English Dub Review: No Guns Life “Earnest Desire”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
During their fight, Seven is taken away by two Beruhren extendeds, but tells Juzo to take care of Pepper. Sometime later, once everything is calmed down, Juzo and Olivier go to visit Pepper, whose mind is scattered, but not enough that she can’t fight off someone who came to kill her. However, she is glad when Juzo tells her that while she never “owned” Seven, Seven did clearly decide to stay with her as long as he could. As thanks, she offers to tell Juzo where his old partner has been, while Juzo and Olivier conclude that Beruhren is likely working with their superiors.
OUR TAKE
After a nearly month long break, we have finally emptied the last clip of No Guns Life, at least until they decide to announce a proper second season. Hard to believe that the first review of this we did was over a year ago in late 2019, when the world looked quite a bit differently, but here we are finally wrapping it up. And that’s mainly what this episode ends up being, just an epilogue for the story and some bits of hinting towards the future, almost as if we’ll be getting another episode next week. They even show the OP and ED just like any other episode, which is fine for me since I do happen to enjoy those songs and intros, but it does end up making this feel more mundane than it probably was meant to. Since this is adapted from a manga, it makes sense that this isn’t the end of the story itself and there is plenty left to pull on for a second season, but the episode really is just concerned with finishing the plots of the past few episodes and little else.
If we do get a second season, it likely won’t be for a long time, as it seems this one is leaving off on Chapter 40 of the manga, whereas the most recent chapter released is 59. This is just as well, seeing as I could definitely stand to have a chance to look at this season as a whole now that we have everything to examine at once. And while the much hyped battle between Seven and Juzo ended up being interrupted, I’m honestly just glad that this thing is over so I can enjoy it at the momentum it was intended at. This isn’t exactly a BAD place to have a season finale, since many characters including Juzo feel as if they’ve come a long way, but there are also several dangling plot threads that there is no acknowledgement of, giving me the sense that there is a lot of work for this story to get back to when and if it decides to reload. And frankly, I need to emotionally reload as well, as while I know it’s not anyone’s fault that the latter half ended up so sporadically released, it most certainly has had an impact on my analysis and investment. Now though, I can finally run through the whole season again and see what it all added up to in the Season Review. Hopefully it came to more than just a few dozen bullets in the wall.
