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Aug 21, 2011 12:06 PM

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Wow, this was actually a really good and solid episode! I really enjoyed it.

DesolateOne said:
It's interesting how they made it seem like Dalian and Huey were the bad guys...or was that their prior self? Are Huey and Dalian reincarnated? For some reason, I feel it's something like that.

I think it was Huey's grandpa though, Dalian looked way younger than she does now.
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Aug 21, 2011 1:42 PM
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STM said:
Wow, this was actually a really good and solid episode! I really enjoyed it.

DesolateOne said:
It's interesting how they made it seem like Dalian and Huey were the bad guys...or was that their prior self? Are Huey and Dalian reincarnated? For some reason, I feel it's something like that.

I think it was Huey's grandpa though, Dalian looked way younger than she does now.


It was most likely the yomihime in the op with the eye-keyhole and her respective partner.
Aug 21, 2011 6:10 PM

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Deleth said:
Seems to be shortly after World War 1. Since it was stated that the war was over and the main guy was flying a plane back in war. But planes at that time, weren't really good and there were no long range bombers either.

Yeah, one could call artistic freedom here. But whatever.


No, the Germans did run a dedicated aerial bombing campaign in WW I using bombers. This came after the Zeppelin bombing raids in the early part of the war. See, for example, Neil Hanson's "First Blitz":

http://www.neilhanson.co.uk/book5.php

It's generally available in paperback from Amazon books. I've read it, and it's quite a fascinating and exciting book.
Aug 21, 2011 7:56 PM

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Cartridge Load? Where's my Divine Buster? Raising Heart!? Bardiche!? Where are you!?

Flamberg is way better than Dantalian.
Aug 21, 2011 8:28 PM

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Fun episode, but I miss Huey and Dalian. Yes.
Aug 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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I hope this doesn't go on too much longer. Dalian and Huey are waaay better characters. This show was one of my favorites running right now (aside from Steins Gate), I hope they don't screw it up.
Aug 21, 2011 11:07 PM

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I can not stand Flam's voice. And I don't really care for her or Hal either.
Aug 22, 2011 12:50 AM

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really liked the new characters, Hal was a cool guy and Flam had a fun personality. probably my fav episode so far, seemed less episodic and boring in a way. granted I miss the main characters but I definitely want these 2 to stick around.
Aug 22, 2011 9:45 AM

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Kinzo said:
I can not stand Flam's voice.

Lol wat.
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Aug 22, 2011 11:41 AM

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Huey plunges his hand into Dalian's chest while Flam goes naked and Hal reaches for her stomach lol nice. Flam and Hal's relationship is almost as good as Dalians and Huey. I do wonder if they are going to be good guys or not, though I like them either way.

I miss Dalian too. :/ Oh and just how many biblioprincesses are there..
Aug 22, 2011 1:15 PM

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People saying Hal is a good character you have some bad taste, hes quite simply a dick hes a massive prick hes about as bad as Kurenai Gekkou from Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi and about as bad a character. To top it all off not only is this guy a crap character but hes a rip off Nanoha or Fate from magical girl lyrical nanoha. Being a prick does not make you a good character.
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Aug 22, 2011 1:18 PM

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Slicer22 said:
People saying Hal is a good character you have some bad taste, hes quite simply a dick hes a massive prick hes about as bad as Kurenai Gekkou from Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi and about as bad a character.
I don't see it as something negative to compare him to Gekkou though. ( ¬‿¬)
They both have terrible personalities, and who doesn't like a character acting like a jerk?
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Aug 22, 2011 1:23 PM

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Oosran said:
Slicer22 said:
People saying Hal is a good character you have some bad taste, hes quite simply a dick hes a massive prick hes about as bad as Kurenai Gekkou from Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi and about as bad a character.
I don't see it as something negative to compare him to Gekkou though. ( ¬‿¬)
They both have terrible personalities, and who doesn't like a character acting like a jerk?
Shounen loving faggots who like male lead's acting like Touma spouting bullshit about justice and whatnot and wanting to protect every fucking person in the world. Though Touma is actually cool like, he punches lolis and stuff, he just spouts some real bullshit.
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Aug 22, 2011 1:36 PM

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OrochiPL said:
Oosran said:
Slicer22 said:
People saying Hal is a good character you have some bad taste, hes quite simply a dick hes a massive prick hes about as bad as Kurenai Gekkou from Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi and about as bad a character.
I don't see it as something negative to compare him to Gekkou though. ( ¬‿¬)
They both have terrible personalities, and who doesn't like a character acting like a jerk?
Shounen loving faggots who like male lead's acting like Touma spouting bullshit about justice and whatnot and wanting to protect every fucking person in the world. Though Touma is actually cool like, he punches lolis and stuff, he just spouts some real bullshit.


