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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of anime brain freeze. We are your host
blazing brightly like the golden sun! Hi I'm John and I'm CC and when there
just too much cool anime to watch we've got you covered. Today we are wrapping up
one long-running series and are taking some huge steps towards the finale of
another. First we will join Special Fireforce Company 8 for one final time to
hopefully extinguish the flames that threatened to consume the world. After that
we will finally find the treasure we have been hunting for so long in the first
core of Golden Kamui's final season. Face your almost certain death with a
daring grin on your face scream at the top of your lungs to let the world know
that your soul is immortal and definitely don't pause the pot we'll be right back.
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Okay we are here. I can't believe it. It's time to wrap up another series on this show.
Yeah I mean finally got here kind of crazy to think about. Yes I mean Fireforce is
not one of our longest running series but you know we got a couple of those
finished up like Tekken Titan and a fruit basket so and I guess although
that's only technically also only three seasons. We got another one finishing up
this review season so there's that but yeah first first on the docket for
this episode is the second part of the third and final season of Fireforce and
if you've listened to our review so far or listen especially to our review of
the first part of the third season you will remember that we were not very
hot on it so that was something we were worrying about in regards to the
second season like how would this rip a wrap up because to us it seemed like
hey okay there are an immense amount of chapters left it's it we thought hey
this would will probably be a complete rush job also the animation quality in
the first half of this third season was pretty abysmal except for the first
episode I guess so we were not very optimistic when it came to this second season
but I'm glad to report I thought this finale was fucking awesome John what did
you think about it yeah I thought it was great man I know we had our mmm about it
but I think they brought it back around pretty well yeah yeah I think they pulled it
off I mean it's not perfect of course they're always like these mini misgiving
searing there and also some a it is could have probably looked better in certain
parts maybe but considering how down we were on the previous season I was very
much surprised how satisfied I ended up like going out of this season going out
of the series in general looking forward to what might be coming next so we'll
see but yeah so we ended the last this where exactly did we end the last season
all right right at the pivotal cliffhanger because Shinra it looked like
Shinra had traveled to the past or something because he had like this weird
a dollar link thing happening to him and then he saw a vision of the past and he
woke up with blonde hair and yeah nobody knew where was going on here and the Lisa
he himself so yeah what actually was going on so apparently Shinra was taken
over by his doppelganger from a dollar for the past three months who was
basically the version of Shinra that people said he was in school like the
rumors that were spread about him all the bad stuff of him being violent and
killing his family which he didn't do are the characteristics that were
transferred to his doppelganger and this is already a big hint to how what
actually a dollar actually is because there were hints before in the previous
seasons and how what it could be and once the doppelgangers got introduced on
hey here these versions of people that are kind of maybe demonic or whatever
and are evil or what it's not clear what they actually are and this is the first
hint at what these doppelgangers actually are and how they are created and what
they actually do and what a dollar does and what a dollar is so that was very
interesting to see what to learn about how this all works so the idea behind
this is that so first of all we had these weird in the in the flashback in the
in the end of the previous season where where Shinra saw a vision of the past
all the humans or all the footage and that was life action and that was very
interesting and very confusing I don't know you I'm pretty sure you remember that
as well John right yeah that was I wonder how that plead out in the manga if they
just use like photos or something you know I think so I think so I know they
used photo graphs for a specific person so I must assume also for the
flashback they did that as well so the show confirms now at the beginning of
the season that the humans of the past the ones from the live action footage
looked different to Shinra as well which was one of the revelations because at the
end of the of the past season you could still think I might as we have been a
stylistic choice or whatever like I don't know just contrasting the stuff or
you know and of Evangelion did that as well they also introduced live action
footage into that movie and so on and didn't really meant that there was a
difference between our characters and those characters it was just used and I
think Metal Gear Solid 2 did that as well at the end right there was suddenly live
action footage there in the final monologue or whatever and just footage of
people on the New York streets yeah exactly so this could have been something
like that but again at the beginning of the season is confirmed that actually
Shinra also recognized these people as looking differently than he's like
talking about it with Arthur he's like Arthur by the way of course the only
person who realized that Shinra was taken over by his doppelganger that he is
like Shinra was Shinra but he was not Shinra of course it's Arthur so he can
communicate better than that because he's an idiot but we love him so but he was
the only one who got it because he understands Shinra he knows the guy they
have been frenemies since the academy or whatever so he got it while the
other ones were confused but yeah so the show confirms that the humans of the
past the ones in the live action footage looked different and Shinra recognized
that as well so there's already since dropped in okay why was that the case and
so on and we learned that Shinra when he was taken over by his doppelganger also
apparently was violent to sister Iris when she came to him and tried to tell
him that her powers had grown activated because this is what apparently
happens since the appearance of the pillars like a dollar the parallel world
that looks kind of hellish like a hell-dimension or whatever with the black
flames and everything that calls the human combustion and stuff like that and
the appearance of the infernal so once since the pillars have appeared appeared
a dollar has moved closer to the real world and causing more human combustion and
also increasing the power for the fire users and that counts Iris who we thought
until this or at least let's say until the midpoint of the previous season didn't
have any powers reading but turns out she has they were just so subdued and
that she didn't realize it herself but now she knows she has that has
abilities so yeah that was interesting and she worries about that and so on and
want to go to Shinra and his doppelganger just backhanded her like fist to the
face look really bad and Shinra of course feels horrible about this even though he
didn't really do it himself his doppelganger did and his doppelganger like
embodies the worst characteristics people said Shinra has but he actually didn't
have them so apparently the doppelgangers are made up like are the accumulation of
the image people have of certain things or of other people in this regard so
whatever the consensus in the entire world or several important people is or
whatever on what a certain person looks like or what the world looks like that
gets transferred to the doppelganger version and that was a really interesting
concept like I was like oh this is super interesting I don't think I've seen
something like that in the movie for so the power mind over metal of course but
also the imagination from the real world seeping into this parallel world and
creating an imaginary world from that and that coming back to the real world
really interesting and there's more there even more facets to that that also
relate to the flashback with the with the live action people and everything so
that that's one of the most interesting aspects in the season I think and I'm
really glad that they really got into that and didn't leave it like open like
what did that even mean so that's cool another cool thing in my opinion was
the OP of this season like one of the most fire or peace this anime season I had to
like play it over and over and over again like Tiam revolution did that or at least
the lead singer was was involved in that which hey for people who didn't know the
first OP of soul eater the show or the manga from Occupal that was adapted
before also was a T.M revolution OP that's right wash hmm how about that hmm big
thing could have given us like a small hint at what was to come at the end of
this season because this already felt kind of like a full circle moment is
well okay we're going back to hey here's here's that and the and also later an
ED gets played first first we get into that later but dd the normal ed was
amazing as well like survive set the profit did that and I love that band and so
we're getting we're getting spot for the season in terms of all peace and edd the
animation that was also great so I really liked it so okay Shinra wakes up
realizes what happened is really sorry about iris and everything and tries to
make up for it is really upset that his hair got bleached because he thinks that
is like only people do that to run after fads and that makes it super uncool like
if you do it that way and also the that thankfully that that that coloring
watershows out easily not so much the tattoos that Vulcan gave him they're here
to stay I guess so sorry for that and Shinra really hates that but it was really
funny so yeah so since the the first big fight we get and that happens happens in
the second season mostly is this the appearance of the the rise of the seven
pillar brings the appearance of the doppelganger of Benima rules and Conros
previous chief Shinmoni Bachi and that was a really cool fight first of all
alleviated our worries mostly that this animation would look as bad or this
season would look as bad as the previous have in terms of animation because that
fight look really cool had a nice visual style with the environment being
like this classic Japanese wood painting style and everything and there was a
really neat idea and the animation animation itself also looked really cool
and yeah plot wise we get a nice flashback to Benima Rose youth where the his
captain is like still heading the company and everything and Benima was still
pretty young and upstarted and I feel like maybe I didn't check it the flashback
and the fight were maybe longer in the manga because it felt pretty quick like it
all both went past in like one episode but it also didn't feel necessarily super
rushed it felt quick but it didn't feel like it was like it it just blazed
through there and the emotional moments didn't didn't completely hit what how
did you feel about it yeah get what you mean but I know I was watching I felt
like you know they have well they had a lot to get through but yeah I think they
probably gave it about as much time as they could without it feeling like they
skipped the bulk of it or made it super compressed or anything like that you
know so I think it was fine for what it was absolutely I think you could have
probably done an extension of that you could have shown a bit more of the past
you could have given like the flashback one entire episode the fight maybe one
entire episode but it also it didn't feel like it if it was like cutting out some
some parts of the chapters or whatever it didn't it wasn't over pronounced it
wasn't overbearing or anything like it wasn't super noticeable it felt fast
but it didn't feel too fast necessarily and in my opinion we get some nice
binimaro character background regardless and the relationship to his former
captain is conveyed enough to understand why Binnie looked up to him like he
actually taught him to pick and fight only the necessary battles and to be
conscious of your own power like you know with great power must come great
responsibility and so on so he was I guess kind of Binnie's like bad tempered
uncle Ben and it's it's kind of nice that that he was she calling a Benny a big
idiot all the time has a hidden meaning in that he but she thinks that only
idiots would shoulder all the responsibility for the lives they protect and
take in their work not shifting that responsibility to a god like the holy
order of soldiers like he considers himself such an idiot so him calling Benny
basically the same early on even though a slightly smaller version of that
means that he saw his potential but Benny still had work to do so I would say
without Conroe doing the necessary translation binimaro wouldn't have turned
into the person is today because like it was a very non-communicational
approach by Hibachi to teach him like these lessons so I'm glad that Conroe was
there yeah I mean he was he was kind of the real like San Pi to to Benny and the
real teacher for most of the time anyway so and the big brother and everything
so he was very important either way but I feel also in that relationship and
there's this moment where Hibachi talks to Conroe is like you said too much
again to Benny Maru right he's he's supposed to figure this out by himself but
Conroe says something along the lines of well yeah but you're really bad at
conveying what you mean so I had to say something and I agree with him so I'm
that was the right constellation of people at the right time I think so I'm glad
that that happened but yeah it kind of like in the flashback this kind of is
emphasized like the attitude that Hibachi has by him getting killed by the kid of a
woman that turned into an inferno and was killed or destroyed by Hibachi but he
doesn't like he doesn't hold the grudge against the kid that kills him because
like yeah we're all killers in that regard I killed people to protect other people
but I still kill them so I can't protest that you also killing me for this like I
don't have a like to stand on here in his opinion I mean you could argue he does
like the way the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few right in this
would be an argument to that but you know he doesn't see it that way he's like
hey if I kill a person to save another person or to save even several other
people I'm okay with getting punished for that down the road because that's the
life I chose and I'm I'm I'm able to take on that responsibility and that's all
he wanted to also convey to Benimaro like that he would become someone who could
take on such a responsibility so yeah nice flashback nice character background
and like very quickly breeze through that like in one and a half episodes pretty much
but still effectively conveyed so I was like oh I guess the pacing now is back to
something that works so I was glad to that and the short thank you for everything
and not bad exchange between them at the end of the fight before you know his
doppelganger evaporates and everything was really nice so I that was a really
good start to the season that gave me a good feeling was like okay I think I
think they're back on track here and yeah after that we now suddenly have a new
moon and that is the moon from soul eater I see it looks a little familiar yeah it's
like hmm okay what is going on here we have a light disguising as Dr.
