Everything is something else, or not.

[starlady]

DTB: Ryuusei no Gemini 07
Dear Hei, I love you so much. Not even at all because you totally looked like a good friend of mine for part of this episode. Nope, not at all. Also: it shouldn't have taken me this long to realize that Suou totally has Yuna's hair.

Well, as they say, easy come, easy go. Pavlichenko's alive and creepy foreigner assassin contractor (who totally looked like Vash, Y/Y?) is dead. I have to admit I'm even more in love with this show because of its insistence on showing the characters taking just about every possible way to get around Japan. Especially trains. I love trains way too much, I admit it.

Also, see what I mean about this show and sex? Creepy foreigner assassin contractor gets off on seeing people in pain, and when July gets kidnapped it's to be sold as a live-action shota figure. Not a coincidence, not at all.

I think we are actually supposed to buy Suou's assertion that contractors and even dolls have shards of emotion remaining within them--certainly the anime has given us repeated examples of contractors and dolls like July and Yin acting according to residual human feelings. But the thing is, though, that both sets of people do it within the constraints of their set.

Wait a second, how did July contact Hei if Hei can't see surveillance spectres?

Tune in next week for a showdown with the FSB on a traaaaaiiiin. And possibly the return of Hei's appetite.

Comments

[csg-dear4life.livejournal.com]

July contacted Hei??
I thought Hei just caught up to them and saw them leaving.
Aughh, need subs.
Can't wait for next week. Those stacked plates and bowls have to be Hei's. Right?

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought about the bowls. That Russian dude ain't gonna eat that much if it's not borsht. /jk

At the end when Hei cuts Suou out of the ropes and she's like, "Um..." he says to her "If you're going to thank anyone, thank July" which I assume to mean that somehow July conveyed what had happened to Hei? Though I don't remember if he said anything else after that, and I have no idea how July could have done it (unless Hei's powers are coming back, oh please).

[csg-dear4life.livejournal.com]

After I watched it with subs, the only thing I can think of is that maybe Hei saw July put his hand on the window.
The only other thing is maybe someone told him off camera.
Wouldn't it be great if his powers were slowly coming back. ;)

[jhiend.livejournal.com]

It's implied through Mao's questions that Hei found them by using the doll smuggling informants the Creepy Contractor also used to find Smuggling Woman.

Hei's "thank July" probably refers to when July put a observation ghost on the front window of the car to distract the contractor from killing Hei and allowing Hei to delivery death with irony.

I don't think Creepy Contractor actually said that he literally got off off people's suffering (before he became a contractor). Also, I don't know if Smuggling Woman meant shotacon or just shota=little boy.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Hei's "thank July" probably refers to when July put a observation ghost on the front window of the car to distract the contractor from killing Hei and allowing Hei to delivery death with irony.

Death with irony being the best kind, unless it's revenge served cold.

More seriously, I'll buy your interpretation, and I think you're right about Creepy Contractor's lines--I freely confess to not paying full attention to him. He did say he enjoyed seeing people in pain, though, I thought.

I do think she explicitly meant shotacon, though, because afaik 'shota' doesn't mean 'little boy' literally, it comes from the Japanese for "shorts", the shorts boys wear as part of their elementary school uniforms. Plus the fact that she'd stripped him naked tends to make me think we should jump to the sexual conclusion.