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May 27, 2008 10:56 PM
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too bad i can't read lips when they're speaking in japanese ;)
Jun 14, 2008 8:09 PM
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i want to know about that promess...
wait... did he kissed her?
Jun 21, 2008 7:15 AM
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he kiss her in the 1st episode ^^
Jun 23, 2008 3:54 PM
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I thought this was a great eps! It sets the scene for more suspense in the future - from the past!

Yeah, really want to know more about the promise! Feels like the romance is picking up. I rarely look forward to the romance bits, but Blood+ is good because it doesn't make the love all sappy!
Nov 7, 2008 3:35 PM
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Great episode. Like most of us I'm wondering what the promise is. I think he promised to marry her or something.
Aug 25, 2009 7:41 AM
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Hilariously stupid episode. So Rasputin was a blood sucking monster, huh? Just leave him where he is so he may finally rot and decay, will you?..
Nov 4, 2009 8:54 AM
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I'm sure this "promise" will have relevance later on but it seemed a bit weird to stick a flashback episode in here
Jul 19, 2010 6:04 AM
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Great episode, I hope some romance will catch on later, I want more Haji~
Sep 26, 2010 5:33 PM
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I wanna know who is all these people they talk about: Ansell, Anasthasia, Joel, Diva (if it's not a thing)... C'mon, there's too much names without faces in this anime!
Jan 10, 2011 6:06 PM

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amazing episode!! ♥Haji♥ I love him! this was the sweetest episode BUT WHAT IS THE PROMISE??!!
Mar 21, 2011 9:37 PM

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flashback was interesting. kinda weird to put a flashback there though.
Mar 23, 2011 12:29 PM

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I spent half the episode wondering what the heck was going on, (and why no one seemed to notice that Riku was missing!) then realized they were talking about Rasputin and that it was a flashback to a time when Saya also had short hair (that part confused me, especially because every glimpse we've had of her past featured her with long hair, even that photo of her and Haji). I thought it all was very cute and moving though :) (especially when she wanted him to stand in the corner xD)

I'm banking on the promise between them to involve Haji killing her actually, because if she's lived so long and her entire purpose was as a weapon and to destroy Diva (I'm guessing a living creature--remember when her/its container began moving on its own?) then maybe when she feels that when her purpose is fulfilled there is no point to living anymore.

GabrielMP said:
I wanna know who is all these people they talk about: Ansell, Anastasia, Joel, Diva (if it's not a thing)... C'mon, there's too much names without faces in this anime!


I agree, it's getting a tad confusing, especially because a lot of these names are left very unexplained. I understand that there's this whole league of monster brothers thing but Joel, Diva, Saya's past... this episode presented a lot of names that haven't been mentioned before either, adding to the confusion factor. I just don't want everything left to the last 3 episodes that would drive me crazy xD

Did anyone else find it freaky that Rasputin decided to disguise himself with the body of a young blonde girl and was feeling up Saya and saying he's drawn to her? (*imagines every creepy photo of Rasputin out there*)
Jul 26, 2011 12:57 AM

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Rasputin as a blood sucking monster feeling up young girls--so what else is new? Although he was certainly just as difficult to kill as any of the other monsters in the show. Good flashback scene to give some of the history of the struggle. Of course Anastasia is now known as Diva, and like Saya she has to take periodic long (30 year) naps....
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Aug 24, 2011 6:27 PM

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Freaky episode. I got all confused at the end, when the whole thing turned out to be a flashback. But now I'm finally hooked to the story; it's turning out to be quite a piece of work.
Sep 30, 2011 10:49 PM

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awwww what did they promise lol.
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Jan 16, 2012 3:14 PM
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A nice episode. I was a bit confused at first and thought I missed an episode, but it turned out to be an enigmatic flashback.
Apr 2, 2012 1:52 PM

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And that girl seemed so nice =[ Then she turned into a airplane lol .
May 14, 2012 1:09 AM

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That would have been so fkin stupid if all that was just a dream. Lol
Aug 29, 2012 9:28 PM

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Nice episode and that flying beast is out of the park~
Jan 22, 2013 5:31 AM

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The nice girl is always the monster in the end. Anyway, great episode.

