Wind Breaker Season 2 Episode 10 Discussion

Happy end ....
.... or not! Who is the new character?
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This entertainment district arc got wrapped up real fast and convenient...

"We've never had money and never had jobs, how could you understand?"
"We'll just get you jobs."
"Oh, OK! Yoroshiku!"

Followed by more repetitive, on-the-nose, overdramatic conversations.

Tsubaki telling Shizuka that she "trampled over their feelings" was a little... harsh. And obnoxious. You're the one who ran off on your own and started a 100-man brawl without talking to her... I guess it's just shounen trope, and it's plain cool to have Tsubaki tell Shizuka "if you said something, I'd save you any time."

The next episode seems to be the same-old pattern, sitting around and making friends again. I'm good...

This show is just shameless. Like, that is clearly Mikey in the post credit scene.

Every episode Tsubaki has been in has been awful. The season started out so strong but instantly nosedived in quality when he showed up. At least this new villain looks promising.

Weeks that windbreaker hasn’t made me cry: 0 yet again, beautiful episode and perfect conclusion to this gravel mini-arc. This had it all. The action from Cloverworks, the emotional moments that make wind breaker so special, AND we meet our next big bad? Perfect ep

“I’ve never had anything to begin with” Suzuri and Gravel were a really interesting opposition group for these last few episodes because if you think about it, Suzuri is basically Sakura if he didn’t have a support system. They both have the same ethos, they won’t let any of their friends suffer or go without. For Sakura he was able to find a home with Bofurin and he’s not starving, but the Gravel folks only had themselves. Society forgot about them. So it’s only natural seeing someone like Shizuka who has so many people concerned for her wellbeing and willing to put themselves on the line for her would hurt.

Communicating through fighting has been a big theme of this series from the start and you could quite literally feel all the pain and burden Suzuri carried in that fight. His attacks were primal, full of fear and a desire to survive. He’s not fighting to be evil or anything, just a simple human desire to have enough food to eat and to make sure his people are good. It’s funny how you can go from hating a character to understanding them and sympathising with them so quickly. That’s why talking to people is important which is another big theme of this series. You can’t help people if you don’t know what they want. We can’t understand one another if we don’t communicate.

Speaks to tsubakino’s emotional intelligence that he was instantly able to see Suzuri wasn’t a bad guy and must’ve had a lot of pain and suffering in his life. Ironically, they both would’ve been great friends if they grew up together which makes things all the more painful. We can’t choose our circumstances, but we can choose what to do next so respect to Suzuri for realizing the error of his ways and taking Kanji’s job offer.

The big ironic twist of the episode being that Suzuri already had more than most people will ever get, he had a loving group of friends. Rooting for them!

“I love you a whole lot more than you can ever imagine” 😭 yea that’s where the tears started flowing for me. Tsubakino and Shizuka friendship is so pure I love them sm. I love how Suzuri made sure to reassure Shizuka that his group would never do anything to hurt her, and if they did, he’d take full responsibility!!

Oh shit that ending! Who’s our new hottie??! Is he gonna be related to the guy from the end of the KEEL arc?? Can’t wait for the next ep!

Yawn* boring way to conclude! At least Frank’s guy is here! Let’s go... but overall, it was a flop arc. Never got the chance and will never try to like this booty ass guy. Don’t want to see him again

I like Wind Breaker BUT...

I'm really glad this arc is over or almost over.

Too much about it that I felt was off:

I didn't like the way the adults have a place in the story at this part. Part of believing delinquent anime is believing in the melodrama, pettiness, and revenge that goes along with youth. A time in life when everything seems like a big deal and is deeply important to you, emotions are running high. School gangs and massive fights between them are all part of it. Transitioning this early in the story to the somewhat shady underworld of adults, who still squabble like teenagers, pushed the limits of my belief.

I mean, you're telling me there's a conveniently placed impoverished town next door, and all of the adults who are seemingly desperate didn't travel to find jobs that were apparently pretty adjacent to them all along? This doesn't make sense. The problems of adults weren't working for me in a story that has operated on the logic of its child characters.

Also this arc had way too big a problem with giving us huge backstories, that are supposed to be emotional important, to characters we JUST met and have zero connection to. Shizuka's story would have been so much better if I knew her for a long time. And bowl-cut-bangs Tanjiro voiced guy, you're telling me HE had a gigantic emotional backstory too?

I also wish Tsubakino had more or better story to showcase himself as a character. I feel like there should just be more to him, idk. I'd rather seem him have to deal with school gang matters than the red light district stuff. Perhaps we'll get there, but as an introduction, it would have been waaaay cooler.

This anime has become so fucking boring holy shit. This trope of talk with your enemies and 5 seconds later they're your friends has gotten stale really fast. They take sooo long to get anything done, it's boring as hell

5 minutes of sakuga fighting, 15 minutes of talk no jutsu!

Still great. I like how our resident male Tsundere looks extra cute when he's blushing.

Oooh. A menacing guy with actual cool looking tattoos. Hmm.

I really like Wind Breaker, but man, some scenes are just one corny moment after another. I get that it's supposed to be the emotional climax of the show, but everyone suddenly starts speaking like a philosopher while the rest of the crowd just stands there watching. It’s a bit much. There's so little subtlety in those moments—it kind of pulls me out of the story.

Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy the stories and the emotional impact, but the way those scenes are executed made the episode feel a bit off for me. It’s not a bad episode, and I think it's fine objectively, but it just didn’t land that well for me personally.

So the final boss appear? judging by Tasuku's reaction, maybe they knew each others? maybe he's a former student from Furin?

Pretty good episode.

And you know, in the past few episodes I started getting this idea that it would be pretty cool if Nirei would end up going through some sort of insane glow up in the series, with him and Sakura becoming some sort of best buddy beasts, the strongest among their ranks. But Idk how the author is gonna spin this, although he seems to be planting a lot of seeds regarding Nirei wanting to become more than who he is right now, but we'll need more seasons to see that happen.

@hich4n_ It's a slow, but sure process with Hayato breaking Akihiko into the fighting world.