| Title: | Sunabouzu |
| Episode: | 13: Ideality and Reality / Opposites Collide |
| Synopsis | |
| While returning from "a job well done", Sunabouzu and Kosuna happen across two "strandees", i.e., two little girls helpless in the desert after their guardian has collapsed and died. Sunabouzu refuses to help them, since a magnetic storm is approaching and he and Kosuna must find a town ASAP. Finding the town doesn't prove to be as difficult as expected, and Sunabouzu leads Kosuna back to the girls--though not exactly out of kindness. They find that another strandee, a buff young man, has joined them. Sunabouzu graciously offers to lead them to safety--in exchange for signing contracts which will leave them little more than his slaves. The man, Kaido Masaru, is appalled at Sunabouzu's plans for the girls and offers to pay off their contracts as well as his own. In town there are no buyers for Masaru, since Sunabouzu is charging a fantastic price. Later, they see the two girls being chased by some tough looking men. Sunabouzu is indifferent, but Masaru wants to protect them. "Couldn't you let me have my way", he argues, "just this once?"... | |
| Comments | |
| All at once it became clear what this episode was doing--we are presented with the diametrically opposed attitudes towards the girls of the selfish bastard Sunabouzu and the noble, kindhearted Masaru. Surely the latter viewpoint will prove correct, right? I think the idea behind this show was to create an obnoxious anti-hero and just shove him in our faces. The morality lessons we tend to get from TV are turned on their heads--it's kind of "dark", but it's also hilarious. Don't you sometimes get a little fed-up when the good guys always win, for one? The reason this episode has two titles is because Funimation has seen fit to retitle them all; above is the subtitled / dubbed titles. There's new OP and ED sequences, for the second half of the series, I presume, but I liked the old songs better (the originals, not the dubbed versions). | |
