For King and Country
If someone would have told me that an anime that can best be described as Alexandre Dumas meets George Romero could be this good, I would have been sceptical to say the least. But after caving in after reading so much positive buzz, I am very glad to have this in my collection.
Mid-level French spy d'Eon de Beaumont, based on a real-life 18th century transvestite, is devastated when the body of his beautiful, talented big sister Lia, a fictional hardcore superspy, is found floating in a coffin on the Seine pumped full of mercury. Naturally, he wants to find out the details behind her death and puts the rest of his life on hold, including his engagement to his fiance Anna - but things get more than a little odd when he starts being chased by Gargoyle zombies and his sister's spirit starts posessing him when he wavers in battle. He is soon approached by three other males in Lia's life who also claim to have cared enough about her to want to avenge her when they hear of her...
Le Chevalier d'Eon Almost Achieves Greatness
I finally finished this series a few months ago after beginning it over a year ago, and overall I'm glad I took the time to see it through, despite some major flaws that were primarily towards the end. It's an above average anime series, and it could have been a 5 star show, but somewhere after the middle the story becomes too convoluted for its own good and the various explanations for why certain events crucial to the core story occured do not make any sense, and after volume 6 there are still several unanswered questions.
Without spoiling anything I'll say that the ending felt rushed and seemed like a really lazy way to wrap up all the various characters and arching plot lines. I really enjoyed the first half of this series, which was full of intrigue, espionage, great characters, clever dialogue and excellent blend of CGI and hand drawn animation, but unfortunately in the end the build-up of such an interesting story falls far short of expectations and the potential of...
Wonderful, but ending falls flat
I fell in love with this series from just the intro animation. Gorgeous animation, with a strange, twisted revenge mystery tale that's a little historical but all intriguing. For anyone interested in the time period, I would recommend giving this a go. There are parts in France, Russia, and England, so you get a little snapshot at the time from those countries.
Le Chevalier d'Eon is set in pre-revolutionary France and is based off of an actual French spy for King Louis XV, d'Eon de Beaumont. He is involved in solving the mystery of the death of his sister, Lia, sending him from one end of Europe to the other, dealing with secret societies, the living dead, and dealing with the soul of his vengeful sister, who resided inside of him after her death in order to kill whoever was responsible for her death.
The series will have you hooked in the first episode (what better way to start than with a mysterious coffin?) and the mystery is built up so carefully that you...
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