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| first episode was good. It been decades since I've watched the first series in a Japanese channel. I'm looking forward to this show. |
| HaHaHaHa the guy totally misunderstood that murder isn't crime there, its just there is no law its societies own justice where town ppl take law in to their own hands (nice twist) lol |
Cedulet1 said: deep down this is what american gun owners/second amendment supporters wish for, right? Yes, I think so. In that way it is no different than any other political ideology. Virtually alll concepts of government are based on a utopia: socialism, liberalism, etc. Politics are then to transform these bases into practical applications. Here in Europe, 2nd amendment loyalty if often seen as strange or even backward. but that's because for starters we fail to see the base it is build on; people think it's just about "liking guns" or even bloodlust, and secondly if we do recognize the base we can't see how politics can transform it into something workable. Concerning the latter, American 2nd amendment supporters could probably say the same thing about socialism, while the former (not recognising the base) is simply our fault. There exist of course 2nd amendment supporters that do in fact just shout "yay, guns!", but there are also plenty of socialists in Europe that just shout "yay, welfare!". |
| "I'm a middle schooler bartender!" - Mishima Hitomi |
| Quite refreshing seeing this show with the new animation honestly. Pretty smart though, let people think you can just kill whenever but not permit it so that you can get rid of the people that think killing another person for the fun of it is fine. (protect the weak) Also lmfao at the guy's "weird" question, mountains of crêpes. Very good first impression so far! |
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| Oh Kino, I missed you...and of course, Hermes most of all. LOL. I watched the first TV adaption over a decade and a half ago way before I even landed on MAL. I remembered some philosophical and thought provoking idiosyncrasies of each episode and each countries, some had profound truths, others just to bend your mind a bit, but mostly I forgot about everything else. You still got it Kino! The last guy might be an actual fit for that country, weary and seeking peaceful refuge from a violent world, and yes, that mountains of crepes they serve! XD |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| I believe the man in the gatehouse was intended to look like Charles Bronson, lead actor in the Death Wish series of vigilante films: The subject matter of someone killing criminals because they deserve it and/or to protect the innocent is an obvious connection. Hermes' mention of a dog carrying a human hand around was definitely a reference to Yojimbo: For a Japanese show set in a rather America-like place with the sensational description that murder is legal it's a clever move to throw that back in the audience's face by referencing a story set in Japan that does have the merciless violence Hermes was talking about. Furthermore for a Japanese story it was a remarkably perceptive and fair treatment of American gun culture; indeed much more level-headed than many American works of fiction from places there that lack the gun culture. I think you can easily go too far in comparing this to the 2003 TV series but something I noted was that Kino sleeps with her clothes on with her gun across held her chest, even while staying at the hotel in town. This emphasizes the possibility of violence much more than the earlier series did. When Kino was at a hotel in the first series she would be very relaxed. |
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