Dantalian no Shoka - Ep1

 

Episode 1 – 00 – New characters

Hugh Anthony Disward – He is the main character of the story, and it is through him that we explore to mysteries of the series. Also we find out that he was in the military, but he was just a pilot. This is a bit vague but this was done so not all the mystery is revealed all at once.

Wesley Disward – Is Hugh's Grandfather, although we never see what he looks like he still is someone of great importance to the series even though it is predominantly indirect influence. Main reason is because of his death it was cause for Hugh to inherit all of his possessions.

Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian – Is the name of a mythical library, which is also associate with the demon of knowledge. That is said to possess all the knowledge in the world, and Dalian alludes that it doesn't really exist physically in this world.

Dalian – Is the name of the little girl Huge found in his grandfathers, although Huge original thought that she was a doll when he first saw her. It also appears that she has some relationship to the Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian, but goes by the name Dalian.

Henry Conrad – Is the person that was in heavy competition with Wesley Disward in collecting rare books. It is also seems that he is the person responsible for the murder of Hugh's Grandfather although there is nothing to prove that fact.

Episode 00 – Summary

In this we start a Journey with Hugh to his grandfather house, because he was bequeath all of his grandfathers possessions on the event of his death. Through this opening scene we find out that he is surprised that he was name by his grandfather the sole inheritor because he believes that they weren't all that close. Also it is mention that most of the family was afraid of him because he spent half of his fortune on a single book, along with this it is mention that it might of not been his grandfather that they were afraid of but his collection of books which might whole secrets in the black arts.

Once Hugh arrives and starts to investigates he finds it strange that it seems that all the book were dragged off into the basement. When he final reach the basement, he finds that there are mountains of books just stack about all around this one little girl that he first believe to be a doll. She later gets offended when he has to look for Dalian his grandfathers pet and clean up any of the mess the it might of made. The reason is that because her name is Dalian. When they relocate up-stair to properly discuses things, he mentions that his grandfathers collection was not all that impressive when it was said to be comparable to the Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian. Even though it did have some books of worth, but nothing the would deem such association. Then Dalian goes into an explanation of a world inside a gourd, that if Bibliotheca did exist that it would also have to be in it's own separate world. Then before the story gets any further Hugh get a guest that is the escort him to Henry Conrad's estate.

This is where things gets interesting, because Dalian question why Hugh what to see Conrad because he is the one responsible for murdering his grandfather he explains that he knows but there just isn't any proof to tie Conrad to the murder. When they get there they notice that something is wrong because it seems that there is no-one left alive in the estate. Dalian suggest that this is because that he used the phantom book, and goes into an explanation that these phantom books are book that shouldn't exist in this world. They these creature that seem real but turn to paint once they are kill are just byproducts of the phantom book that they will need to seal the book to truly end things. That finally once they are almost at the study they get stopped by a dragon that was created by the book, so Dalian reveals to Hugh that she is the world inside the gourd that holds 900,666 phantom books. That he must become her key-keeper so that he would be able to stop the dragon. Which would allow for them to seal the book so that no more harm would come to the world.