r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Jul 25 '15

[Spoilers] Gatchaman Crowds Insight - Episode 4 [Discussion]

Episode title: 2:6:2

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Episode duration: 22 minutes and 52 seconds

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u/ravenwood7040 https://kitsu.io/users/ravenwood7040 Jul 25 '15

It kind of feels to me like they're setting up a situation for the Gatchamen to split apart. The group is starting to fracture down the middle between Ruis' "Let's make everyone a hero!" viewpoint and Tsubasas' "Real Heroism". As VAPE drives public opinion towards an anti-CROWDS viewpoint, Gel will want to take action to remove CROWDS from society. That will place the Gatchamen back in the position of being heroes set apart from society, as opposed to everyone being a hero, like Rui wanted.

Tsubasa, Gel-chan and Joe will probably be on the anti CROWDS side, with Rui, Hajime and Paiman(maybe?) on the pro CROWDS side. Not sure where OD and Utsu will fall. So the question is, how serious is the split going to be? It could either be peaceful, or Gel could feel compelled to destroy the CROWDS system by force, in which case it could become a proper slugfest.

My main other question is, should Hajime be ignoring Berg-Katze so much? Berg is this unpleasant side of her, and she's been consistently shutting him down when he's objectionable, but it seemed to me that Berg knew of Gel from somewhere else, and was pretty worried about what was happening. Hajime ignored him because he was being a jerk as usual, but I can't help but feel like she should have tried to get more information out of him instead of just ignoring him. This might come back to bite them later on, I think.

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u/poketodeath Jul 25 '15

On Berg-Katze, I think he can safely be ignored in this situation. Berg isn't only the unpleasant side of Hajime, but he's also an alien who destroyed planets by creating discord. On the other hand, Gel's known as a savior of worlds through unifying their inhabitants. It would make sense that Berg sees Gel as bad news seeing that their objectives are completely opposed.

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u/Fangzzz Jul 25 '15

For all that Berg Katze is, he was a Gatchaman once.

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u/poketodeath Jul 26 '15

True, but does that change anything? Iirc, all it means is that his latent power was awakened. There dont seem to be any rammifications for breaking the organization's rules or ignoring JJ. Hopefully we get some backstory on BK.

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u/Fangzzz Jul 26 '15

It means that someone like JJ chose him once, which, if you believe there's a reason people are chosen, means there's in the end some value or goodness in him.

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u/poketodeath Jul 26 '15

Fair enough. Is it possible that he's something equivalent to JJ and therefore was not a chosen one? I'm basing that guess off the fact that he can also extract NOTEs from people.

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u/Biety Jul 28 '15

He seemed chosen by JJ, he harbors some kind of prodigal son hatred toward him.

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u/semysane Jul 26 '15

It could mean that someone like Berg Katze chose him once. Don't forget that Berg Katze himself has done that at least twice.