06. Originality [Discussion!]

[thoracicpark]

This series does a really good job of teasing you, but we're officially half-way through! What were your thoughts on this week's episode? Do you have any new speculations? A favorite scene? Is Sugane a closeted fashionista? Share your thoughts! 

I'm going to make this one brief and maybe hop back in when other folks share their thoughts... Most of what I thought would happen—Hajime would reveal her identity, the existence of Gatchaman would be revealed to the world, Rui would throw a few choice words her way—happened. I'm not sure what I expect out of this series anymore, it leads you into one thing, then backs away and prolongs it, which I'm somehow enjoying? This series is so charming and quirky that it's hard to be bothered by is weird (although not bad!) pacing. Although I really want to get into the heart of this story, what is going to happen, when are we going to face the actual conflict? Maybe in the coming episode but most of us though that last week, and the week before ha-ha! 

Blah, blah, blah... Sugane has managed to march up as one of my favorite characters, as a whole I just really enjoy him. Hajime and Utsu-tsu's little adventure was very cute; Joe continues to hoist death-flags. I want some more O.D.! 

Comments

[k_may]

Ah, I personally love the pacing! I wonder if we're going to get a huge conflict at all, just a progression of events. <33

Rui has been after the Gatchamans since the beginning, right? I'd love to hear everyone's ideas on whether this is part of their deal with Berg-Katze, and whether the speech was more about ideology or puppeteered by Berg-Katze. Like. What is Rui's Faustian wager ^^. I feel they could have been honest, but as many people on tumblr pointed out, if Hajime senses Rui's motivations are masked, it maybe really...isn't.

[rollinghero]

i've been doing nothing but spamming tumblr and my sister on skype about sugane's outfit of the day ahaha. it's definitely my favorite outfit for him by far.

i wasn't too surprised about hajime revealing her identity, but i admit to almost screaming when they caught her on camera. i wasn't expecting the entire world to find out (until later at least), but i think it was handled really well! i'm really glad that hajime was able to spend more time with utsutsu, and speaking of utsutsu, she looked so adorable this episode!

more than anything, i'm really upset that sugane didn't go with joe. i know that was definitely a death flag for joe, and i really don't want him to die even though it's obvious he's going to very soon. ;; i know sugane was worried about hajime and i'm glad he did some investigating, but it's just one of those things where you know that if he went with joe he probably would have lived.

i was very interested to find out that joe only goes back to his apartment whenever he needs equipment, though. it makes you wonder what the inside of his apartment looks like if he just stores weapons in there. hopefully we get to see it before he dies orz. at the very least, it looks like joe and sugane might meet up again after all. if sugane is going to investigate rui some more, he might end up running into berg.

i read on another forum that most people seem to think berg is going to either kill joe or steal joe's identity and go on a killing spree. my heart is probably going to break in half either way, but i'm really not expecting joe to live past the next episode. i'm not too bothered by the pacing; i would like something to happen, yeah, but all of this seems like they're building up to something, and i'm really curious to find out what. i have a feeling once the conflict starts, it's not going to stop.

i'm really upset about the lack of o.d., though. i realize it's because he can't do much without destroying the world, but he's barely gotten any screen time. ;; at least we got to see more of utsutsu!

there's a lot to comment on this episode lol

[suddenlyairborne]

THIS EPISODE WAS GREAT. I really liked it. Although I did freak out when Hajime revealed herself to Rui and then got caught on camera! I thought only Rui would see and I was like 'Hajime you idiot!!' when it happened. But it didn't turn out so bad and she knew what she was doing. *whew* And I thought it was interesting that Hajime could take off her helmet. I didn't know she could do that :o

I'm suuuper worried about Joe right now. Because he's raising a lot of death flags in this episode. Like he let Utsutsu use some of his life to help the injured people (also yay finally some interaction between the two!)and I don't like the looks of those guns and bullets. Joe, don't do anything stupid! >_<

I really really like the Sugane-Hajime interaction in this episode. There's development between the two! Sugane is starting to understand Hajime a bit better. There's a lot of sweet moments between the two that makes this shipper happy :> Overall, great episode! It didn't disappoint.

[laceytd12]

Wow it's amazing how many comments there are on this! I'm glad this community has grown!

I wasn't really surprised with how the beginning of the episode went. However my theory of Rui and the Gatchamans allying with each other to fight Berg is kind of thrown out the window (T^T) since Rui kind of said stop being Gatchaman. Which is ironic because Rui uses his Crowds to help people when a bad situation seems almost hopeless (-3-).

I think we can all agree that Joe isn't having a good end in the future. Which sucks because we really don't see his character. I love the idea of having a flashback episode! That would not only make the loss of Joe even worse for us, but that would just make us see more in his character than there already is.

What I'm really curious about is O.D. To me, he's the most mysterious character out of all of them. We found out Utsusu's issues , we met Sugane early on, and Hajime is the main "heroine" of this anime. However, O.D. is veeery curious to me. He comes off as this very flamboyant and likeable character, but then you see him interacting with Pai-Pai when it's just them alone and he seems much more reserved and mature. I really want to know what his power is. For some reason I see him and Berg being kind of two halves of a whole. In the intro they do a cool thing where it goes from Berg to OD and I really want to know what the kind of connection is. If there isn't, then I guess I was just looking to into it hehe ('^-^)

I can't wait for the next episode!