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#8

Now viewers know why Juuzou is so fond of his cigarettes. He says he likes the brand, but Mega-armed said it was a potent mixture of nerve cocktails that kept him sane because of his modifications. Turns out if he loses control and his body AI takes over preservative functions he fights like the war machine he is. Good thing Tetsurou turns up in the nick of time to deliver Mary's handmade cigarettes.

The expired tinned can is the EMS director's last memento from her father, who was collateral damage during Gondry's episode in the facility. Mega-armed rigged it so that the Extended experiments could continue, so he's got a vested interest in it despite his ego and pronouncements of the good the experiments did after the War ended. Question is, was he in the truck when the Beruhlren duo took it out? Or was it Gondry who had to be permanently silenced to keep Beruhlren in the clear?

Next episode is a new story arc. What surprises will viewers get to see regarding Juuzou and his world?

8:

The old 'ethics versus utilitarian' theme: if is worth killing several innocent lives if it means winning a war? It's a constant quandary with no straightforward answer, but of course in this case it's just convenient that Tokisada is your typical villain with a messiah complex. I dig how he's just a pawn in a big game of conspiracy; now we will know the mystery behind the gun head for sure.

And should it surprise anyone that the cigarettes are depressants on steroids? Cunningham has already spelled it for us before; Juuzo's rebukes are merely his tough-guy persona. Only women can ruin his street cred over the most trivial things.

#9

So it was Tokisada who was killed in the police van rather than Gondry. Which begs the question: Did Gondry not survive to testify about his involvement?

The Beruhlen founding members ended up integrating themselves into some kind of hive-mind statue. Probably allows them to work without the need for recreation or rest, but it illustrates the scale of the challenge faced by Juuzou and Tetsurou. Short of destroying the company and the statue, they're never going to be let off the hook. The lawyer knows this, which is why he's desperate to redeem himself before the ruthless Company Board really turns hims into a cog.

A bit of exposition into Mary's background and a foreshadowing of the next story arc. It looks like Spitzbergen have their eyes on a certain individual and the Extended Colt works with him. Tree-cutting doesn't appear to be what it seems in next week's episode.

9:

Hmm, I wonder what happened to Olivier. It's as though the show just transited into a new arc and the assassination of Armed is just a distant memory.

Poor Tetsurou. Boy wants a way to help out but always ends up troubling Juuzo or others one way or another. To be fair, he can be helpful sometimes but he has two habits that I think he's not fully aware of: one, he hates using people (Juuzo did him a favor of pointing that out). Two, he thinks he wants to solve problems but in truth he just hates feeling useless. That's why he resorts to Harmony to help himself out of a pinch, but that usually lands him into bigger problems.

I wonder how Juuzo eats, let alone hotpot.

#10

So Colt was hired by Spitzbergen for a well paying terrorist job. Considering how desperate his family's situation is, I wouldn't blame him for signing up. Too bad Beruhlen are always a step ahead and it's thanks to Tetsurou's intervention that innocent members of the public lived to see another day. Colt's end is really tragic though, since the tomorrow he wanted his sisters to see is never going to come.

Now that I think about it, Colt mentioned a "tree-cutting" job. He was speaking metaphorically, since the "trees" in question were the parasitic plants of Beruhlen taking everything they could from the general public.

Looks like the cover-up for last story arc's mess didn't go thoroughly enough. If the protester was right, then someone must have leaked what really happened to Tokisada and the incident at the base before the war's end.

If Mary's brother Victor is still alive, does that mean he's now working for Spitzbergen? It would break his sister's heart if that were the case. I don't think viewers have seen the last of him, especially when the fake sister Pepper actually visits Inui Juuzou with a commission of her own.

#11

The fake nun didn't come for a commission, she came for Juuzou. She's not averse to using her own Gun Slave Unit as a means to an end, and she would probably have succeeded had Tetsurou not intervened. For all his insecurities, his control over the Harmony device reminds audiences he is still the most valuable asset the office has and the reason why Beruhlen are so desperate to get him back.

Juuzou has one less arm and he's now got a commission which will hopefully go some way towards fixing his literal hole in the wall. The old man with the convertible is the final person featured in the OP animation who has not featured to date, so the girl next to him must be the client he's working for. Looks like someone from a very rich family, but why would someone like that be haunted by an Extended? Those are very much a combination of flesh and circuitry, so hard to believe the tale about a ghost. If this is the last story arc before the adaptation draws to a close, I'm hoping it gives a satisfactory end to that at the very least.

#12

This is an unusual episode. Inui Juuzou is brought in to protect an orphaned girl from a rich background from the supposed ghost of an Extended, but he ends up with more than he bargained for. Turns out his client is hiding secrets which could help Juuzou in the long run in his ongoing battle with the Beruhlen corporation.

It's a shame the girl Rosa started to hate Extended as a group after the accident which claimed her parents, the flashback early on showed she had an open mind and wasn't averse to interacting with them. But what happened afterwards seems to have closed her mind and made her irrationally hate all Extended. At least the conclusion of this case should be beneficial to her mindset, she'll probably take up Mary's offer eventually.

The Extended made out of a pair of Hands is unusual. How do you even communicate when it can't speak? Yet Juuzou managed to get it to work with him for the sake of Rosa, although it's now reduced to a left hand now that the right literally took a bullet for Rosa. Since Juuzou is also missing his left arm, sounds like a perfectly good arrangement to pair the two of them together.

And with this episode, this adaptation comes to an end with the second season airing in April 2020. The animators deserve their break and more time to deliver more quality entertainment. I think the show has done enough to keep its viewers for the next season, so I'm looking forward to seeing what adventures are in store for Juuzou and crew in the next airing.

