my advice for someone who is new to this show is to WATCH EACH EPISODE DAY BY DAY!!!
*THERE ARE SPOILERS*
I probably should have watched one episode at a time instead of taking it all in at once, and I think by becoming overloaded with too much gore could be the soul reason for me hating this anime. I get that this show was celebrating some anniversary for the channel AT-X and that I should not take it too seriously, but for the love of god I cant help it...it was awful. I would like to say that I did enjoy the first couple of episodes. The reasons I enjoyed them were that the anime was something completely new and disturbing. I had never seen anything like it, and I wanted to see how the story would play out. It turns out that all the story/violence/sex-appeal were the exact opposite of its leading lady...it got old. I stopped caring about everything that was going on because I could tell by episode three that Rin was going to be facing some hardcore BDSM torture in her future. I am not a fan of sadist's, chains, and lashings of the old ultra-violence every frame, and it became too much of the same thing. Around the fourth episode I really didn't care about Rin at all because I felt like there was no point in fearing for someone who cant die, and wondering what was underneath a nudist's garments. I know Apos was on her track trying to kill her, but I knew that this guy was too fucked up to even remotely be able to win. I like when my bad guys have a sense of good and evil to them...it makes them more interesting, if you have someone completely evil it makes for a boring and predictable outcome of their base and cruel life style/demise;they will never develop or gain anything new. Like wise with some one who is completely good. I have never cared for the 'all-holy-white-knight-in-shining-armor' because usually he bores me and doesn't have any catharsis, and remains the same throughout his upright,behavioral existence. Some how this ride just became darker and stranger as it went on and I finally just wanted off. I guess my biggest problems were the constant violence, the characters,the animation(or lack there of), and the story. However I did enjoy the English dubs.
