Nov 22, 2016
I've watched this piece of work four years ago and I remember hating its first episode. I really can't remember why I decided to watch the second one but I did it and there, immediately, my opinion changed; we go back to another timeline, several years ago and meet characters we have no idea about but seem interesting at least. This show takes your hand and walk you down to a world you actually didn't expect after watching episode one. There we go, straight through a mafia story that Scorsese himself would enjoy watching.
I still can't say if this show is for everyone, but I'm
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sure it perfectly suits those who have a taste for the mafia genre; family, priorities, ambition, betrayal and the perfect formula for what the show wants to offer.
We follow the characters for a long period of time, their whole lives basically and even though I, myself, couldn't really relate to any of them particullary, they all seem legit and you end up following them as you'd be following a friend of yours, someone you really care about.
One thing I really love about Gun Grave is: the characters are presented as human beings; not villains, not heroes, not machines without emotions, just people doing what they can with what they have at the moment. It's easy to empathize; even if the watcher doesn't agree with certain actions, he will surely understand its particular meaning.
After 15 episodes we enter kind of a sci-fi line and the show had a real rough time keeping it together and blending it with the rest of the story that was already there. This is the main issue and to me, it didn't spoiled anything at all. The rhythm gets ironically -- cause the action is the main focus -- slower. But at the end, the heavily well constructed dramatization makes it all worth it: the physical dehumanization is overshadowed by the emotional development.
This anime is a cult classic now and I feel like it would never be more than that -- not that I hope it would -- and yet, a masterpiece of storytelling that any anime fan should experience.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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