Okay. And here this episode comes and does something very interesting with Jin. After first challenging Kouga’s sense to be a hero, this episode was all about challenging Jin’s resolve to protect others. On top of being completely action-packed that really put the detail in the facial expressions in this series to good use, I really liked the part in which Jin was forced to choose to die, or get his powers back with the risk of turning evil. The thing was that Haitani could have easily been bluffing and there were a lot of ways to interpret his words, yet just dying and leaving everything to the psychotic Kouga also wouldn’t have helped anyone.
The result was very interesting for his girlfriend, who turns out to have been a player, set up by Haitani as a psychological warfare. Kouga meanwhile completely lost it by shooting both his father and mother, although he missed the vital organs of his mother apparently (makes sense, as he wasn’t aiming for her).
Zetman is rushed. But for a rushed series that is based on a much larger manga, it really has done a great job here. In fact, what I really hope for is that the creators just close off the story next week and treat the anime as a standalone series, rather than something incomplete, like what happened to shows as Deadman Wonderland or Kamisama Dolls.
Rating: **+ (Excellent+)
I love the way Kouga broke down in this episode (the result of last week’s, obviously).
What more powerful away to demonstrate this by not only gunning down his own father, but by not even flinching when he accidentally shot his mother first?
Hot damn, this episode was so well-conceived, especially given its nature as a rushed, semi-faithful adaptation of an ongoing manga.
Kouga’s world has always been too rigid for the real world, his downfall was inevitable
later on i would like kouga to regain some sanity after ‘realizing’ he shot his mother….but then again i like kouga in insane mode..i just like kouga having an extreme dual personality
Yeah such a shame this has only 12 eps… Its sad that crap like Beelzebub gets 60 episodes instead of this (or Deadmans’s Wonderland)
Not that Zetman is amazing or anything, but its pretty damn good by shounen standards
I meant 13 obviously
i dislike by how the show handle romance early, but this all make sense now. yeah wtf
Kouga is the new Emiya Kiritsugu.
He kills the few to save the many.
I would have loved to love this anime, but the kouga character is really too moronic, and I feel like watching something else every time I see him.
Too bad, it was pretty decent otherwise.