C&C - Wolf's Rain – “The Fallen Keep” [7/24]

[Tienshin]

Last stop before we skip past the recap episodes.

[PaQ]

Ya know.. I don't like this new Hige.. He's a tad on the annoying side now, talking up all the time now that Blue is around..

[randi]

Those rocks looks like a house of some sort. A evol house. Whoa. Is that like a church. It looks on the evol side. How many times is this weirdo going to whine about his wifes or girl friends death. The Flower lady was still sleeping. Jeez. I still wonder what happens to their clothes when they change. I one keeps a collar and loses everything else and the other gets like rings and loses everything else. Damn he is fast and evol. Throwing poor flower lady to a pole like breaking her back. Man why can't that guy get over it. She is dead. She ain't coming back. Its over. Well this was a pretty good epsoide. Nice minute fight scene. Kiba looks like dead or missing. Lets wait untill next Satuday I guess.

[TnAdct1]

Kiba looks like dead or missing. Lets wait untill next Satuday I guess.

Make it August 28, since next week starts the arc that is called "THE RECAP EPISODES OF DOOM!"

[Dark Soul]

Well now its the recap episodes which sucks so the plot doesn't move for four weeks. Well good episode. One minute fight scene like randi said. Everybody met which was cool. A fast paced episode. So Hub, Cher, and Cheza are captured.


So I rate the Fallen Keep an A+

[Pimmelmann]

KIBA!
HIGE!
KIBA!
CHEZA!
KIBA!
CHEZA!
POPS!
BLUE!
MY LORD DARCIA!
CHER!
HAMUNA!
CHEZA!
KIBA!



I'm really starting to lose patience with this show. The one-sentence encapsulated concept was promising, but whenever I watch it I feel as if I have missed several important episodes (...I haven't). Am I really supposed to know just who Darcia is, or just exactly who that dead broad was supposed to be, or why we ought to care? If he doesn't care about his future or anything, why'd he abduct Cheza? Just to smack her around? Gee, that's compelling. Are there any consistent rules to all the magic and illusion stuff, or is it just totally at the whim of the story? Is it supposed to be dramatic when these armored soldiers we don't really know-who work for someone else we don't reallyknow-keep clanking their way into episodes? Why can the wolves jump 100 feet at a time and do all the other super-powered things they do? I thought they were supposed to be regular wolves beyond the ability to fool the humans, but the suggestion is that all wolves have such amazing super powers. So why are they so downtrodden and not, I don't know, ruling humanity or something? What was the big catastrophe that hit the Earth? How far into the future is this? What is the wildly inconsistent technology about? I expect that some of these questions are answered later, but the clock is ticking, and all the murky goings-on are driving me nuts!

[Tienshin]

Make it August 28, since next week starts the arc that is called "THE RECAP EPISODES OF DOOM!"

No those eps aren't airing. Next week skips ahead to episode 19. No recaps.

[JetMaster5]

I was really expecting more from Blue's re-confrontation with his old master. I did not like it that those morons just oh-so-distrupted this meeting in a cliche way.

[Anime Freak]

No those eps aren't airing. Next week skips ahead to episode 19. No recaps.

Adult Swim does love anime!!!!!Thank you AS!!!!

Btw, did Blue get captured as well?

[RD!]

I am losing all interest I used to have in this show fast.

[Youko Recca]

I am losing all interest I used to have in this show fast.

Which is ironic seeing as it's moving so slow on Saturdays....

[shogunthethird]

KIBA!
HIGE!
KIBA!
CHEZA!
KIBA!
SHREK!
FIONA!
MOM!
DAD!
DONKEY!
CHEZA!
POPS!
LUPIN!
BLUE!
MY LORD DARCIA!
CHER!
SONNY!
HAMUNA!
MAKATA!
KANEDA!
TETSUO!
CHEZA!
KIBA!
KIBBLES!
BITS!
TASTES GREAT!
LESS FILLING!

sorry, had to do that...who knew Darcia had a lupine Sharingan thing going on?

[herbkir]

I really enjoyed this episode. Darcia, one of the nobles, has a lupine part of him that still yearns for Paradise even though his human side mourns the death of Homina as the end of all hope. Sheesh! Talk about your inner conflict. Hubb, Cher and Cheza captured by the rival noble who "commissioned" Cheza's creation. And Darcia's keep is destroyed. Kiba's off to who knows where after his desperate race to catch up with Cheza fails. And finally, we have Blue making the final break with her "pop" as she protects Kiba from Quent. So much went on here. I haven't become disenchanted with WR at all. I still look forward to it each week.


