What if Voltron, but it’s a gritty, surreal horror with no robots at all? (part 2)

Continued from part 1

(Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Cancer)

Coma Purgatory Remy is being chased down endless dark alleyways by an inchoate mass of citizens.

When I was watching this as a teenager I think I missed how much the artists invoked the "blood disease" imagery, here in coma purgatory.

She is surrounded, and torn to shreds, while discordant, angry jazz plays.

but it hasn't happened yet.

ain't no thang, I got this

The shower's still on, better check on that.

oop, it's blood. blood shower.

That's odd, the blood usually gets off on the second floor.

You know, for as unsubtle as this story is about the blood imagery, I don't think I ever even registered "she has leukemia, a cancer of the blood" when I watched this as a teenager.

Lovingly loading her pistol (again, her pistol gets a LOT of screen time in this) she rushes to the top floor, to the water tower, to confront whoever's sabotaged her shower, only to find... her squad.

This water's legit.

Everyone's investigating the same issue. Also this guy has got great penguin jammies.

I'm beginning to think this stuck in my head for over 20 years because it was rad as hell.

Oh, you got a blood shower and notes telling you all you're gonna die? Yeah, that's ... that's this town's whole deal, didn't you get the memo? Literally everybody here is dying.

Also, you can't leave. The fate's yours, there's no escape.

Each of them is fated to die on a different day - but Remy's is the first one, "Day 2".

So let's escape!

They drink blood red wine while the samurai plays classy piano music.

But the townspeople aren't cool with people just leaving. Can't leave with broken legs.

Fun heroic fight scene, although Remy knocks a mook on to the piano, forcing her to apologize.

The cops show up and massacre the mooks in cold blood. They're helping!

our heroes are uncomfortable with the level of assistance provided

"We'll leave."

"You can't, this city doesn't even have an outside."

While being escorted back to the hotel, the team mulls over their two options: attempting to run, or assaulting the huge spire in the middle of the city. There's no evidence that assaulting the huge spire will even do anything, but, like, come on. You see a big spire like that, it's probably the problem.

Remy relaxes with a non-blood shower, only to return to a woman being either eaten or raped by a wolf on her bed, and a grim warning.

Her gun does nothing, doesn't even dent the wolf, and she has to watch the woman messily (and salaciously) eviscerated in a scene that would make the team at American Horror Story blush.

Once again I would like to remind you that this was a Giant Mecha Anime featuring a big ol' Voltron robot

In a panic, Remy runs out into the streets, only to get attacked by more citizens. A lot of the rest of this story is going to involve this city's citizens trying to murder Remy, so buckle up.

One of her teammates had been quietly tailing her and tosses her a knife at just the right moment, letting her stab her assailant in the back.

"Look, we all get you're a lone wolf who don't need nobody, but you can't do this alone."

Because the team's fates all have them dying after Remy, they want to put themselves in danger first - it stands to reason, they can't die before her, right? Killy fights off some more citizens and shoos Remy back to the hotel, but on the way back she runs into the blood cells red hanging cables from the prophecy.

whoops, fate happened and one of the pictures came true:

She gets cornered again, and her six-shot gun - well, there are only six shots and this city has a lot more than 6 angry goons in it.

Good thing there's another teammate.

Uh, this is getting very violent, they are not afraid to just absolutely murk these mooks.

Again, her heroic teammate stays behind to fight and ushers her along.

And she realizes, in a moment of weakness, that she's been firing her gun too much, and she's hurt her hands and wrists - but more mooks show up and she fires on them anyways.

Okay, the pattern is becoming clear, right? Teammates are rescuing her and then leaving her on her own again, in sequence.

Also heyo, the "Japanese pun you missed" translator's note. I haven't seen one of those in years.

But we've got a motorcycle, so let's skip ahead and just escape now?

They cruise out of the city. Into a ... massive, open-air graveyard.

Then a white oblivion.

Then they're ... cruising back in to the city.

Like Cecily Strong and Keegan-Micheal Key trying to leave Schmigadoon. The exit is just the entrance.

They try again, and it happens again.

Like they said, there's no outside the city.

Aside from the one, obvious way.

"Oh, yeah, this lady is definitely gonna die."

Continued in part 3