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| Cutthroat and his seiyuu stole the scene. In spite of some heavy-handed censorship, the episode was very entertaining. And thankfully it's an original, so there will be a proper ending instead of the usual "this commercial is now over - for further content and a proper wrap-up, please refer to the LN / manga". Maaan, I had expected this show to be good, but not this good. Next Thursday can't come soon enough. |
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| Not been a big fan of the recent episodes. I liked this one though and am enoying swindlers character development. |
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| Hoodlum slept with Doctor, not sure if it's lucky guy or poor soul. I can only imagine the things Doctor would do to you during intercourse... Seems that didn't happen but the scenes if it did. What an episode! Creepy as fuck and I love the Shining reference done by Cutthroat. Rip Cutthroat, he was a creepy and dangerous guy and was nice to know why he had such an interest in Swindler. To think that "his angel" was actually the one who killed him. |
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| I....did not see this coming. I thought Cutthroat's obsession with Swindler would continue to be played for laughs, not taken seriously. |
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| Another Akudama down it seems : feels weird to see them disappear or turning backs one after one, considering we've watched them teaming up for half of the show. Cutthroat made me laugh with a sort of "Here's Johnny" moment haha. Makes a lighter moment in twisted & dark sequence |
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This was such a thrilling and scary episode. I can’t wait to see what happens next! Hmm... is Cutthroat really dead? |
| MY CAKE FOR SWINDLER! ノಠ口ಠノ magosh, Sakurai Takahiro is one of my fav seiyuus, now love him even more! such an unhinged work. despite the censorship, the handling of colors and lights is still impeccable. the animation was great the whole episode, really feel the tension. imōto saying *killing is bad* and *sister isnt a shit* was so cute lol i like it when an OP unlocks diferents version. nice new visuals of swindler with her haircut |
| The return of that little propaganda segment and it being cut off mid-way ("When people with power get riled up, nothing good comes from it!") was probably enough of a heads-up for how unsettling this one really was going to be, but it genuinely felt so all the same. That conscious switch-up from Cutthroat in an attempt to get Swindler to give in was chilling. Good fucking riddance (seemingly). I hope I'm reading too much into that little thrill Swindler got from seeing the impact she can have on people, by being an Akudama. If not, I'll Pretend I Do Not See It and focus on how adorable Little Sister is & how Courier is just a tad more lenient with her. |
| After a weak-ass 8th episode, this week brought some of the most thrilling and horrifying scenes of the whole show, thank Cruschness the show bounced back. Doctor & Hoodlum just had an exercise session, and now there's a question about the full identity of the Doctor. Is she old? Is she gay? Who knows, the truth is that she really is crazy about her dream of manipulating immortality. Swindler, Imouto along with Courier tries to rescue Aniki (Brother) in the Executioners office. Using the chaos outside, they break in the area but Cutthroat stops them along the way his version of blood trail. Cutthroat truly made an "I'm standing on a Million lives" reference as he piles up hundreds of Executioner corpses like a cake, and he finally reveals his goal, TO KILL SWINDLER. A chase from a yandere psycho ensues. But at the end, Swindler made a good trap and stabs Cutthroat to the heart and escapes with Courier. Too bad they're late as Aniki is flown away from the roof. What a great episode that brought back my love for the show. More action and high-tech action scenes will be expected for the last 3 weeks, the battle is on! |
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| The fight with Cutthroat was done well enough. His VA really did a great job portraying him as the psycho he is. Honestly though, I am having more mixed opinions on this anime as it goes on. The executioners turned out to be a lot weaker than they were hyped up to be. How the hell did they even catch Cutthroat the first time? It has also been less focused since they got to the kids. I hope the last 3 episodes can clutch it up. |
spectrojan said: Welp, Hoodlum's next but I hope he's gonna go down heroically like the Brawler he looked up to "You're... the best, Bro." |
| I wish they could uncensored the gore. That little sister was so cute I wish I have a sister like that, Cutthroat was really crazy on this episode lucky Swindler kill him. |
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Sinister Episode Cutthroat is a psychopath he practically only thought about killing, I really liked the episode. |
| Bets on how old the doctor actually is? I'm thinking she's over 100. |
| really sucks that there’s so much censoring, also I have a feeling that the doctor’s age isn’t what it seems since she did look a bit older than usual in that one scene |
snowykevinDec 3, 2020 5:53 PM
