English Dub Review: No Guns Life “Trigger (Again)”


OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Tetsuro connects to Juzo with Harmony, convincing him to pull his own trigger for once. Beruhren forces realize Seven and Pepper have gone rogue and send forces to eliminate them, mortally injuring Pepper. However, the higher ups decide to stop them when Juzo overcomes his own limiter, leading to the fight between him and Seven continuing.

OUR TAKE

I don’t know if it’s the fact that these episodes come out every other week or not but I feel like that is definitely having an impact on my perception on the pacing. Either way, we’re getting down to the wire with this season with this penultimate episode. Hard to imagine that this show started back in October of last year, but here we are, finally at the ending point. And it only makes sense that, even if this doesn’t feel much like a TOTAL end, that we see the resolution of one of the first big character arcs of the series: Juzo finally trusting someone pull his trigger, it just so happens to be himself. After so much examination of his past and regrets and reasons for why he’s walled himself off from others in this way, it seems he’s finally realizing that he’s never quite taken full responsibility for his own actions. With Tetsuro’s help, and by opening himself up to that help, Juzo can finally go beyond being the tool he convinced himself he was. He’d already decided to be his own man, but it seems he never quite realized that his tools are actually his own to use.

Though that said, it seems like him battling Seven is a little redundant by now. Clearly there are bigger threats in this moment than just fighting this guy and his master, especially since Pepper is down for the count. We learn a bit about her motives this episode, but they’re a bit shallow. She just wanted someone to praise her and obey her, which she already kinda had in Seven. At the very least, Juzo will be putting down a Gun Slave that is about to go berserk, or maybe he’ll avoid that and help him and Pepper to escape to get her help. Regardless, things finally come to a head next time, though who knows if this will be the last time we see anything of this world. Hopefully there will be more to talk about than this fight, because I honestly feel like we’ve drained that of just about every thing to talk about there. Maybe we’ll get some hints as to where a possible second season might go. There’s clearly more story left to go into so the conflict isn’t over yet, but I wonder how much of it will get hinted at. Merry Christmas!