Gatchaman Crowds Insight Episode 10: Seeds

Okay so Gel’s gender keeps changing so I’m just going to refer to Gel as they/them. I probably should have done so sooner.

Now…Rizumu is released to take Gelsadra down and he plans to change everyone’s mood which in turn changes the atmosphere, to make the people against Gelsadra. One of the VAPE members records a video of Mana’s father getting swallowed up by one of the Kuu-sama and it goes viral and everyone is apalled that Gel would allow such a cruel thing to happen, let these creatures basically killing a father in front of his daughter’s eyes. This is step one of changing the atmosphere. The next step was through social media and making posts showing their displeasure with everything that’s been going on. And sure enough, people are starting to change their moods about Gel and are now against them. And now that the majority are against them, the Kuu-sama are now too. More Kuu-sama are made and a huge army flock over to Gelsadra, but Hajime comes in time to help them. Earlier, Gel was interviewed by a not-as-cleverly-disguised Rizumu, and when Gel was shown the video they didn’t think Mana losing her father was a big deal. So that just made people’s opinions about Gel change even stronger.

Hajime was able to figure out the riddle and knew this was coming so she was the only one that went out to protect Gel, and she helped them think about what they really wanted. They made a new poll asking the people what they wanted and they wanted him to disappear, and at first Gel was going to do that. But Hajime stopped and asked if that was what they really wanted. She wanted them to think. What did they want? It’s not something to ask the people, it’s something to ask themself. To think for themself. And at last, changing into their little girl form again and releasing all the emotions in them, Gel answered that they wanted to stay on Earth with Tsubasa. And so Hajime took Gel to the Gatcha HQ and left them there, while the rest of the team went to eliminate the Kuu-sama.

Rui is also back on his feet while hearing out Rizumu and X, going back to his goal to evolve the people. And Tsubasa spoke with Yuru-jii. He tells her that all of the things that he’s seeing right now is the same as before. This atmosphere can make people do bad things. Hearing phrases like “Fight for your country!” are things he heard during the war in which his brother died in, and the war I’m assuming is World War II. He fought against people he didn’t even know and didn’t hate, and that what was happening here. Knowing she messed up, Tsubasa went out to rejoin the team once more and take down the Kuu-sama. There are a couple episodes left and with them taking down the Kuu-sama then things should settle down. Well, I’d like to think that but something else is probably going to happen. Also I wonder what they’re going to do with Gelsadra. Paiman believed that they would help the world but they ended up doing more bad than good.