We now return you to your irregularly scheduled hitman themed content.
If this TV series has had a moral so far, it is “Do not dick around with Golgo 13”. And I’m sure you’d agree that’s a lesson we take with us in our daily lives. We should be thankful we have this series to teach us this, as to actually learn it as a character in Golgo 13 tends to involve a bullet through the temple.
This episode opens with a hit on a mafia boss who had turned himself into the FBI, and the story proceeds to get more complicated from there. In fact, it’s the most complex story we’ve had so far into the series.
And also one of the cheapest. The good news is that this time the budget shortcuts are also visually interesting. We’ve had shots where we’ve seen a Golgo’s eye view through a sniper sight, now we get shots from the same distance, this time without the benefit of magnification. It’s a credit to the animators that the small blobs Golgo shoots at are still recognisable as people, and it’s an different perspective to what the series has shown so far.
Here’s a continuity question: Didn’t Golgo face the problem of ‘special bullet proof glass’in episode 8? Is Mafia glass-making technology so fast-paced and advanced that between episode 8 and 10 they’ve already adapted to Golgo’s previous solution? If so I’d like the characters to reference that.