“Encounter and Farewell at Sea”<\/p>\n
The old dock sounds return and, as usual, every crime lord has their own tanker.
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\nMaster Li holds Qian De\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funeral at “sea” \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in reality just a little way away from the docks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and invites Shan In and Ryo to attend. Li and Ryo reminisce about how great Qian De was, and how he is essentially responsible for Shan In\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s existence.<\/p>\n
This is a simple episode that again attempts to bring more sympathy to Master Li. I’ve still got that block, in that I would find these stories much more sympathetic if part of his stock in trade wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the manufacture of killer children. This is a battle I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m never going to win.
\nThe stories of Qian De were good because you could tell that he probably had little or nothing to do with the “killer children” scheme and was probably a “good” criminal. Easily the best part of the scenes between Qian De and Master Li was in their club, which was very much like an early Wong Kar-Wai film.<\/p>\n
Li\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s logic is a bit faulty \u00e2\u20ac\u201c going into organised crime will create a life without hardship is a bit of a difficult idea for me to handle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the rest of the episode is fairly tight.
\nRyo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own experiences, despite the fact that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never really been a fan of criminals, prove that Qian De was a good man and, unsurprisingly, Shan In has affected all three of them deeply.<\/p>\n
The other highlight of the story was seeing that Kaori\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room was exactly as she left it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with a 100t hammer in the closet. Despite the whole death thing, Angel Heart<\/I> really is City Hunter<\/I> fan service: delivering so much more of the stuff that I loved most about that series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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