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Episode 15: The Millenary Knights of God

No screenshots for this one, because frankly there was nothing interesting to 'cap.

Instead, here, allow me to steal Sunred's' thunder and show you all the new opening the show has.

And lemme tell ya, this opening is just lazy. The song is fine, but the animation? Let's just say that almost every clip in this opening is ripped right out of this very episode, and the context surrounding those clips is dull.

Heck, the animation in the episode itself is just off and inconsistent, which is surprising since this episode is mainly just talking. Makes me think this was a budget episode. Now you'd think that, with an episode based entirely around dialogue, that anything the characters had to say would made interesting.

But then you remember that this is Blassreiter, and that even if it somehow were interesting it'd just be made a moot point in the end anyway. Urobochi is the one who wrote this episode, and I gotta ask something about this guy's' writing style (again): Is he also known for writing characters who are major hypocrites? Because everyone in this show has become one.

We have Joseph claiming that Xargin is only after Zwolf(new Relgious Military group) and not humanity(not true), we have Sasha claiming Zwolf doesn't force anyone to do anything only to immediately give Joseph a no-win scenario, we have Victor(XAT Pope) claiming that it's okay for Zwolf to commit war crimes because their goal is to rule to world while lambasting Xargin for the same thing, and we have some idiot in a muscle suit demeaning Amanda and then trying to claim that he really respects her.

See, this is one of the major issues with stories that are super up their own butt like Blassreiter is. When you start trying to flex how smart you are, you open yourself up for not just deeper analysis, but also much harsher criticism. And needless to say, the writing in this show isn't very good! To give one example from this episode alone, they try to claim that Amalgams can only keep their humanity after transforming if they shut down their emotions or otherwise keep them in check.

Meanwhile, Xargin and Malek both managed to keep their minds entirely despite the entire reasons for them becoming Amalgams in the first place was their very rage fueled ideas of revenge, meaning that if anything, they should've become deranged mass murdering psychos pretty much instantly. Add the fact that there's literally no one left to root for in this entire thing, and yet again I must ask, why in the world should I give a crap about anything this pretentious anime has to say about anything? Yes, Xenophobia bad. Yes, people often use Religion as an excuse for their own misdeeds. And yes, the world is full of people who care nothing for others. Stating the obvious does not make you smart.

Instead of just sitting around and whining about how awful the world is, how about you instead try to inspire others and give them ways that they could improve their lives, or at the very least offer some consistent characterization. Otherwise all you accomplish is coming off like an edgy, whiny, closed-minded 10 year old. Nothing this show has to say is at all deep or thought provoking, even by 2008 standards, and even on the basis level of seeing CGI monsters fight eachother, it falls short. It just amazes me how, with just how much obvious Kamen Rider influence this show has, that it manages to miss the entire point of that franchise as a whole. It's enough to make me think that the minds behind Blassreiter view Kamen Rider with utter contempt.