That is a kind of weird way to finish a series, or I guess a season if it is continuing on at a later date. For one, Tetsuro barely appeared in the episode, while I would have thought he was the emotional center of the show. Mary is cool at least, but I would have thought the last episode would have involved Tetsuro more. I think that perhaps there was supposed to be something the good that extensions can give, such as not just power, but I don't know if it quite landed or something.

I am actually a little confused about if Mary is meant to be an extension expert and stuff, why she might not have gotten something subtle, not like she does not alter her body, she has that piercing. But I also guess there were not really much in terms of subtle cybernetics in this show. Kind of felt the show kind of lacked in places of its cyborg daily lives, with mostly just the cigarette thing, a bit of talk of maintenance, but even if more was mentioned, it felt a bit out of scale. I still don't know what to figure about Juzo body, like how much of his body is human, what that means in terms of needing to eat or something. I think he ate food, but he has been pretty messed up in ways that were just repaired, that I don't understand if he has a stomach. I will say that I liked things like keeping to the fact Tetsuro had to speak through something, there were details there.

In general, the show just feels super unresolved at this point, that I have a kind of tough time feeling satisfied with the story. I suppose I evaluating that after the show has continued on might be in order. Otherwise, a rate this first season Good (7/10), maybe a bit on the lower side, but I found it mostly enjoyable and worth watching.

11,12:

So weird. This show has a bad habit for leaving loose ends.

6/10. I like the steam-cyberpunk neo-noir thing going on for the show, but the narrative's got problems. It would've been so much better if it were a two-cour show. Even if there's a second season for this, it should've made a more decent effort to wrap things up better. Had it done so, I would've given it a 7 because it's a good show nonetheless.

#13

Three months later than initially announced, but the series continuation is finally here!

No nonsense with lengthy summary, just a quick monologue through the first season with snapshots of the key characters. It's straight on to the data capsule Juuzou claimed as his payment and what it contains. Unsurprisingly it's explosive, but what comes next was completely unexpected. The EMS chief actually survived the sniper shot which killed Tokisada, but she is still relieved of her duties and can't do much more than warn Juuzou of the coming storm. Then Spitzbergen (who have been mentioned last time out) go after Juuzou and his acquaintances in search of the data. To top it off, the mysterious hand appendage from the tail end of the last airing belongs to Victor, Mary's long-lost missing brother.

It's a lot to take in, but the new OP animation suggests there's a lot more action to come. I don't think much of the new OP and its song, but the ED animation is an unusual one as it features the Unreal Engine (most likely 4, not sure if it's the yet-unreleased 5). The song that goes with it fits the visuals well, but is not as memorable to listen to in its own right compared to the first quarter's ED.

I've had a strange experience with this title. I watched the first five episodes when it first came out, but it didn't grab me, so I dropped it. Then, last week, I decided to pick it up again. Not only did I watch the 7 episodes I hadn't seen, but I went back and rewatched the first five. Ended up rating the first season as Excellent.

In any case, glad to see this back. I had to laugh at the kids playing on Juzo's shoulders. More people are definitely discovering that he's really just a big softie. Interested to find out what happened to Victor, Mary's brother and how those two are going to relate.

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I really think this show should be titled Gunhead.

Didn't like how the first season ended abruptly; in fact, the show has a habit of leaving loose ends for its arcs. What happened in the final season of the previous season, now it's as though that never happened.

Whatever. Moving along to the current arc.

edit: I am impressed with the ED. Using Unreal Engine just for that? Srsly wow.

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#14

War changes people more than it changes the machines created to fight for it. Not sure how Juuzou's engineer (temporary as it was) ended up in the state he was in, but Mary's probably right when she said she didn't know him at all. If he was indeed responsible for murdering the engineer who adopted the pair of siblings, he's not as nice or helpful as he was initially made out to be.

Now that he's the Dismantler, Juuzou has his work cut out for him fighting an opponent specialised in fighting Gun Slave Units like him. To make it worse, this particular foe knows him inside out, literally. Mary is now an injured hostage, so not sure if this will put additional pressure on Juuzou to finish it quickly. There's the risk everything will go pear shaped if Juuzou goes into his berserk mode, this time without Tetsurou to stop him.

That left hand appendage; even without a voice box it could still show concern for those it cared for through deeds over actions.

I was super interested in the reveal that Tetsuro was helping to fund Spitzbergen (something he no longer remembers, of course). I always thought it was weird that the dude who runs Beruhren would have done such awful things to his own son, but if Tetsuro indeed had jointed forces with Spitzbergen, then that makes sense. If it's even true. It's also interesting that there are indications that Victor was ALWAYS a bastard and not turned into one. We find out that even his supposed protective gesture to have Juzo look out for Mary was just a scheme to unlock the mystery of Juzo (since Juzo will only use his power to help others, not himself). Very much looking forward to how this all shakes out.

#15

This was unexpected. There's PTSD, then there's PTSD taking over the consciousness and committing crimes when the real person isn't aware of his actions. In the real world, Victor would be difficult to convict in murder trials because the insanity defence would be a strong one to put forward. Then again, the notion of a brain implant acting as a type of schizophrenia is difficult even for Mary and Juuzou to understand.

No idea what got into Mary's head to equip rockets into ostensibly a Kevlar suit, but it was the right decision. Juuzou really didn't have a chance on his own, so her intervention saved them both. This is the second time Juuzou has been forced to allow others to manipulate his trigger, so he's going to be in trouble if he survives all this (again). The substitute director is a weasel, so he's cleverly seized the opportunity to incapacitate Juuzou while he's defenceless.

This arc is an interesting one so far, but Juuzou needs both his arms back before the next one or there won't be much of a story to pursue if his ability to fight is crippled.

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