[NGW]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Holy shit, Zolda's your fav, too? He's, like, #3 on my list. I didn't know anyone else who liked him that much.

Bravo's easily #4, or at LEAST #5.

Kitaoka is far and away my favorite, he has got to be one of the most human characters I can imagine. He is selfish and self-absorbed, and yet he goes and does something like pay for a girl's mother's surgery. His reason behind joining the fighting is, again, a very human one. And he has some fantastic depth and growth as a character through the season, leading to his ultimate decision to lay down his deck and accept the fate he had been dealt, knowing that he had lived a good life and gotten out of it as much as he could have wanted (and because his cancer made continuing difficult). I felt his death was rather well done as well. Plus I just plain fell in love with his jerk ass when he faked Goro's death to fuck with Shinji.

Bravo is just the right mix of eccentric and dangerous. This is a character that is so over the top and wacky, but in a way that works far better than it should. I really, really hope he manages to stick around longer than most people seem to be expecting him to, even though I agree he is likely to be one of the first to go. I wouldn't peg him as this season's Scissors, maybe this season's Gai.