Marimo which look ridiculous with his fucking ball of yeah but yeah then we
kind of learn the truth that I already alluded to in the beginning that the
great cataclysm that the white plate try are trying to like cause trying to
initiate again which happened before in the past is merging people's images of
the world with the real world itself which explains Shandras doppelganger so to
go into more detail on that the world of Adela is a world imagined of imagination
and people's perceived image of the world that might different like you if you
look at the world you might perceive it differently than the world actually is
and your perception your warped on occasion perception is what forms the people
and the world that is a dollar so we have this very funny parallel that relates
to our main character and where all of that is explained and that of course is
Jesus Christ because the existence of because of the existence of Jesus who
saved the world our real world quote unquote at least in the scripture or in a
story told in our world that certain people believe in it became the reality in
the world that came to be after the first big cataclysm when the Adela world
fused with hours for the first time and that is kind of also the explanation why
there is live action footage in the flashbacks to the old world basically what the
show is saying is because there were stories told in the form of manga and
animation in the old world the great cataclysm basically created a manga world
that's a really fun concept in my opinion and I don't think I've seen before that's
why like everyone is like I guess an anime character now and back in the day they
weren't because you know there were images and story told in the old world and
apparently in that version of our reality manga and especially manga from
Okubo apparently were so powerful that they see into a dollar and when the
first cataclysm happened that is basically what the new rebirth version of our
world became crazy but it's funny and it's fun and it's a great idea and it
opens up so many possibilities like I wish I kind of wish to a certain degree
they had introduced that concept a bit earlier even so they would have I mean they
do a lot of that already in these final couple of episodes where it's like oh
here that happens that happens and I will get to that but it's still like hey if
we had introduced that further maybe you know you could have done something with
people perceiving certain things and then that changes the real world in a certain
way and I guess we had parts of that in recreators where the creators of the
manga could basically imagine the characters they created in slightly
different ways and that would add to their power set and stuff like that and
this kind of going along these lines but this all of this is already
technically I think been or a lot of this has been already like made solid or
predetermined so there's not that much change happening anymore now there is
definitely some big ones happening by the end but a lot of that stuff is already
something that happened in the old world and is now sleeping into the real
world with this new cataclysm so but yeah it was still super cool also explains the
soul eater mood like I said it's a bit self-enjalgent that an image from one of
the fire force manga car other works was apparently so influential on the
public subconscious that it manifested via Adela but maybe soul eater was the
only popular manga in the version of our world from that timeline who knows or
at least the most popular maybe that's what he wants what he wishes for could be
but it's fun it's fun it's a fun idea so we have show Shinra's brother returning
to the surface together with arrow show how has an adult link with his mom we see
a flashback to when she gave birth to him and Shinra which was really interesting
their mom's mother socks hard like they're both their parents suck because they
dis-owned her because apparently she had a virgin birth and this is where the
Jesus parallel comes in because she gave birth to technically at least one hero
who would save the world you know he shinra is Jesus so there's that because
you know the that story from the old world seeped into this new world that's
that's what Shinra became again really really fun contrast and I guess
technically with his fire feet he can walk on water and stuff like that so I guess
that works as well but I think it's mostly about a hero who would who would save
the world and they used they used the Jesus imagery for that so show also very
quickly after turnaround in the previous season figuring out that apparently
someone is trying to deny Shinra this role of a hero and of course can be
pretty sure who that is at this point already but by using the perceived image of
him being a devil as a weapon so because that's what happened to Shinra all his
life like he was perceived as an outsider as a devil as someone who killed his
family his mom and his brother in a fire and that he's a bad person and that such a
person could never be a hero and since he's destined to be that that's the
enemy's fractions weapon to stop home from ever becoming that hero because you
know that even imagination or more if more and more people start to believe in
him being the devil that perceived image of him could see into other other
and could actually turn him into such a devil technically and yeah so that's what
show figures are at this point we only got one pillar left the eight one and
since the current perceived image of by perceived image by all humans of what
awaits at the end of the great cataclysm is death this will become a reality
currently which is what the white clad one but if you could change that
perception like if the people enough hope that there's another outcome the
cataclysm could be a rebirth instead or even just leave everything at it is or
does something else so that's the once the once everyone or once the people
once fire the fire force figures that out that's their intent they're gonna
try to protect the people they're gonna try to raise their hope in the face of
hopelessness and does maybe change reality to the change perception of humanity
of the cataclysm and everything and yeah so of course they have to work out for
them the final titan appears the which is an image of or the doppelganger of
reflux the first to create the religion of the holy order of soul and everything
Zafarza and yeah he appears as the as the titan every time at a mention so
about holy order soul I think of his guilty gear by the way of course yeah yeah can't
avoid it I'm like wait a minute hold on which character what game what series
well we have a have a move that could be right out of guilty gear because they
load Honda from the second company into a superhead but can it doesn't really work
out yeah but it's funny but yeah so I was I was like okay there's all this
stuff with the hope and perceived image of the world and everything it does
that make fire for us like the anti-dumers show like the bad things can only
happen because the majority of people perceive the world as bad so the bad
stuff from their perception imagination becomes reality like kind of yeah like
after try guns positive spin on Christianity this also seems to take a bit of a
jab at that or at least against Catholicism I guess in regard to the humanity as
to suffer in this life and the good life awaits in heaven right basically the
show is saying if you think like that you're ruining your life and the life of
other people here on earth because this is your life this is the life you have
on this life the other people have so focus on making that better and don't like
carry yourself over to the if you think that your life is like already forsaken
at the good life awaits you in the next life then you have fucked the world
basically I mean that's not untrue I guess and I'm not only going like taking a
jab at Christianity here or the show isn't like there are other religions that
thing if they cause mayhem in this life and kill other people in this life right
then that will benefit them in the next one and basically the show is kind of
like fuck those people and I agree so but yeah it's we get a nice in that fight
against the eighth time we get a nice reunion of the brothers of show and
Shinra and it's so cool to see them standing next to each other and show calling
Shinra brother that's so nice and all looks hey all is happy and Shinra actually
defeats Raffles pretty easily with one kick through the face but that was
actually of course the plan of the white clad because Raffles was of course
due to religious indoctrination everything perceived as a savior bringing the
only salvation be for humanity by most of the people on the planet or at least in
this country and almost everyone now calls Shinra a devil for killing him for
killing Raffles and yeah so that makes him disappear and being fused with the
pillars in Adolain everything and yeah that was that was a neat twist I mean I
saw it coming I was like oh we've been talking about this perceived image she
all the stuff and all the people are like oh Raffles will save us what will
happen when Shinra kills him I don't know did you catch that did that catch you
off guard did that surprise you John or were you like oh okay I mean they had been
sort of calling it bread crumbs is probably understating it a little bit but they
have been very not heavy handedly but they have been leading up to it be like hey
that we've been taught we've been implying this this whole time what do you
think is gonna happen if Shinra does this uh-oh who could have seen this coming
I'm just like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but I thought because we saw something in the
OP which we get to later becomes because it comes at the very end I thought that
this like their change perception and Shinra calling him a devil or calling Shinra a
devil would actually turn him into one like because they were imagining him to
be the bad guy if we turn him into that technically but it didn't really just
may have disappeared to add a law whatever because like I guess he's not the hero
that's there no more that was something that felt a bit like okay I expected
something else but I expected this to be the plan of the white
plan for whatever reason so but yeah then for the until up to the or from that
moment on Shinra is taken out of the game a bit for a while the eighth and
error are going to amateur us to change something about the cataclysmic switch
like trying to stop it from even happening oh gonna stay in the long and we get a
nice flashback of when him Shinra and Arthur met in the training academy like
that was really nice also we see a bit more the the prejudice that Shinra was
facing in in a bit more detail like all the the stuff that was raining down on him
in the early days of him at the academy that is pretty hard to see it's pretty
tough like you know for no reason basically like everyone whispering behind this
back and everything and when Ogan is asking him to play basketball with him and his
team everyone else on his team leaves because they don't want to have anything to
do with Shinra and stuff like that so that was pretty harsh but it was nice that
we saw it I think because there was a factor of his past that was a bit under
developed so far I don't think we had didn't see that many flashback we always saw
some of him like as a kid like people shadow people in the background calling him
the devil the devil but never in such I think like realistic detail because there
weren't that many flashbacks to the academy days I think so that was cool just
you know always get a bit more character details sprinkled in I like that and I feel
like the season was pretty good at always like piecemeal sprinkling them in here and
there so I was pretty neat yeah again the way he was perceived by most people is
very important for this final season so it's good they took the time to give us a
few more glimpses at that the animation quality like I said was not quite back to
the heights of season one and two but it's miles better than the first half of
season three season three which again gets proven in the next big action scene we
see when they are at Amaterasu and they have to face Karon and that that one
white clad that looks like a hospital nurse I forgot what her name was I am
Trevor remember in bang I mean she's not that important she barely does anything in
that fight the most important one is Karon and I thought this was pretty cool
like this was a pretty pretty cool fight pretty effective nice some nice
choreography look pretty good organ isn't able to do that organ isn't able to do
that much against Karon because just Karon is so powerful with its counter
mechanic and everything but it was neat and also I had a laugh at the fact that
like his solution to beating Karon ultimately was attacking him with more than
one person at the same time
my team now please come in here and shoot him as well while I probably more
whatever we sometimes you just need more gun yeah but I thought this was against
the rules of combat in most shows though I was like hey we always have to have one on one
fine I mean some show in action to shows do handicap battles but I don't know that
was just weird oh yeah we have more people than just me so why don't we just like
rush him and take it with multiple people at the same time so he can counter
everything okay yeah I could have told you that the massacla strategy but yeah
Vulcan you and Lisa have to face Giovanni inside of Amaterasu meanwhile Arthur gets
distracted and plays a rescue event and dragon question so great I feel like
they always have to find a way to take Arthur out of the equation because he's
also so powerful at this point so that felt like hey we need to give a spotlight
to Vulcan and Lisa for a bit so Arthur needs to go somewhere else for just a
moment it is crazy how impossibly strong he actually is yes I mean
he is kind of like the he's kind of like the concentration of what the show is
doing with this final season terms of perceived imagery right because he gets
stronger by perceiving himself as a stronger person his delusions feed into his
power so he is technically like a personified version of a dollar in a way so
it's weird that Shinra kind as the main character and not him yeah I mean he is
he is kind of like the other side of the coin to Shinra and to show makes that
very evident in this final season in more ways than what but it's still funny
that he is kind of like he is that person he is the person that can imagine
with the right okay with the right let's say motivation can imagine himself to
be stronger due to hey this could be this and this and an RPG and also my parents
abandoned me and that I had to make up myself as a night or I would go fucking
insane and kill myself that's a sad part of it but also he just has this
ability now of being able to perceive himself a different light just if the
outside factors are correct and everything are beneficial to that and that's
just crazy and fun and that's why he's probably my favorite character in the show
so but yeah so we learn nice bit about the Vulcans past and everything I mean we
knew a bit about it but now we learned that Giovanni's ancestors work together
with Vulcans ancestors on Amaterasu and a member of Vulcans family decided to
seal away Amaterasu's true power of world destruction which pissed off the
Giovanni family and that's why they killed them and everything so I was pretty
pretty cool we have small teas for what is to come at the end here also in the
flashback because there is a little toy sculpture in the Vulcans flashback that
looks like Excalibur from Solitor and we will we will we will talk about that
character later but yeah then Lisa and Vulcans take down Giovanni ostensibly
looked really cool and satisfying also animation wise the problem is you was
infected with one of Giovanni's insects and is no being controlled by him and is
initiating the cataclysm meanwhile outside Karon is doing is still fighting
everything and we learned that he's doing all of this to give
homea his words technically peace who as we've already guessed from earlier
hints in the previous season or in the previous court has been hearing the
negative emotions and thoughts of humans in her head like the entire time
because of her telepathic powers which of course would drive her insane and to
take her pain away he Karon wants to wipe away humanity I guess to a point that
is understandable but a bit of an overkill little extreme yeah either way it
makes him one of the best villains of the show in my opinion and that and this
power set of course like he isn't even using his power to absorb the pain homea
causes him when he lets her physically vent her madness on him he says her pain is
his pain and he will endure it to better understand her and that's pretty bad
as like it feel you feel that he has a love you feel that he has a love for and
