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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
I myself find Suou at least as cool as Hei, but in a much different way. She's not the knowledgeable fighter, she's the ordinary person -- you or me -- suddenly thrust into a strange situation and coming to terms with it pretty quickly. And she has even more feelings than Hei, and expresses them more clearly, which I like. I find her character totally riveting, myself. But I know different people like different things.
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Agreed completely. This is the reason why I liked her character from episode one.
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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
I thought Suou kept developing on exactly the same lines she has been all along. She becomes a bit more determined and self-starting, while still yearning for things from her old life, and not being fully committed to contractor life, as well as having complex feelings toward Hei and his orders.
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Yes I might have overexaggerated a bit. Still they're twisting her character in various directions really fast. 3 episodes ago she couldn't kill a crane and now she pointed a gun at her friend and the only reason she didn't shoot seemed to be because she remebered what Hei said. Not the time she spent with Tanya not anything connected with her but the words "don't shoot" . That was quite different from the moment where Suou hugged her in the train and said she that Tanya was her firend which in terms was quite the step from the impailing with glass part in the previous episode.
That moment felt really strange for some reason since Tanya wasn really doing anything to hurt Suou - just stop her. The bugs were just flying around. It felt like a "I'll beat you up and bring you back" moment when Suou pointed her rifle.
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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
As for killing off Tanya, that was done at a reasonable moment. Her role was to create a link to the old life, as well as to show another path of contractor development and to show Suou's goodness and feelings. I loved the scene where Suou embraced her. But even though Tanya is a more classic contractor, still some of her old feelings linger. I don't consider her a "main" character.
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I don't consider her a main character either but I considered her an important one because of the contrast you mentioned. As the only character that could connect Suou to her happy past it was a big letdown to end like this. That was mostly because it could have played out in a very different way that would have had more impact on character development and probably have more of dark and gloomy atmosphere.
This felt rushed and both the pool and Shion sniping scenes felt too convinient thus a bit unnatural.
And again the fact they're killing off every new contractor really fast is a bit annoying since we actually only get character development for Suou and some for Hei and none for everyone else.
Well depending on how they handle it in the next few episode it might turn out just fine. At the moment though it still doesn't feel like it. Or at least not for me.
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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
As for people not noticing that the shot came from another direction, I don't believe any of them were within sight when the shot was fired, and once the body was in the water, they didn't know its original orientation.
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Hah well yes but still there was no hole in the ground where the body should have been. That was nothing major though and I don't believe anyone cares about it
That's the reason I don't vote right after I watch the episode. I don't see some of the good points in it that are sometimes pointed out by others.
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"Like crap man. You don't see that every day. I mean that doesn't seem possible with all those body organs and cartilage and bones. I mean I'm no doctor or nothin' but that was like one clean chunk." |
I believe that was first because the shot was off and second the ammo is for tank armor thus it will just go through her body like a piece of paper.
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