Gachiakuta Episode 13 Discussion

sonictoryuiai said:
That's not the animation team being sensitive to those who can't handle rape, this is how the manga depicts it.

Royalty459 said:

Because she didn't want to go. They can't force her after they just made up.

Ablacksuperman said:

wasn't rudo also hesitant at joining with them at the start but after he saw there way of living and there goal he changed his mind?

Deansdale said:
I get it that some people can find traumatic events exciting but this episode was actually needless, predictable, and at the same time disgusting. I don't give a rat's ass about the backstory of a mentally ill psychopath who tried (and came close to) murdering innocent people who never wanted to harm her. That backstory is also 100% meaningless since the person in question was shown to be a mentally ill psychopath as a child already, so what difference does it make if the writer also dreamed up some traumas for her? FFS.
I dropped the anime with this episode, it's not good storytelling, just pure random bullshit the author thought was cool or edgy, and of course evil people have to be "redeemed" through a sad backstory, even if it makes zero sense or is done shittily.
The previous episode was bad enough with all the dumb illogical decisions and faux moral bullcrap but this was even worse because at least the previous episode did drive the story forward.
"I brought down an entire tower on my friends because they just got a tattoo saving them from ONE hit each and I didn't have the brainpower to consider that crushing them through a dozen floors and bombarding them with debris might result in multiple fatal injuries. And guess what, they all miraculously suffered exactly one major hit."
GTFO

Deansdale said:
@uselessDM Giving villains tragic backstories to try to portray them as morally ambiguous or "misunderstood" is among the top3 most tired clichés in anime, and it's even worse when authors try to conjure up the most horrific repulsive degenerate shit they can imagine just to be edgier than the last show that did the same thing, because the audience will yawn if it's just "simple" rape or murder. This needs to stop.

To be frank I would have preferred if she were written to be an intelligent character with understandable motivations and that way we wouldn't need a shitty backstory explaining why she's a deranged psychopath. But alas, the entire cast act like they're re[dact]ed, for example during a life or death fight for their entire group nobody thinks of attacking the enemy that controls their friends even when she's tied up and can't put up any resistance. Her instrument could've been taken away earlier which would've made the suicidal stunts unnecessary. Not to mention that it would've been 100% justified and logical to kill her in combat when it seemed she has the upper hand and might actually murder them all.

Eh, regardless, it's just my 2 cents and I don't care if other people enjoy the show, good on them. I just hope nobody tries to argue that it's an objectively well-written show because pew-pew and the rule of cool or whatever.