that is confirmed later on like homea is only solution to not completely
breaking and killing herself due to completely breaking down and killing
herself due to being constantly bombarded with an onslaught of negative emotions
was just giving into her madness and enjoying it as way she has the big smile on
her first most of the time and everything and is laughing a lot and stuff and
it's very disturbing and Karon is the only one who understands her pain and
when she takes a look into his mind and the only emotion she gets from him is
unconditional love in big bolt letters on the screen just because fire forces
not really about subtext yeah that was pretty sweet though that was that was
very nice like she was like what do you think about me and she just just look you
can do that right and I guess she was scared about what she would find but then
she takes a look actually and that's what she sees and she says oh okay it doesn't
know how to deal with that really but you feel like she's happy about it in her own
way like if he only had found another way to take her pain another way to take a
pain away but now just to block the others long enough from stop getting inside
and stopping the classic cataclysm he sacrifices himself to block them
and to offer each from each in the core of a lot or so which makes things worse for
homea since it means she loses the only person who ever brought a good emotion
into her life so I don't know probably wasn't the right decision here but it's
again it's understandable it's just a bit narrow-minded on Karon's part but it was
it was effective from an emotional standpoint and then we get this cool shot of
homemade lighting through the collective negative unconscious of humanity says
this really surreal tone to it and everything it's really awesome surrealist imagery
I feel like the show really has delivered many visuals I did not expect from
the show in the battle show really cool like in this season like you know the
woodcut stuff wood painting stuff with the you know with in the fight against
the bunch of you and everything and now this and I feel like David production
always are able to surprise me with this shit I mean I must assume it wasn't a
manga and because it makes sense that that is something that came in from a
dollar and everything in terms of imagery because that's also part of the
previous world or a part of the imagery of the previous world that a dollar was
infused with but it's just they realize that so well it looks so cool an
animation as well and it didn't necessarily have to work an animation but they
made it work so that was neat and yeah as the world sings into despair at the
side of a dollar merging with the real world the doppelgangers take over also
the world becomes even more manga-esque with speech bubbles appearing next to
characters for a while also neat idea really like that that visual was really
cool idea I wonder how they did that in the manga because you have speech
bubbles there anyway so how did they differentiate from that or if that was an
anime exclusive thing I wonder yeah I need to look that up but there was really
need a author is back yes delivering the final blow to Giovanni it feeds a bit
like an afterthought because we already had Giovanni taken down by Lisa and by
welcome but it's still cool like just stabbing the the infected possessed you
through the head with his sword without hesitating only killing the Giovanni
parasite inside and then saying one of the most awesome lines in this
fucking show people like you who only look at the surface and make a fuss
will leave nothing behind and will know nothing begun you cowardly vulgar
insect hell yeah that's my boy that's my king y'all I got a king like that so yeah he's
great and he receives for that feat he receives a ring from you for finishing his quest
and does finally levels up to the night king persona who ray but that ring is
actually more important than one would think but yeah each of the human pillar
pillars embodies one of the human disease core negative emotions madness
pacidity indifference rage destruction fear and hate taking all together they form
captain destruction I mean captain planet I mean they are they are a human despair
what was captain planets never says or for one episode where all the bad powers come by I think
all captain pollution or whatever captain pollution yes right that's right
so take us back but anyway yeah I think uh we were different I think indifference was show I
think rage was Shinra that comes into play later madness was of course um or mayor
I'm pretty sure she was uh me yeah so we have all of these combined and then they form human despair
which is the most powerful negative emotion and it's basically what will make the great cataclysm
basically enable it to cover the world with black flames and destroy it which is the ultimate
goal of the white that we later learned why that is we get live action sumire in the next episode
uh opening it up uh which was jarring but cool not portrayed by a voice actor though
was a different actress I first first thought oh is that also is is that her voice actress but apparently not
yeah I remember looking at me like strange that you know they would do it like that but yeah
yeah I don't know maybe the maybe her voice actors didn't really fit the image that they had
like or did the character design of sumire from the beginning and when they started to
just I mean when when okobu started to show he maybe didn't know that he would do it like they
or maybe the the uh producers of the anime didn't know that that would come around maybe they
would have found a higher different voice actress so they could do it down the road but I assume
yeah that it wasn't possible so they chose chose a person that kind of looked similar to the characters
design of a sumire in the uh in the anime and that makes sense and it works it's fun uh she is fun
it's a wacky sequence kind of her like telling us how she lived in our time uh 20 xx
and was instrumental in bringing about the first cataclysm thanks to everyone being an idiot on
social media that checks out so but it was it was just cool and I think that's also the person where
we at least that uh for her we get a life like like a realistic drawing in the manga apparently as well
I don't know who they used as a as a person in the manga it was I think I read somewhere it was supposed
to be uh okobos mom used as a as a template for that portrait but I didn't see if that would actually
confirmed or it's just a rumor or whatever so but yeah just an interesting stylistic
joint again a choice again to have just the anime episode open up with live action scene of sumire
then having you know the voice actress do the voiceover for that actress just cool just a cool thing you
don't see in anime all the time and that was just neat to have in in there like oh this looks this
is different this is cool um yeah the double-gangers of the most powerful fighters like Benny and
Corono appear and uh assaults double-ganger true and he seems to be immune to tamaki's porn powers
wow oh no so um a double-ganger assault takes out almost everyone easily because he's super strong
and everything and only tamaki is left not even able to use her porn porn powers uh things seem
hopeless especially when she gets berated by the surrounding mob for being too lute and then
something amazing happens she basically gives everyone the middle finger um gets half naked and fights
back with the vengeance and I feel okobo was talking taking a direct jab at the audience here
and that includes me and you john I guess because we also have complained about her character in the past
uh and he is echoing our complaints through the mob of course like at least partially of course he
isn't really taking any of the seriously for example by having a child convey most of the pro tamaki
arguments to his mom which is ridiculous like she's pretty and she's will cut and everything and
what did you do mom like you you worked hard to get where where you are in your job and she obviously
worked hard too and so so why are you berating her you're just fighting in a different way
and while I comment okobo for standing up for one of his creations my complaint specifically was
never about the show being sexy or tamaki winning with her sex appeal or him drawing sexy characters
it was about the sexy humor being cruel and demeaning most of the time and
tamaki herself definitely didn't have a good time that was super evident and
fire force didn't feel like a sex positive show up to this point not at all so this seems a bit like
a last minute fuck you guys leave me at my sexy girl alone she's fighting hard like I don't know man
you wrote her this way if you wanted her to be a sexy powerhouse you could have done that from
this start I feel like he bana is that to a degree yeah like she's a very sexy dominant woman
in this show and tamaki I guess they need maybe a contrast for her and everything and they are
kind of like you know they are kind of opposites in that regard but you know if okobo wanted to
have that character in the show in the main cast of characters she he could have done that from the
start and I would have stood right beside him yelling at the people complaining about there being
too much sexy stuff in the show to shut the fuck up I didn't have a problem with the concept just
with the execution hmm how did you feel about it yeah it's it's weird because I'm glad she
I'm actually got a really strong moment here but at the same time it's like brother this was
this was your design come on man so like am I glad to see tamaki kicking some ass and getting to be cool
yes but she could have been doing that all along and I mean maybe don't say that's the way it is
but maybe okobo had this plant and was like hey I'm gonna create a sexy world I make it put
there in a lot of situations where everyone is like oh my god this is so embarrassing and blah and blah
and then at the end I will have her actually use this to win or whatever I mean he does that in the
third battle against the soul but I will actually make a statement about that being shown as a perceived
negative before but it really feels more like a reaction to maybe I didn't follow any reactions to
the manga or whatever but it definitely feels like him reacting to some moms of children
complaining because tamaki there was too much sexy tamaki stuff and too much tamaki losing her close
all the time in the show and him being like no well fuck you what you have no like to stand on
and this is why and yeah I mean even though this is directed at the audience it also kind of
feels like it's directed at a very very specific part of the art and maybe even that
if maybe even a part of the audience that's not part of the audience because if you're talking about
oh these parents of these kids who are reading they don't why would they care if they're not
reading it I don't know man I used to work in a grocery store in this sort of tangentily related
and you know that the front of the grocery store with a checkout line so you know you have magazines
and whatnot and there was one magazine I don't remember what it was but it was some lady on the cover
wearing a swimsuit and some woman comes over to me and it's like you can show that here in the store
that's pornography and I'm just staying there doing my work like I get paid $9 an hour go to
complain to a manager that's the right approach it's like what yeah okay I'm sorry you're offended and
I don't know that's not the right way to approach these but when someone comes at you like that it's
just like yeah brother so I appreciate the general notion of the scene I think that the message itself
is correct and it's like hey be more you know open to this don't be as don't condemn this immediately
or at least don't condemn nudity in general don't condemn sexy stuff essentiality is a part of
human nature it can be a very positive thing of course it can also be a negative thing everything can
but it is not inherently problematic the problem a problem is how you use it and I feel
OkuPo has been using it in a problematic way um Tamaki was mostly the laughing stock she was
written that way she was very artificially made into that person and he always went back to that well
over and over and over again just hampering her own evolution her own development and so on like it
again I if there she was a sex motive character in this and was like running around like bionetta for
example just kicking as having her tits out all the time her ass out all the time I don't even if
she fought completely nude and just made care like she did again I guess it get and win against
Vulcan all the time that would be totally fine with me the problem she was also the butt of the
joke for that for most of the time and it was a very lazy joke yeah and it got repeated over and
over again so that was my problem with that not with the inherent sexiness and also it wasn't super
sexy because it felt bad she felt bad yeah like I think I said this for I don't
dislike Tamaki but I think she constantly gets a raw deal and I feel bad for her because of it yes
so this this felt like a weird latching out by the author and hey okay even though I felt
called out partially I'll give Okobu this it was satisfying since I'm okay be finally getting
win again even though I wish there was more sacrilegate in our front illateque and I definitely
agree that sensuality is a positive thing so it's okay it's just like this feels like a child being
like man why are you taking my favorite character like you wrote her that way shut the fuck up
it's really like okay all right okay but I guess it's fine it also is very fun it's okay dude you
can write whatever you want you just need to understand the consequences of what you wrote exactly
and you need to be able to tolerate criticism and like I said I feel like he's not taking it super
seriously he does nothing in this in this series like it just feels like okay they took a jab at me
at my character I'm gonna take a jab at them that's fine I feel like he doesn't really have a like to
stand on here that's all I'm saying but it's okay and it's a very funny episode it's like there's
so much laugh out loud stuff in that like the real assault appears who has accepted errors as a
source of power he fights the doppelganger in detecting with tamaki shoots a giant dick bullet at the
guy a giant throbbing dick bullet like tamaki gives him a headbutt butt and fireball to the face
everyone around them commences in a happy orgy the end it was incredible I was laughing the entire
way through this fight like hey this was probably the first time I found that tamaki stuff funny like
good on your cobo you did it son you made me laugh with your worst lazyest joke by turning it into
something not lazy for once you did well so hey I guess it's the best takeaway from that she got
the good ending yes absolutely so that was neat and then we get the big rematch between Arthur and
Dragon which is really cool their fight on the mood gave me a surah's wrath of vibes
oh yeah didn't even think it ever yeah yeah like it definitely could have still looked better if the
season one or two team worked on it I think but considering what the first half of the season looked
like or yeah yeah if this final season looked like I would never have expected to be this confrontation
as appropriately epic as it was I was great and it ends on like hit me like oh god oh god oh god
because at the end of this Arthur is just a torso basically with only one arm it's like well I guess
he's dead but he can't be dead he's my king what's happening so I was I was really really really
sat there for a moment I really thought Okobo would kill him off it was nice though like
the way he what he achieved in everything and by showing Dragon hope by besting him after an
internal life of unwifty opponents and bottom Arthur is extinguished one of the main sources of
despair so most of the flames for a while so that is cool and we have Kurnos fight against the stop
of the gang which is fun as well like it's another instance of Okobo taking either a jab at the audience
or his own writing in this case because the doppelganger is a generic anime psycho that according to
the real one only a third rate writer would have come up with it's like oh okay and he is shocked
that people perceive him as such like I didn't feel called out by that one because in our review
of season two we already stated that he is not your usual psychopath he is a special brand so I
agree with Okobo on that one Kurno is a special breed I only want to fight people weaker than myself
bro you're a bully that's what we call a bully yes but he's so open about that and that's usually
not what these what these kind of villains are right there like I only fight the strongest
enemies with everything just comes out and say no I hate strong enemies there's so much work
there's so troubles so I just want to bully the weak so that okay say all right dude very fun about
