09.20
You're a looney!
Well here we are with the penultimate episode of Gatchaman Crowds. Boy am I excited after last week! Hope it gets off to a great start with…. nothing. No cold opening this week huh? Maybe they don’t want to break up the action this week? Or maybe they want to show off the changes they made to the op (which are far more significant than usual)? Well anyway… lets get this show on the road with… narration over footage from previous episodes.
…………………….
its a fucking recap show.
No sign of Y yet...
I hate recaps. They’re the essence of lazy storytelling caveats in anime. Run out of money or time, just throw out 23 minutes of stock footage. Now in this recap, we do get some noticable character development for the other five Gatchaman as they share their thoughts on Hajime, but the problem with this is they could have allocated this material to the actual episodes that came before instead of this clipshow.
Go Go Utsutsu Rangers!
BUT WAIT! All is not lost! After the eyecatches we get our proper episode (finally). Rui finally regains access to X by getting caught on a security camera. The Prime Minister goes on the Gatchannel to try to reassure the population only to get quickly chewed out by NicoNico commenters and take charge. A government initiative to send cellphones to the entire city is established only to go nowhere when Katze hijacks the stream. Then Rui ends up in an unpleasant situation… then the episode ends…because its only nine minutes long…. SERIOUSLY WHO THE FUCK DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT??!?!
Well somebody's getting a tax hike!
I honestly don’t know what to say about this episode. The fact that they couldn’t even do a proper recap show and then crammed an episode into 9 minutes is about as inept as they come. I can’t tell if Nakamura simply ran out of money or workable plot. There is some pretty good Gatchaman action here however and we get to see some new abilities for the team… which we should have seen last month. Well next week we can put this show (and myself) out of its misery. Its been… something Crowds.
5/10