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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- It's refreshing to see the cast hanging out at a restaurant until you realize the food isn't so ordinary. Still, this episode felt less tense but their lives are still far from normal. Out of all the main characters, Nagara still seems to be the most tactical thinker. I'm curious what other plans this show has for him. |
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| Man...the debate of the This World is really OVER-THE-TOP, condemning Nagara just because he has the superpower to drift to different This worlds. yah right, the judgment will be passed down soon enough from Koumori the Convictor from Beatnik, but it's not his fault in the first place becausse God gave him that power to begin with. Still far from home and everyone has to make life-or-death measures. From Yamabiko's account, it's a whole other ballpark of a trance for these castaways. The analogy of Rajdhani making an ant colony, it's funny that Nagara has to set them all free, wasting all his hard work. A twist of another world dhift from turning at the exercise bar, and Nagara lands himself in a Black Company-like corporate shill, the This world that's akin to the underground ant hill in a Babel-like setting. Nagara's only guide is this dishevelled boy Futatsuboshi who is used to working in this hard life (Cells at Work! Black vibes anyone?), and naming him "Nagata" on his own accounts. There're castaways also, building this tower to Heaven to go back to the outside world...IN REVERSE for time millenia. The umbrella guy host Susugashira being part of Beatnik, an elite dream team of travelling to different worlds. Everyone hates Nagara for dealing them this Drifting Classroom situation, it's not glossed over easily. To see the shooting stars, Futatsuboshi's excerpt makes sense: "How deeply you believe in nonsense is important. Because if it wasn't we wouldn't have anything. Nothing more." Because it serves as the metaphor for building Babel to reach the Heavens, Futatsuboshi and others are like worker ants wanting to reach outside. But the shooting stars are nothing more than bugs for their meal. It's great that the others have already begun to work together to figure out how to get out of This world while leaving Nagara behind. The exercise bar makes me think that that is how they think, and contrary to belief, the world is upside down, and Nagara knows it to reach the top and find Koumori, his power to make things upside down into an eternal abyss. Good thing that he cleared Nagara of all the condemnation and LITERALLY turning the decisions upside down. Rajdhani wanting to learn more about the possibility of the many This worlds, it's really time that he set out on his own. He's easily the best character out of the 36, and a great support thus far. May we miss Rajdhani and see him again before the end. Rajdhani gave Nagara a really good name of his power: World Creation. The guidebook journal to all 36 students' powers from Rajdhani's painstaking record logging efforts with him sailin away into the distance, and what the trio decides to do with it is anyone's guess. To go home or not, that is the question. Mention Robinson Crusoe on "Adrift", and I think we know where we're going. |
KANLen09Aug 26, 2021 11:14 AM
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| ant colony a metaphor of human society there eh Mod Note: Removed screenshot(two embedded images) and added spoiler tag |
dipItFooSep 7, 2021 9:51 AM
| Those dumbfucks really blaming Nagara for this. And, wow they'll even go as far as to crucify him. Nice. Rajdhani is one of the most interesting characters to me in this show, he's always doing something with things here and there and trying something new. Nagara really walking on thin ice there with his name being 'Nagata'. Nagara's friend was nice to him for treating him in the restaurant but damn that food made me puke myself. Too bad his only friend there couldn't survive long enough and got eaten alive. Once again, they're really playing under the concepts of worlds and dimensions and different timelines which is enough to make the brain go, "What?" if you don't understand it enough. Interested to see what kind of surprises are there waiting for him in the upcoming episodes. |
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| I'll be really sad if Rajdhani simply never appear again, when he went on his on journey, it felt a lot like a goodbye to my favorite character of this show... kinda sad episode, but the easiest one to understand so far, Hoshi became a lot friendlier, which i didn't expect. i want a full episode, at least, on Rajdhani journey on the sea. |
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| i just thought, what if nagara made an entire new world, just like earth with his power. i mean it could be possible who knows. anyways this was by far the most interesting episode but im still waiting for an episode which explains everything as the series is still quite confusing |
 "Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."  |
| I think the world he has fallen into is like a reflection or a critique of society by comparing it to a colony of ants )? Some special weed they smoked making this episode xd Well, so they're all gone except Nagara and two others, we'll see what they do from now 0.0 |
| Another great episode, although I’m so lost at this point lol. |
| The show is a bit too slow for my taste. Back in ep 6 (or 5?) when they showed us that Nozomi died I actually started to think that Nagara saw her jump off the roof and created the drift. The question is why he doesn't remember anything. Also seeing Nozomi doesn't want to get back sort of proves this theory (though doesn't prove Nagara being in fault for the drift). The main problem of the series is that it has way too much exposition and way too much "explaining rules" but way too little of this is actually important or make sense. Out of 7 eps which is more than 2 hours we have like few minutes of plot-essential information. That is why I really doubt authors can create something logical out of this. And if my theory about Nozomi is right (I doubt it is) then it's even worse because that would be boring and predictable. I like stories that you have to solve like puzzles, but with every episode Sonny Boy proves that we won't get any logical (or at least an original one) explanation of things and that's what saddens me the most. Still a good watch 8/10 (for now). |
| Koumori remembered me of Kaiki with that hairstyle. Nozomi depressed visually, isn't a good thing. Now that many are out of the picture, even Rajdhani (who hurt see him go on a voyage), I wonder where the story will go. |
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| rajdhani left ? fuck sake now who is going to explain all this bullshit to us ? |
| Really compelling episode. I liked the approach they took depicting the humans as ants. |
| I'm starting to get sick of people saying this is the best anime of this season when they don't even know what they just saw |
