09.06
The show is now speaking for me.
Welcome back to the first post-license edition of Crowds-Sourcing, where Sentai Filmworks decides that they can still spend some money on that gun they shot themselves in the foot over Flowers of Evil with! Last time… Rui got fucked over by Katze and Gatchaman wasted all their time at a kindergarten! What goofy misadventures will our team of neon striped Super Sentamen Raidas get into this week?!
Still got nothin.
Gatchaman (more precisely Hajime) takes in and heals Rui at their dorm. The new group checks out the reactions to Gatchaman’s PR event only to find the bulk of GALAX slamming them all in a ridiculously meta scene that describes simple description. Anyway, a terrorist group calling themselves the Neo Hundred and led by that asshole Umeda begins blowing up the diet and ministry of defense using the CROWDS now under Katze’s control. So you’d think Hajime and Sugane would just run off to destroy the things right?
…hahahahahaha you wish.
...he's a man of his words
Yup its time for another public relations campaign event! With the Neo Hundred spreading their terrorist screed all over NicoNico, Hajime creates the Gatchaman Channel, where Gatchaman reveals to the public their intent to defeat Katze (who is basically just laughing at them behind the scenes) and Rui apologizes to the public over his hubris and abuse of the CROWDS system to do good. As usual, the only guy who doesn’t show up is Gai Yuuk-er Jou Hibiki, because Jou is a dick and now probably the worst character in the show (don’t ask me how that happened).
Your saviors ladies and gentlemen
All of this is building up to one scene at the end where one of our Gatchaman finally has the balls to tell J.J. Robinson off. And if you think its Paiman (because that would make sense), you would be absolutely wrong. Its Sugane! See… that doesn’t make any sense. If anything Sugane should be chewing out Jou for still doing that cold drunk loner deal but maybe they’re saving that for next week. Who knows. Who cares.
"THIS... THIS IS FOR AMERICA!" - John Ledford
So… a lot happened but Gatchaman did nothing about it. Wow, story of this show isn’t it? In all seriousness, this episode was just more social networking satire and if Crowds does one thing well, its that. Even if it kinda feels this week that some American staffer tipped Kenji Nakamura off to my reviews of his shows and they’re taking the piss on me. Otherwise, just really not much to say this week, other than the crippling feeling that any energy this plot might have is being drained by endless scenes of people having group conversations and nothing happening as a result.
6/10