There isn’t any doubt about it, The fable has advanced right into a significantly good present. However for me, that is largely a present for viewers who recognize the appearing. The movie adaptation doesn’t actually add a lot to the expertise of the manga – it’s effective. However the solid is so nice. It’s simple to miss Okitsu Kazuyuki, who brings so much to a challengingly dry position as Akira. However Fuji Shinshuu’s work as Utsubu is spectacular on each stage. A lot depth of evil on this one. And do I even want to say Sawashiro Miyuki? That line she reads on the cellphone when she finds out Akira is the conbini – simply sensible.
Rattling, I can’t assist however like Akira, even realizing who he’s. His disconnect from the ethical and moral implications of his job is terrifying. However he’s obtained just a little little bit of Robin Hood in him, someway. Is it shocking that he set off the grenade lure on objective in order that no harmless individual would do it? Nicely, not likely – that’s in character. He simply doesn’t have it in him to take a risk to himself significantly – though I want he’d been just a little extra open-minded about it in terms of Youko. Is it even potential for somebody nearly as good as Akira to be overconfident? I feel this arc exams that.
Akira’s subsequent transfer after leaving Casa Kabang is to ship Youko off to observe Suzuki (sigh) and get himself a automobile. To do that, he calls Kuro-chan, with significantly unhealthy timing for poor Isaki (who’s a jerk, so screw him). Kuro is glad to supply the sporty Lexus he was going to promote Isaki to Nii-san, and affords to have it with him in ten minutes. Akira kills time on the grocery store studying magazines and shopping for karaage (once more, fully in character) and has the aforementioned cellphone name with Youko, which might have made Bob Newhart proud.
The N-System for individuals who do not know (I did not till I googled it), is the digital surveillance community that the police and SDF use to (theoretically) monitor each car in Japan. Suzuki takes a tough mountain street to keep away from it, which proves to be fairly the issue for Youko in Ebihara’s (former) low-riding Hakosuka. I did not like how nonchalant Akira was about this, despite the fact that he saved encouraging Youko to cease and look ahead to him. Suzuki and Utsubo may have killed her as an alternative of tying her up, and Youko, as robust as she is, is just not Akira. She will get fooled by Suzuki throwing a rock and pretending it is a grenade, and will get caught.
Even captured and alive, Youko makes this significantly tougher for Akira, who hardly sounded shocked by what he assumed was taking place. The choice to not kill her is fascinating—in all probability logical since she’s good leverage, however fascinating nonetheless. Otsubo offers Hina bullets for her pistol, which Akira clearly will get near. Once they discover the Hakosuka, Akira instructs Kuro to convey it safely to the sting of the street and lean on the horn. This accomplishes what it was in all probability meant to do—get beneath Suzuki and Utsubo’s pores and skin and make them nervous.
The final ten minutes of the episode are pure, uncooked rigidity. I used to be on edge the whole scene, let me inform you. As I (and Utsubo, it seems) suspected, Hina by no means supposed to shoot Satou. She knew Utsubo was the one who killed her dad and mom as a result of he knew info the police had been preserving secret. Hina shoots Utsubo, however he’s protected by a bulletproof vest. He teases her and affords her a free shot with the three bullets she has left, however reprimands her that it needs to be in her head. To everybody’s shock, Hina will get as much as give herself a greater shot—however switches to Plan B, an anti-personnel mine meant for Akira.
Nicely, that is simply nice drama, all of it. The horn, Youko tied up, Utsubo’s relentless barrage of meanness (Fuji-san, you nice bastard), and the mine. Is Suzuki-san fearful as a result of he actually would not need Hina to explode, or simply as a result of he would not wish to be ten toes away when it occurs (and lose his Plan B)? Akira arriving simply in time to save lots of Hina—alongside together with his most grumpy dialogue in the whole sequence—is the definition of a grand entrance. However given his dedication to not kill anybody, even Akira could also be just a little examined in terms of dismantling this mess.
