Back here with another episode review, I understand that the numbering looks odd with me jumping
around from the second to 8th, but if I do a video circulating around the episode itself,
that’s more so going to be what I was focused on in the episode and I don’t want to use
up my energy making two videos at once so yeah!
This episode goes over the arc Sex Pistols Appears where it’s basically Mista’s introductory
arc and us being shown to Sale and his stand Kraftwerk.
So, the first thing that I want to talk about his how they adapted Mista’s backstory.
Part 5 has yet to disappoint me when it comes to adapting these scenes.
David Productions might make me think about their questionable changes on great colors
schemes, but nothing about these scene adaptations were bad for me.
It’s truly Mista living his simple yet somewhat troublesome life, and it was great in all
merits.
I love the music a lot mostly because of how casual it is and it’s playing in the back
while Mista is beating up people
and getting beat up.
Then when we got over into his life changing moment, the part where the woman was getting
beat seemed a lot more brutal than I remembered.
I think visually obviously I’m going to be like “Woah, ok jeez” but the sound
effects done got nearing uncomfortable because of how brutal it was.
And I’m not going to say, “Oh remove it” because me being uncomfortable sort of represents
that side of how certain people would view.
Some people would view it as Mista and just want to beat the guys doing so, so how it’s
taken really is dependent on the person in my opinion.
On the area after that, I love what they did with the bullets and the effect of it all
going around him.
I’m sure that you don’t really need to look that closely to see it, but you can see
the bullets spiraling the effect around it instead of how certain anime treat it as just
a bullet moving completely linear with no effect behind or something.
On the story of the backstory itself, I’m a big fan of the simple life and seeing this
backstory always made me think about the comparisons between Kira in his last form and Mista.
Because apparently if you do put on Mista’s hat on-top of Kira, it’s Mista.
The two were extremely lucky and reasonably superstitious.
That was just a meme that got around, but I honestly think that there is actually potential
in that whole theory being real.
Not that Mista is Kira, but the inspiration
was drawn from there.
But digress, because I’m good at that.
I like the narrative structure of these backstories on who the person truly is when they come
out of their life-changing event and how they all ended up being here in Passione.
It also connects over into that overarching narrative of fate and how much that actually
is a factor of everything.
And I’m always down to see it.
Now Sale, I was interested in this character more so because of his stand but he himself
isn’t something to miss.
I love the contrast between him and Zucchero.
Zucchero was definitely an not a composed character with how much he cracks without
understanding anything.
Though I think where these two connect is that they more so bank off of the other person
not knowing their stand ability and capitalizing off of that.
It’s just that Sale is able to still fight when figured out instead of immediately go
down.
You also see the confidence he has in his abilities with the stuff he does to get to
Mista.
And like Zucchero he gets ahead of himself instead of being one to focus on his surrounding
instead of only having his focus on his target.
Now the fight itself.
I feel this fight as it’s how
Mista is viewed versus who he actually is.
Though Mista does make it a point to somewhat show himself as the person people think he
is when something is off like when he had shot Sale in the face and Sale was just talking
about how much it hurt.
On when he’s being taken for face value, I’d focus on when Sale had opened his mouth
willingly to Mista taking the bluff and seeing what he’d be able to do once he took the
shot.
The thing is he didn’t think that Mista had been working around that the whole time
and built up a plan behind the one that he was going for immediately.
Sale couldn’t have possibly saw that coming especially with how he was underestimating
Mista.
Ironic that his brain was damaged after Mista had completely outplayed him.
I will give Sale a lot of credit though because he definitely holds that ambition to go the
lengths that he does to beat
the other person.
In conclusion solid episode.
Loving the backstories and how well done they are, and if I have any other future thoughts
about the episode I’ll be sure to pin them in the comments.
Thank you all for watching, I was thinking about talking about the 1999 version of Hunter
recently, but I’m in between on that and working on the bigger videos
I had planned before so I’m not sure.