I didn't like 2nd GIG's ending as much as I'd hoped. It felt very much like a "
Deus Ex Machina" ending to me. The conclusion with Gouda and Kuze felt way too rushed, too. Here we have Gouda, who did a lot of Palpatine stuff for a dozen episodes.. getting whacked like he's some nobody. Kuze, the Che Guevara hero, gets whacked like he's nobody, too.
The part where Gouda and the AE CIA guy talk about Japan being socialist underneath and America being a fraud democracy.. I think that was trying to comment how in the past, Japan's left wing was very strong. In the 50s/60s, Japan's Left was in a lot of protests. At one point, President Eisenhower was supposed to go to Japan, but he cancelled his trip because of leftist protests there. Then there was socialist Inejiro Asanuma, who got assassinated in 1960 by a right wing youth with a sword (which very much reminded me of the Kuze - Kayabuki scene in 2nd GIG). Asanuma believed Japan should be close allies to China, and pretty much separate itself from the US. There are some wild theories out there suggesting that American Right wanted Asanuma dead just as much as the Japanese Right did.
Also, I recently read that Japan's Diet recently approved a measure encouraging the creation of a world federal government. That is, global democracy. Some people believe that democracy inevitably leads to socialism (economic democracy) and other forms of collectivism. So maybe that's what the creators of 2nd GIG were hinting at.
Meanwhile, the US claims to be democratic, but according to popular right-winger writer Robert Kaplan,
our democracy is a fraud. According to Kaplan, America's government is very elitist, ruled by corporate and political elites where the voter has no real power. Democracy is just an opiate of the masses, says Kaplan, designed to appease the powerless masses.
I really enjoyed 2nd GIG overall. It was like a more overt way of presenting an internationalist message. Star Trek did this too, but more subtly. But yea, it's very political and I'm surprised they run it on TV. It's hard to follow, IMO. Good for watching on DVD though