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Gravityqueen4life dijo:
Starded watching Gun X Sword. Heard its a classic.
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Sleazy Car Salesman dijo:
Personally I'd say it's six of one half dozen of the other, but where 47 benefits is the fact that I am directly controlling him which adds a layer of artistic flair and dynamism to his work since I'm the one adding a personal touch and choosing how to kill a target, so even if I do it in a boring or by the numbers sort of way it still feels deeper/more exciting.

Golgo needs more theatricality to his jobs or more depth to his character outside of them to not come across as a plank of wood.
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As someone who's watched every Golgo anime with friends (the movie, the OVA, and the TV series), let me try to explain.

Golgo is not much of a character, it's true. He's not just one-dimensional, he's also kind of dull. He rarely talks, and he doesn't seem to have a life outside of his contracts, aside from fuckin'. His character starts and ends with "world's best sniper and sex-haver."

And the stories themselves have pretty much no tension whatsoever. Golgo is the best sniper in the world, hands down, and he will always win every time. He takes the job, he does some recon, then the climax is "Golgo wins lol." This is literally every single story. Even when you think someone might finally have gotten the upper hand on him, he turns it around by the end.

So why is it one of my favorite series of all time? Simply put, because of how seriously it takes itself.

The scenarios are frequently utterly ridiculous, oftentimes seemingly designed to be impossible to pull off, like a guy who lives on a private island enclosed in bulletproof glass but gets killed because Golgo managed to ricochet the bullet off of his pool, specifically off of a wave to change the trajectory. Even the ones where he doesn't actually have to kill someone, like shooting a single string of a violin to make the player completely lose his nerve and never play again, are crazy. Characters will repeatedly say over and over again that there's no way anyone could possibly do it, there just isn't anyone that cool in existence, and then in comes Golgo to make his one expression and prove them wrong. And it's all taken completely seriously, no matter how over the top it gets. Everyone just accepts that Golgo really is that cool.

It makes for some really hilarious viewing, even if that's probably not what the mangaka had in mind. Golgo as a character isn't interesting, but the world he inhabits definitely is. Even if the ending is a foregone conclusion, the process of getting there has a lot of variety that keeps it fun. Highly recommend giving it a shot. (The dub definitely helps with the comedic aspects, I think the voice actors understood the assignment very well.)
 
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