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 quote:Ex-soldier Juuzou Inui has one question—who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories? After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his previous life—or who replaced his head and why—Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended. When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui's office—on the run from the Security Bureau with a kidnapped child in tow and asking for help—Inui should have just thrown the guy out. But Inui's loyalty to a brother Extended makes him take the job. Keeping the child safe won't be easy, since everyone seems to want to grab him, from street punks to the megacorporation Berühren, who have sent out a special agent that knows exactly how to deal with the Extended...  Juuzou Inui (Junichi Suwabe) An Extended with a gun for a head and no memory of how he got it, he works as a private eye on Extended-related cases. He's gotten himself mixed up with the Berühren Corp after a certain kid has come to his door.  Tetsuro Arahabaki (Daiki Yamashita) Came to Juuzou's for help after escaping from an experimental Berühren facility. Has been implanted with Harmony, a system that allows him to control Extended remotely. He cannot walk or talk without assistance due to the nature of the experiments.  Mary Steinberg (Manami Numakura) Juuzou's partner who does black market Extended maintenance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psdxteaz3tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyWoG43kRI
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Mary is cool and good.
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Oct 19, 2019 17:51
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I do feel that Juuzou's design is a bit too on-the-nose as a parody of his character archetype to handle the show's more serious scenes. It's like a shonen fighting series where the protagonist is a walking self-help manual.
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Oct 19, 2019 19:25
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The gunhead thing is dumb as gently caress but I love the berserk Evangelion mouth. Really digging the overall style of the show too, the worn down 80s cyberpunk feel really grabs me.
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Oct 19, 2019 20:05
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The thing that always sticks out the most about Juuzou's design to me is the no-socks loafers. No Socks Life
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Oct 19, 2019 20:19
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Darth Walrus posted:I do feel that Juuzou's design is a bit too on-the-nose as a parody of his character archetype to handle the show's more serious scenes. It's like a shonen fighting series where the protagonist is a walking self-help manual. But... that's the best part.
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Oct 20, 2019 01:22
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ViggyNash posted:But... that's the best part. I think they could lean into the joke more. As is, some of the stuff they've included (like the sidekick being a horribly mutilated, traumatised child trying to carve out a life for himself despite the odds) sits pretty uncomfortably with the inherent ridiculousness of The Man Who Is So Hardboiled His Head Is Literally A Colt Detective Special. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 01:54
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Darth Walrus posted:a shonen fighting series where the protagonist is a walking self-help manual.
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Oct 20, 2019 03:46
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Shyrka posted:The gunhead thing is dumb as gently caress but I love the berserk Evangelion mouth. Really digging the overall style of the show too, the worn down 80s cyberpunk feel really grabs me. There's a shot in the outro that suggests the gun on his head might not be his primary weapon, and what's on his head is just a representation and there's a reason he had an operator for it. I'm pretty sure if it was just the thing on his head he could pull his own trigger. He's supposed to be some kind of crazy, potentially tank-busting, war machine. Punching trains is a bit too casual for him, lol.
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Oct 23, 2019 05:47
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The main hero is so incredibly hard-boiled that the gun for the head is only second most ridiculous thing about him and it's great.  Anyways the anime kinda resembles Hellsing to me, both due to the art and due to the sudden bursts of absurd, super-exaggerated humour, despite the subject matter being pretty dark and serious.
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