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Why is it that Oku Hiroya can't dial down on how normal functioning people act?
In Gantz it's always with the extremes:
Most normal citizens are filthy, rude, ungrateful, and stupid. The populace of Japan seems content to flock to an active battle zone to take pictures of aliens on their cell phones. Liberated people berate their saviors. Fathers kill their children for eating their pudding. Even some Gantzers are shown as "pure negative" such as the rapist, the sadists, etc.
Then there are people who are overly "good"
Anzu tosses out her creed to survive for her son in order to sacrifice herself for Katou, a man she knew for half an hour. Kishimoto made the same sacrifice earlier in the series.
Then there are the plain irrational
Mary falling for Kaze? Can someone give me a good reason? Sure, they can both throw sweet ass punches, but come on. I want to know what exactly about Kaze's being a brawler, being obsessed with Takeshi, and being a socially awkward virgin got the hottest girl in the series (imo :3) all moist.
Kei ignores Reika for the whole series. Kei 2 even verbally berates her and tells her, before intending to sacrifice himself, that he wishes he was with Tae. But after Reika sacrifices herself for Kei, what happens? Yup... Kei was in love with her the whole time. Let's just ignore the fact that he is the clone of Kei 1, who is madly in love with Tae.
And, god... don't get me started on Tae. I hope I wasn't the only one who cheered when Nishi "killed" her. Some of the pages with text bubbles of nothing other than "KEI-CHAN!" made me literally (not a figure of speech) cringe. I don't want to get started on such an annoying topic but the whole "KEI-CHAN!!", "TAE-CHAN!!" relationship of Tae and Kei 1 is insultingly shallow. The fact that Oku has been trying to validate what should have been a short lived relationship between Kei, the protagonist, and Tae, by all means a toss away character, by making Tae more attractive in the Katastrophe arc bothers me intensely. But I digress. This is simply another example of irrational behavior in the realm of Hiroya Oku's bizarre interpretations of human relationships that he expects us to take for granted.
In Gantz it's always with the extremes:
Most normal citizens are filthy, rude, ungrateful, and stupid. The populace of Japan seems content to flock to an active battle zone to take pictures of aliens on their cell phones. Liberated people berate their saviors. Fathers kill their children for eating their pudding. Even some Gantzers are shown as "pure negative" such as the rapist, the sadists, etc.
Then there are people who are overly "good"
Anzu tosses out her creed to survive for her son in order to sacrifice herself for Katou, a man she knew for half an hour. Kishimoto made the same sacrifice earlier in the series.
Then there are the plain irrational
Mary falling for Kaze? Can someone give me a good reason? Sure, they can both throw sweet ass punches, but come on. I want to know what exactly about Kaze's being a brawler, being obsessed with Takeshi, and being a socially awkward virgin got the hottest girl in the series (imo :3) all moist.
Kei ignores Reika for the whole series. Kei 2 even verbally berates her and tells her, before intending to sacrifice himself, that he wishes he was with Tae. But after Reika sacrifices herself for Kei, what happens? Yup... Kei was in love with her the whole time. Let's just ignore the fact that he is the clone of Kei 1, who is madly in love with Tae.
And, god... don't get me started on Tae. I hope I wasn't the only one who cheered when Nishi "killed" her. Some of the pages with text bubbles of nothing other than "KEI-CHAN!" made me literally (not a figure of speech) cringe. I don't want to get started on such an annoying topic but the whole "KEI-CHAN!!", "TAE-CHAN!!" relationship of Tae and Kei 1 is insultingly shallow. The fact that Oku has been trying to validate what should have been a short lived relationship between Kei, the protagonist, and Tae, by all means a toss away character, by making Tae more attractive in the Katastrophe arc bothers me intensely. But I digress. This is simply another example of irrational behavior in the realm of Hiroya Oku's bizarre interpretations of human relationships that he expects us to take for granted.
