English Dub Review: No Guns Life “I’m Dreaming”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
Juzo reveals that he wasn’t actually under Tetsuro’s control after all, Tetsuro was possessing his own sub-brain to make sure Harmony was in use. Still, Spitzbergen needs Juzo to defeat Seven, but when Tetsuro won’t let go of his new ideals, Wachoswski starts chasing him with some surprising moves.
OUR TAKE
Based on how things were portrayed last time, it made the fact that there was going being a twist to Juzo and Tetsuro’s involvement a lot easier to see coming. Having the talk between them before going to the plan the way that they did, it basically set things up to be disrupted in some way. Usually when a story wants to let us know a plan is probably not going to go the way we expect, it will have us see the characters plan every step out, giving us the impression that there’s no way that something could go wrong with it. Then, as per dramatic irony, something goes horribly wrong that we couldn’t possibly see coming. In this case, because we didn’t see ANY of the plan being formed, the fact that they had a plan is meant to be the twist, hence why the surprise here is that Juzo and Tetsuro are working together. It also seems that, even though Tetsuro is beginning to remember his time with Wachowski and Spitzbergen, he’s become very fleshed out in his new ideals and thoughts that he probably isn’t going to become that person again regardless of whatever he recalls about that time.
Still though, even if they don’t end up working with Spitzbergen to stop Seven and Pepper, it still seems like we’re headed towards a confrontation with him in the last few episodes of the season. We’re down to the final four after this and both the opening and ending look to be building that sort of showdown, though considering how little focus the relationship between the two gun slaves has been getting, it’s probably going to be a little premature. I mean, we are learning more about what kind of work Juzo did to get rid of former Gun Slaves, and Pepper is definitely still active and working with people who are active in planning harming Juzo and his loved ones. Not that most of the stuff we’ve focused on hasn’t been interesting, it’s just that you’d think if you wanted to build up a fight like that, you might want to also establish a bit of a rivalry between the two people with guns for heads. Maybe that’s what we’ll see with the remaining four episodes, though honestly I doubt it. Next episode is likely going to be about resolving this stuff with Wachowski, but after that, who knows.
