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I just finished The Moonbow Traveler. Some brief thoughts:
- While the movie is good, I'm starting to think the series is purposely keeping Kouga and Kaoru in a state of perpetual limbo to avoid just killing them off, as that would upset too many people.
- The P Garo side story shows Kouga has already found Kaoru and sends Zaruba back to Earth for Raiga. But in the movie both he and Taiga have copies of Zaruba on them somehow.
- Outside of one vision, Kaoru never appears with Kouga in the movie. She only appears with Mayuri, and later in a post-credits scene.
- The trailers for the movie implied the Black Train would feature more prominently, but it only plays a role in the first half. Nevertheless I did enjoy it. It's like a 19th century railroad where the last vestiges of Oriental feudalism clash with Western modernity. Something out of a Pearl S. Buck novel.
Unless I missed something, the implication seems to be that the dead ride this train and those without tickets are sent to the jail coach. But Taiga (in another guise) is on this train, apparently ticketless himself, and he's dead.
- I'm not sure what to think about the movie's implication via "prophesy" that Raiga and Mayuri will marry and have a son. It never seemed that Raiga ever viewed Mayuri in a romantic way, or vice versa, though the movie kinda-sorta hints at the vice versa.
- Crow sadly appear in the epilogue.
- Raiga says he will start searching for his parents himself at the end, and Mayuri agrees to come with. I don't know what the Senate or the Watchdogs would think of that, much less Gonza.
Masaki Kyomoto (Barago) reprises his role from season 1 and Satoshi Matsuda (Ren/Knight from Ryuki) appears as a dead Knight, Shiroku. Both were fun to see, though Shiroku's backstory is just an afterthought in the story.
I wonder if Raiga and Co. will get a second season. The other casts (Kouga cast and Ryuga cast) have had two each. or will the show continue on with this new Versus Road universe?
- While the movie is good, I'm starting to think the series is purposely keeping Kouga and Kaoru in a state of perpetual limbo to avoid just killing them off, as that would upset too many people.
- The P Garo side story shows Kouga has already found Kaoru and sends Zaruba back to Earth for Raiga. But in the movie both he and Taiga have copies of Zaruba on them somehow.
- Outside of one vision, Kaoru never appears with Kouga in the movie. She only appears with Mayuri, and later in a post-credits scene.
- The trailers for the movie implied the Black Train would feature more prominently, but it only plays a role in the first half. Nevertheless I did enjoy it. It's like a 19th century railroad where the last vestiges of Oriental feudalism clash with Western modernity. Something out of a Pearl S. Buck novel.
Unless I missed something, the implication seems to be that the dead ride this train and those without tickets are sent to the jail coach. But Taiga (in another guise) is on this train, apparently ticketless himself, and he's dead.
- I'm not sure what to think about the movie's implication via "prophesy" that Raiga and Mayuri will marry and have a son. It never seemed that Raiga ever viewed Mayuri in a romantic way, or vice versa, though the movie kinda-sorta hints at the vice versa.
- Crow sadly appear in the epilogue.
- Raiga says he will start searching for his parents himself at the end, and Mayuri agrees to come with. I don't know what the Senate or the Watchdogs would think of that, much less Gonza.
Masaki Kyomoto (Barago) reprises his role from season 1 and Satoshi Matsuda (Ren/Knight from Ryuki) appears as a dead Knight, Shiroku. Both were fun to see, though Shiroku's backstory is just an afterthought in the story.
I wonder if Raiga and Co. will get a second season. The other casts (Kouga cast and Ryuga cast) have had two each. or will the show continue on with this new Versus Road universe?