Apr 7, 2013 5:46 PM

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i agree with everyone else that has posted.

I didnt even know it was a flashback until i read these posts haha i was extremely confused.

When i picture rasputin i think of the guy in the dreamworks animated anastasia movie lol creepy.

Great episode though i loved the haji X Saya moments >.<
Nov 30, 2013 4:21 AM

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4/5

Episode of reflection, but that gave the impression to go along with the plot, while showing inconsistencies. Unfortunately, some doubt remains, but the concept is clear, for years together have been many Haji and Saya.
Narrative that provides fixed points but adds many new mysteries as the proliferation of names so far unknown. So Anastasia was the name he had Diva at that time and they are found in the same place once before, in the most know some peculiarities of Haji and Saya.
Too bad that the drawings are only sufficient.
Mar 8, 2014 9:06 AM

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5/5

Fantastic episode, glad to see some backstory being implemented here and there. For those confused as to the flashback, she did pass out in the snow in the previous episode, makes sense she would remember something that had occurred in a similar setting.

Beside that, I enjoyed seeing a different side of Haji, but yeah, I am curious as to the promise as well. I'm sure it will be revealed in time though.
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Jun 28, 2014 4:08 AM

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SpiritedSarah said:
I spent half the episode wondering what the heck was going on, (and why no one seemed to notice that Riku was missing!)


Haha agreed poor Riku!
Aug 2, 2014 3:19 AM

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I thought it was quite obvious that it was a flashback. I mean, Haji had loose hair, he was wearing a frilled shirt, and he was looking freaking awesome with those changes, and he had both hands... normal human hands... And he was smiling. Have you ever seen him smiling until now? He said that he's been practicing on cello the song that she taught him. And their relationship seemed closer.

Haaaajiiiii! <3 If you're not gonna warm up to her soon, I'm won't like you anymore!

Finally they gave us something from their past... Not much, but it's something.
Jan 7, 2015 4:10 AM

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I knew its flashback since Haji didnt have demon hand ;p
Nov 27, 2015 2:11 AM

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I seriously thought it was all just a feverish dream, but I was wrong. That Rasputin bussiness again... But does it mean he wasn't dead and was being shapeshifting again?
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Dec 18, 2015 1:05 AM
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-edited- sorry, just answered my own question... it was a dream flashback, not just one of her regular flash backs.
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Jan 2, 2016 11:45 AM
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Well, I do know what the promise is but I will not spoil the series so I will not tell anyone.
Mar 7, 2016 7:40 PM

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Damn I was so confused... I was thinking is this a flashback or something? But why are they in the snow? -.- The flash back just abruptly happened LOL.
Jul 23, 2016 5:23 PM
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So adorable together! Past Saya and Haji Go!

So Gregori and Sonja were the same person... a Chevalier. It's very likely that the same technique was used to copy sonja's body as we saw in the previous episode. Also seems like Haji might end up being freed from his service to Saya if she ever kills diva or something along those lines or.. perhaps... She's asked haji to Kill her.?
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For one short moment i had hopes they would actually do it, having a time skip. Saya would still be the same of course, both physically and mentally, but everyone else would have changed or would even be dead. Would have been really interesting on how that would play out, especially as most of the time timeeskips happen after a short introduction, basically instead of flashbacks later.

Now that we had more than 15 episodes of what is the actual story (though that would be arguable if they had done a time skip..), with the whole interaction..it would be really interesting, especially Kai, Riku, Kaori etc., how they would continue living for years and decades, and then meet Saya again, maybe after even (almost) forgetting about her.

Too bad it was a flashback..
Oct 14, 2019 11:56 AM

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Haji was pretty talkative this episode
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Aug 27, 2020 8:58 AM

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Quite interesting flashback.
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