(Post by Zach Goodier)
If you haven't been keeping up with the latest chapters, then I suggest you go back and read through them. I would actually start at the beginning, since the animated series left out a lot of details that the manga had. But anyhow, this chapter continues the final arc of the manga series, and what an interesting one it is. So, this is where the **SPOILERS** start. Ganta and the rest of his fellow Deadmen are all trying to reactivate the "Mother Goose" system in order to put the Wretched Egg to sleep and save Shiro. This has been one tense arc, because it seems apparent that Shiro's duality is making things difficult for Ganta. Now that he knows the truth, he has had to overcome some strong mixed feelings on what he should do. On one hand, he truly loves Shiro, and wants to do everything in his power to save her; however, Ganta also loaths the Wretched Egg for killing all of his former friends and causing him all this grief in the first place. Ganta has finally seen into the past through the Director's memories, and has seen that the Wretched Egg was born from the inhuman torture that Shiro was put through. This really helps you understand that this embodiment of "original sin" definitely applies to Shiro/Wretched Egg. They took an innocent young girl and turned her into a monster, and afterwards you can hardly blame the Wretched Egg for having these twisted views on the world. Her notion of "playing" with Ganta is to try to kill him, and in some ways she seems to love Ganta almost as much as Shiro does, but her twisted and malevolent nature means that her only way to express it is through violence. She very much embodies a character that you hate to love, but her story is so tragic and inhumane, I can hardly blame her for becoming what she did **END SPOILERS**
I am looking forward to the next chapter, and I'll do everything I can to keep everyone in the loop. The action is still excellent, the story is extremely compelling and thought provoking, and if you haven't read up on this manga series I highly recommend it. Be warned, however, that the series contains a great deal of violence, blood, and language. Still, as long as those things don't put you off too much there's a lot to enjoy here.