Episode 18: Body:
Held in a medical lab by The Human Alliance, Jun sees a lot of secret experiments taking place on other beasts. In a surprise discovery, she finds Devil Man/Jason, the American beast, chained to a wall. After breaking him free, he goes out of control in order to learn her secret of the Giga-effect. Needless to say, sometimes getting what you want is not a good thing.

Episode 19: Fetters:

Satoru, Jun's agent for her modeling career, makes his move for her and learns her secret while Kazumi is taken in by a group of minor league beasts. Jun's revelation has an impact and she makes it clear that her path is different than what either of them would like.

Episode 20: Corpses:

Jun finds that the other beasts consider her an enemy as they try to kill her with a number of revived foes, long dead. Kazumi and her new friends are breaking free and Maeda investigates Asuka's interest in the beast phenomenon. Asuka has her own confrontation with the leader of the beasts who makes it clear that all hell will be breaking loose soon, real soon.

Episode 21: Signs:

Maeda finds out the vaccine is not what it's supposed to be and knows his discovery makes him a marked man. Kazumi's friends get rounded up but won't give in without a fight. The whole world seems to be following apart and only Jun holds the answer, but she isn't yet aware yet.

Picture: The picture was presented in it's original full frame 1.33:1 ratio. As always, it was dark and moody-befitting it's theme. It was well mastered and I didn't see many compression artifacts this time.

Sound: The sound was presented with a choice of a 2.0 Dolby Digital English or Japanese track with English subtitles. Both were clear and my preference was the English track this time. The music was haunting and eerie.

Extras: some trailers, a few sketches, a paper insert, and some trading cards along with the usual clean opening and ending sequence.

Final Thoughts: I got the feeling that the series is trying to tie up a bunch of the loose threads so I guess the next volume is the end of the line. The story got more interesting as some of the earlier mysteries made sense, or at least began to make sense, and that made this one worth giving a Recommended rating. Once I get the first volume, and review the last one, I'll have to watch the whole series at once to get to the bottom of it's absolute value but as the show progressed, I thought more highly of it.