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| Really interesting backstory for the dog (Yamabiko) it's still as mysterious as before though but I'm more and more interesting into the whole story |
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| Twas kinda funny to see them suffer from those tumors, not a bad way to die out if you ask me. |
 Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
| Allright backstory for Yamabiko, it was a sad one thou. |
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kuroneko99 said: Here is some speculations. Kodama said "You are too dependent on me" to the blue bird (and Yamabiko's future self!?). This corresponds to Nozomi's words in episode 2: "Both Mizuho and this world are too dependent." After a while, Kodama buried the dead blue bird with the berries that the bird brought to her. Kodama died and Yamabiko continued to lie down there in the world that embodied his wish. A little tree grew there from the berry and it would have become the big tree burning with blue fire in episode 2. These blue attribution would symbolize illusory happiness described by Maeterlinck or Novalis. Therefore the tree that is a symbol of false happiness continued to burn. Also the blue fire burnt false happiness/things the students earned without their own efforts. Then when Yamabiko dashed out the tree in episode 5, the blue fire on the tree died down. --- When Yamabiko tried to make a promise with Kodama linking his little finger to hers, he noticed that his hand had become a paw of a dog. He hadn't realized that he became a dog until this moment. Damn that's a great interpretation. |
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| For a student turned dog, Yamabiko sure got a weird tragic backstory to accompany that. Sad to see Yamabiko failed to save Kodama and her fellow travellers as he realised too late that in order to stop the mental wound epidemic War brought, he should've gone out of his shell |
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| The funniest thing is this episode trying to be philosophical and reflective. Haha |
| Probably the best episode so far. The setting was depressing and disturbing, it reminded me of Shin Sekai Yori. |
| So Yamabiko's power was to create worlds unconsciously. Was that guy truly War? Or just another student drifting in between of worlds? Interesting but still confusing |
| This show up to this point wasn't doing much for me, this episode really changed that. This gave me feelings of Mushi-shi atmosphere and Violet Evergarden like emotive story-telling. The best episode of this show hands down so far, found myself in tears at the end of the story. Hoping the rest of the episodes take this quality and run with it because it would greatly lift it up from the episodes before that felt lacking. |
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| Even though Yamabiko's thorny path is also a story about escapism, I find this episode special compared to everything that has been presented to the viewer before. The scale and ruthless methodicalness of the dome that Yamabiko built under the influence of self-doubt and self-hatred is striking hard. Rough ashy tones, avowal, distrust, despair, irreversibility, remorse, death, emptiness, reincarnation and a new road into nowhere — I can't recall being so thunderstruck by such a cocktail of feelings throughout the episode in a long time. I can't tie Kodama's relationship with War together, just as I can’t reliably say that she is the God whom the original carrier of the disease tried to kill, it doesn't matter, what matters most is the shrillness of happening in their rare meetings. Yeah, the downfall of Kodama's world is appaling but it was a necessary demonstrative shock to convey the realization that not every world can be escaped. Can't even imagine what brewed up in Yamabiko's soul after all this years up to the point he let this tragic story slipped out of his mouth. It made a lasting impression on me and will forever be remembered as a silent tombstone. It can be said, that I've already received much more mental pabulum from this series than I could have imagined thanks to this episode. Damn. Even the reunion with Nozomi and the important detail that time passes differently for her and Nagara pales in comparison to the main course. |
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| So this one is about the lack of criticism and being unable to deal with it? |
| I really like this episode! And generally like what's going on. After the end of Lord of the Flies, this anime gets more and more interesting. A small number of characters is good, I think. However, I regret that Rajdhani left. I liked him... I also don't like Kodama. I never liked it when people do good by force. If she had left Yamabiko alone...I guess everything would have been fine |
EuonymusJul 15, 2022 1:02 AM
| I'm curious about the brief shot of a lying dog with the same disease. |
| This was far too abstract for me and none of the earlier episodes were so that's saying something |
| ok i think i get it, so his ability is that his mental world gets manifested into reality, so those worlds were worlds of the mind but now in physical which is why the wounds were mental wounds and got progressive. the reliance on the girl who in yamabiko's mind was invincible and could do anything was a lot and her mental wounds grew larger. in the end he cultivated worlds that ended up killing the drifters in it and war also played a part in the worlds as well. then he finally moved on after realizing this and then started going to other worlds after 5000 years |
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| These artistic psychologic shows always promisses much and delivers a few. In resume, for what matters, Dog boy is a problematic teenager (like everyone there) and everything was allegory of him dealing with his psychologic issues and kinda overcoming them, partially, "its something". Anything else in this show is pure distraction. The worlds? everybody now can drift? time inconsitency? the other random students? Just useless backgroud. Its so Evangelion. |
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I'm curious about the brief shot of a lying dog with the same disease.
| @St0rmblade Is it me or nothing is really clear in this show? @St0rmblade Yes, nothing was an hyperbole. Each episode is mostly easy to process within itself. I was thinking more about the pverall series, wich doesn't seem to make sense beyond decrypting/interpreting it. That anoying text of "subtext for no text". . Thanks! 3/5 |
Rei_IIINov 3, 2023 12:26 AM
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@St0rmblade Is it me or nothing is really clear in this show?
@St0rmblade Yes, nothing was an hyperbole. Each episode is mostly easy to process within itself. I was thinking more about the pverall series, wich doesn't seem to make sense beyond decrypting/interpreting it. That anoying text of "subtext for no text".
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Thanks!
3/5
@St0rmblade Yes, nothing was an hyperbole. Each episode is mostly easy to process within itself. I was thinking more about the pverall series, wich doesn't seem to make sense beyond decrypting/interpreting it. That anoying text of "subtext for no text".
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Thanks!
3/5
Well, it gives some food for thought and likes various symbolic stuff. I wouldn't say that "nothing" was clear while watching. This might be interesting later: https://letsdiscoverthingsthataregood.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/sonny-boy-final-episodes-interview-with-shingo-natsume/ https://letsdiscoverthingsthataregood.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/shingo-natsumes-commentary-on-sonny-boy/ https://fullfrontal.moe/2000-lightyears-into-sonny-boy-interview-with-shingo-natsume/ |
| Huh so his power is essentially being semi schizophrenia, best episode so far though, maybe cuz there weren't any pathetic characters |
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