



Hansel and Gretel switch Big Bro and Big Sis costumes and roles. OMGWTFLOLITRAP!? The first body count for the episode are some stray dogs (someone call the SPCA! LOL). I’m not familiar with the manga so I am glad that this series is being animated. There has been criticism that the girls are not drawn as beautifully as in the manga (but surely not as bad as in the Suzuka anime?) and that criticism probably valid.
Yet I do enjoy the anime very much due to the atmosphere it conveys through imagery and metaphor backed by great music. In the first season, I had expected merely a brainless babes and guns anime but it dwells, without pompousness or pretentiousness, on some serious themes - the grimness of a dog eat dog world, the fetid corruption of the human soul, how easy and casual violence becomes in the state of nature. The mix of children’s snacks and ammunition is both incongruously grotesque yet chillingly appropriate given the vampire twins’ modus operandi.