Episode 1-8: Awseome TV rip, no vertical line anywhere, the main menu on both DVD are a little blurry. A little grainy and pixellated whenever the ghoul release a energy wave and when his body flashes but the rest is fine. The rip was taken from the AT-X broadcast system in Japan Episode 9-13: R2 DVD rip, pixellated and grainy whenever the ghoul appears The graphic are so-so, I liked the ghoul design in this one. It looks like a half-alien/half-predator creature, way cool to see. Some of the CG reminds me of some cutscene in Final Fantasy 7 from the Playstation 1 so they look like old graphic from the 1997. Could have been better than that All the girl's boobs looks like those from Ryo in the burn-Up series (except Kotoko), they look bigger than F cups, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy (Drool, drool). All the boobs you see are all alike.

No problem detected, I love the opening with the electric guitar solo, the ending "Pump UP" is also good, the music is eerie in some episode, nice atmosphere in it.

No problem detected, I love the opening with the electric guitar solo, the ending "Pump UP" is also good, the music is eerie in some episode, nice atmosphere in it.

Divergence Eve was okay but it could have been way better than this The main problem with Divergence Eve is the storyline. It was messed up and it was a plot after plot after plot so in the end, there weren't any main storyline in it. The main storyline was to destroy the ghoul that materialize in the Watcher's nest, but in the end, it more to capture it and understand this creature. Then it focus on Misaki. She transform into a devillady ghould whenever she on the brink of death so in the end, they never mention on how she end up with it. What I mean is that I know that she was genetically use when she was a baby but why did her parents agreed to that ??? The main purpose on doing that to her was understanding the creature with the ghould gene in her body. The appearance of Necromancer in the core of the Watcher's nest is confusing to me, they didn't mention on their purpose and how they still survive after all these years. The timeline also was confusing at point, you got near 12 date/year to remember on how the ghoul appeared or how the Watcher's nest was born. If you watch it, you'll know what I mean. Then, everybody is interested in Misaki's body especially Jean-Claude the scientist from France. His real purpose is to have the knowledge of the ghoul (from the other world). The phrase he says is confusing, they look more like riddle than actual answer. It's too long and hard to tell about him As you can see, the plot is divised to near 5 mid-plot, and with only 13 episodes to explain it, they went a little to fast to my taste There are almost no fighting scene in it. It would have been great seeing Misaki and all the other girl's of Seraphim against many ghoul but there is only one ghoul appearing at time and the only one who can beat it is Misaki. It's more like a one-on-one situation. That's a no-no in my book, more enemies would have been better but it's not the case Misaki transforming was awseome to see. When near death, her eyes change shape and she transform to fight the ghoul A devil Lady ghoul (in my books), that rocks, but the batlle does't last to long do Some character were a wasted in it, especially Suzanna. After episode 6, she disappears from the picture (she not death). There are little character's developpement in it. With 8 girls for 13 episodes, there not much time to add stuff for them. Lyar is by far the best character in Divergence Eve, she bossy, intelligent, and the savior of Misaki (sort of). She fight no matter the outcoming of it. Being the lieutanant of Seraphim, she's one tough cookie The ending was disappointing in my mind, Seraphim goal was to destroyed the ghould now it's to understand them. Misaki and the ghoul goes one-on-one but the outcome wasn't what I had hope for in the end Overall, it was disappointing at the end, I had high expectation from it, but the messed up storyline and weak subs sucks the fun of this title. If you really want to see it, wait for the R1 version and RENT IT but be warned, the story is messed up. NOT RECOMMANDED I saw some preview of the 2nd one, it looks good, hope it stays that way Extras: None Packaging: nice cover with every girl in Divergence Eve, (Clockwise starting from the upper right) Luxendra, Suzanna Prim, Misaki, Kotoko, Kiri and Lyar (With grey hair). Episode per DVD: 1rst DVD: Episode 1-4 DVD5 encoded 2nd DVD: Episode 5-13 DVD9 encoded

First 10 episodes are TV-rips captured from satelite TV. This is obvious because the AT-X (Tokyo satelite anime channel) logo shows up at the beginning and at the middle of every episode which proved to be quite annoying. As for TV-rips go the quality isn't too bad, there was no noticeable ghosting or vertical shadows in the video. The picture was a bit blurry and a little dark and the colours were a bit muddle and bland especially for a show made in 2003. The first 10 episodes were presented in letterbox (non-anamorphic) widescreen. The last 3 episode are DVD rips, in anamorphic widescreen. Picture is alot sharper, colours much more rich and vibrant. The entire series does suffer from some pixelation during high motion scenes or when one scene will fade into another one. Using DVD Bitrate Viewer I found that the DVD is encoded in CBR. Average bitrate for the 1st DVD was 5.42 mb/s Average bitrate for the 2nd DVD was 4.36 mb/s, both the TV rips and the DVD rips have the same bitrate.

The entire DVD 2.0 Stereo audio. Nothing wrong with the audio from the DVD-rips, clear with no interference or background noise. The audio for the TV-rips were pretty good also, they even used both left and right channels seperately for directionality which was nifty. There was a touch of background noise though, I only noticed it when I was using my headphones and when audio was silent.

The entire DVD 2.0 Stereo audio. Nothing wrong with the audio from the DVD-rips, clear with no interference or background noise. The audio for the TV-rips were pretty good also, they even used both left and right channels seperately for directionality which was nifty. There was a touch of background noise though, I only noticed it when I was using my headphones and when audio was silent.

1 chapter per episode. 4 episodes on the 1st DVD (DVD-5), 9 on the 2nd DVD (DVD-9). The episodes that were DVD-rips were in a seperate video title set cause they were in anamorphic widescreen unlike the TV-rip episodes. Not a big deal except for example if I am at episode 10 and want to go back to the previous chapter in episode 9 without going through the menus my DVD player will go back all the way to the 1st episode of the DVD. The show was set in space, lots of CG in it which I found not very impressive. Some creatures called Ghouls are threatening humans in space, a group of bust-heavy female pilots are out to fight them, main character was a ditzy and clumsy girl with a heart of gold. Reminds me of Vandread but not as good.