat. If they broke his legs or something, that may be too much, but they didnt.

[Kraco]

Unfortunately this is, along with Claymore, the series whose episodes I mostly anticipate each week. Thus, it wounds me when they are taking they their time to appear:

Episode 16 - AniYoshi
Episode 17 - AniYoshi
Episode 18 - AniYoshi

I have been actually watching SHS releases just because of the statement I made before those links. I'll archive AniYoshi, though.

Episode 18 - Shinsen

Edit: AniYoshi's game of catch up seems to be succeeding.

[Kraco]

The terrible secrets of the hidden mansion:

Episode 19 - Shinsen

Edit: The recent trend of lack of Ayano-Kazuma interaction just doesn't seem to lessen. That's too bad because basically this series has very little other content than Kazuma's character and that character is often at its best with Ayano around. Now we are treated just with some plot development, but honestly that's not at all where the strength of this series lies. I hope it won't continue like this for long or the shine of this show will dim.

[Darknodin]

I disagree... I really liked that episode (well, the end of it anyways). I don't actually think Kazuma is more interesting with Ayano around, and i actually really like Ren's character (he's a bit like Kazuma if you think about it, just a little less sure of what he should do).

[Kraco]

Oh, it's not like I'd have disliked this episode. It's just that the reason why I like this series so much is Kazuma being such a kickass pimp character. And obviously he and Ayano belong together.

Ren, Kazuma and their dad are all very much alike, which is an excellent detail as such. They all just have somewhat different circumstances and settings (though we know little of their dad's backstory). That difference gave them their personal nuances.

[David75]

At first I thought Kazuma was a little darker and had a real grudge towards his former familly.
I thought he would hold his bitter character and kick asses, having wraith and revolt inside him.
However, this show isn't heading this direction, rather it's a bit a fanservice and cheap pseudo romance with ep18 hitting the bottom with that awful girl...

I've not seen last ep as of yet, it's on my comp, but I'm still wondering if I'll watcht it. I feel a
bit betrayed from what I was waiting for after watching the few first eps. It seems I had
build ideas about this show that were totally out of tune with what I was to be.

c u