this character he's an asshole but at least he's honest about it so that was I don't know
there was just fun having this conflict with your usual laughing maniacally anime villain and he's
like I'm nothing like that what the people think I'm like that what the hell no I just love that
talk here soccer I just place him so dead pan across the board it's like yeah that's probably about
the way you should be acting yeah that's true we have Benny Marrow's battle against his
stomach at the beginning which is amazing because it gets wrapped up very quickly yeah because
apparently Benny is even stronger than all of humanity things he is so he just overpowers his
doppelganger easily with a single strike that's honestly hilarious especially him yelling at all his
fans why was that guy so weak do I look that weak to you it's just amazing you don't know how strong
he actually am I loved it but yeah then Joker we have Joker next to get saved from his own doppelganger
by burns who apparently didn't die but overpower his own doppelganger because of course he would
yeah that mean that tracks for burns don't yeah that was the least surprising thing so of course he's
still alive like we only saw him this doppelganger dragging him to our dollars and I was when
thing about like of course yeah the first thing you would do was just kill the guy it was just kill
a stopganger easily handle or you know after his body is taken over just taking over the doppelgangers
mind or whatever so that makes sense we get a big reveal that gets on a drop on us kind of
nonchalantly in which is the fact that Iris is amateur asu's doppelganger yeah that was his before
like we had glimpses of her having visions and stuff like that of amateur asu and they do look
kind of similar and everything but still I feel this reveal should have been a bigger deal maybe it
wasn't the manga maybe it was a chapter ended there or whatever but yeah it was so cool there's like
oh okay I didn't think maybe there was even more to that like there was more ways to elaborate on
that and see a bit more flashback to Iris youth in that regard but I guess not maybe it was not that
that part was not as relevant um fairy one of the white clad that was introduced last in previous
season like the guardian of show tries to drop the moon on the earth and kills himself so there is
nobody to stop it but Shinra appears and just kicks it so hard that it doesn't fall anymore even though
it's already in earth's atmosphere okay that's not how physics works but okay sure I mean you know
perceive world and everything and reality is not being applied anymore anyway so I guess it's fine
but yeah fairy really got like the most like bjs ending like he tries to be all evil in villainous and
moja I'm ringing my hand together and he just what a bitch yeah kind of does nothing but yeah
I think show pretty much says something along those lines right when you see some lying in the
bloody mess on the on the on the floor or whatever like what a pretty full existence or something
like that yeah that sounds very I don't remember exactly but yeah something along the lines
but yeah he and show travel to a dollar like Shinra and show travel to a dollar to stop all my
which we now learn the final truth about she was originally a saint um she kills Inca and
Sumire and takes their power we get the image that Inca foresaw how she would die the first time she was
introduced in the show in the second season and was pretty haunting kind of a weird lowkey
ending for both these characters though especially Sumire considering she was one of the main puppet
masters behind the scenes so it's like okay now homie I just killed both of them I was like oh okay
okay I expected just them to be more part of a final action confrontation in in Adela
so I don't know if that was maybe even more in the manga maybe wasn't the manga and they took it
out to quicken the pace or whatever but yeah I was a bit surprised that they just get taken out
that easily willingly though right it's not like they try to resist really yeah I mean they just
sort of give themselves over to hall mayor so I get maybe that maybe not so much Inca but maybe
that was part of Sumire's plan it's not really explicitly stated I mean she just wants to create the
next cataclysm and then I guess we have the world and and finally because that was the plan the
plan I don't it was apparently not her plan for the humanity to be reborn in the next world or
whatever for people to survive so this is her end goal anyway uh and yeah homie is the embodiment
of the collective human unconsciousness so in essence they're combined wishes which she
interprets interprets as a desire for the extinction that lies at the end of human evolution she is
the actual evangelist that with the show I've been talking about from the beginning and in this
form she can be considered a god like she says gods did not give birth to humans humans gave birth
to gods out of despair and thus gods brought about more despair and if you look at the history of a
lot of religions that perspective checks out so I feel like that's not too far fetched and yeah
show a show and Shinra can't even touch home here at this point and it looks like she killed
Arma Teras and Iris as well and that that's like Iris death and Obi getting his throat cut by his
doppelganger uh let's uh Shinra spiral into a fit of rage and despair which ostensibly completes
the cataclysm and has the whole world be consumed by black adolab flames including everyone we know
um so yeah things are getting super dire so what do you need at this point
we need to got them superstar a savior you need a hero you need a hero a king because we see
Arthur's torso and space at the end of the episode and it ends with his hand grabbing the hilt of
his sword and I'm fucking screaming god oh my god when I come back to that I was like what do you mean
yeah and the next episode starts with Shinra being consumed by rage and ready to kill her mayor and
then getting a smack on the head by Arthur who apparently reconstructed himself and I'm standing on
my couch yelling fuck yeah because that was amazing like Arthur's friendly relationship with Shinra
gets him out of Shinra out of his funk and reminds him that he is supposed to be the hero also
Arthur's Excalibur turned into the Excalibur from Soul Eager because the sword calls him an idiot
because that's what Excalibur would say to everyone in that show like Baga and everyone hated his
personality but the funniest thing is for Arthur that insult actually applies in the best possible way
because he doesn't care if he is called that like his delusions are too strong and pretty sure
that Excalibur also was the one who restored his body not sure if he could already do that in
soul eater for his wielders but it would make sense so yeah amazing and a hero doesn't abandon hope
so show and Shinra finally get a hug from their mom which turns out to be the doppelganger of the
saint so of homea and thus the embodiment of hope and Shinra show and their mom do a soul resonance
another soul eater reference and fuse into Shinra's ultimate form Shinra ban show everything
everywhere all at once I was thinking that right I was watching I was like hmm and yeah
Shinra uses the energy the saint unleashes to at him to create a new world and brings back all the
souls of the people who died to bring that back to life the saint pleads with him that this will
just create a new cycle of despair all over again and to please let it all end here and now but even though
waving for a short while there the memory of his friends let Shinra stay true to his convictions
that a hero needs to give people hope and he is not that have asked to go back on that statement
and also Arthur would get mad at him so yeah that's what he does he creates basically a new world
everyone looks even more like a cartoon character probably because they're in soul eatersworld now
because that's what this is if you watch that show you recognize the town you got the sun you got the
moon Shinra made in this word death less important which will lessen the despair of people at least
that's his assumption the despair homea accumulates is still around and sent to sleep by Shinra and it
will return in soul eater in the form of a particular character I can tell you that
everything gets to be a little cartoonier a little more lighthearted a little more goofy and a
little less affected by death but since this is a world where death is still omnipotent even though
not as scary anymore it has to become kind of a god itself and that's exactly what Shinra
creates he is the creator of death or Shinigami somehow from soul eater which blew my fucking mind I
got to say I'm pretty sure you haven't watched that show right? I think I watched maybe a couple episodes
of it but not enough to be like oh yeah this is that and that is this I had so many fucking like oh
my god deja vu deja vu deja David when I watched these final couple of episodes because like the hints
that this was would turn into a prequel to soul eater like like accumulated more and more is like wait
is he actually doing it? I mean we were thinking about this before and it was like well at least once
at the end of I think season two it was when we first saw the moon it was like wait what is
happening oh and also Makas that the Makas the main character from soul eater her dad death siph
also appeared in a scene and at that moment was like okay this is probably just a cute reference
just he's not really in this universe is just like here for people who watch soul eater he
isn't anything no no no no there's an action thing happening here yes they're actually
okay we'll actually turn this show and I don't know if he tended to do that from the beginning
but that's what it turned into fire force is the prequel to soul eater so technically
that's what you can do after finishing this show you can just go and read the soul eater manga
I mean you could also watch the bones adaption because that's really well animated but also that
takes some liberties it does not adapt the entire manga but hey hmm well who knows and we'll get
to that but yeah IRIS and inca get revived Amaterasu says that IRIS is not her doppelganger she's
the version Amaterasu wanted to become that was nice everyone loses their fire powers apparently
but people with strong soul skeins super powers after a while that figures inca roams the world as
which because she wants to pressure Shinra to have a child with her okay the child of a hero that
will connect her to the next generation I guess that makes sense and judging by the flash war to
25 years at the in the apologue she got her wish and author had a kid too and they are both joining
the fire company and the show ends on scenes showing baby versions of all three main characters from
a soul eater death the kid black star and maca and with the sentence next soul world so will we get a
new adaption of soul eater next by David production that would be cool that be cool because I like
I said I never watched the original so I'd watch something new yeah I mean it won't look better than
the bones version no way but maybe they'll cover the whole manga this time it would make sense I
was feeling like a new adaption of cell solitars overdue and a fire force was successful enough I
don't see why this wouldn't happen now because hey now you got the basis for people who didn't watch
or didn't read soul eater and you can directly go into that and you know that's how to show ends
it's like hey this is next soul eater's next so what is next and I don't I don't see any real
trouble of doing that like I I wonder I wonder I wonder if they'll announce it this year or next year
I wouldn't be surprised if that is so I in in fact I would be overdried I thought this would be
really cool of course I would always have to compare and there's some really awesome fights at
soul eater and I wonder how the David protection version would stick up to that I would hope at
that point that we would get the season one and two crew from fire force back I mean they kind of
have their hands full of steel ball run right now so it's the problems so maybe they'll do it
after steve or run we'll see but yeah I for the most part love the second part of this final season
I'm so glad that after the crappy first after show fund it's footing again John how about you
yeah they they really nailed it with this ending and a lot of the production work was a lot more solid
and even if some of the author commentary was a little yeah strange yeah questionable confusing
I think they still brought it together really well with this yeah yeah I mean of course it could have
always been better but it also I don't know how much if they cut anything out from the manga to
make it work for the amount of episodes they still have left had left or if that is all there was
there was in the manga I felt like they could have done a bit more with iris I feel like they could
have done a bit war with amateur russian like their background and everything there was
revealed and dropped pretty quickly like in general iris is a after her flashback to to her
years in the orphanage and so on and the reveal with sumi sumi re outside of that I don't think
she was even part of that that was that was hybana so she was pretty underused considering how
important the show made her out to be at certain points but you know it was it was pretty neat like
my favorite character author got so much screen time in in this and had a very important role to play
shinras development was cool I like that he got back together with show again they fought as
brothers and the stock with their mom at the end was really nice and all the additional flashbacks to
that and to their youth so I feel like the show strikes like a good balance of making have keeping
up the quick pace but also not letting like letting our important characters get enough screen time
and enough additional background to make the emotional scenes work so that was pretty neat
would have had looked better if the entire team from season one and two had worked on it probably
but i'm still really happy with what we got since the story wrapped up in a really satisfying way and
even though I was wondering if this could turn into a soul eater prequel at some point i'm still
delighted that that actually happened like the final song they play in the show is actually the
third third soul eater E.D. oh about that that's a that's dedication to detail
that I didn't really oh yes yes yes yes so that's really neat I would have expected them to play
the first OP but since we already got an opening by TM revolution I thought they maybe thought
that would be overkill but hey that was nice that they threw that ending E.D in there and was like
hey yeah this is next and if you want you can watch the bronze version you would see that E.D. in
there but I assume we're gonna get another version down the road I now I just have to stay strong
and maybe wait for the adaption because I might also read the soul each among us and that I don't know
I kind of want to get into that now so hey and I still cannot believe that author was the one who
created soul eater version of ex-caliber that is so fucking ingenious I am at all it's amazing
and fits so perfectly but yeah I did it our boy did it our king did it I I definitely recommend
everyone who likes cool show and action stuff to watch this John why can people watch this you can
watch this on crunchy roll hulu possibly on that flakster went that depending on where you live but
you watch it enjoy it it's a good show yeah good ending check it out yeah it's definitely a bit of
kilter and the first half of the third season is it somewhat become to get over but season one
two and the second half of the third season are great and it's definitely now cemented as one of
my favorites in that genre check it out maybe it will become one of yours too
golden kamui it's back it's the final season asterisk the penaltimate season as we learn at the end
of this one yeah not clear if it's the ending is gonna be a full season or like a maybe like an
OVA or a movie because we're we're kind of jumping the gun saying this but this season doesn't
actually finish the story but there's maybe like 14 or 15 chapters left over and I it's probably
a special like with a tech on Titan or something yeah I don't see it being another full 13 episodes I
feel like if they stretch unless the last few chapters are very dense I don't see them doing it and
they also called this the final season so I'm then again that call it tech on Titan the final
season like five times exactly it's the same kind of thing it's like final season oh no we have
another arc after this but at least we know where we stand relative to the end and that they'll
probably finish it relatively quickly because they're like hey it's coming next winter cool we have a
timeline of events then we don't have to wait too long yeah that's neat like that was back in March
