Baccano! – 14 (Now that I've seen it, Holy Jesus mother of God, no one told me about this….)
13 May 2008
Yeah, I basically freaked out for a good three hours straight when I saw the torrent from BSS, ran around my house, screamed a bit and sat down and clicked on the torrent. I haven’t seen it yet, I will see it soon. The last time I checked it was like two hours, now, Azereus is telling the estimated download time is ten minutes. Time sure flies when you’re blogging. I’ll be back.
I’m back. It was amazing. Utterly amazing, to a point where I’m glad I don’t sleep at night and fail classes, to a point where I’m glad that accidentally cut myself trying to twist off bottle caps while watching the opening. To a point where I’m just flippin’ glad that they even have bonus DVD episodes, and someone subbed them.
Right, so the biggest thing: who the bloody heck is Graham Spector? Does he ever shut up? You know, I used to think people like Ladd Russo was a nutcase, freak of nature, obsessive compulsive, mass-murdering freak, until Graham showed up. I used to think Death the Kid was some sort of a strange anomaly, until Graham showed up. He doesn’t have a gun, no shotgun, no pistols, no knives or anything, he has a wrench. Yes, a really large, really dangerous wrench. He likes, not to kill people or anything normal like that, but he likes to smash and to dismantle. Smash and dismantle. He’s like more psychotic and mentally unstable, more violent and more melodramatic, more bipolar and moody and break out in more soliloquies than anyone, ever. Effectively, he’s like Viral. On crack. And you know what? It was damn amazing!
Halfway through one of his lengthy rants, I stopped and thought to myself, here I am, middle of the night, pile of work to do, watching a blond man, speaking to me in subtitled Japanese, flinging a large, disproportionate wrench repeatedly in the air, quibbling about love and peace, what else do I ever need? Seriously, this is pretty much why I watch anime. At all.
Favorite part, though, after he comes up with a plan to kidnap Eve (again?), he goes, “Sorry, I just had the need to use the word ‘genius’.” Or, something like that. I do have to say that his voice sounds a bit odd for him, but the guy does a pretty, pretty job of convincing me Graham is totally insane. I’ve never heard of Tomogazu Sugita, but apparently he played Soldier Blue and Howlingstar (I never finished Dragonaut, by the way, feel free to spoil the poor thing for me).
Him, and Mr. Smile Junkie, are the only two new people I’ve seen so far. I don’t know who the hell Mr. Smile Junkie is, except that he’s immortal and has, possibly, the best name after Jacuzzi Splot. And for a while, when Huey (worst name, ever? Can I say that? Can I? His name is Huey!) was talking to Mr. Smile Junkie and they cut to a flashback, I thought for a moment, my God, Huey is a nice man after all. And then I realized, my God, Huey just called his daughter an animal experiment, a pitiful guinea pig and had the most twisted smile of not niceness when he gave her a hug. Huey is not a nice man.
I was also expecting to see Claire and Chane together. Aside from Ennis and Firo, Isaac and Miria, they’re probably my favorite couple walking away from the series. For one, I just can’t help liking Claire, even when I didn’t know he, like every single other character, was a freakish mass murderer! Yay! And for another, that whole train top fight thing, I’ll wait for you, God, that was just perfect. But, apparently, I’d have to wait for that, all Chane did was read the paper.
And Isaac and Miria! And their dominoes! I remember the end of Baccano! and those two being the first thing I saw when the episode opened up just made my day. None of these characters are truly essential to the plot, but the way I see it, you wouldn’t want Baccano! without any of these people. The biggest thing I had going against it in the beginning was how many characters the show boasted. I ran out of fingers the very first episode, for one, I couldn’t even keep up with the years. That, in the end, turned out to be the best part. You start out everywhere and everywhere ends up being right here.
You know what? I liked this episode, exactly what I needed. Baccano! has always been this really light, really easy to watch, with the best comic relief, some pretty sick action and just enough weight for it to have a kickass plot, show. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s always been sort of everywhere, and apparently it’s still everywhere (with Mr. Viral on crack filling in for the sadly absent Ladd Russo). I waited ages for episode 13 to be subbed, I’m going to wait ages (I have a feeling) for 15 and 16. But, damn this show is worth waiting for.
(And, Czeslaw Meyer needs to die, that kid bothers me. God, why is he immortal…)
lol I torrented in the morning and I watched asap after school one word AMAZING I didn’t think anybody would sub it seeing as how long the raw was just floating around for.
LOL! Yeah, I saw this yesterday and downloaded it immediately. But then I already watched it RAW and basically knew what was happening, THEN I was too busy and couldn’t watch it. Oh wells.
>>I don’t know who the hell Mr. Smile Junkie is, except that he’s immortal and has, possibly, the best name after Jacuzzi Splot.
He was one of the original immortals on the boat. Had his stupid “everyone should smile” philosophy and fell off the boat.