Category: Esjitu Rereads Alliance

Though I was riding high from the hype coming off Episode 3, I knew that the introductory flashback segments in Episode 4 were going to be a slow slog. Not wanting to lose interest once again and stall my reread for another couple years, I decided to do what I’d done with EP1 and go through the slow stuff via the manga instead. Not only would this make it a little faster, but I always preferred the way the manga rearranges some of the scenes to a more chronological and less confusing order than the VN.

While I read the various Ange and Maria scenes in the manga and didn’t swap back to the VN full-time until the conference began in 1986, I did read most of the meta scenes sprinkled here and there between the flashback content. I also continued to read the manga even after I swapped back to the VN full-time, I practice I continued all the way through Chiru just for the sake of experiencing them. Thus you can expect to see the occasional manga post popping up here and there throughout the entire liveblog.