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| gonna be real liked this show best when it was super dumb now that its taking it's self super serious i find it hard to at the same time i just can't get it out of my mind how Cutthroat can kill 100s of people crippled but swindler in her cool moment manages to off him(granted i don't really believe he died yet) horror part was spooky till they dropped the "Here's Johnny" lol i could not stop laughing and it took me out this final arc has me in the mix bag feeling i hope it can end off strong just give me the kids and swindler and i guess courier/hoodlum making it out okay and ill be happy but i feel like our bro might die trying to get revenge for Brawler |
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| So Cutthroat is finally brought down after going on a mindless rampage at the Executioner's HQ. That Shinning reference was a nice touch. Despite causing a massive Riot in Kansai, Courier and Swindler failed to reach brother before he was transferred to the bullet train going to Kanto. Doctor's true ambition of playing God is really creepy. |
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Swantje said: I guess the episode is cool on its own and it was definitely creepy, and I loved the Shining reference, but I feel as a whole this show is starting to fall apart. It fell apart the moment the shinkansen arc ended as soon as episode 4 |
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| My heart! Imouto is so freaking adorable <3. Adorably funny xD. The doctor just implied that she is old... and not originally a woman? o.O... Also, she is nuts. RIP Cuthroat? What a spectacular job from his VA. It looks like it's Hoodlum's turn to bite the dust next week. |
| Damn, they went HAM with The Shining references. Loved it! Wasn't expecting this show to go so gruesome - the censorship blacked out half the screen several times. Cutthroat died doing what he loved... being a crazy bitch. His infatuation with Swindler was bound to take a turn for the terrible. I wonder what Hacker is up to? |
whitherDec 3, 2020 7:32 PM
| Damn, everything is out of control, the Akudama, the people rioting and killing each other, what a day! xD So that was the reason why Cutthroat followed Swindler all the time, he's pretty insane but i hope he's done for good. Now next episode seems very interesting, finally, they will confront the Doctor, and it seems that Hoodlum is helping her? + the executioners there, it will be epic! Oh and talking about the doctor, she's crazy lmao, she will end up dying trying. |
"There is no such thing as an Anime elitist. You watch Anime, therefore, you are trash by society's standards." |
| I think Cutthroat will be back... He's a staff and fan favorite clearly, and that last panned shot to him didn't seem right. Plus Doctor in the preview at the same building... Hmm. If she figured out enough data from the brother and sister, she may have a way to zombify him lol |
| Murderface finally take the expected heel-turn, and I was correct in assuming that Pinky Depink-ifying herself would not be it. He just goes crazy for no real reason. We don't get any kind of big action scene or thriller chase out of it or anything like that, unless you count silly faces, silly voices, black blobs of censorship, and nonstop monologuing as horror. And, of course, there's the issue of him effortlessly murdering a zillion trained and armed soldiers by face tanking them, only to get killed by a girl who literally just walks up and stabs him in the gut. No big plan here, or twist, or ingenious scheme. She just grabs a lightsaber, waits for him to walk up to her, and then stabs him. What an exciting scene. |
| I'll just be noting this here for my own future reference: I don't trust Swindler's 'good' intentions, I see a twist coming. |
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These final moments of cutthroat were intense. Only for of the 7 Akudama left. |
| WHAT THE FUCK HE WENT FULL PSYCHO |
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| I know others have mentioned it but the censorship made this episode nearly unwatchable. I've never noticed it this bad in the series before. Big yikes. A shame that Satsujinki went wild like that. |
| Rip Satsujiki-san,you did nothing wrong :'( |
| Deep dark fantasies |
Swantje said: I doubt there will be more to his character. Cutthroat was just there in the show to provide safety to Swindler in first few episodes which he did. They aren't gonna any explanations to his red superpower either, I could be wrong thoughpuppysho said: either way, he is a really deep character, it hought of it just being a yandere-ish plain boy. Not trying to attack you because you're obviously entitled to your own opinion; but I'm curious. Why do you see Cutthroat as a really deep character? I don't see anything beyond him being a serial killer who gets excited by seeing the color red and wants to kill Swindler because of some vague red halo vision? Yeah, maybe it has to do with some neurological condition which would add some depth to his character, but if they never explain the red halo thing, it doesn't really merit this much credit. Also, even if he had a condition, his personality throughout the show was still extremely static and he underwent no character development whatsoever. |
InsideGrave said: I doubt there will be more to his character. Cutthroat was just there in the show to provide safety to Swindler in first few episodes which he did. They aren't gonna any explanations to his red superpower either, I could be wrong though They might be setting up background stuff for a sequel. They spent a decent amount of time doing the whole "red angel" thing, it would be fairly strange if it would just go nowhere. Or maybe it is just done and done. Don't mind either way as I will view this show as an enjoyable popcorn flick until they try to pay-off all the background setup. |