it's starting to own wait hold on it's six seven oh god I'm gonna jump off a cliff now everyone
everyone can throw all the tomatoes at me because I have to hear that joke all the all the time so
I get to make it in water no one gets it that's the problem okay anyway uh so we just kind of
jump right back into things where Sugimoto and company have gone to Sapporo in pursuit of one of
the escaped prisoners and their tattoos and they run across a guy who may or may not be jack the
ripper yes still on the hunt for for for for that guy because he's one of the last remaining config
config with the tattoo on his body that leads to a partial or that is a partial map of the way to the
treasure to the gold ostensibly yeah pretty much and it's there's a lot of things going on and there's
a big collision of all these of like Sugimoto and company and Sudumi and the seventh and it's
everything is coming to a head very quickly so they like I said they sort of think that this guy is
trying to recreate the murders of jack the ripper because this guy is like a serial murderer of
prostitutes and they sort of determine that the next murder may be at or around the beer factory
in Sapporo and they split into different groups to try and ambush him and this is when they start
running into Sudumi and company because when Kato Kura comes into contact with Usami
it's not a good time it's not a good time you recognize us I mean first of all we have kind of a
realignment like a switch of allegiances again like because you know when when when Higikata's crew
runs into a server a server slash Sugimoto's crew Sugimoto and Higikata are close to killing each
other almost very quickly but they realize that or let's say Higikata's vision of a country like the
Isor Republic harboring people of multicultural ethnicities and letting the Ainu be the bridge for
the different people somewhat aligns with what a ship as Sierpa wants for her people also she
wants to keep the gold out of the hands of Sudumi at all costs so that's why they like fortune
alliance with Higikata and yeah then decide to go together after Jack the Ripper who like you said
I mean he turns out to be I mean we don't know if that's his real name or was his Michael
Oz something uh yeah I don't remember but it's weird because um they're sort of this implication
you know I guess in real life Jack the Ripper was never actually caught so the implication is
is this the actual Jack the Ripper and not a copycat yeah I mean the show
says as much like that stare statement that it's that is it statement right like that was the real
Ripper uh he uh fled England and then uh ended up in prison and now after I don't know
now he's much older but he's trying to recreate the murders uh from uh and that's why uh he murders
them uh the the the the the women the the prostitutes at certain parts in Sapporo because if you
uh place the map of London to be specific white chapel um over Sapporo they the the the makeup of the
town uh towns are pretty similar what a happy coincidence what a happy coincidence yeah and uh so
that from that they can assume or can deduct that the murder is probably gonna happen next to the
B-effector because that's where the church was where at least one or several of the murders in the
original Jack the Ripper's case happened so uh that's how they end up there and I don't even know
why it's Surumi's gang like is there if they're just on the if they're also hunting for Jack the Ripper
or if they're looking for for Higikata screw or whatever I think it was just a little bit of both
and then when they crossed paths the powder can quite literally explode yeah yeah exactly I mean first
we have to eat the clash between like I said uh Sugimoto's group of Niji Kata and I love the detail
that when Sugimoto drew the drops of Shiyama through the floor he directly lands on the spoon Sugimoto
dropped earlier yeah we just get up from the ground as the spoon signal it's just going to be good at
this small little detail so that's so incredibly funny um we also have another side character
who's also on the side plans here Ueji who's also one of the remaining prisoners who also got
introduced in the last season who's like this weird clown characters with a bunch of tattoos all
of his face yeah and he is a kind of sadistic he revels in hyping people's expectations up and then
watching him crash into the ground like what is a weird dude yeah yeah he's a trickster who
fucks with people like he has daddy issues and wants to kill the the the boy that was a disappointment
to his father over and over again so he kills little boys and a version and burys them
to kill a version of himself and bury that version over and over again it's really fucked up
yeah and it kind of lines with the I guess with the with the Stephen King's it reference we had in
the previous season where he wasn't introduced because you know that Pennywise also kills children
and stuff like that so it's and he's also a clown so that works uh it was fun fun quote unquote
I mean a little less supernatural than Pennywise I guess of course and very different ending
much funnier in a way and a little less tim curry yeah or Bill scarves guard but anyway so yeah
before they have to clash with the seven divisions ofimoto list that Ogata is still here
or is here who almost takes a shot at a serpah but he notices someone standing behind him I guess
he's visited by the ghosts of maybe his brother or someone else on occasion and since only one of his
eyes works anymore and yes like this weird like his mind doing weird tricks on him that's that's
what kind of saves maybe a serpah in the in the moment though he has always had a different plan
for her kind right like he wants to corrupt her he wants to pose her down to a level maybe he has
given up on that that's not clear yet maybe he wants to just ruin a ruin life for Sugimoto I don't know
but it well doesn't matter he doesn't take the shot at her so there's that um and we we see a really
interesting bit we see is a serpah like really delegating and everything making plans like
coordinating people like she has really coming to her own at this point and has become quite the
leader which doesn't go a notice by several people of he jikata's group him included which was pretty
cool especially when there's some reveals later on in regards to he jikata's role in all of this
and his involvement with the i-new and stuff like that and uh and a serpah's father I said I was
pretty neat um but yeah uh surumi mixed in some real skins with the fake ones uh he let get
stolen from him to confuse the other groups um like even a serpah stumbled into stumped in regard to
how to tell all the fakes from the real ones like he's just a crafty jackass he yeah he is
devious as we see many times such a good villain he's so good like he's one of the best anime villains
of all time and even more so because you can never quite make out in this season how much of what he's
telling people is the truth uh like if he even what he believes in what he actually wants what he wants
the gold for what he is he doing it is he doing it for his uh for his comrades is he mainly doing it
out of we've uh out of revenge and the show just plays with that all the time and keeps you guessing and
keeps us the characters in the show guessing and it's so cool it's so cool that he's such a question mark
for most of the runtime of this show and so menacing at the time though that's really neat
he uh yeah so uh man this whole season he's just he's so cold and calculating like even more
sudden we had seen previously he says like you can tell he's like uh i've got something cooked up for
pretty much any any eventually like he's always thinking he's nuts man yeah uh but yeah like so the
forces kind of converge at the beer factory like we learned a bit more about Boutaro who wants to be
a king and have a huge family so his name gets passed down through the generations because his family
died he wants to be king of the pirates yeah pretty much hmm and we thought about that actually
but he uh so uh that's needed we learned he wasn't to do that the tail end of the previous season so
it was nice to learn a bit more about him and his tragic background um uh Suge Moto is afraid since
Ogata cannot be part of any group now he's gonna just try to kill a serpura um you know which makes
lines up with how he almost took a shot at her uh because a serpura is the only one who knows the
code to decipher the map of the goal he might just be try to kill her to fuck with everyone which also
would make sense and he you know that's what Suge Moto thinks Ogata wants to do and that's the reason
why he wants to do it to ruin the gold hunt for everyone and dash everyone's goals but a serpura I
think rightfully assesses that Ogata has a slightly different motive and i wonder what it eventually
will be because at the end of the season Ogata is still around we don't know yet what his ultimate
like power play will be um so yeah that's that's gonna be interesting uh i can see it go either way
but i still have an assumption that a serpura has the right guess here because she had that experience
with him in the third season she knows that he is kind of out for something else he wants
gratification by having a truly good person stoop to his level and throughout the entire season a
serpura is always at risk of becoming a murderer even maybe to justify it reason just because she has
to escape and the soldier grabs her leg or something and thankfully suge Moto is always there to
save her quote on her from doing that by either killing the person himself or just taking her
out of that situation but you know but if he is not around when Ogata has her like
dad in in in in his aim and the only way to win is for her to kill him uh he might win like he he might
get his wish and he would probably die happy when that happens so let's see um but yeah uh it is
assumed that i yeah Michael Ostrog that was his name yeah uh it's the real uh jack the ripper
and uh they trying to lure him in by having a lot of or some of the people in he jikata's group
dress up as women and pretending to be hookers and uh uh ujiyama noting that kato kura's this guy's
makes him look exactly like the last prostitute he fucked make me do a spithead
god she always always reliable when it comes to making just these random statements that just
fucking kill you yes he's amazing um so there was this this reported as also kind of part of
kichikata's group uh ishi kawa i don't know what's he introduced in the previous season he fed
some new to me i selected we have this guy before uh no i think he i think he showed up this season
but i mean for initially yeah okay that makes sense because he felt new to me so he was also one of the
people going after the hints in regards to jack the hip ripper trying to figure out the location where
um where he would strike next uh and he gets cornered by usami uh and uh
uh gets uh it looks like he's hiding the the truth that he figured out about the location from
usami and is able to do so when he later reunites with he jikata's group but apparently he he
he he tears up the paper where he drew the location on a wrote them uh wrote the location on
but either with some imbedded out of him after all or he picked up the paper and glued it back
together or whatever but because usami is there and he figured he's trying to go after jack the
ripper too and he's talking to karukura and recognizes him and says warn karukura and he became a male
prostitute what a downfall god but yeah uh then a signal gets lit prematurely and everything goes
sideways very quickly and then when the seven division arrives and we have everyone clash
and uh like big big tense action blowout happens so yeah that's that's or the first big action blowout
of the season it was pretty cool uh ujiyama throws usami at koito and usami rotates so fast that he makes
propeller noises which was incredible uh Nikito still has a hate boner for suki moto of course he would
because i guess did i don't even remember if suki suki moto really did kill his twin brother or
if he just died in the war that suki moto was fighting and and team he holds him responsible for some
reason it's been so long yeah i don't think i don't recall suki moto being directly responsible but
nikito is he holds him responsible for some reason i don't know why but i i feel like he's one of the
biggest weirdos of the k-of absolutely super crazy yes yes he's insane like i mean ogata is
crazy nikito is like turbo crazy absolutely anyway everyone gets doused in beer and becomes drunk
naturally as what happened in this show uh we have the start of the sniper duel or
renewal between ogata and vasili uh that happens kind of parallel to this where you're trying to
engaging each other's position and that kind of continues later to a different location and so on
a kikuta kikuta who we learn who is part of uh tsurumi's uh division but we learn who is a learn who is a
a or learned is a government spy at the tail end of the previous season uh tries to convince our
sir part to follow him to learn who uh really who really killed the seven i knew so you thankfully
doesn't fall for it and uh we have uzami who catches kato kura and can get one of the skins from him
and when pulling up his shirt he sees something that confuses him and then ogata interferes so we have
a lot of different people suddenly interacting with other people this is one of the typical uh golden
kamui action things where just a bunch of different things happen very quickly one after another and you
you are at the edge of your city entire time because you don't know what's weights around the next
corner and it's just you it's just so much stuff happening very quickly and very cool that happens
in this fight as well there's just a lot of back and forth and uh that was really neat like I feel like
going kamui is just really good at that just keeping you guessing keeping you on their toes and never
you know always expect the unexpected and then still something happens that you could in no way
account for that you could never expect and uh it's great so yeah uh this this is uh what what uh
what happens and I think at every all of that kind of culminates in a surpa almost
having to kill jack the ripper to defend herself which is what I talked about earlier one of the
situations where she almost has to kill but so kimouto gets there just in time to disembowel jack
strangle him with his own intestines rack his face across an entire wall and then kick him out of
the window where she almost dumps his skull too much it was so brutal yeah I remember watching and just
being like Jesus yeah I was like oh my god the show is a grudge against this guy I mean for
Oshiyama it makes absolute sense big fan of prostitutes thus understandably not a big fan of
prostitute killers yeah so yeah it was pretty awesome just this constant barrage like he just
getting disemembered in several ways and then just this skull uh skull crushed smashed in
this pretty pretty heavy metal so yeah that's how he ends and they get his skin and technically now two
to two skins are left to procure um though we later learn maybe not really uh usami beats the
shit out of ogata but uh his hubris is his undoing as he dares ogata to load his rifle and shoot him
fast that an usami can't step in which is exactly what ogata does without hesitation of course
usami you fucking fool why would you do that stupid idiot yes absolutely uh he tries to escape
on horseback but gets a second fatal shot through the chest but with like just one of the most
awesome sniper shots ever like through a double open uh church window or whatever or or tower
window where even close next to sugi moto who apparently doesn't notice that that shot went past him
and uh usami gets killed and shot down the horse um it's crazy like usami lands in the arms of his
beloved commander surumi tells him about the skin uh and katakura and something else um
surumi bites off a piece of usami's finger and i think swallow said maybe
whispering to usami that they'll uh now be together forever and that usami will always be his number one
which makes usami and i quote so happy that he could come
Jesus i'm surprised that surumi actually did that i mean if this was one of his mad dupe
relations he didn't have to keep up the charade just to make usami happy but he did
yeah i might have underestimated him uh i suppose into his soldiers might be
real after all i don't know if we underestimate him or misunderstood him because there's
he makes some weird moves this season like i mean he does that and it's like you know
you must be forever but then there's other things he does is like what are you really all about man
yes and i love that i mean maybe in this case he didn't drop his mask because other soldiers were
around he wanted to keep up the charade of him being dedicated to his comrades and everything
or he wanted usami to stay dedicated to him even in death because that's what is ego demands or whatever
