Gungrave is sort of the Godfather of anime. Bad people doing bad things, yet we still like some of them because they're human.
I personally like Brandon (he actually ends up talking to Maria's daughter as BTG more than he does in the rest of the series). He's not good. He's a killer and he never really seems to bothered by that part. What he is bothered by is realizing the people around him are using him. It's Harry's betrayal of him that's the center point, not the fact that Brandon is sorry he was a sweeper. I think he'd willingly do it again to protect Maria.
The series is also interesting in Brandon's looks change drastically (goes from street look to sweeper look to long hair sweeper look to clean cut with glasses look to BTG). I also love BTG, as he's Brandon but he's not and just like Maria fell in love with Brandon, her daughter falls in love with BTG, not so much because there's any real chemistry, but because they're both women's white knights. Neither Maria nor her daughter really understand Brandon or BTG, but they love him because he's their chivalrous protector who expects nothing in return. He's THE model of medieval chivalry; love and protection from afar with no physical hope of a future.
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I personally like Brandon (he actually ends up talking to Maria's daughter as BTG more than he does in the rest of the series). He's not good. He's a killer and he never really seems to bothered by that part. What he is bothered by is realizing the people around him are using him. It's Harry's betrayal of him that's the center point, not the fact that Brandon is sorry he was a sweeper. I think he'd willingly do it again to protect Maria.
The series is also interesting in Brandon's looks change drastically (goes from street look to sweeper look to long hair sweeper look to clean cut with glasses look to BTG). I also love BTG, as he's Brandon but he's not and just like Maria fell in love with Brandon, her daughter falls in love with BTG, not so much because there's any real chemistry, but because they're both women's white knights. Neither Maria nor her daughter really understand Brandon or BTG, but they love him because he's their chivalrous protector who expects nothing in return. He's THE model of medieval chivalry; love and protection from afar with no physical hope of a future.