Hell, why would you give a hostage-taker more hostages? There must be a rule against that in a handbook somewhere.

Don’t allow the madman with a vendetta to feed his vendetta, folks. What if he did just shoot her? What if he roughed her up more than he already did? Hell, what if the sexual assault angle went just a bit further? There’s so many unpleasant possibilities. Sakashita was obviously unhinged to some degree handing Amane over to him was markedly unwise. Frankly speaking, the rescue plan in this week’s Grisaia no Kajitsu was incredibly flawed. But entertainment can still be well researched, or well thought out, or at the very least well presented to the extent that it doesn’t invite viewers to look for plot holes. Yes, I know it’s just anime, it’s just entertainment. In comparison, I found the treatment in this episode rather… frivolous. Hostage situations are always very volatile, and the Germans have always been very good at taking things seriously. Their philosophy is that no one should have to die in one of these encounters, and they take it very seriously. To that end, they reinvented the standard practice and trained response teams that still carry a reputation as some of the best in the field, in the world. I’ll still give my final impressions on the series, but please allow me to go on a bit of a tangent for a spell.Īfter the 1972 hostage crisis at the Munich Olympics, in which, after a disastrous rescue attempt, all hostages were killed, the German police decided they had to revamp their response protocols. I hope you will understand if I say that this episode of Grisaia no Kajitsu was a sensitive one for me, in various ways. Recently in Australia, a madman with a shotgun held a bunch of civilians hostage in a cafe in the heart of the Sydney.

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