September 13, 2004
Chrono Crusade Episode 06
"Jewelsummoner"
A show like Chrno Crusade relies heavily on the strength of the chemistry of its team of main characters. In Chrno Crusade, the wildly different personalities of Rosette, Azmaria and Chrno make for some great comedic moments, along with those requisite cheesily sentimental ones.
Azmaria falls into that character stereotype that I don't particularly care for (mousy, subservient, etc.), but I think Rosette's boisterous over-the-toppedness makes up for it. I just think the idea of an outgoing, loudmouthed nun who fights demons with guns blazing is a stroke of genius.
This episode uses some more bits and pieces of the show's setting, which I think is the other strong point of the show. It seems criminally underutilized, with large stretches of the show of ambiguous chronology (ha ha!).
As much as I like the characters, the adventure they go on in this episode is a little flat. There's some demons running around, and it's up to the newly-promoted Rosette and crew to clean up the mess. Rosette shoots, Chrno brawls and Azmaria runs around trying not to be a target. Pretty standard stuff.
Of course, episode six is still early, so this is probably just more extended setup before the real story kicks in (which I assume will be about Rosette hunting for Joshua).
Rating: B
Posted by Kei at September 13, 2004 02:53 AMAs far as basic stuff goes, Chrono Crusade hardly carries a basic repetative story-flux. If you want to find a story that truly has the basic crap over and over and over, watch Inuyasha. Though it is a great anime, and manga, it uses the phrase "50 years ago" and re-visiting the first 20 episodes to lead into the later half of the story more times than Philis Diller visits the plastic surgeon.
Posted by: at April 26, 2005 09:37 PM