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Warren Shea

Gate Keepers + Gate Keepers 21

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 at 10:50 am

Skimmed through Gate Keepers 21…

I loved the original Gate Keepers, it was like a Saturday morning cartoon…lots of over the top excitement, fun, great characters. There was a bit of darkness…from one character but it was generally very fun. It takes place in 1969 and deals with the darkness of society and the direction it was heading.

Gate Keepers 21…was pretty different. It was much darker…if Gate Keepers was a series about defeating the darkness in society 30 years ago, Gate Keepers 21 is the future of that world (actually, the present) if the world continued to get darker.

And not surprisingly, the world in GK21 is just like the world we live in now. While Gate Keepers was fun and a favorite when I was younger, I’m a bit more jaded and realistic now. No longer the idealist I once was, Gate Keepers 21 speaks more to me now than Gate Keepers.

It might be because the main character form GK21 is a lot like me. The way she thinks…that humans are insects…the way she gets bothered when laws are broken, the way she feels like the world is a terrible place…it’s all too familiar.

I loved each episode (there are only 6) for very different reasons…despite disliking the character Miu…episode 5, titled after her, might be my favorite of the 6. When she opens her hands at the end of the episode…I was just speechless. That moment was so powerful for me.

When I loved Gate Keepers, I thought GK21 was okay. Now, I feel the opposite. I love GK21 and Gate Keepers takes a back seat to it. I guess I’ve matured a bit…or become more jaded.

Maybe I should watch Digimon S3 again, which was the darkest of the first 3 Digimon seasons…

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