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Madlax Episode 7 - nature

Margaret hires a book detective, Eric, to find another copy of her father's book so she can piece together the missing pages. He traces the script of the book to an ancient culture in Gazth-sonika via an old friend of his called Lucille, and Madlax ends up being hired to protect him after his guide gets killed. They end up in the Gazth-sonika wilds after Eric is attacked in his hotel, and we learn that Insane Masked Guy is after Margaret's book - turns out Lucille knows something about an event Eric has forgotten in the past (which may involve a disastrous archaeological trip into Gazth-sonika) and informs Mr. Doe of the book, which IMG calls "Secondary".

Well, we finally got both Margaret and Madlax into an episode, but they're still not really together. I guess that when Eric pops his clogs (he's met Madlax, he's bound to!) he'll reveal who sent him or something. The show is a little too dualist at the moment, with the mysterious atmosphere of Margaret's storyline not sitting too comfortably with Madlax's more conventional one. Still interesting, though. One thing that's been bothering me is how so many of the male characters have really, really bad hairstyles, for some reason. The character designs in general aren't bad, particularly the women, but the supporting blokes are usually gifted with bizarre bouffant looks.

Just another useful observation there...