Sure i like characters like Touma hes a good character and its not bullshit what he says it makes sense and is justified. Hal is more someone who talks bullshit but they would probably try justify him with some weak sad past. Though not to say that there are not some darker characters or more foul mouther characters that are done well like Accelerator hes actualy done well, hal is just a crap attempt at it and apprently mixed in some magical girl to him as well.

I know i used a to aru majutsu character as description for a good darker character but when i think dark protagonist or anti hero but Accelerator really is one that was done well, tbh hes one of the best and first one that comes to my mind
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Aug 23, 2011 6:37 AM

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Gosh, I hate Flam's voice. But the character seems to be nice, though.

I am not saying that I don't like HalxFlam duo, but I prefer HueyxDalian (reading posts from this thread made me miss "yes").
And in my opinion - the third pair of characters seem to be the bad ones.

Oh, and I was really startled at the beginning. I tried to somehow link Huey with Hal... But it seems that the whole connection will be revealed in next episodes.
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Aug 23, 2011 9:00 AM

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I really love Flam but I couldn't really tell if she was a girl or a boy due to her voice but I like it because it matches her character. I love Hal too, he's so awesome with his staff and baritsu.

I'm a little worried since it seems that they mistook Huey and Dalian to be the enemy(looking at Hal's description) and he looks more powerful than Huey, so if they were to meet...well....I don't think it would end well. I loved their transformation scene(unlocking the library), best one so far in my opinion.

Here's some info on the two people we saw giving Mabel the Phantom Book:

I’m just trying to be okay. Some days it’s harder than others. I hide away the most real parts of myself from everyone else. The emotions that I try to escape from. The constant pain I feel. The nightmares that keep me awake at night.

It hurts sometimes... knowing that the world is continuing happily all around me while I continue to drown in alcohol and slowly die inside myself.


Aug 23, 2011 7:42 PM

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"Who said anything about reading it?"

Brilliant. I love these two. I was also wondering the entire time whether or not Flam is in fact a trap. The voice is not helping...

Aug 23, 2011 7:54 PM

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Flam completely freaked me out whe she yelled out when Hal stook her hand in her.
Aug 25, 2011 7:05 AM
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I still prefer Hugh x Dalian.

Is this going to continue as it now or it will be back from it was in the beginning?

LoL when I hear cartridge load it's remind me of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha xD


Totally !
Aug 25, 2011 10:22 PM

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Well that was different...

Baritsu, huh? It's Sherlock Holmes's martial art! XD
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Aug 26, 2011 12:52 PM

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Aug 27, 2011 7:48 PM

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Hal and Flam are more interesting than Hugh and Dalian. Yes, I just said it.


Thanks. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. I'm kind of hoping that they are the real main characters, and Huey and Dalian are the antagonists. That kind of plot twist would make me love this series.

I really hate Dalian and Huey. :|
Sep 4, 2011 11:02 PM
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what the ???
Sep 5, 2011 11:51 AM

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The new characters aren't so bad. They're not particularly good either. The interesting part was seeing that duo who apparently are going around handing out Phantom Books. Are they the eventual Big Bads or is it the Count. Perhaps it's neither, but I'm intrigued by this at least.

Sep 5, 2011 12:03 PM

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This episode was muuuch better than most of the other episodes until now. At least it was not trashy stuff like last time, though what couldn't stop was implying prostitutes every 5 minutes. I like the new couple more than Huey and Dalian, the latter have more cliché characters, or at least it feels like that to me. Overall this show is very cliché too, but that's another story.
Sep 8, 2011 6:25 PM

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"Thanks for coming to my town and destroying everything, I hope I can feed myself alone now"
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Sep 9, 2011 5:52 AM
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Cool duo. Better than the other duo anyway.
Sep 25, 2011 12:19 AM

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That cartridge load really made me lol hard.
Oct 17, 2011 6:54 PM

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these 2 are almost like the inverted version of heuy and dailian.
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Oct 18, 2011 3:49 PM

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The way Hal took out the book from Flam is more brutal than the way Huey took out the book from Dalian. It's just like he thrusting it in to Flam's body (wait, that sounds weird....)

Anyway, good episode. I wonder why they like to insults each other though~
Oct 29, 2011 12:47 AM

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I lurve Flam~
She's so adorable XD
Feb 27, 2012 1:16 PM

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My second favorite episode from this series. Watching this episode for the thir-, no, maybe fourth time. Finally I'll be able to watch it normally 'cause the first time I had a stupid player that played the episode slowly and I hardly could enjoy it.
I love Flambergue, she's an awesome character. I love her voice as well. I don't get the point of using an character for just one episode. Was it just to show that there are more than one book's keeper or however it's called? Flam should be the main character, she's awesome, unlike Dalian.
And.. "You won't have time to read it". If he wanted, he would have time. Huey takes almost 3 minutes reading a book and everything works fine in the end lol.

