User blog:AssassinsTears/Episode 20: Passionless Puppet of Darkness (Review)

Netsu wo Motanai Yami ni Ningyo...

That song  (Passionless Puppet of Darkness) was going around in my head the entire episode.

It's from The Nightmare of Zoldyck, the HxH musical re-telling of the Zoldyck Estate arc. Tis highly recommended. I might write a review for that shortly. ^^

But I digress. And this is late as it is.

I liked Illumi's old voice better. Just have to say it. He's the only one that I've run into that problem with, and I don't think I'll ever get used to it (especially after hearing his (her) pretty singing voice!).

Okay. That aside, the episode was fantastic. The Kil/Illumi interaction gave me the chills all the way through, with the visuals and the audio both spot on. I admit a bit of a giggle when the dramatic... stage music (?) started playing, but I got over that quickly.

Gon's dream at the beginning was an incredible little extra; it caught me totally off-guard, but in a good way. For a minute I was hoping for the Kite flashback... but I still have a fair amount of certainty that that'll come later.

In a way, I feel that the recap was too rushed, but in another I feel it would have been too long had it been any slower. Although for someone unfamiliar with the sequence of events, it could easily become confusing. My mom couldn't follow it, although I'm unsure of whether that's just her older mind (love you, Mom). However, I loved the snippets they featured from each fight.

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Yay for no censorship! Blood!! Seriously, though, it was nice that we got to see Kil stick his hand through that poor old chap. ^^

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">They left out the tidbit about what Satotz does, as a Hunter (ruin restoration) but that's a minor little thing. I didn't notice it at the time; it mildly irritated me when I did, but oh well.

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Hmm... I have little else to say, actually. :/

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">AND GON WAS ANGRY. (Dun dun duuuuuun!)

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Peace Out, Hunters. Avoid angry-Gon. I hear he's on the loose. =^^=