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Sep 3, 2009 2:54 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Whut?! Brandon suddenly turned into this? Here it is a new Vash.

Oh, and Harry has gained a new slave. That's charisma! :D
Aug 12, 2010 9:15 AM
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Brandon is totally badass now, but he's no Vash :P lol

Harry is letting the power get to his head methinks but he's got a lot of charisma to get his assassin to join them XD
Oct 29, 2010 10:08 PM
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Brandon motioning Bunji towards him reminded me of the Matrix where Neo does the same to Agent Smith =D
Great episode
Nov 14, 2010 8:24 AM
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I don't like Bob and Lee , they look stupid. But it doesn't matter , Brandon and Harry were both great this episode.
Dec 15, 2012 5:09 PM
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Oh shit, Brandon went full Hong Kongese. I wish that would go on.
Jan 31, 2013 4:42 PM
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Such a sudden time skip and Brandon is completely different.

Dec 22, 2013 6:50 AM
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Some decent action in this episode, but the pace is still rather horrible...
Apr 20, 2015 1:58 PM
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Time skip outta nowhere that being said this was probably my favorite episode so far.
Oct 5, 2015 1:50 PM
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Brandon's hair is pretty big now, and Harry let him do all the dirty work...
Oct 12, 2015 1:26 AM

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Didn't expect a time skip. For a second I thought I had skipped an episode or something >_>
Jul 29, 2016 8:36 AM

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Brandon is Heating things up. Daaaamn. This is brilliant mafia action right here, I hope they just decide to keep most of the story on this flashback.
Sep 11, 2016 6:38 AM

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ending theme is nice , 5 years it's have been since they died
Brandon saved the day

Jul 18, 2017 4:39 AM

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So if Lupin the 3rd was a true bastard, he'd be Harry Macdowel. Kinda funny since they have the same voice actor.
Sep 8, 2017 2:13 PM

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Sudden awkward time skip, death and violence used for thematic purposes now turns into rule of cool action, Bob's excessive eating that defines him is getting really boring and out of place in an otherwise fairly grounded show. Worst episode yet, best if you like cool action and badass dudes but that's not why I liked this show up until now. Albeit I didn't watch episode 1, so If it's as bad as I hear than I'm not by any means saying this is worse than it.
And due to how meticulous the violence was directed before this, to not pay attention to the act but rather the implications of that action and what it means for those involved to it, I'm sure it must be a purposeful decision, although currently I am not a fan. Way too awkward of a transition. Action/violence also felt dangerous and real before this with meaning, but now we got our boys spraying down hordes of dudes in the open well being shot at like this is the matrix. I'm disappointed.
Nov 6, 2017 9:19 AM

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Harry's power and influence is growing, now he has another crazy gung-ho under him.
"At some point, I stopped hoping."
Feb 13, 2018 11:02 PM
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Wow Brandon turned into such a badass, and it seems he's even talking more too!

New character bunji was quick to join sides with Harry and I can see a future rivalry forming between him and Brandon.

An overall slow episode but I'm definitely enjoying this series thus far.
Apr 15, 2020 3:01 PM

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Would've prefered to see slow and steady development, but this works too.

And lol, Bob's metabolism must've slowed down with age.

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Jun 18, 2020 2:33 PM

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Harry's ambition has blinded him, I can see a betrayal is going to happen.
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nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites.
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Aug 22, 2020 4:55 PM
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Brandon is a badass now! I like it.
Nov 9, 2020 3:01 PM

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I didn't like this episode. It's one thing for this show to do a time skip after an important event and it's another for nothing significant to have changed between then.

I think a lot of my issues with this show have got to do with Brandon. There's room for an interesting, morally ambiguous character somewhere, but the problem is that Brandon doesn't seem to have any morals. His virtues about protection and loyalty don't hold much weight when he's taken multiple lives in order to stay with Harry and Maria. After watching the earlier episodes I had assumed that Brandon's role in the narrative was to be a reluctant observer, but after thinking about it a little more it seems like he isn't much of anything.
May 19, 2021 12:05 AM

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I feel like this timeskip was a bit unnecessary. A few more episodes of Harry and Brandon taking their time to climb up the ranks and be better at what they do would've been nice.
Apr 14, 2023 3:02 AM
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Great progression, now we have a huge 5 years time skip and both Harry and Brandon are well integrated into the group and climbed at lot, it's gonna be more interesting now
Sep 25, 2023 5:46 AM

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Huh. This almost reminds me of Requiem for the Phantom's timeskip, where the main protagonist develops from a reluctant pawn of a criminal organisation to being their most ruthless weapon. It even has a bombastic action sequence where a gang somehow lose a gunfight despite having both elevation and numbers to their advantage.

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Mar 5, 5:02 AM
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This is spiraling out of control. Harry is clearly becoming more power hungry and Brandon is losing his soul with all the murderers he commit just to see Maria happy and clinging on with the old image of his 4 pals.

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It’s time to ditch the text file.
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