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| Cool, either pieces are strating to fall into place by implying that the many worlds interpretation is correct and the fact that the drifters are from different timelines are caused by Nagara's ability unnintentionally... or I'm completely lost and theorizing out of my ass XD. Still, gotta say that the discussions that can come from this exposition are actually very intriguing more so with the many ellipsis that may or may not happen between scenes and episodes. Hell, maybe even some of those are out of order but I doubt it. I'm looking forward to watching the next episode. |
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| I hope Radjhani comes back at some point. He really helped put the happenings into perspective. It's crazy how the mob is so eager to always crucify Nagara. He cannot help what he's doing. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
Good Lord. Wished this particular episode had a TL:DW segment at the beginning, to avoid this bothersome 24 min sleeping pill.  This episode series in a nutshell. TweedleDane said: rajdhani left ? fuck sake now who is going to explain all this bullshit to us ? They still got Kenjiro Tsudoggo to call out more BS and still not get adressed. He kinda reminds me of the blabbermouth motorcycle in Kino no Tabi who knows it all, but only speaks when it's infodump time. |
KimurahAug 26, 2021 1:02 PM
JanPri said: SnowBrightt said: I also don't understand nothing, but I think it's maybe just because I'm dumb. We're simply not as smart as themI'm starting to get sick of people saying this is the best anime of this season when they don't even know what they just saw Propably lmao. First time seeing an anime and genuinely not understanding anything that's happenning. |
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| What? Everybody left? I hope they reach home. I am sad about Rajdhani leaving Nagara. He was my favourite character. I am really confused about the ant world. Are they digging into the ground or somewhere in the "sky"? Koumori seems like a nice man. I like how his name is bat, and his power with the umbrella makes him look like a bat. That one man with a giant sock on his head! haha Asakaze came back to them. I wonder what will happen with his arc. He confuses me a lot, but I am enjoying his character because of it. Nozomi, after learning of her death, seems to have lost confidence or maybe the will. Hoshi says he lost his powers. I thought he would somehow be an important part of the story from the way he was introduced. I hope we don't stop following the other students on their journey. What happened to the "Sore dake dayo" guy? Did he really just die? Can he get reset as well? Oh, BTW, I love how Nagara ends up saying "Sore dake dayo" at the end. |
| There's a cult here and there, humanity fighting against each other and blaming it on people in order to make themselves feel better. Ah yes, It's Nagara's fault so they have to punish him. But he overcame it and is going to move forward without losing any hope. I'm really going to miss Rajdhani, probably my favorite character after Mizuho. But he's doing it for the greater good. What a chad, the rest is going to try to find solutions in their own ways. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Another fun episode that you can just sit back and let flow. A rarity in the usual strict structure of so many anime. |
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| Hmm, it seems that Nagara's probably going to attempt to create a new world. Ants symbolizing humans, heh, I see what they did there. Damn, Rajdhani has been such a key element. Sad to see him go. |
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| After last week's episode 6 "finale" this episode certainly feels like the start of a new season. The show feels like it's heading in a different direction now, and now it makes sense why those 4 are the only ones listed as the main cast. It's good to finally see some character development for both Nagara and Nozomi, with Nagara finally feeling like he has a purpose, while Nozomi seems to have lost hers. I suppose the coming episodes may explore more worlds under the control of the Beatniks and run by Hosts. |
| Rajdhani left, now we can only depend on the talking dog to explain what's going on... man, i felt Nozomi has lost her spirit after seeing that she will die if go back in original timeline.. now i felt more Nagara x Mizuho can happen more n more.. |
 Try reading Spy x Family Manga ^_^ U will love it, i promise... |
| So, the students graduated the original world and have started new lives. It's funny that all the students except Nozomi seem more positive than before. But, in the future, their lives would turn into the ones similar to the ant-like community because of severe circumstances and immortality. Actually the most fortunate one should be Nozomi who evaded the death, but she also should have been the most eager one to return to the original world. By the way, the process how each student opted for the way should have been depicted in further detail. The plot seems kind of abrupt. It's also too convenient development that the vehicles that Hoshi and Rajdhani made suddenly got the ability to leap among the worlds. |
kuroneko99Aug 27, 2021 4:06 AM
| I really like how it's social commentary of adult life, but in the perspective of an angsty high school boy. Eat, sleep, work and repeat. It feels so meaningless, but it's the nonsense that drives us forward, be it a car that we're saving up, a hobby that we enjoy, or building up to "heaven". We believe in those in order to find meaning to the daily grind of life. Also, I really like to think that being stuck in a black company is "real world" Nagara's fate after graduation. Maybe his wacky world hopping adventures vs his real life counterpart run parallel to each other. That would honestly be great story telling. |
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| Another good episode, a commentary on life in general I guess, we're all like worker ants in a sense. We all work for a false hope that we'll one day get to enjoy a "good life". So we keep working for that false hope that we'll one day get there, because if we stop believing then we have nothing left in life, no hobby, no nothing, we're just there. That's fucking depressing. Bloody hell. The comment sections of Sonny Boy are divided into 3: 1. People who understand the show and like it 2. People who don't understand the show and find it pretentious 3. People who understand the show and think they're too smart for it and the show is predictable What a discourse holy shit lmfao. |
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| The easiest episode to understand so far because it felt more like a self-contained story and less connected to the overall plot, except Nagara's growth as a character. Nozomi feels unsure now since she saw her death in the real world, it's like she switched places with Nagara. |
phantomfandom said: This anime really doesn't have any limit or rules. I really have no idea how they are going to close this up. |
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