who knows uh because he's proud that he's such a good manipulator that could also be the case but
that's a cool thing he's such an ambiguous character you never really know what is actually going on
in a set truly you can make guesses and there's some scenes that confirm a couple of things
that you know you know that are important to him and that he wants to do but there are other scenes
especially every time he you don't see into his mind but where he's just talking and especially
talking to other people you can never be sure that he's telling the full truth so that's cool it's just
it's just meat it makes him a really really charismatic and anachmatic villain it's just it's just awesome
as somewhat less epic death than the one for prepare for usami immediately comes forward of the last
remaining convict um wegey climbs a chimney to drop himself into it so nobody gets the map tattooed
on a skin nobody gives him the gratification of a disappointed face though as they all have figured
out at this point that you can correct the code without having access to all 24 skins
uh that was just the basic everyone turning the head
and of course wegey throws a fit slips false of the chimney while falling in the reflection of
a window he sees his own disappointed face because he couldn't make the others like he disappointed
and last at it right before he decapitates himself on a wall
oh poetic very poetic ending yes but also a bitch ending anyway so
kato kato kura apparently has the 24th final tattoo on his back uh like uh which is why
usami was surprised when he pulled off his shirt or whatever and uh he grew keekuta and
ogata pass each other without killing each other huh which you know at this point i was pretty surprised
by okay what is going on here this well i mean ogata has no alliance at this point so yes but
even more so that you would assume that either keekuta would try to kill him or he would try to
kill keekuta at this point they would try to kill each other but they just basically look at each
knowledge in each other and then moving past each other and i was like what he is going on here
and we get filled in on that later but um yeah uh the burning the building burns the bee effect
reburns there's still a couple of characters in there kato kura um a sugimoto asirpa they're still
inside they are trying to find a way out botaro goes into the building pretending to save sugimoto
asirpa and kato kura but he instead abtacts asirpa and takes the copies of the skins kato kura
ahead with him um yeah i mean we have learned about his motive sportor was whole family died of small
way of achieving that for him like getting also his own country right and then as having like this
giant family um and that's tragic you know but you know he's also not the greatest guy in the world
i mean he comes through and we get to that but uh that was definitely one of those moments where it's
like no i'm still after my own thing i still have my own goals and my own schemes that i'm doing
working on the background uh he gets intercepted by kato and shima almost drowns kato but instead of
dragging asirpa directly to tsurumi so kashima decides to rescue kato instead because they have
kind of formed a pretty strong bond at this point even though kato berates it for it because
you know he's just did it dedicated to tsurumi uh at least at this moment um kato gets a surpa though
and uh koto drops his accent for a bit when reporting tsurumi which makes shima assume he lost faith in
tsurumi which i don't quite understand but apparently it's like a symbol for that
that was a bit weird yeah that was um but i guess presenting himself a certain way do
tsurumi was part of the whole devotion thing yeah it has to be but yeah i first thought he
i first thought he said something tsurumi wasn't supposed to know uh right about there being
someone in the building that koto could know about for some reason or whatever without having
uh without doing some additional research behind tsurumi's back or whatever but apparently
was about the accent i didn't quite get that must have had to do something something with us
upbringing or whatever and maybe there was something in the earlier seasons where uh he got rid of the
accent to humor tsurumi or whatever to fit better into his regiment and that could have be the case
but i don't remember it so um yeah uh thanks to being the luckiest fucker on the planet kato kura is
able to escape the birding building as well which which is amazing the way he just you can only have
talking with us you can only have so much luck what's going on brother it's just i mean he was one of my
favorite characters from the previous season like him and kira was as a tactic shell of coms do or
whatever i already said in the previous season that i want to spin off of just them into investigating
stuff yeah because they're amazing and uh you know kato kura is just so much fun the asshole speaker
but yeah so uh butaro fighting with his long hair is also pretty cool which he does more in in this
season in the fights um and tsukimoto is so angry at him for kidnapping a server that he almost
shoots him even though butaro had already surrendered uh but she rightly wisely interferes that was in
a very intense moment because it shows how how fucking important a server is to tsukimoto uh which is
always need to see in between i mean you can always guess that because he's always there he's always by
our side and he rescues her from turning into a different person and stuff like that but uh basically
not turning into him uh that's what he the one thing he doesn't want for her so um and he is in this
hunt for her at this point he says as much pretty much at the end of the show again he's like he's not
doing this for himself he had his old goal in the beginning to get his hands on the gold but at this
point he's just doing all of this for a server so it makes sense that he is just so fucking angry at
everyone would who would hurt her in any way possible because he loves her so that makes absolute
sense um tsukimoto uh butaro and shirashi go after the seventh division in a beer mobile uh mobile
nobody knows how to drive it well very obscure reference being made butaro sessi can drive it because
he made the acquaintance of uh an american guy called eddie and i was like who is that and i looked
it up uh that's a reference to edwin done who was an american zoo technician who was hired by the
japanese government during the mage era as a foreign advisor uh he played a massive historical role
in the development of hokai doba introduced a modern uh introducing modern large-scale american
ranching dairy farming and livestock breeding techniques to the region oh and apparently he also had
automobiles i guess brought them over from america i don't know so i guess that's that's the guy
all right i mean we have had weird references in the show before uh before some of them i could
recognize a lot of them probably went over my head but this one i wanted to look at because like who is
he talking about who is this any guy so that was interesting and yeah then butaro says shirashi from
getting shot at the cost of his own life um he asks shirashi to tell us his future kids that
they are alive because of butaro the pirates aka uh fuusutaro osawa um he also tells shirashi about
the secret place where the i know gathered the gold for the first time which is very integral
information and uh then he dies so yeah kind of interesting cool character not that much
screen time because he was only introduced at the end of the previous season and then you know
gets killed before the halfway point of this one but still cool cool character definitely i mean
are there are there non-cool characters in golden kamui each of them are kind of cool in their own
way and if it's only because they're so weird and shitty but you know it's it there's all of them
are so colorful are so interesting and funny and fun and stupid and scary and i don't know so it's
just at golden kamis standout showing regards to characters really it's there's so many characters
it's crazy it is crazy the amount of things just plot juggles and it still holds together
relatively well yes the only thing i noticed is uh i think this is probably one of those shows
where you really benefit from once it's done just going through it from beginning to end in one go
because there's so in this season specifically there's so many callbacks to earlier seasons
and really like one or two second callbacks so if you haven't watched these seasons in a while
you're wondering oh right what was that again what did happen there right uh and you can guess but
i think rewatching this at some point or watching this for the first time all the way through would
really make you benefit in regards to keeping track of all the characters all the different side
side quests and so on all the different little developments and locations and so on
and yeah i think the season breaks are a bit to the detriment of the show's giant character cast
and the location hopping yeah i mean maybe it's some point down the line when there's less to watch
i might just sit down and rewatch the whole thing all over again just to have it all at once
yeah i wonder if they've polished up some of the animation for the for the blue rays and stuff like
that so it would be maybe need a good reason to get the hands on or hands on those i got to imagine yes
but if you want to get the uh us release of the first season of the show you can't it's like it
doesn't exist anymore because i was looking up i was looking up i was like i want to buy this just
like well where can i buy it okay apparently fucking nowhere it's like well uh i mean at some point
that could be a full series release right when when it's done or there could also be a reissue by i
don't know maybe discotheque or someone else that'd be nice yeah so i don't i don't i don't think that's
out of the question i think that could still be a thing that happens so yeah holding on hope i mean
there are other ways to procure this if it's out of print but still it would be nice to have this
on shelf and yeah now i'll rewatch it at some point but yeah this is this not over at this point
she or i see it says that in the end all that talk about becoming king from boutaro was bullshit
and ultimately he just wanted to get back the family and homeland he lost which i think is accurate
and puts like nice bullet point puts a nice like exclamation point on this character and also
that she or i she is able to figure something like that out it's it's nice to see that because he's
always portrayed as like one of the biggest idiots in the cast but he's always needs to get like
this glimpse oh there's more to this character than you know more than meets the eye so i really like
that and i mean she or i she is one of my favorite characters in this song so he's pretty great
yeah he's fantastic um we have a surprise appearance by Sophia and her gang
uh which i think we haven't seen since the end of season three um they tried to save our surpa but fail
suki mocho and kikuta recognize each other at this point uh we get later learned why that is the
case also pretty interesting suki mocho and she right she have not quite figured out driving and also maybe
oh man the visual humor in this show where it just goes straight fucking horizontal through the wind
oh amazing every time they crash and they crash so many times it's it's fun it's really fun
they lost someone purse you could drive um but yeah they lie they at some point find out where
tsurumi is hiding a surpa but even though suki mocho wants nothing more than to storm their harder run
now he does the smart thing and decides to get back up which is really you know sensible uh and
yeah tsurumi has kidnapped uh a surpa and sofia and has a sit down with them in i don't even know what
that is that a chapel i think i'm pretty sure to church it's church yes uh we get to revisit
the stuff that we learned in season three that soomi helped sofia and wilk back in bladder
was stuck um but because his wife recognized wilk on a wanted poster she brought it back to
tsurumi and she and his daughter got caught in the crossfire in the conflict with the secret police
and they died um and at this point to show it tries to make us think or this could be his real plan
like this could be his real motive like uh this point spelled out by sub uh uh spelled out by
tsukishima but also by tsurumi because he tells it to sofia and um uh and uh and uh uh and uh surpa
he didn't want to expand the japanese territory to vlali vostok so that the place where his
comments lab could be japanese soil or that's what tsukishima assumes he wants it for the bones of
his family instead so that that bodies can rest in a place that is part of japan again
tsukishima assumes that he's like wait is that your real plan is that your real motive if that is the case
if you confirm this right now i will go into this room and kill you surumi because i would betray my
trust in you and you're what you communicated to us what your goal is in everything and him and
koi to are listening outside to the door what surumi is monologuing yeah there at that this point they're
both very wary of him and i think that now there's an interesting dichotomy between these
groups of characters yeah absolutely um tsurumi doesn't quite confirm that yet though like we get a
flashback um we see a bit more on the background between kuro ranka and will kuro ranka q's
willk of abandoning the russian minority for the minorities for the sake of his daughter
a surpah of course switching from the original plan um of you know procuring land for the
russian revolutionaries to the idea of creating a sovereign state in hokkido instead where the ino
hokkido ino could be protected live protected live in peace like part of that might be true
that willk really did shift his priorities i think that is true but for kuro ranka it was the same
because it meant willk was abandoning sofia the woman he loves and that's why he got mad at willk
not necessarily because he was abandoning the russian revolutionary in general but because he
banded sofia in the size and because that was the woman kuro ranka loved that's why he got mad at
it willk and did what he did later down the road willk kept the seven ino aligned in the hunt for the
gold by making them understand and accept the differences um but that doesn't last because
you know uh we see that surumi finds out about willk in the flashback when he still had his full
face and everything and the fucking smirk on surumi's face when he realizes that he has finally found
the person the man he holds responsible for his family's death is just so eerie it's like this
rate of finally gotcha smirk it's just he's so he's really happy and he's really looking forward
on fucking willk over and he's going his life and everything it's which is understandable
because you know even if it was not intended maybe it was i don't think we ever really learn if
that's the case or not willk did kill his daughter and wife so yeah he is really happy that he found him
he tells ariko one of the ino have truth about willk wanting to use the gold to support russian
revolutionaries instead of the ino to poison the relationship will cast with the other ino
with you know the group of seven i'm not sure he knows that willk has already changed his
goals to supporting the ino enters new family but even if he did i don't think he'd care
because he's out to have to sabotage willk and to for him to die for him to be killed so
doesn't really care if he has changed his ways i think and because of this metaphorical
metaphorical poison arrow cerumi shoots at willk the ino who still trusted and those who didn't trust willk
anymore kill each other or kill each other and willk tears off the skin of his own face to hide
the fact that he's still alive which is gruesome we are always wondered why he you know when he
appears in the second season as noparabou or what he was called um uh how the shit with his face came
to be how he lost that he did it to himself uh to hide the fact that he was still alive like i said and
he seeks refuge in the prison and thus eventually becomes noparabou who we encounter in season two
uh in abashi re prison where kira ronki kills him since he decided that willk was weak and lost
this way so yeah then finally finally have the whole picture of that relationship and that was
pretty harrowing was pretty sad how that came to be and how this falling out happened and everything
but uh it made sense and uh yeah now we know and now as cerpanoes um and cerumi reveals that the
gun who killed his family belong to willk not to sofia uh who has she has been holding herself responsible
for all this uh all this time for the death of his especially for his daughter
because i think she grew up on her of allga and was really like it really fucked her up when allga got
killed uh so because russian revolutionaries made a vow to not kill any children in their in their
