Coffee 54 wrote:The level of character development throughout the series has been astounding. My favorite example of this is Inspector Lunge. I would have been happy with a simple 'Javert' type character, but Lunge gives us so much more. Without revealing too much I'd just like to say I'm a big fan of his motives and his reactions as the story has unfolded. I'm really looking forward to how he's going to fit into these last few episodes.
Indeed. Lunge is probably the character that undergoes the most
development in his role per se (besides, perhaps, Nina), while at the same time keeping everything that made him an awesome character in the first place. It's almost like he goes from a stereotype into something entirely his own - and Urasawa (the author) is seriously great at taking cliched ideas and stereotypes, and then making something entirely original and awesome out of them.
The episode where he had that little encounter with Tenma (around 20 or so) already set Lunge up as perhaps the ultimate bad-ass, but shockingly enough he's actually been getting MORE badass as the time goes on, especially after mid-series or so.
And I assure you that he reaches the peak of bad-assness in the series finale
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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In ep 67 when