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For the DVD release, Sentai Filmworks splits the 13 episodes across two disks. (A Blu-Ray version is also being released simultaneously but was not available for review.) The Extras, included on the first disk, consist of clean versions of the opener and closer used for this release and also for the alternate opener and closers used for the original PSN releases; though those alternate versions are decent numbers, they also feature graphics more squarely from the second half of the series and are completely upstaged by their TV broadcast counterparts anyway.
That changes in the second season, however. Oh, sure, the bits of humor still linger, and the series tosses in some vague romantic rivalries to try to spice up the character interactions a bit, but this trio of four-episode story arcs use an exploration of more macabre themes to ramp up both the threat level and the intensity, resulting in a second half which carries more decided horror overtones. This is especially evident in “The Bloodstained Labyrinth,” the second case on this volume, which at its peaks – the dream sequence at the end of the second episode and the climax near the end of the fourth – is as nerve-wrackingly intense as the best anime horror scenes. Partly due to that, “Labyrinth” is arguably the best of the series' eight cases.
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