crusade and so on so that really fucked sofia over that's also explained by she's so intent on
making sure that asirpa stays alive and everything um he's very dead she's very dedicated to her but
yeah uh she's like uh it wasn't your fault and everything but also he's only saying that to
fuck with her because that's what cerumi is um he puts on willk's torn face uh torn off face to
fuck with uh serpa too which is super gross like danc's in front of her oh my daughter so fucking creepy
and i mean at this point it sounds like he did all of this for revenge um if that was
the case like i said sukishima says he'd kill him on the spot but cerumi says he is still doing this all
for his country and his convictions have not changed his main goal is to protect your pan from other
countries um and the look on koitos face when he realizes that cerumi has not betrayed the betrayed them
is priceless but can he be trusted no because as koitos later realizes when someone tells him or tells
another person that they smell of beer uh that they read like an entire re-comedy
koito and sukishima were also doused and beer so he's like oh fuck did he smell that we were next to
the door and we're listening in and is that why he told the story the way he told it to assure us
that he's still on our side that he's doing that for his country and for his soldiers and not for
out of petty revenge and for his family uh and the show is not like putting a definitive thing on that
it's always like like hey maybe he did maybe he didn't there's some pretty strong hints that he did
solely for his family and that is his main motivation but then he does some things where it's like no
maybe he also cares about his country still and his soldiers so it's just fun it's just fun to keep us
guessing so yeah but surumi also gets like to do one of the coldest title drops and all of this
yes yes that comes next like so he thinks neither the eastern Russian revolution plan nor the
iso-country plan would work he's in favor of a strong rule of okaido by japanese hand protecting the
japanese as well as the i-know anti-sorussian revolutionary friends but you know you'd see it don't
know if that is the truth uh and yeah he says that if a surpee believes that all things are
imbued with kamui so gods then she must realize that god a gold is an evil kamui that is that corrupts
poisons and killed that corrupted poisons and killed her people a golden kamui if you will
god would have our amazing touchable when they did that i was like no
that fucking surumi is the guy to do it right seriously but it's awesome and he said it so
sinisterly a golden kamui i have to i'm just looking at how that line was delivered in the dub because
he says it so in the japanese yeah and i think that's how the episode ends right yeah it's right on that
now yeah really cool really really cool like perfect execution i think there's one of the one of the
things you could highlight about uh golden kamui even if the animation is not technically always
there i think just the execution of the important story moments just works uh pretty much 99%
of the time because it's just it's has such good timing it has such good execution it has just
such good i don't know framing and everything so uh good stuff um then surumi tries to suffocate
Sophia with willks face skin to push a surpee further to giving up the code to the gold
extremely fucked up like that visual alone it's just so fucking fucking fucked up uh that ends when
they eventually escape with uh Sophia wearing willks face wall while which then is only funny uh but
yeah he also threatens our surpa with every friend and family she knows dying just like his family did
he's such a man as uh she's crazy yeah um at this point uh we get filled on the fact that the
code might be willks uh i knew name that only a surpa knows that's why she is still important uh to
everyone involved um we have uh hip hop there who works in a seventh division but is an i knew who
freeing a surpa uh and Sophia but gets shot for it uh he found out that surumi was responsible for
his father's death which we later get i think filled in on a bit more or no no he was the guy that surumi
told to that uh or told the the fake stuff in regards to um uh willk wanting to use the gold not for
the i knew but for the russians right i think that was the person he told it to that was uh he
pop this dad and so he got him killed because he involved him in that conflict he's he caused the
strife between the different factions of the seven i knew uh who went after the gold so yeah
that's why you know uh he popped the did what he did uh freeze a surpa and a Sophia
see a surpa is almost consumed by the sorrow caused by all the people around her dying uh which
happens several times in the season uh you see always you see these these these black ink blots like
or she she parts of her body becoming that like dissolving into this black inkish thing which i
think symbolizes her despair and terror sadness because she sees everyone around her dying uh the only
she only thing she can hold onto in these moments is sugi moto uh who's right next to her so
we hope it stays that way until the very end um but yeah um
the gang gets on the train um we see a flashback to uh to sue how sugi moto came to be in the uh in the
army uh we have a singing rain sequence that only works if there's actual rain sugi moto you fool
but i like the the fucking uh the ddd um um then putting next to each other him dancing through the streets
happily and then after the opening the next cut as him just fighting a bunch of soldiers
immediately gave me whiplash but it was really cool and yeah we learned a kikuta and sugi moto new
which other from training school uh which you know wondering about that before how they knew which other
do we get filled on that uh if it in on that uh because kikuta uses sugi moto who he calls
norabo to i guess fix an arranged marriage so the woman in question does not tell people about this
candle involving okata's mother which uh uh uh um okay it's it's a bit it's a bit i i don't i mean we get
filled on in on that a bit later on but uh it it was like okay what is all of this about like uh
i think the main important part aside from all the callbacks in this are uh sugi
that we learned a bit more about sugi moto in this background like he talks about his plans to marry
his childhood friend ume and uh and how he left the village because of his family dying of tuberculosis
and when we he returned ume had uh married his other childhood friend toraji uh who i think
dies in in the war right that's what happens in the first season right and till that's what makes him
uh uh go for the gold to support ume with the gold uh or his hometown at least i don't know if she's
even still alive but i think it's to support her um uh him saying that um probably uh in that
flashback still has feelings for for for him makes kikuta really mad maybe something six up with his
own past there i'm not quite sure but kikuta believes that keeping like belongings of other people
for yourself after they die makes you stronger and he gives sugi moto the hat and uniform of his little
brother who died in the scene of japanese war and that's the hat that sugi moto keeps later and that
he still has i must assume and uh yeah it has kept him alive if you want to believe what kikuta believes
so that was pretty neat uh that they have like this this this cool relationship that i didn't expect
and that they got thrown in here last minute but still feels kind of neat and uh but yeah um
ohgata meets sugi moto thing that there's like this thing happening uh where the woman is
is it kai ko yeah uh kai ko yeah but uh she she wants to marry sugi mojo because he's hot
and because he's there she thinks he's another person like she she thinks he's ohgata's brother yusaku
uh whose face i think we've never seen and we've never seen here either uh but uh he
he did kikuta's plan is for sugi moto to pose as him and to make her commit to her marriage so she
marries yusaku and can't and is not doesn't have a motive to uh propagate to to tell people about the
scandal with his mom anymore and so on so yeah we have this weird scene where she invites him to dinner and
then tries to get him naked and to to have sex with him to to force him basically to marry her and
everything but then you know the the uh tsurumi at the army is the um runs in because they
they suspect something else is happening and it's this weird screwball comedy thing that is happening
uh but uh yeah nothing really comes off that because sugi moto escapes uh and everything and uh also
kai kiko of course doesn't marry him because sugi moto is poor and her mate tells her
convinces her that her parents would never allow this anyway and yeah so it was it was a need
little flashback and we get some more interesting info bits about okata ogata and his brother and
about kikuta and everything and i mean kikuta is the one who actually put the idea of sugi in sugi
motos head to join the army so he has a very integral part in sugi motos past as it turns out not only
because of the hat he gave him and everything but uh you know without him sugi moto would not have
been in the army and he would not be the person he is today so i was interesting uh even though he
himself does not want sugi moto to join because he talked talked his little brother into enlisting
and his little brother died so he holds himself responsible uh he says i basically murdered him which
woof damn that's that's some baggage but i mean sugi moto takes a bit off that baggage away by saying
it's still like it's still his decision to join up and so was it so was a decision with kikuta's
little brother it he didn't decide that completely for him uh he you know pushed him a bit in the
direction and yeah maybe so he's a partial responsibility for his brother dying but it's not entirely
on him because his brother could still have said no and so he's taking a bit of the load of kikuta
shoulders uh which was nice um and yeah um both kikuta and ogata were sent by the government to spy
on surumi uh that's why they didn't kill each other when they met earlier uh in in in in the episode at the
beer factory um because the government wants to make sure that uh uh uh uh surumi doesn't stray
from their intended uh goal for once he has procured the gold and of course surumi has a different plan
and you know kikuta and ogata are supposed to make sure that he his different plan doesn't come to fruition
uh but yeah things escalate quickly when surumi states he has identified the location of the gold
he shoots kikuta because he had already figured out that he was a spy of course uh that was i
think the last minute gift from usami before he died he told him that surumi considers him killing kikuta
as uh the seventh division point of no return because now the government will come after them for sure
so they have to act fast and get the gold and we get this awesome scene of kikuta saying he's got a one
class uh first class ticket to hell and surumi will be killed by sugi moto so he'll make sure that there's
room next to him and then sukishima shoots kikuta in the head and says lieuten surumi only sits next to me
and i was just i mean he is devoted that's for sure like he he is definitely
deep in it for uh surumi and he can't really go back on that anymore like he's after after the that
that confirmation when they listen to him talk about his goals to asurpa and sofia he took that as a
he got spurned on by that i think for the more invigorated like his devotion got invigorated his
devotion to surumi got invigorated again so even if he was doubting himself before and was doubting surumi
before and yeah uh the gold is in fort goryo goryo kaku in hako date is what we learned and pretty much
both parties figured it out at the same time um our guys on the train uh with the maps and surumi
with his copies uh and yeah uh what happens then drawn where where where are we going next
going on uh hunt for some gold gonna go digging or so we think uh going down to uh
hako dotate to the soul you know like you said the soul of military fortress goryo kaku
and they basically have to make a plan to make their final stand here um because they can transport
away all the gold in time before surumi gets there right there's yeah there's that yeah they don't
i think at this point it's not known on either side that the other has figured it out but you know
both sides have to act like yeah maybe they've got this uh they've got this you know
they also have it figured out so they're going there uh they have to like
soki moto and his group basically have to search everywhere and i mean they have a
they they have an inkling tube there might be something in a specific storehouse because there's this
character on he on he jikata's chest tattoo that spells god and the way the kanji is spelled and
it's the only character that is pretty close to gold the spelling of gold in japanese
so uh that's what they search for uh but they find something else what do they find they find a
deed for land uh forget where it was was in hokai do yes and this was forced to land yeah force to land
and this was the thing that woken the others were trying to basically keep under wraps
mm-hmm yes that land belongs to the i new it's apparently a deal they made with the mage government
which i guess was kind of legal in a way but as legal as you can be yeah they made sure that
this would hold before whatever legal instance that wouldn't might have complaints about that
and so as long as an i new is involved uh they can claim that land with that uh book of the uh of
the deeds so yeah this this becomes another i mean this is immediately i super makes this very happy
right because uh she was had his had her problems with using the gold because it's you know it
it like to me says it has killed and corrupted a lot of her people and she was worried that this would
only get worse if she used the gold uh because it's kind of bad spirit or whatever but since the gold
was converted into land already and uh that it this this deed would help her
with the give the i i knew the ability to prep their forests their land from outside influences
and live there uh it's kind of the best outcome for her and so she's intent on holding on to the deed
and that seems like that might have been the thing until they keep searching and they find i think
it's like an old well that was used for horses to drink from yeah i mean he jikata once studies the
the the deeds book a bit more intensely and realizes that only half of the gold was used for
buying the land right and then they're like okay uh the rest of the gold got to be somewhere
around here yeah so an effort digging and searching around they find this well they go down it
and what do they find a whole lot of gold and a bunch of different sacks yeah and just at this moment
suremi with the entire seventh division and a couple of destroyers helped by koi to his debt arise
at the fort yeah they kind of bring in the quite literal biggest guns they can yeah so this
turrets a tour in all out war she writes she kind of loses his mind when they find the gold
yes he he was so he was so fucking intent on finding this gold and he gets really like he gets gold
fever uh that's definitely happening there but uh yeah he's also the time for some reason like what a
time for she writes you to address the square on usiyama's forehead for the first time but you know
to say no dude but yeah so um we have you know the we have ijikata slash aselpa slash to
the motor group in the fort trying to hold the ground being bombed shot from the outside by the
by the destroyers with guns uh nagakura you know the older advisor to ijikata uh go serenna
to tsurumi at least he pretends to and tries to con him into stopping the cannon barrage like by
telling him about the the deed uh you know he will he says he will convince everyone to surrender
but in reality he wants to get the others a better chance to win you know by stopping the bombardment
and wants to have also a face to face fight with tsurumi in the fort uh because there's also
what he jikata wants uh uh not being like completely just killed by a bunch of uh cannon fire uh
tsurumi figures this out immediately that this is kind of like a con but also he is very interested
in the deed uh you know because he's like okay i could use this uh so i can't use the guns except
to destroy some of the fortifications but then we have to go in because i don't want that book to
be destroyed uh i don't want to risk that i can't level the entire fort which was my initial plan
because you could still dug up the uh the gold from there it won't get destroyed by the can fire
but that book might be and we need that uh because he comes up later with a plan to grow opium flowers
on that land and that will make him and his companions rich grow their power and stop russia from
taking over hokido and maturia i still not clear if he's just doing this to eventually own the land
