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REVIEW: The Book of Bantorra DVD collection 2

As a sudden threat of war against the Bantorra Library arises, the truths underlying the Church, Heaven, and Ruruta Coozancoona – and how Hamyuts fits into all of it – emerge and a desperate struggle to save the world begins. Many will not survive it.

spoiler[The lover of the savior was killed for no given reason. That triggered a line of events that happened for no reason. And then the current director of the Armed Librarians, was there to kill the savior from day one. Well, why didn’t she? He was right at the palm of her hands and he was defenseless and oblivious to his powers; why did she need to wait for decades until the world is about to end in order to do something? And why did all this mess happen in the first place? Why didn’t they just tell the truth about what happened in the past? They had the witch’s book that proved her innocence; they also had a billion other books revealing the past. That is why they were gathering the books, right? To learn from the past. Why didn’t they? What the hell is all that?]

And I’m no rookie in weird and complicating stories. I watched NGE, SE Lain, Ergo Proxy and many more. I got all their line of thought and motivations there. They made sense. Here? I DON’T GET IT AT ALL! spoiler[There is this savior who saves the world by killing everyone and then for no reason he loses his memory and people are born again, and then two religions fight to kill one another’s leaders but it is all a set up as they both work for the same goal and the memories are needed to empower something and triggered by the love of a little girl and there are android super soldiers, and there is a mind controlling lizard and a spell that makes snow appear that makes everyone fall to a coma, and a bioorganic weapon made to stop him and she loves death and death is salvation and there is a disease and a witch of the past and monsters in the dungeon and lies, tragedy, deception, DOOPIDY DOOPIDY DOO, I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING.]

Still, he eventually agrees with Key that the character plights are the sole motivating factor if you can deal with their personality inconsistencies.
If you can, Key, does my friend accurately - if loosely - describe the frustrating source as being enough to severely damage rewatches or coping with messiness?

I do think that some of the characters and individual stories are good enough for the series to have some rewatch value (especially Hamyuts and Noloty - even if they weren't the sexiest characters in the series, they'd still be the right picks for the advertising art), but this isn't one that I would generally recommend for anyone who actually cares about things like overall plot.

*nods* Thank you very much Key. From everything gathered, this feels like another BONES/Gonzo original suffering from impractical overindulgence.

it's not an original though.

Except its not an original work and not by BONES or Gonzo.

The show has its flaws, but its well worth watching, because its quite interesting and unique.

From what Key and my friend told me

I didn't have any issues with the writing either. I can understand how some people may have trouble with the plot but to me it was still a great thrill ride and it's amazing how they were able to piece and connect everything together.

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As a sudden threat of war against the Bantorra Library arises, the truths underlying the Church, Heaven, and Ruruta Coozancoona – and how Hamyuts fits into all of it – emerge and a desperate struggle to save the world begins. Many will not survive it.

One thing you don't really expect, especially early on, is just how many people, and especially who, dies