@vael: Episodes 13-16 of Baccano! were added to the DVD release after it aired on TV, but I dunno, I’m not sure it would have felt as complete without those episodes. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s perfect and nothing could be better, but complete is a good word for it. Complete in its incompleteness, I guess. The way it manages its characters is what I want for my story when it gets finished in the far off future, but replace immortality with killed-somebody-and-got-a-new-identity.
Speaking of Baccano!, I dunno when it’ll be localized, but the same studio is doing an anime of another series of light novels by the same guy called Durarara!! Obviously, it is superior thanks to the extra exclamation mark. Aside from that, it’s on episode 14/24 in Japan, but they’re going to add extra episodes for its DVD release too. It has a black man who runs a sushi shop (this is really weird for Japan), a butler who throws vending machines, and a female headless horsemen who rides a motorcycle instead of a horse. Sound exciting yet?
I don’t think you quite understood me. Baccano finished itself off like any good story would: the story was taken care of, the characters’ lives are settled but still left to some ambiguity. The point it makes, however, is that no stories are ever “done”, even when the world explodes. Just like they said about the rat at the end, the immortal one, “what do you think he’s been up to this whole time?”. My point goes even deeper because no story - for the sake of being a good story - will go into every character’s history ever. How about the individual story of each gangster in baccano, how did they get like that? When you weave a story to also weave a world along with it, and that world is still going on even while you don’t say a word about it.
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