where his family is laid to rest or if he really is also doing it for his fallen comrades that's
gotta be the endgame right yeah i think so i mean we that's the point where we look into his mind and
we see him flying over a field of flowers and he says i'm gonna make i'm gonna plant uh opium poppies
across all the land where uh across the land where my uh where my family is laid to rest and
whatever so at least that's part part of the uh of his goal but you know the other thing might still
also be part of that like securing a future for his comrades and his country by expanding it
and making it stronger by having these with maturian whatever against russia's forces so both
could be true i don't know what what what gets more like the stronger like a focus for him uh it
sounds like he's just trying to achieve both um but yeah koi to isn't isn't so sure about that i
think like uh down the road because there is a moment where uh he realizes that um that through me
has always lied to him to manipulate him uh he finally i mean we can assume you before that
uh to me most involved in his kidnapping uh to pull him to his side but i think this is the first
moment where he verbalizes that uh to himself and this says you just had to ask for my help and i
would have gladly given it uh but he rejects to me for the first time at this point and he's like no
i can't do this anymore and uh ask sukshima if he could if he will come but sukshima is still under
surumi spell he can't he can't get out there he's just he's like okay no i i can't i'm dedicated to
this man so uh yeah but uh guess koi to has has worded off the spell at this point um which happens
later a bit later during the confrontation when they have already strung the fort um uh but yeah
so yeah they they strung the fort they stopped the the bombardment uh what else happens i mean
sofia and all of her people are there through all this as well helping dig the fortress up helping them
fight like tooth and nail yes uh you know uh sofia of course wants to make sure our syrpa is safe
uh also getting the hands of on the gold would also not be bad of course but uh i think her main
mission is syrpa and so she makes a deal with hikata to help them 120 revolutionaries i think she's
bringing with him is their fighting and uh put trying to defend the fort a lot of them get killed but
also a lot of um surumi seventh division gets killed um we get a flashback to hikata's youth like to
the first fight that he had at this at this place before uh and apparently he was saved by the original
i knew who had acquired the gold back in the day and his mission is uh now is partly about uh paying
off his debt to uh kimuspoo by helping us surpa that was pretty nice uh we didn't know about that
like we always assumed uh he is only motive was what he said like reviving the isor republic which was
his motive before and i mean that existed but got taken out by the government pretty quickly
and he had to flee and ended up in prison everything but in prison he met wilk and uh you know
it ended up uh how it ended up and he decided that he would protect wilks daughter and to repay
the debt he owed for being rescued by the i knew in that first battle so there was also pretty cool
like some really nice last minute character bits that put some of or establish or characters
established from the first season on uh in a new light and uh makes their motives much more
understandable and everything so it's really cool yeah there's a lot of cool full circle stuff in
this one yeah yeah absolutely um the uh the seven division starts to storm the uh the fort uh
to stop the uh the destroyers from being able to give further um
artillery back up uh naga naga kura uh kare kura uh and here i was and i think uh monster one of the
russians right uh he uh day day day uh get an old an old cannon that was hidden at the first uh battle
that happened at the fort and they uh just actually managed to destroy uh uh to sink uh they
heavily damaged three of the destroyers so they apparently can't fire anymore
and sink the last one the one that has uh koi to his dad on it like as the as the captain um and who
decides to go down with his ship which is kind of a haunting image where he just ties himself to
the steering wheel and then just the water dropping in on him i could have gotten a way in been safe dude
like well i mean it was kind of insightful captains at this time to go down with their ship i get
like i guess but even so i mean it's sad in a way but it's kind of fitting ending for the character
because he was a very staunch very traditionalist uh you know army guy so or navy guy in this case
and it would make sense that he would uh choose that to be his end so i didn't have any problem with it
i'm sorry for koi to but yes you know that's true a few more sorry for him and for
and his dad had an awesome scene when koi to got uh kidnapped in an earlier season you know
writing the the weird motorcycle thing yeah that was awesome so yeah um but yeah he goes down with the
ship managed to fire off of one final barrage of shots which blows up the cannon uh also you know
Mansur loses an arm kira was uh gets uh has broken legs but they survived thankfully i was worried
they would die um and katakura survives as well but i think at this point they're out of the game
like they're at least for now they're they're involvement in this conflict is over um we have
Tony you know the ear guy dying a strong image of him just sitting there enjoying the quiet death rings
that was uh yeah was a neat moment sad again because he's also a cool character but you know it's
nice that he had like for himself a peaceful a peaceful ending for himself uh because this war was very
loud so uh and then we have suki mocho and nikai do having their final brutal battle it's pretty short
but it's gruesome like the way they step at each other and shoot at each other and the kai do
using all his hidden tricks and everything jemming those chopsticks and fucking suki mocho's face
oh god it was just just suki mocho getting one of his cheeks blown out from the kai do's gun and everything
that the one he has in his prosthetic leg man this season was nothing if not brutal yeah yeah
i mean yes some moments where i feel like they didn't go all out like when the cannon barrage
happens you don't see you see one uh you know one uh set off a Russian revolution is being blown up
and then tsurumi standing with his arms stretched out being shot by blood and then a handful on his head
it was amazing it's like just bad i seem like it's like standing in the blood shower and then this
hand falls on a set it's like oh so amazing that that that golden kawaii is not afraid to take a
jab at it's it's awesome characters and making them look like idiots for a couple of seconds so
it's just it's just cool but yeah aside from that there were some moments where it's like no they're
just blowing up but you don't see any blood but this fight was just yeah just they went all out
with the goren everything and it was just goddamn brutal god i can't imagine
after the adrenaline where soft suki mocho is probably gonna be like
yeah yeah probably i mean but he's used to it he's just he is immortal after all
yeah for now anyway uh so yeah but like we said Nikita wants to
avenge his twin brother yohe almost gets to blow up himself on sugo mocho with the grenade he
shoves in his own crotch uh but suki mocho manages to push him into a hole and when Nikita is literally
blown in half it's like coming face to face with his brother again yeah oh incredible scene and so
is seeing immortal suki mocho with his glowing eyes standing in front of the explosion like it's
yes it was scary and awesome at the same time always like like these glimpses when his
his more enamelistic nature nature comes through in the in the battle scenes so we move to a
serpent and she writes she escaped on horseback um suki mocho's horse gets shot in the
serpent almost falls off the bridge but gets saved last minutes by tani gaki we have not seen this
entire season what a comeback i cheered it's very short live but it was still awesome to see it
there because he came out of nowhere the last time we saw him he rescued in karmat and she apparently
has given birth to his child now and everything and he by chance sees nagaku writing past and uh
even though nagaku says don't come to the fort and so on uh tani gaki can this is because he
still feels like he has a uh debt to pay off so a lot about a lot about paying off debts in this in
this season uh but uh yeah he he saves a serpent from falling and and also falling in the hands of
tsurumi again who's just running after them like a fucking terminator uh and uh that was awesome and
yeah we have sofia confronting tsurumi again she hesitates a bit too long to shoot him because she
still holds herself partially responsible for his family dying especially his daughter and thus he
shoots her first yeah and uh right before she dies he tells her he forgives her and then puts another
three bullets in her at the picture of her kira ronka and willk erasing willks head in the picture
with wass which was an awesome visual and then he just writes of smiling slash laughing like a
madman on the back of tsukushima's horrors uh i don't know what to make of that scene specifically like
is he super happy does he that his family has been fully avenged finally all the people involved
technically uh or mainly involved in his family's death have now been killed so i guess that's it
uh but he's always been fucking crazy so this might be just the the adrenaline from the battle or
whatever i don't know but it's a it's a it's a haunting visual definitely like looking up like it
only see the white in his eyes basically and just the brain fluid seeping out from under his mask
and he's maniacally laughing god every time the fluid leaks out from under the thing i was just like
oh every time it happened like i get it but it's still like yeah yeah he's involved in so many wild scenes
uh there's also a wild scene where he jerks off his shotgun in this fucking season one of the
episode god this show is amazing but yeah um i surpasses all of this uh so she might get lost in
his spare and try to kill tsunami down the road we'll see that might happen in the final
cup in the final special that we get in winter i don't know uh i don't know if so so so so
so we more to will be able to protect her from that yeah who knows i mean a lot happened in this
season and they were coming up on the very tail end of it so yeah and i mean the the the thing
the show always hints at her really suffering from seeing so many people she knows uh likes
and loves partially uh dying so i don't know if that will turn into something or if Sugimoto will
always be death will protect it we'll see i mean i feel like that's um for shadowing yeah yeah
pretty much um i see if i screw up boards a train that has the next way for Tsuri release man on it
unfortunately i was a fucking fuck you reveal that was so mean it's like oh god we're finally safe
wait a minute down the trains to hako datte always run in the morning and evening where is there one
in the uh in the noona of the noon and then whoa okay it's an extraordinary extraordinary army
train with all fucking uh with the backup for for Tsurumi and then they have to fight their way
through the train uh tani gaki gets immediately shot by Tsurumi and kicked off the train i hope he's safe
um ushiyama cleans house which is awesome we get like this really cool uh
to panor like panoround camera shot where like where the camera pans around and where it throws a bunch
of soldiers uh out the window which from the outside looks very funny you always see like this
straight forward horizontal line people flying out the windows and that's just him just throwing
the soldiers out of the train um and then we have this awesome moment where he jikata and Sugimoto storm
the train car as fellow warriors that's also really neat when he says like uh i don't even know
what Sugimoto says something like uh maybe i'm too uh too emotional or something like that and i
think he jikata says no that's the way of the warrior that's bushido and that you know Sugimoto
is still around helping us surpa basically that's the reason why he's doing it because he's a warrior
and there's what warriors do or whatever i don't know uh but that was it was an awesome sea just one
with with the uh panat one with the sword and so on and so yeah really cool uh and yeah they're
cornered on from old sides and okata who won his sniper duel with vacity has boarded the locomotive um
so there's currently nobody stump stopping the train right to hell i i wonder about vacillity
uh because we didn't see him uh actually we didn't see a body man yeah we only see his his gun drop
out of the tree we see we see a few drops of blood and his gun but i'm like i i think he's still out
there could be could be like for for we had a lot of people returning who uh we didn't see explicitly
die so far so it could be the case but i could also have been like a stylistic choice and more like
of a sombre ending to that character not actually seen his body but the way uh ogata explains it
that he has that vacity has lost the sniper duel and that he actually killed him but we don't know
you're right that he could still make an appearance in the finale of this um but yeah the name
of the arc will appropriately uh be titled train right to hell which is gonna come in winter
and we must assume that will wrap up going coming with how many many episodes they will do for that
i don't know um what's he probably will be like a one hour special maybe two hours i mean it's like
14 let's say i forget how many 14 or 15 chapters so i could see it being like movie length ish
if they wanted to maybe fit everything in there and make it work but i guess we'll have to say
yeah movie could be cool could put that in theaters would be nice single and come we in theaters
let's see uh but yeah that's how this season ends and uh i i don't know what to say john i
this is what it was a kick-ass season just from beginning to end amazing as usual man this show
started off so i know it was one of the ones that currently role was pushed because they always
pick like one show to push big every season and they pushed this one and i remember just being like
yeah all right i'll check it out oh my god what a ride dude from the
from the weird state it was in from the start
to seeing geno studio get to grow for the next couple seasons and i'm still kind of sad they
handed it off but you know it's come a long way good job though yeah and i think they're gonna
continue to do a job with the last special and man i i feel like like you said from the first
season on this first season was still felt a bit of you know wonky in terms of animation and parts
and i wasn't sure what to make of it i had to first get let's say a taste uh for the equal uh
for the for the humor that they have even though it was pretty jojo asking everything i i learned to
love it pretty quickly but first i didn't uh i thought this would be a serious show and then i was
oh okay no this is that i got it and i mean it can be serious in parts but it's also very wacky and
like the right mix that jojos can do so i really i really like that also kind of feels
similar style in terms of animation and everything so uh these shows are kind of comparable
and yeah i i i have been loving it since the at least liking it since the first season loving it
since the second season definitely and it only expanded it only ramped up the action and the
amazing cast of characters and always surprises uh and every time with you know every characters just
twisted twist and turns shifting alliances and it's so much fun to witness and i'm really looking
forward to seeing the finale um uh in in winter i i cannot wait uh we have to wait that leave but
not too long at least we know when we're getting it so that's nice and yeah i mean john already said
you can watch it on crunchy roll so definitely do that john do you have uh some final words for this
amazing season of golden coming i i don't know can crilly had it's say but man this this season was
probably the biggest and craziest way i feel like it was the largest in scale because
we had this road trip like literally across the country we start blew up a beer factory we started a war
and now this runaway train is gonna be so i just i'm i'm here for i'm ready for the end of the story man
so am i looking forward to uh seeing these characters one final time it's it's gonna be
a hoot i am convinced of that
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Next time on anime brain freeze what will prevail in this utopian society?
nature, nurture, love or the instinct to kill.
♪ And you're by your own energy ♪
♪ Your amazing recovery ♪
♪ Your children, your children ♪
♪ The kometry, the kometry, the kometry ♪
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