Gangsta compromises with everything it sets itself to be in the first episode: violent, grim, uncomfortable and tragic but it also compromises with uplifting and cute moments shared between Alex, Nicholas and Worick and their relationship with other characters.
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The only problem was that the series shied away from compromising with all the other aspects that could’ve elevated the text into “classic comedy” territory. Gokudolls author’s intention was to share a comedic take between idols and Yakuza with some heartwarming moments. The series is controversial in many ways and ultimately is what cemented certain parallels between this series and Gokudolls. It is a story that condemns certain acts and fleshes out the human side of the characters. The creator of Gangsta (Kohske) dished out much more than a story about mafia, it is a story that live in a world controlled by Mafia, but not really about the mafia. The Pimp that keep Alex drugged and working.
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From human experiments, through themes of revenge, to action scenes, to mental healing Gangsta is a story with a lot to unpack. The reason I like Gangsta so much is because behind simplistic nature of “families fighting for territorial control” these types of series can become much more than just that.
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This is the third time I have mentioned that I don’t really like mafia, yakuza or gangster types of media when it has nothing else to offer and I promise this is the last time. Gangsta will always have a special place as an honorable mention because of things I will detail in this essay. Not only that, but I missed the structure of the story, the pieces of foreshadowing and the nature of the characters… basically everything that made the story special. The second watch it became clearer: what I had missed was the mere essence of what Gangsta is really about. I wanted to see Nicholas getting dirty on a fight and was entranced by Worick’s cool attitude. On my first watch I was so focused on the main plot that I deemed Alex’s involvement unnecessary, as well as disregarding other characters.
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Gangsta is the only series I have watched two times back to back giving myself time to pause, read the dialogues twice and rewind it when it was necessary. There was something I was not getting and I didn’t know what it was. I would say that in my first watch, I understood the main plot of Gangsta to the best of my abilities, but when it was time to argue why I liked it so much I found myself quite estranged with the series. Generally, the theme in question bores me and more often than not, I drop them halfway, or after episode 2. I watched episode one and suddenly it was episode twelve… and I couldn’t believe it. Like with any other series, I thought of giving it a chance. The summary of the series left everything to desire, especially since it is about a theme I am not fond about… but that cover art drew me in. I watched the series in 2012, almost a year after it was released when I was searching for a much mature series. normal manga) they had different goals and genres they had different narratives structures and themes but, there were a few things Gangsta excelled at that could’ve been implemented in any kind of genre to get better results, especially when the central theme can easily become clichéd, repetitive and predictable. Sometimes, I thought that it was ridiculous to compare, because both of the series had different manga formats (4panel manga vs. In a way, Gokudolls was my parameter to see what I liked about Gangsta, but ended up spewing more about how I would like for Gokudolls to be, instead of focusing on the positive aspects of the current series. I have rewritten this essay four times already because midway I thought I was focusing on the series that is not in question more than I should. With not much to latch onto, I began to think, in some comparisons between the two series. I thought about doing a regular essay talking about, “why Gangsta is the best anime for adults out there”, however, this remark got thrown out a lot through the internet when the series was released so I went back to zero. When re-watching Gangsta, I thought about Gokudolls many times, which is really weird considering that Gokudolls is a comedic series and that the only meeting point was that both have to do with the – not so – underground groups like Yakuza and the Mafia. The potential wasted in the last few episodes left me baffled so baffled, that in the last review I compared it to Cells at Work on how the author focused her efforts to get the science facts right first, to then build the characters, the world and the comedy without self-censuring and how it paid off.
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I reviewed it more than a month ago and I am still not over it.