MSG Iron-Blooded Orphans - G-Tekketsu

[Buffalobiian]

HS - Episode 20



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-Fish! Those martians don't know what they're missing out on. I can totally understand them though. I have my aversion to insects while knowing they're perfectly edible.

-Finally, more Orga x Merribit, even if it's just Orga feeling uneasy. It's hard to see this pairing coming to fruition. Merribit just seems way too mature for Orga. Too much of a mum.

That's the main difference between him and Mika. Orga's strength is his lofty charisma and ballsy decisions that work out only because Mikazuki is godly on the field. He's really quite empty under that guise of confidence. It was perceptive of him to sniff out negotiation troubles before they happened. It's something I thought Merribit would be better at too.

Mika's reliability just oozes through. Atra/Kudelia can't get enough of it.

Quite a decent comedy character as well in the form of that Issue woman

She doesn't just have issues, she can also issue! No one can defy Carta Issue of the Outer Earth Orbit Regulatory Joint Fleet because she's from the Outer Earth Orbit Regulatory Joint Fleet.

[Kraco]

That's the main difference between him and Mika. Orga's strength is his lofty charisma and ballsy decisions that work out only because Mikazuki is godly on the field. He's really quite empty under that guise of confidence. It was perceptive of him to sniff out negotiation troubles before they happened. It's something I thought Merribit would be better at too.

Despite being taller Orga certainly drew the short stick of those two. Mika is just doing excellently the one thing he has always done: fighting. Nothing more, nothing less, plain and simple. But what exactly gives Orga the qualifications to lead this group? Sure, he can make decisions and stick to them without continuously hesitating the second-guessing himself, but that could be viewed as a personality trait, nothing more. However, these guys were the slaves when the old company was still up and running. There's no way Orga actually had any leadership training or education of any sort. He also has very little experience of anything but doing dirty work back on Mars. Mika can fight everywhere the same, but Orga was a fish out of the water the moment they left Mars. I can't help but pity him, but at the same time you have to admit he has actually succeeded splendidly all things considered.

Seeing how this is getting a second season I wonder when Orga dies. Will he die at the very end of this first season, forcing Mika to finally think for himself and do something else in addition to fighting, or will Orga still be in the second season? It's hard to say now, but with the series getting longer, I have a feeling he should die before the end of the second season for it to be more meaningful and for it to launch Mika's personal development. If this had been a single season, he could simply have died heroically in the last ep saving the others, but with plenty of eps left, it could be used for Mika's sake, following the Gurrenn Lagann example.