| This is why I never understood what people saw in shipping Swindler with Cutthroat. It was a very creepy and one-sided obsession. |
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TheCeeJayz said: The little Sister saying Swindler "isn't a shit" was pretty cute lmao. What a crazy episode. Never seen The Shining, but that reference in the bathroom scene was great. Props to Cutthroat and Swindler's VAs for putting a great performance. she really giving me nezuko-chan vibe |
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| While this episodes looks great the writing is kind of stupid |
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| A moment ago, I was reminiscing. The civil outbreak very much resembled that one from Psycho Pass (and it helped that both "chiefs" were voiced by same VA too). Next thing, I was laughing. I just realized "the shit" language had become an integral part of Courier's charisma and appeal, and listening to him adhering to it, while being told off by an innocent child as "shit guy" (and it helped it's the same VA from cautious hero, adhering both to cautiousness and shit language against all odds, definitely same vibes) is such a LOL, indeed. It shifted to a bit of philosophical and romantic (both literal and connotative) with Hoodlum and Doctor's conversation/interaction. The "doctor" and "playing with lives" route can be considered a very usual trope in anime to portray as a vice, though interestingly, "control" as a term was sparingly used before. It could be that Doctor wanted to convey something else, but the subbing team simply referred to it as wanting control over immortality. What should make Doctor a bit more interesting, is not the theory behind her actions or values, but rather the resolution that will come through it, and the final confrontation that will result from her ideation of such thing, as it's rather predictable that such tropes will seldom to never succeed at all. Then it turned horror/thriller with a sprinkle of action, courtesy of the one-and-only Cutthroat. The visual imagery for red halo, whether on the realm of phenomenological experience or supernatural receptivity, was personally the most terrifying one for me. Yes, more than that infamous eye-in-the-hole scene everyone was raving about, or the complementary feedback (scream, specifically) from Swindler on the former. The red halo was beyond horrifying, partly because you probably don't know what to truly make out of it. Even though one can easily dismiss it as a metaphorical allusion exclusive for mentally-ill/psychotic people and the likes, the execution was rightfully disturbing, nevertheless. It's not shown from the perspective of a "moving" scene nor of a live setting, indicating a more fictitious experience (as the default response from an audience would likely be "yeah what can you expect from an anime, no logic just magic" which heavily subdues what can be made as conceptual fear) while a panoramic depiction of a massively, towering red halo, which somehow matches someone's mental constitution, against a grayscaled surrounding with a "fuzzy" texture of past images - it's mystifying and at the same time, scary. Although it might only be me, or with a few minority, it should have the same intensity as that of shows with religion/"spirituality" as one of its central themes (admittedly, Chrno Crusade for anime is the one that I currently have in mind). Though of course, Akudama Drive wasn't aiming for that inception at all, just that it happened to slip its way in, and the timing was just perfect, so it left quite an impression, at least to me. What a crazy ride. Not many shows (or an episode, to be quite exact) can do this "cram-it-all-stuff" while the audience is still left with a feeling of wholesomeness instead of mild pretentiousness. |
| There goes my fav character to ruins... man can't we have an ending where he helps swindler instead of trying to kill her, last week when I saw the title I instantly knew shit gonna happen and Cutthroat goes berserk. Doc is having sex with Hoodlum in a 5 star hotel and she claims to want to control death what a maniac and she claims to be a lot more older than she looks kinda feeling bad for the people in the forums simping for her lol, and of course Hoodlum just did it with a baba. |
| Shout-out to Swindler's and Cutthroat's voice actors is all I can say at the moment. It wasn't flawless, but it was a truly action packed-episode. I really hope all of this has some kind of point and that the show won't abruptly end when the siblings reunite because, what then? Kodaka is clearly going to kill off all of the Akudama which is in his style but Swindler can't take care about both brother and sister forever, nor can they live alone when they are wanted. Also, I wonder will she die in the end as well... Even if it ends up an Kill 'Em All ending it would still be fitting (I guess?), but if this show wants to represent any kind of symbolism throughout it's story, the siblings should find happiness in some shape or form until the end. |
| Noir… It is the name of an ancient fate. Two sisters who watch anime. The peace of the newly born, their black hands protect. |
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