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When a paramilitary security officer sees a girl commit suicide he becomes a pawn in an internecine game of office politics where nothing is what it seems to be at first.

Morality in Jin-Roh's Intertext (YouTube)

Jin Roh and the Kerberos Saga (YouTube)

Review (YouTube)

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The OP & ED are great! The OST is nice, as well.
1. Seemingly en media res. Definitely non-linear. The animation is interesting ─ presumably more will be revealed to show the significance of the different art styles.
2. Flashbacks and treachery are the themes of this episode and possibly of the entire series.
3. Treachery in spades. When even Elena Hanakaze accepts ─ at a certain level ─ that she will be dying much sooner than later, then you know that the death count hasn't reached the ½ point.
4. Episode #5 better deliver the promised payoff! 9/11
5. And the death count continues apace.....

7. Well, that peaceful interlude sure didn't last long.....
8. This is ridiculous. When death is rendered meaningless you get a deux ex machina. Also, with the death of Makoto Tsukishiro every plot element attached to them goes up in smoke,3/11
9. So supposedly Makoto Tsukishiro left a manuscript behind. Yeah, right! I'll believe that when I see it. Right now I'm only continuing this until the end to see just what kind of a farce it becomes. 6/11
10. So we are given the backstory of Jin Kuzuhara. Whatever. 6/11
11. So now Asahi Nakamura is brought back from the dead via another deus ex machina. Childbirth and death; that doesn't redeem deus ex machina. Nice try, though. 6/11
12. I'll give them props for the open-ended ending; but it's still not enough to counter the multiple deus ex machinas that occurred. Because of the music I will rate this at 8/11.

• It seems to me that certain parallels can be made with Death Note. Just realize, though, that the protagonist does not have Light Yagami's arrogance.....
• I found the English dub to be satisfactory. The graphics are representative of the early '90s.
• I have changed my rating because of the discussion between the two main characters at the end of the OVA. I must remember to elaborate on this, but now I must go to sleep.....

1. Setup.
2. An elderly Tengu reminisces about Grandpa.
3. An ayakashi seeks to avoid being sold as a concubine.
4. Aoi seems to be running an infirmary.....
5. Aoi makes a round trip.
6. Aoi opens (with a little help from her friends!) the Moonflower Restaurant
7. Business at the Moonflower is improving!
8. Aoi gets kidnapped during an extended shopping trip.
9. She gets rescued, but what happened to her 5-leaf fan? Apparently the Master had it? An investigation begins.....
10. So the Tenjin-ya has old-style telephones.....
11. 2 star-crossed romantics.
12. Lost children and flavored, shaved ice.
13. A day off for everyone.
14. Unwelcome visitors ─ talk about being spirited away.....
15. Something is going down.....
16. Dealing with a spoiled princess is always such a pain.....
17. Orio-ya blows up!

18. Father and son reconcile.
19. Aoi agrees to perform a dangerous task.
20. I must say that I'm enjoying this burgeoning romance between two adults.....
21. Drunken toads.
22. The traitor unsettles Aoi.
23. The traitor mutes Aoi.
24. They enter and return from the picture.
25. And the penultimate episode ends on a cliffhanger!
26. The "threat" turns out to be a lonely child!

• Dub ain't ½ bad.....
  ADR Directors:
  Tia Ballard
  Jad Saxton