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Apr 10, 2012 1:33 AM

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OH HI NANOHA! I mean ahem! The little girl is so mature it made me so happy when she smiled. Man i just love the mystery feel in this show. Though the use of the stick really brings out a magical girl feel.

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Aug 9, 2012 3:41 AM

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Hal and Flam make just a good a duo as Huey and Dalian if not better. The concept wasn't as interesting as the previous ones, this topic has been touched upon by others many times before, but at least the execution wasn't as bad as in the previous episodes. 4/5. I wonder if either them, or that other two in the flashback will be the final boss of the season.

Edit: A bonus point for the "Who said I'm gonna read it?" That was great.
Jan 29, 2013 7:56 PM

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Dalian is the best thing about the show, why have a whole episode without her? WHY!?
Jan 29, 2013 11:45 PM
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Finally, we see the other Biblioprincess & Gatekeeper pair from the OP. Guess they are good guys, which leaves the last pair to be the baddies.

Hal and Flam are like the exact opposite of Huey and Dalian. Lol.
Feb 16, 2013 9:22 AM

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Wahh, I thought there was only one Bibioprincess? Unless there really is and that was just Dalian in the past, maybe? I'm quite mind-blown, lol. Well, this episode got me more interested in this series^^

The talking part of the preview for the next episode got me hooked for the next episode!

What confused me is the break that happens in the middle of an episode. The title of the episode changes from what was stated in the beginning to what they state in the middle.. I don't even know if what I'm saying even makes sense >.<

Well, definitely missed Huey and Dalian in this episode >__<
Dec 4, 2014 9:12 AM

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The question is where did he take out the book from?
May 31, 2015 2:10 PM

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T3rm1n4t0r2 said:
ALRIGHT! This was an awesome episode! Just what it needed to make it even more interesting than it already was. Hal is officially my fav. character. I love his swoopy hair. However, his b. princess... I wouldnt mind if she died in the near future. her personality is so awful/undesirable.
I hope the next princess we meet doesn&#039;t have an ugly personality as well. So far, wev&#039;e seen a bratty tsundere child who knows everything accept how to be the least bit considerate of others and now, a slutty; rude and annoying skank in a straight jacket... The next b.p. had better be one of those moe shy girls who messes up at everything.
Lastly, I think the next episode will definately be back to Dalian and Hughs. I think that we might meet some other new pairs in the future too, and/or these two will eventually meet and help each other fight some crazy powerful phantom book.


You just took all the words straight from my mouth! Hal is awesome! and that cartridge load weapon is a real asskicker!
Hate flam. Really I hope her to die. And everyone acted like it's a normal or common thing to have someone in a straight jacket. Also it's a bit annoying how similar all the characters are. Faces and everything.
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Nov 20, 2015 12:06 PM

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Really messed up. This duo is very interesting. I feel bad for poor Flem, chained and bound, not to mention that every time he opens the Library she is in extreme pain. My guess is that, unlike Dalian, she wasn't meant to be a vessel for the Library. Though I could be totally off. :P
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Nov 22, 2015 3:49 AM

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Eurgh, I related too much to a lot of things in that episode. I need more info now.
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So they can burn away just the parts that had consumed her as well as making her forget all about what happened. That's rather convenient isn't it. Not a fan of just burning the last copy of a book where so far it's been show that isn't needed to solve the cases.
Apr 20, 2021 3:53 AM
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Two new characters Hal and Flam for this episode, that's interesting, and the whole doll city case was creepy to be honest
Jan 13, 2023 1:13 PM

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not gonna lie, I loved the chuuni vibes of this episode. But as usual the story was way too rushed. This show would be so much better if it spit the stories into two episodes instead of cramming them into just one.
Mar 21, 2023 11:50 PM

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I had to double take and make sure I didn’t accidentally put on Kino instead!! It felt like an episode out of that anime more so than this one. I will say I really enjoyed it though! This pair has more personality to me and I hope we get to see more of them! Probably my favorite episode so far.
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Leagues better than the abomination that was the episode before this. The reveal of the town being populated by puppet imitations of the dead was as shocking as it was intended to be, and the action scenes were choreographed better than those in any of the previous episodes. Unfortunately, this new duo taking the leading role here means that the main duo is deprived of even more time that could've been used to explore their characters more.


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