Roy’s birthday seems a bit brighter for the Bounty Hunter this year. He’s finally started to open up a little thanks to Solty, the others, even the thief Rose who keeps crashing at their place. All of that shatters when a psychopath from Roy’s days as a cop, returns to wreak bloody havoc with Roy’s life. Setting a lethal cat and mouse game, it all culminates in a room rigged with bombs, Roy on one side, and his missing daughter on the other! Has Fate reunited him with his daughter at long last? Or will she be cruelly taken from him for a second time?

More than one heart is destroyed in this angst ridden volume of Solty Rei. The anime always has a way of throwing in a sudden turn, an unseen twist to come to fruition and set the viewer a bit off balance, not unlike the protagonist Roy. The revelations this volume come fast and furious during the suspenseful and deadly game Roy is forced to play with the psychopath Ho Chu.  These are earth shattering revelations that will leave ripples of effect to come for the rest of the series.  The show does an immense job of attaching all the heart strings and then brutally ripping them out. The aftermath will find many viewers reeling along with the remaining characters. Where the show will go from here is anybody’s guess. The unpredictability of the story and the layered emotional depth of the characters are two of the strengths the series has displayed time and again and this volume is the ultimate example of it so far.

The show manages, despite being action packed and filled with dramatic angst involving Roy, to slide in some more mystery and ominous hints about Solty. The RUC seems to somehow be involved, at least a certain handsome, half-masked member is. But what this all means in regards to and for Solty remain as yet unclear.

EXTRAS:
Bonus features include a slip cover over the DVD case, reversible wrap around cover art on the DVD case packaging itself, FUNimation trailers, clean opening and closing animation, and English cast and crew commentary on pivotal episode 13 by Christopher R. Sabbat (voice of Roy/ADR Director/Line Producer), Carrie Savage (voice of Solty) and Colleen Clinkenbeard (voice of Rose).

IN SUMMARY:
Roy’s past collides violently with the present in this turbulent volume of Solty Rei.

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