Something like Air TV would probably crumble if watched with other people, but I found the stories touching. I think these stories in Air are for sentimental people or people who understand loneliness — maybe it even panders to loneliness a little bit and sharing it. There’s certainly a feeling of late night conversations with Air, the kind of conversations you might share in the smoking lounge of your dorm at four in the morning with the only other person awake on the entire campus and it’s so quiet you can hear the florescent lights hum.

The first story in the second volume of Air TV is Minagi Tohno’s (ep 5 & 6). Minagi pretends to be somebody else for the sake of her grief stricken mother. Her story appears to be easier to relate to than Kano’s. Many people at some point in their lives find themselves in conflict with being honest and possibly hurting someone or playing along with a lie to spare another pain or doing something that causes one misery to please a parent. As with Kano in the previous volume, Minagi’s story has a supernatural connection that’s somehow related to the girl in the sky that Yukito is trying to find.

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Le Chevalier D’Eon takes the story of a famous spy and tips the glass sideways to spill magic and gargoyles onto pre-revolutionary France. It is a France where power grabbing aristocrats play deadly games with each other at the expense of the citizenry, and on occaision, turns them into puppets to attack.

The intrigue, mystical, and historical elements makes this is a good anime for those interested in a story where part of the fun is speculation or for those who just want something different from their anime from time to time. People who simply enjoy things that are done well will probably find this dvd interesting as well. At least, that’s why I liked it.

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