The BEST episodes written by Toshiyuki Tsuru
#1 - Dusk of the Destroyers
Gungrave - Season 1 - Episode 26
Bunji’s cat wanders the streets, chasing his master’s ghost. Grave and Harry enter the clubhouse and sit down in their old booth across from each other. Harry reflects on how Brandon was brought back and if Brandon truly understood all of what Harry had really been doing the whole time: the murders, necrolyzation research, everything. Harry believes that Brandon hasn’t changed a bit in all these years and asks Brandon why he didn’t kill him back then. Brandon responds that he believed that Harry could become “Millennion.” Harry revels in what he believes to be true, but Brandon tells him that Millennion isn’t just about power and control. Brandon and Harry each see one another as the one who betrayed. Harry pulls out a bottle of bourbon from the year they were born and proposes a toast. Harry realizes that Big Daddy’s words were true, Big Daddy was the original, the whiskey, Harry was only a derivative, bourbon. However, Harry sees Big Daddy as evil as his crimes, but Brandon points out that Big Daddy knew his mistakes and still tried to seek “harmony” in all things. This, Brandon says, is what Millennion is all about. Harry can’t stand Brandon’s loyalty to Big Daddy, and tries to figure out where things all went so wrong. Harry then lays Brandon and Harry’s guns from the elevator sequence, which ended in Brandon’s death, on the table. As they draw their guns at one another, they share a memory of a cloth blowing in the wind, obscuring the sun. They both turn and fire at a Millennion agent at the window, and we’re shown reinforcements gathering all around them. As the agents open fire on the building, the two men join sides once again, attempting to stave off the forces surrounding them. As Brandon dives in front of Harry, Brandon takes two bullets to the chest and pins two of the assailants to the ground, gun drawn. Brandon looks into their eyes and decides to spare their lives. Harry demands to know why Brandon is defending them; the
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#2 - Grave
Gungrave - Season 1 - Episode 18
This is a re-telling of episode 1, with some of the footage dropped to make way for flashbacks and a few new sequences, like an extended bridge fight scene involving Brandon's use of the Demolition Shot(from Gungrave PS2), Death Blow(a really big rocket from his coffin), to finish off the armored tank on the bridge. This episode also contains more elaboration on Brandon trying to come to grips with his shattered memories and a longer boardroom meeting.
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#3 - Die
Gungrave - Season 1 - Episode 14
Brandon remains loyal, Harry takes more and more of the pieces on the board for himself, Maria and BD are in love, and BD is set to name the next heir to Millennion. Everything seems to be going smoothly until the deciding meeting. Harry and BD stare each other down and then, as a complete shock to all present, BD names Arzac Tino(a character we don't know) as the new leader. Harry is the first to clap, followed by Bear... Later, when Harry returns to HQ and finds Bob listening device still plugged into the meeting hall, he hears a conversation between BD and Brandon, where Brandon convinces BD that Harry would never betray, but that Brandon would kill ANYONE who did, leaving Harry on the other end speechless. Three months later, while Harry and Brand are hanging out, Harry mentions to Brandon that Arzac has "mysteriously" gone into a coma and while the two are driving away, Brandon says they should stop by the cemetery to visit Kenny and the rest, but Harry seems to have forgotten who Kenny is at first. The two look upon the graves and reminisce, and as they pass the orphanage where they met Harry decides to buy it and rebuild it right. Harry and Brandon walk onto the elevator and head to the 25th floor. Harry asks Brandon to kill BD so that Harry can gain full power and Maria can belong to Brandon. Brandon punches him in the face and pulls out his Beretta, aiming it at Harry. In the end, however, Brandon can't bring himself to shoot his best friend, so Harry pulls out his own gun and shoots Brandon repeatedly in the chest, followed by a kill shot to his left eye.
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#4 - Young Dogs
Gungrave - Season 1 - Episode 2
We are taken back into the past of Brandon in Harry, when they lived in the slums of Billion. The rest of their gang is Nathan, Jolice and Kenny, they steal and wage gang wars for their local crime boss, Descartes. Their most recent tiff being with Deed(who they soundly beat), a two-bit punk who is the younger brother of the legendary gangster Mad Dog Ladd. Maria, Brandon's blonde love interest who lives with her uncle, Jester. Kenny, now sporting a magnum revolver, gets a tip from the local informant, Scott, to steal a one-of-a-kind necklace, but Scott betrays Kenny to Milanda, the jewel dealer Kenny stole it from. Harry, Brandon and Nathan return the stolen necklace to Milanda, who spares their lives. They return to their hideout to find Jolice shot dead by Mad Dog Ladd, who is exacting revenge in order to uphold the family's honor. Jester is visited by mysterious men in black, who have a message for him from a man named Big Daddy.
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#5 - Destroyer in the Dusk
Gungrave - Season 1 - Episode 1
Beyond The Grave awakens from his long sleep and defends his friends Dr. T and Mika from a hoard of mysterious white creatures called OrgMen who can manipulate their body to form weapons. We are introduced to The Organization(aka Millennion), who is the Mafia for this city, Billion. The head of this group is made up of five men shrouded in shadow, their leader, the ruthless Harry MacDowell(aka Bloody Harry), rules this city. Mika and T go into hiding with Grave while Mika tries comes to grips with her mother's recent death at the hands of Harry. After a blood transfusion, something necessary to keep Grave "alive", he wanders off into the slums trying to regain his shattered memories while Mika tails behind. As they arrive at a graveyard, Grave stares down at three graves, marked only by a meager gathering of pebbles. At this time, more Org monsters and Mafia agents attack, and even without his guns, Grave dispatches them easily, though an OrgMan steps from among their ranks and, after growing extremely muscular, fights it out with Grave. T rushes the truck down to the graveyard and delivers Grave his coffin from which he unloads a volley of bullets that decimate the OrgMan. We cut to Harry, who has just received a photo from the OrgMan's memory of the man who is protecting Mika. Harry recognizes this man as Brandon Heat, once his best friend, and Harry vows to kill Brandon as many times as it takes.
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#6 - Studies in High Finance
Great Teacher Onizuka - Season 1 - Episode 29
Before the annual class field trip, Miyabi and her friends steal the school's trip money and blackmails the English teacher, Mr. Sakurada, into luring Eikichi to a fake "underground girls club" with the stolen money planted on him. At the club, a drunken Eikichi unwittingly spends the school's money.
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