Ah, this is awesome. It’s clear now that Giant Killing is one of those series where the matches are written to get the best out of the characters. Right from the start, it looked like this match was all about Tsubaki: making him lose his rookie status and establishing himself as a great player. However, in the middle of this episode, the creators went “nah, that’s just too predictable”. And instead they went back and made Murakoshi take over the spotlights, leaving Tsubaki as the main cause behind the two goals they got against them. I love how balanced this show is: at any point, it’ll decide to focus on a completely different character.
This is really why I love Studio Deen. Who cares about their cheesy stuff as Hakuouki; it’s series like this that show again and again how well these guys know their characterization. Tsubaki’s downfall, as well as Murakoshi just throwing on the final five minutes. With average characterization they would just have been really really cheesy, but they actually pulled it off here. The atmosphere within the football match really fitted, from celebrating the goal to simply those people running to catch up to the ball.
This episode also started playing some new background tunes, if I’m not mistaken, and the soundtrack only became even better because of them. The soundtrack here is very simple, but SO effective. I’m also very impressed with the character-development that the creators have already gotten into just five episodes: Murakoshi is bound to change after this; it’s very impressive of the creators to go with this right from the start. Just a shame of the speedline abuse in this episode.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
It’s really a shame that this is really a low budget production and it shows at times. What stings even more is that hakuouki seems to have a lot more money thrown at it. (would be interesting to see how the ratings for these two shows are going).
Still, I don’t care much, Giant Killing has been enjoyable 5 weeks in a row, what more could someone ask?
I actually think this anime is kinda disappointing, in the way that it doesnt really show the gameplay… There isnt a single time where you see the full field and all the players moving around, its like the creators have no clue about how football really works and are just trying to cover for it
Though this episode was really good, the psychological part worked, I guess… Ive been thinking they are going for a “One Outs” sort of thing, really focusing on the players thoughts and not the game itself
So far it works I guess… Just not that impressive for someone who really watches football like me, Id like to see more of the actual matches
The thing I absolutely loved was the atmosphere of the crowd in this episode. Especially the constant drumming of chants. It just wouldn’t be football without it.
kinda getting confused now on what tatsumi actually wants from murakoshi? so he wants him to not be tactics person but be a morale booster? he gave him his captaincy back because of what?
@Earl I think Murakoshi when he is captain becomes too protective of the other players and in doing so lets chances, like the straight drive to the goal, go amiss because he wasn’t looking for opportunities. He’s not looking for ways to win, he’s looking for ways to not lose. I think Tatsumi feels Murakoshi is a very observant but believes he needs to care a little more about his own game first before he devotes his attention to the others.
I honestly didn’t expect Murakoshi to shine again over Tsubaki. Bravo to them for breaking a predictable expectation.
Giant Killing Episode 6 sub eng HD
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