May 15, 2004
GANTZ Episode 5 - I Did It!
Whoops, messed up a screencap and deleted the episode too soon, sorry!
Kishimoto moves in with Kurono because of her doppelganger taking her place, causing him all sorts of hormonal problems which he eventually has to set aside. Katou has problems at home, where his grandma beats his younger brother, and we see a thug alternately beat up a man in the street and care for his baby child.
Obviously the thug will be more important next time (aside from Kurono vaguely passing the prone body of his victim), but otherwise another slow, interesting episode. The show is curiously beautiful in places, too - I really like the distinctive character designs, and there's a sort of vibrancy about the colouring I wasn't expecting.
Kurono really is a horny little prick, if you'll excuse the term, but he's got some shred of human decency in him somewhere. Kishimoto is still whining, and her breasts are improbably huge, but she's not so bad I guess. More editing perhaps in this episode, there was certainly the implication of rape (both hetero and homo-sexual) in here, but the editing was slightly classier if indeed there was any.
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