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Gungrave 10 & 11
Jul. 21st, 2005 04:22 pmForget about Harry and Maria and Millenion and all that crap. Let's just have Brandon and Bunji drive around the whole episode and get into hijinks and maybe kill some people then afterward go for burritos, and call it Brandon & Bunji's Excellent Adventure. Then there could be a sequel called Brandon & Bunji's Bogus Journey.
I reiterate my previous statement: Bunji and Brandon are like the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of hitmen.
Actually, in thinking about it more after episode 11, I've decided they remind me a lot of the dynamic between Heero Yuy & Duo Maxwell on Gundam Wing. Duo is Bunji, of course. And Brandon's kinda like Heero-- only not nearly as touchy. Heero's cold indifference masked anger; I think Brandon's cold indifference usually just masks... more indifference. Gungrave's current paralell of an army of zombified hitmen compared to Brandon's general zombie-like personality isn't lost on me.
On a different subject: what's with the spontaneous angry shouting of your opponent's name when you're about to shoot them? Dude, this is mafia warfare, not pro wrestling!
...That's why I like Brandon. He just points and shoots and doesn't shout his enemy's name dramatically beforehand. As if his opponent wasn't already in front of him anyway and didn't already know his own name.
Speaking of names: Balladbird Lee. You gotta be secure in your self image not to change that by the time you get to Lee's age. The effeminite nature of that name isn't particularly helped by his hairstyle and penchant for turtlenecks.
I don't care for Brandon's look as much now as I did 8 episodes ago. I can grow to accept the longer hair... but I miss his streetpunk!clothing. Especially the tight black leather pants and the vest. Bring back the tight leather pants and the dirty brown rock-star vest.
( spoilery thoughts on Harry in episodes 10 and 11 )
The development of characters and relationship dynamics for this series has been very well-done so far. That alone eclipses a lot of other problems I have with the show's plot and script.
I reiterate my previous statement: Bunji and Brandon are like the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of hitmen.
Actually, in thinking about it more after episode 11, I've decided they remind me a lot of the dynamic between Heero Yuy & Duo Maxwell on Gundam Wing. Duo is Bunji, of course. And Brandon's kinda like Heero-- only not nearly as touchy. Heero's cold indifference masked anger; I think Brandon's cold indifference usually just masks... more indifference. Gungrave's current paralell of an army of zombified hitmen compared to Brandon's general zombie-like personality isn't lost on me.
On a different subject: what's with the spontaneous angry shouting of your opponent's name when you're about to shoot them? Dude, this is mafia warfare, not pro wrestling!
...That's why I like Brandon. He just points and shoots and doesn't shout his enemy's name dramatically beforehand. As if his opponent wasn't already in front of him anyway and didn't already know his own name.
Speaking of names: Balladbird Lee. You gotta be secure in your self image not to change that by the time you get to Lee's age. The effeminite nature of that name isn't particularly helped by his hairstyle and penchant for turtlenecks.
I don't care for Brandon's look as much now as I did 8 episodes ago. I can grow to accept the longer hair... but I miss his streetpunk!clothing. Especially the tight black leather pants and the vest. Bring back the tight leather pants and the dirty brown rock-star vest.
( spoilery thoughts on Harry in episodes 10 and 11 )
The development of characters and relationship dynamics for this series has been very well-done so far. That alone eclipses a lot of other problems I have with the show's plot and script.
