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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

The show violated its rules over and over. Did the heroes destroy a Ganmaizer? Well, it'd come back again later anyway. The final threat essentially indicated that nothing that came before mattered.

The script kept randomly bringing back dead characters with no explanation. Once we found out Ganma World enemies like Javel weren't actually ghosts, that... stopped making any sense.

I'd just like to point out these aren't violations of Ghost's rules or unexplained or anything. The entire deal with the Ganmaizers is that if they were defeated through normal means they would come back stronger. Mugen was able to destroy them for real, but then Adel was able to use the Great Eye's power to bring them back. The Great Eye certainly had the power to do that, so it's not really an inconsistency.

Similarly for the Ganma, they're not ghosts, but they're still not in their actual bodies, so they can "die" as many times as they want to without any actual harm coming to them, that's essentially the point of the Eyecon system. Igor and Gyro and such and such never actually died. And Javert wasn't ever actually killed either. The show did explain these things.

...anyway, that's all I have to say about that. I sometimes see people complain about how the enemies never stay dead, but, while there's definitely plenty of things to complain about regarding Ghost, some details like this stuff isn't really it.

Though, additionally, I personally wouldn't say the Ganmaizers taking over and becoming the real villains really came out of nowhere. They had been hammering in that they were gaining sentience and that that was dangerous for like...the last chunk of the show. Whether that was necessarily the right move or not and the inclusions of Frey/a as the avatar of the Great Eye and all that...who knows. I don't think it really was that much of an asspull, however.