Okay... it's not a very long series, only two season or 50 episodes total I believe.
It does successfully conclude though. There's nothing left to clean up. The end is the end. And not much more can be said because that would involve spoilers.
The backdrop mostly are flashbacks and modern day where Sayu is... They explain everything from where the Schiff come from to how each person came to choose the side that they are on: Diva vs. Saya.
However, somehow along the way Saya has escaped being merely a puppet programmed for destruction when in Vietnam her adoptive father saves her from that life. He tries to keep her protected but you should know what happens given that you're on episode 20. That breaks my heart because as much as I want Hagi to have his only companion in life returned to him; it is only at the sacrifice of the normalcy Saya has been given with this new life.
The alternate history parts are woven into the story-line brilliantly. Since they are constantly on the run, Saya and entourage interfere with daily historical occurrences just to survive, many of them traps set up by Diva's Chevaliers to kill her.
What I find most fascinating is the psychological argument that comes into play throughout this series. Nature vs. Nurture... would Diva have been different if she had only been loved like Saya had been? Did the misplaced "mad scientist" in a human infect a the preternatural instincts of an otherwise benign creatures? Did our interference cause the disruption and therefore create the actual animosity that develops in Diva for us?
There is an anime movie and a live-action film. Neither really representative of the original product. And there is now Manga which I abhor. The artwork is somewhat sloppy in my estimation.
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It does successfully conclude though. There's nothing left to clean up. The end is the end. And not much more can be said because that would involve spoilers.
The backdrop mostly are flashbacks and modern day where Sayu is... They explain everything from where the Schiff come from to how each person came to choose the side that they are on: Diva vs. Saya.
However, somehow along the way Saya has escaped being merely a puppet programmed for destruction when in Vietnam her adoptive father saves her from that life. He tries to keep her protected but you should know what happens given that you're on episode 20. That breaks my heart because as much as I want Hagi to have his only companion in life returned to him; it is only at the sacrifice of the normalcy Saya has been given with this new life.
The alternate history parts are woven into the story-line brilliantly. Since they are constantly on the run, Saya and entourage interfere with daily historical occurrences just to survive, many of them traps set up by Diva's Chevaliers to kill her.
What I find most fascinating is the psychological argument that comes into play throughout this series. Nature vs. Nurture... would Diva have been different if she had only been loved like Saya had been? Did the misplaced "mad scientist" in a human infect a the preternatural instincts of an otherwise benign creatures? Did our interference cause the disruption and therefore create the actual animosity that develops in Diva for us?
There is an anime movie and a live-action film. Neither really representative of the original product. And there is now Manga which I abhor. The artwork is somewhat sloppy in my estimation.
Anything else?