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#38: Let Me Go, Let You Go
Character: Oji Tanaka
Series: The Legend of Black Heaven
Nominator: Simoun (3/4 remaining)

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Aesthetics: 5
Dominance: 7
Damn: 5

Overall: 17/30

A lot of the entries in this contest were what I expected. This really wasn't one of them, so naturally it's from an anime.

To provide much-needed context of wtf is going on here, this is how Simoun explained it:

Basically the show is about a ship's weapon system that can only be powered by hardcore rock, of which Tanaka (and his band) was doing wonderfully at. They get them to perform in order to win a galactic war against some evil aliens.

After a few episodes, the aliens decided to play them at their own game by using the band's asshole keyboardist Watanabe and retrofitting him with 8 arms to be a band on his own so that he can match Black Heaven's sound. He does so successfully.

Dejected, Tanaka is reinvigorated on the 11th hour by his ex-gf who manages to bring him all his old fans (Tanaka was a washed up artist by the start of the series) and after an emotional moment, plays a unique song from his heart. This one is even more powerful and since Watanabe could not possibly copy or fathom it, is utterly destroyed in one hit.

Honestly it's a cool concept, and I recognize that a lot of you might think this was hype as fuck. I can't think of too many things that put me off, personally, I just don't feel it. Well, I guess it just feels anticlimactic. It could have been a little longer, there could have been a little more soul in it, there could have been a deflection of Watanabe's shot, or... I dunno. I just think it could have been more.
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