Gungrave

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Episode 20 - Brother

The dub VA for Harry's older voice is pretty cool. He's especially good at doing the insane cackling. I have to say it again: Harry, you are so fucked in the head it's funny.

No, Bunji, no! Don't fight your blood brother Brandon, no! Stop shooting at him! Of all crazy murdering bastards on this show, you were the one I liked! You're just as psychotic as the rest of them, but you were the one I liked! And you were the one Brandon liked too; you guys were the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee of hitmen! You can't fight! Stop!

I'm confused... my DVR recording of the episode cut out the last 30 seconds, and my DVDreader seems to be rejecting my DVDs with the fansubs. So I'm confused...

Did Grave beat Bunji to death?

If he did...God, that's sad. Bunji never knew why and Grave didn't have the capacity to tell him at the end.

Episode 21 - Duty

Yay! Bunji's alive! And out to get drunk, it seems. Hah. Well, in his position, I can see how that might sound like the most enjoyable of his options.

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See, I spent most of that episode laughing. I know, I know, that's horrible of me! But right up until the elevator ride I was cracking up. You can tell in my episode 14 response a few posts back.

I was laughing because it was like they were both thinking "Is he going to turn and shoot me any second now? ....hhhhnn....how about now.....hnnnn...Hey, let's go reminisce about clouds!"

Harry's smilling and chatting while thinking "If I stopped talking about our childhood and told him about my missuse of company funds, would he shoot me right now right here?"

And Brandon's thinking "Harry's getting really tense. He's acting like a cornered pitbull...is he going to go for his gun? If he draws his gun I'll have to draw mine too."

The conversation dies and a tense moment drags on. Both narrow their eyes. Moment drags on more.

Harry: Hey, wanna go joyriding in my car and check out girls?
Brandon: Sure.

They don't talk about their many personal problems, instead they go joyriding.

Harry: Remember how we were best friends as kids and suffered horrible mistreatment but loved life anyway with that carefree happy way that children do?
Harry thinking: You totally wouldn't shoot me. You're my bitchboy.

Brandon: Yes.
Brandon thinking: Don't go doing' anything that would have to make me shoot your sumbitch ass Harry.

Harry: *smiles fakely* Want to look at the blue clouds and pretend we aren't both murdering gangsters?
Brandon: *smiles fakely* Sure.

Harry thinking: You would shoot me, wouldn't you you prick?
Brandon thinking: I haven't decided yet. Gimme a minute.


Anyway, it had me laughing. Rolling on the couch laughing.


Then, of course, the end, where I was just kind of numb and sad and shocked. I knew it would happen (the tension was so well-built into the episode you could practically hear it singing in your ears by the time they go to the elevator), but I was shocked by the violence of his death. So very brutal. Harry didn't have to be brutal... but he was.

Of course, cosmically Brandon deserved it because we'd already seen him kill dozens of other people the exact same way. And it's inevitable that it would happen to him too. But it was still more violent than I was expecting. No single shot in the back or being pushed off a roof... it was 4-6 shots to the chest and a shot through the freakin' eyeball.

Harry: *smile*
Brandon: *smile*