[Fish Sandwich]

Just to round out watching BLACK, I took a look at the er- round table discussion, that was a bonus feature on the Blu-rays. Nothing too special, obviously, just some of the actors and staff sharing anecdotes, but there's always something fun to learn in these kind of things. There were two pieces of information that I particularly loved hearing and felt like sharing:

- In BLACK's first episode, Tetsuo Kurata himself is actually wearing the Grasshopper Man suit for the shot that fades into Black's first appearance, because Jirou Okamoto was the only suit actor available at the moment, and obviously had to be Black, so the director basically said "f*** it, we'll just have Koutarou get in there".

- In RX's first episode, on the other hand, Kurata was up on a harness for 20 minutes for the scene where Koutarou is getting hurled through, uh... I guess that was space? It was a trippy scene. The point is, they apparently just told him to flail around until they decided they had enough footage, and a close-up of him genuinely wincing in pain ended up being used in the finished episode, to his surprise. I went and tried to find what he was talking about and...



Yeah, that is, without a doubt, the face of a man who wants off this crazy thing right now.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Black RX mostly gets flak for being "lighter and sillier" than Black. I think the people who say that are mostly a) focusing on Black's darker episodes and b) looking specifically at the first 10-ish episodes of Black RX.

That's definitely the crux of it. It's honestly really sad that RX isn't talked about in a positive light more frequently. I don't think I should've been as shocked as I was to find out it actually has so many genuinely strong elements to it.