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alchemicinkMore Kuuga episodes! More thoughts on Kuuga episodes!
I meant to make this post sooner, but I got swept up in watching (as usual) and now it covers more episodes than I expected.
Anyway! Spoilery thoughts under the cut:
It occurs to me as I'm watching again that Sakurako should have gotten paid for all this! Everyone else (other than Godai) is doing all this investigative work as a part of their jobs. But Sakurako's just a grad student working on her thesis! She's out translating entirely new languages and examining the scene of brutal Grongi murders! When does she sleep!!
I simply think the police owe her a really nice stipend after everything is over.
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Like I mentioned in my last Kuuga post, I really like that creeping sense of dread as the Grongi get more deadly. It just feels like it begins to permeate everything, and hits so much closer to home as time goes by.
I feel like that moment where Pops, Nana, Minori, and Keiko sensei leave the water park and unknowingly walk past the Grongi is so chilling. Even they realize a bit later how lucky they were to just miss the attack. It really drives home the point about how arbitrary this all is. You could be minding your business and then get murdered.
And yet, despite it all, you still have to look for good in the world. You still have to keep going.
(The return of Chono in the following episodes also drives that point home too.)
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I think Kuuga does a great job with the horror aspect. But that being said, I also think that the Grongi making their games more complicated is kinda... pretentiously funny? Like, the water park lady was picking places based on music notes! How convoluted! Another one was picking his targets via roulette?? C'mon, be serious!!
You guys have had too much time to think about what rules you wanted to use.
I do, however, think this makes the fingernail acid lady extra funny, because she was just like "guess I'll just melt a bunch of taxi drivers." Refreshingly simple.
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Jokes aside, I cannot talk about the one who was killing the students. Those episodes were devastating and I can't put together any coherent thoughts about it.
(Other than, hey I recognize the foreshadowing now that this is a rewatch)
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To be 100 percent honest, I don't care for the storyline about Enokida, her kid, and Jean. I'm ignoring it 😅 I wish it hadn't been dragged out so long.
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I've been able to pay a little more attention to camera shots on this rewatch. And I have to say that scene with Ichijou and the Woman with the Rose Tattoo in episode 37 is gorgeous. The framing of her through the sparks, and then the wide shot of Ichijou pointing his rifle at her is just stellar. It's very memorable.
Honestly, I like every scene between those two. Their interactions fascinate me.
Just a little over 10 episodes left to watch 🥺 I'll probably finish them this week.
Previous Kuuga rewatch posts are here: Episodes 1-12 and Episodes 13-24
I meant to make this post sooner, but I got swept up in watching (as usual) and now it covers more episodes than I expected.
Anyway! Spoilery thoughts under the cut:
It occurs to me as I'm watching again that Sakurako should have gotten paid for all this! Everyone else (other than Godai) is doing all this investigative work as a part of their jobs. But Sakurako's just a grad student working on her thesis! She's out translating entirely new languages and examining the scene of brutal Grongi murders! When does she sleep!!
I simply think the police owe her a really nice stipend after everything is over.
***
Like I mentioned in my last Kuuga post, I really like that creeping sense of dread as the Grongi get more deadly. It just feels like it begins to permeate everything, and hits so much closer to home as time goes by.
I feel like that moment where Pops, Nana, Minori, and Keiko sensei leave the water park and unknowingly walk past the Grongi is so chilling. Even they realize a bit later how lucky they were to just miss the attack. It really drives home the point about how arbitrary this all is. You could be minding your business and then get murdered.
And yet, despite it all, you still have to look for good in the world. You still have to keep going.
(The return of Chono in the following episodes also drives that point home too.)
***
I think Kuuga does a great job with the horror aspect. But that being said, I also think that the Grongi making their games more complicated is kinda... pretentiously funny? Like, the water park lady was picking places based on music notes! How convoluted! Another one was picking his targets via roulette?? C'mon, be serious!!
You guys have had too much time to think about what rules you wanted to use.
I do, however, think this makes the fingernail acid lady extra funny, because she was just like "guess I'll just melt a bunch of taxi drivers." Refreshingly simple.
***
Jokes aside, I cannot talk about the one who was killing the students. Those episodes were devastating and I can't put together any coherent thoughts about it.
(Other than, hey I recognize the foreshadowing now that this is a rewatch)
***
To be 100 percent honest, I don't care for the storyline about Enokida, her kid, and Jean. I'm ignoring it 😅 I wish it hadn't been dragged out so long.
***
I've been able to pay a little more attention to camera shots on this rewatch. And I have to say that scene with Ichijou and the Woman with the Rose Tattoo in episode 37 is gorgeous. The framing of her through the sparks, and then the wide shot of Ichijou pointing his rifle at her is just stellar. It's very memorable.
Honestly, I like every scene between those two. Their interactions fascinate me.
Just a little over 10 episodes left to watch 🥺 I'll probably finish them this week.
Previous Kuuga rewatch posts are here: Episodes 1-12 and Episodes 13-24
