[DreamSword]

I'm gonna be super busy at work over the next few days, so let's watch the OVA!

Episode XXV: Home

While I do think it was a mistake to label this as the 25th episode, I ended up really liking this episode!

This episode centers entirely on Emma, to the point that none of the other characters we've known up to now so much as even make a cameo. She visits the home of an old friend of hers, where a family of orphans are now living.

We got to see alot of sides of Emma in this one. Her motherly side when taking care of the kids, to the value she held in her relationship with her old friend, and of course, the part of her we've come to know up to this point: That of the hardened Makai Alchemist who slays Horrors in secret.

I loved the atmosphere in this one: Starting off as something that appears simplistic and innocent, only to slowly remind us of what exactly Emma's' world is like. Slice-of-life doesn't always mean upbeat and happy. As Emma outright tells Tina, they live in different worlds, and the consequences thereof are shown in full force here.

While it's certainly no proper finale in any sense, it's a great character episode, and I actually ended up liking way more than the one Emma got in the main series. Heck, it makes me actually kinda find it a shame that Leon and Alfonso didn't get epilogue episodes of their own, though I suppose what exactly they'd be doing after everything is said and done would be kind of obvious. Glad to see the show's' biggest strength, characterization, came back in full force.

Like I said earlier, work is gonna have me swamped for the next few days, so the movie will have to wait until all of that's done. But yeah, but one thing left until I finish off the first Garo anime!