Spoilers abound:
So I'm watching this anime, thinking "Cool, modern-day pirates," and I get that, along with incompetent neo-Nazis, flying torpedo boats, and a Terminator in a maid's outfit.
Then I get to the Romanian assassin kids and I'm still thinking "Loli with a belt-fed machine gun, cool." Then some of their backstory is revealed, how they were sold to perverts and forced to kill, and I start to feel a little bad, but not any more than I usually would for fictional characters, which isn't much. Sniping scene didn't faze me; little boy (actually girl) screwed with the wrong Russians and got screwed in return. It wasn't until later, when the little girl (actually boy) was being ferried away on the
Lagoon and telling Rock all the horrible things about 'her' life in great detail, that I began to truly feel sad. And then Rock tries to comfort her (him?) saying the world isn't so bad and the only way he/she can think to show gratitude is to flash him, and now I'm feeling like
. Then finally the poor boy (or girl) gets blown away and the credits roll to a sad hymn-like tune and I feel like
. I didn't cry, but MAN that was a downer, the worst a fictional story has made me feel in
ages.
Sorry, my friends are out of town, and I just had to discuss this with
someone. ITT: sad stories.
