He looks like he's enjoying himself, so I bethis answer to my question would be "Yes."
*WARNING* This post contains numerous spoilers.
Gosh darn it! They've killed off Ein. Well, she doesn't actually actually die onscreen, although she was shot in the chest and fell into the harbor waters. Reiji was also critically wounded and survived, but Ein (or Elen/Eren as Reiji named her after they fled from Inferno) is nowhere to be found. Hopefully she'll be back, but I'm not so sure she will be.
Reiji had also developed from being a puppet into more of a human character thanks to the sexy Ms. McCunnen's overly-sensual tactics, but after the episode 11 (which was mostly a dreaded recap) he seems to have crawled back into his puppet-like shell. Of course, there's good reason for this since he lost Ein, but I was really liking how he was becoming more self-aware after regaining his memories.
Also, based upon the preview for episode 12, Elen/Eren has been replaced by a cutesy, big-eyed blond girl with a squeaky, high-pitched voice typical for such a character. She seems out of place in this series, but it's too early to tell.
Thankfully nothing has changed in regards to the good production values and beautiful music. I haven't found myself bored to death either like I have with other Koichi Mashimo/Bee Train works (although things may be changing quickly in that regard). I'll just have to see how things go, but I'm not liking the direction the series is taking at this point. Hopefully things will change for the better, because I would hate to drop a series that's so aesthetically pleasing.
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Yeah, I actually got bored with it myself, about around episode 5 or so. I think the main reason why I was impressed with it at first were indeed because of some really impressive production values and music, but I just couldn't get into the story.
That isn't surprising. I know from experience that it is indeed very hard to not become bored when watching something from director Koichi Mashimo. His methodical style is an acquired taste.
Yeah, I suppose it is. That was one of the things I noted when you mentioned what you did in the first episode review about him. Taking into consideration he was the same guy who directed .Hack//Sign, which was another series I just couldn't get into for very similar reasons, I had my doubts and unfortunately they unfolded the way I expected them too. :(
For me, I became used to Mashimo's style early on thanks to .hack//SIGN, which was my first favorite series ever. Other pieces of the .hack puzzle (with the exception of Roots) and Noir are pretty good, too. Madlax looks great if I could get myself past the first episode. Everything else is kind of blah.
Maybe he's only good (for me, at least) when he's directing a .hack or girls-with-guns series.
P.S. The italics better work this time.
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