Blood+ Episode 9 – Each of their Rainbows
I just realized something about this anime. It is really beautifully drawn. Not only the characters, but the scenaries.
Spoilers:
In this episode, not much happens on the Saya front besides her contacting David regarding seeing the Phantom and that the missing girls from this school all look quite similar to Saya.
This episode focuses more on Kai and Rick. They were having Pho in Hanoi and came accross a baseball game. There Rick met Mui, a girl who lost her leg because she stepped onto a mine that was left behind during the Vietnam War. He doesn’t know what’s happening to him, but he blushes whenever she holds his hands. You later also find out that Mui has been taking medicine given to her by some sponsor. I’m not exactly sure why she’s taking the medicine, since the sponsor was interested in her piano skills. You later find out that the sponsors were actually vampire researchers and for some reason, vampires could hear or frequencies that normal humans can’t hear. However, Rick was able to hear the weird frequencies too. Not too sure what’s going on there.
Later in the story, you learn that Mui’s father had injured himself and she needed money and a metal detector to help the family out. Rick gives her the money. However, he was then scolded by the orphanage keeper because the only reason why she would want a metal detector was the fact farming wasn’t enough to keep a family alive. They also looked for mines and sell them as scrap metals. Kai and Rick goes off to Mui’s village and finds her, but both think Rick made the correct choice by giving her the metal detector. To them, being together with family was the most important. That’s why they need to find Saya.
However, at the end of this episode, Rick and Mui get abducted and Kai gets knocked out. You also see a brief sequence of the jouranlist as he heads for Vietnam. In his father’s memorial box, you see that he had taken a picture of a vampire and the journalist hints to the fact his father had died in Vietnam.