@Cuddles:
By the way, who the fuck's calling him a rapist? Yes, he has her pinned down and is about to go to work on her, but that's no reason to bring uncomfortable Freudian analogies into this. He just wants to chop her up, plain and simple. Pinning her down is just so she wouldn't get away.
@taboo:
yeah i dont remember seeing him say he wanted to rape her
Well, he doesn't say he's going to rape her, but when he first has her pinned down, he talks using sexual innuendo (calling her a マグロ女,"tuna woman," which is slang for "woman who lies flat during intercourse" – source). Besides, there are plenty of more effective ways to pin someone down than the way he's got her. A knee in the stomach would be more useful if he just wanted to cut her up. Also, this page, where Giricco tells Maka he's changed his mind about making her wait 10 years to be his opponent or play with him, or whatever, is referencing the time he saw her in Baba Yaga castle, when he made her take off her mask and then told her to come back in "7, no, 10 years." Here. Did anyone not see that comment as sexual? I mean, he didn't tell her to take off the mask until he realized she was a girl, so he was heading in that direction.
Maybe he wasn't actually going to rape her. But he sure as heck wanted her to think he was. He was trying to scare the shit out of her, and I think he didn't really care whether he actually raped her or not.
@Bounty1Berry:
Is there a lot of skip-and-merge making it worth starting the manga at book 1?
Nope, the anime follows the manga very closely. The only thing it really cuts is some of the panty shots that appeared earlier in the manga. One of the fights in the battle for Brew is changed slightly, so you might want to start reading from the beginning of the Brew arc (chapter 34). Besides, some of the scanslations of the early chapters are just plain wrong.They're fine for the most part, but some lines only have a few words right.