Thursday, March 10, 2005

   WARNING...SPOILERS AHEAD!
Ok, I have had a few people ask me what Gungrave is about. Well, I'm gonna try and sum it up as best as I can. I will not divulge what happens at the end, but I will have to mention a few things that happen that may spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. So, if you don't care about that, then proceed. But if you want to wait and see it for yourself, then don't read any further! ^_^

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Brandon Heat and Harry McDowel are best friends living in a city filled with crime. They are among a group of five young men, all sharing a friendship.
Harry is known as the 'smart' one, and somewhat of a ladies man. Brandon is the quiet one, but very good at fighting. He seems to have feelings for a young lady named, Maria. However, Maria lives with her uncle, who does not approve of Brandon.

The group of young men find themselves fighting a small syndicate headed by a man named, Deeds. Brandon and Harry are the only ones who survive.

Maria's uncle tries to help Brandon and Harry, but ends up getting killed himself.
Maria is now alone in a dangerous city. A friend of her uncle comes to visit her and invites her to live in his mansion.
Brandon sees her driving away in the car of Big Daddy himself, the boss of Millenion, the largest and most powerful syndicate in the city.

Harry and Brandon find themselves in another situation that they think they won't be able to escape from. But a group of men from Millenion show up and help them. Harry and Brandon decide to join the syndicate, with different goals in mind. Harry wants to rise up and become powerful someday. While Brandon knows that this is the only way he can remain close to Maria.

Over time they prove themselves very valuable to the syndicate. Harry with his cunning and intelligence, and Brandon an almost unstoppable force as a sweeper.

Brandon gained the favor of Big Daddy, occasionally going fishing with the aging, leader of the syndicate. They had spoke about Maria, and Big Daddy told Brandon to go see her. However, when he went to see her, he was very quiet and distant. Before he left he told her that he was a sweeper, and that's who he was. As he walked out, Maria began crying. It was clear that Big Daddy had fallen in love with Maria, and Brandon did not want to take that from him.

Big Daddy and Maria ended up getting married. While Brandon rose up to be known as the top sweeper for the syndicate.
Harry began seeing the daughter of Bear Walken, one of the more powerful men in Millenion. At some point, Bear gives Harry permission to marry his daughter, Sherry.

Brandon had made a promise to Big Daddy to never betray the syndicate. And in a particular conversation, being overheard by Harry. Big Daddy questioned Brandon of Harry's motives in the syndicate. Brandon assured Big Daddy that Harry would not do anything to betray. However, he told Big Daddy also, that he would not allow anyone to betray Millenion...no one!

Harry spoke to Brandon about getting rid of the boss of Millenion. Then the two of them could run the syndicate together, and most of all, Brandon could have Maria. Brandon pointed his gun at Harry...he would not betray the syndicate. But he could not pull the trigger. He dropped his gun to the floor.
Just then Harry pulled out his gun and shot Brandon multiple times in the chest. And as Brandon crashed through the glass in the elevator, Harry shot him in the left eye. Brandon fell to his death.

Now, Harry had been doing some dealings on the side without the knowledge of the syndicate. And he had been funding a scientific experiment to bring back the dead. It was called Necro-rise. Before Brandon died he knew all of these things that Harry had been doing. Yet he never told Big Daddy.

Everyone was under the impression that Brandon had betrayed the syndicate, and that is why he was killed. But Big Daddy had his doubts.

Later, Harry finally decided to get rid of Big Daddy and take control over Millenion himself. Once under the control of Harry McDowel, there were no other syndicates that could even compare to the power of Millenion with the aid of the Necro-rise. These were to become known as Orcmen.

There was an accident at one of the facilities and some of the Orcmen began killing people. Harry went to see what was going on. But he and some of the others fled for their safety. In the midst of all the chaos, a man appeared with shoulder length gray hair. He fought the Orcmen and defeated them. It was Brandon...

Secretly, Dr. Tokioka, who had been working for Harry previously, had used the Necro-rise on Brandon. And with his assistance it brought him back.
Dr. Tokioka had decided after that he should not have done what he did. So, he had Brandon just sleep.

13 years passed and Harry was at the height of his leadership of Millenion. He had his four most powerful men under him. Among them was Bear Walken, Balladbird Lee, Bob Poundmax, and Bunji Kugashira. All of them had worked alongside Brandon in the past.

Maria had went to live secretly with her daughter Mika. Until one night some men from Millenion showed up. Maria ordered her butler, and friend, Tokioka, to take Mika to safety. She told Mika to go to 'him'. He would protect her.

Tokioka and Mika barely escaped but, only to see Maria shot to her death. Tokioka knew where he needed to take Mika...to his brother, Dr. Tokioka. He explained everything to Mika on the way.

They were suddenly attacked by an Orcman. Tokioka held off the Orcman, and told Mika to go find 'him' and take a special case. With the case, Dr. Tokioka would know who she was.

Mika made it to Dr. Tokioka's mobile laboratory, which was contained inside of a large trailer.

The Orcmen surrounded the trailer. They began trying to break their way in. The tall, gray haired man rose and walked to the door, it flew open. He lept out over all of the white, humanlike creatures into the falling snow. As he landed his boots plowed a trail through the snow. He began to shake a little and then fell down to his knees. Mika was afraid he would not be able to get up. An Orcman approached him and just as he was about to attack, the man brought up one of his guns and blocked it. He rose up and began shooting with both guns destroying Orcmen one after another.
Mika asked if this was Brandon Heat. Dr. Tokioka told her that he was now 'Grave'...'Beyond the Grave'.

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Well, I think I'm gonna leave it at that. From that point on, Brandon, or now known as 'Grave', protects Mika and goes after the top executives of Millenion, particularly Harry, aka 'Bloody Harry'. You'll just have to watch the rest of it to see what happens after that. Whew...that took me longer than I thought. But I just couldn't type out some short little summary. There's so much to tell! ^_^
I hope you enjoyed today's storytime. I don't think I'll be doing it again for awhile...@_@
Have a good one!
Catcha later...






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