I'm glad to hear that we won't have to go through a string of recaps before getting back to the main WR plot. I also watch Gundam SEED on Toonami, and last week they threw in a recap episode right in the middle of a battle arc. That was bad enough. I'd find it hard to stand 4 WR recap episodes in a row. Especially at this point in the plot. (^_*)

[Master Moron]

Well, it was a pretty good episode. But, there were a few problems that were already mentioned here. I too, disliked Pops and Blue's reunion. I mean, I was expecting Blue to you know...maybe...talk? Instead, all she does is stare at him like a dumbass. Now, Pops is probably gonna shoot her the next time he sees her cause he thinks she's evil. Now, I know, she can't get rid of all his prejudice just by saying a few sentences, but the least she could have said is "I missed you." or "We will meet again." or anything instead of looking at him with that cold stare. That was dumb.

Also, the fight between Kiba and Darsha made no sense. Okay, last time Darsha made explosions magically come out of nowhere and kicked all 4 wolves asses in about 30 seconds, now all of a sudden Kiba and Darsha are fighting on equal ground? What the hell?

What the hell was going on at the end? Where the hell did all those ships come from?

So, if they skip the recaps then I guess we're almost done with this series, huh?

[PickHut]

Eh, that was pretty weak and anti climatic. You'd think everybody coming together and confronting Darcia would kick more ass. The Darcia and Kiba fight wasn't much, I was seriously thinking Kiba would kick more butt, especially the way Darcia treated Cheza. Instead, he gets cut up a little bit. Then the fight got interupted, followed by another interuption by a bunch of planes that forced everyone to seperate, again. And yes, the Blue/Quent reunion blowed.

I give The Fallen Keep a B-. I was quite disappointed with this episode towards the end , I really was expecting a lot when they reached Darcia's place.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Darcia didn't have a big-arse ship armed with funky weapons behind this time. That's why the fight was more even.

This episode finally started to answer some of my questions about WR's world. I'm just annoyed that they didn't feel like explaining till 14 episodes in. I'm not psychic, I can't read the writers minds when they create new worlds like this...

[lostrune]

1. Geez, Hige, stop worrying about Blue. Or has he already forgotten how Blue used to kick their asses back when she was hunting them?

2. That "ancient alchemy" secret crap better not be the nuclear bomb or some such lame preachy PSA.

3. That poor unlucky Darcia servant girl. If not crucifixion, it's getting blown to bits. I hope she got hazard pay.

4. OK, so who attacked Darcia's castle first (and crucified that girl) and why? It can't be the same ones who just attacked now because that would be stupid attacking twice (when they could've just waited a trap).

Also, the fight between Kiba and Darsha made no sense. Okay, last time Darsha made explosions magically come out of nowhere and kicked all 4 wolves asses in about 30 seconds, now all of a sudden Kiba and Darsha are fighting on equal ground? What the hell?

Those laser beams were from Darcia's spaceship.
Instead, what happened to his eye power? He used it to stun the wolves the very first time they met.


[Look at the times of the 3 latest posts: 3:10... 3:30... 3:40.... ]

[PaQ]

A slightly lackluster episode of Wolf's Rain tonight.

• This new Hige, I just don't like. Ever since Blue has joined up with the pack, he's gotten more vocal, and it's annoying.
• Once again, so close yet so far for Kiba. He and the pack find Cheza only to have her taken away yet again.. It's just so sad to see their road to paradise derailed so much by others.
• Blue and Quent.. Looks like he's going to have to decide if he can really blame all wolves, if Blue is one of them.. Should be interesting to see if the show can pick it up a bit.

I give "The Fallen Keep" a B-.

[raykremer]

2. That "ancient alchemy" secret crap better not be the nuclear bomb or some such lame preachy PSA.

I don't recall them ever mentioning it again, so that "civilization fell 200 years ago for whatever reason" is all we get.

4. OK, so who attacked Darcia's castle first (and crucified that girl) and why? It can't be the same ones who just attacked now because that would be stupid attacking twice (when they could've just waited a trap).

It's Jagara this time. The first time I think it was that other noble, the guy they said stole Cheza from the Darcia family in the first place. Whatever the hell his name was. Starts with O, I think.

If they are skipping the recap episodes, it's a very smart move. As if the episodes weren't bad enough the first time around, the series makes you sit through four recap episodes, making you yearn for the plot to resume, and when it finally does, it's just more of nothing much happening.

[Sheamon]

It's Jagara this time. The first time I think it was that other noble, the guy they said stole Cheza from the Darcia family in the first place. Whatever the hell his name was. Starts with O, I think.

No, it was Jagara the first time too. Why he/she would attack twice, who knows. The Jagara - Orkum stuff is one thing about this series that is quite confusing, even for someone like me who is watching it for the second time(up to this episode anyway).

No those eps aren't airing. Next week skips ahead to episode 19. No recaps.

Thank you! You made my day by telling us that. The recaps were enough to cause me to stop watching the show on fansubs last year, although soon after it was licensed anyway. Everything from this point on will be new to me. This is a really enjoyable episode for me, even if the Darcia-Kiba fight was rather anti-climatic. Great designs on Darcia's Keep and we got some nice backstory regarding the nobility.