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| Great episode! I like that when Nagara was about to free those ants, he got sent into ant metaphor world lmao. Another episode where I understand things on the surface level, but have a hard time digging deeper, and that's ok. This show is a novelty, such a unique experience. My man Rajdhani was going crazy there at the beginning. So Aki was really just a student just like them, but it was the student version of the teacher. Probabilities sucks ass, but at least thanks to Nagara these probabilities can still exist in these worlds? Pretty sad to see everyone go their separate ways despite all the terrible shit that some of them caused. Actually sweet to see Mizuho and Pony become like friends. So, these are the main 4 characters huh. Nozomi was definitely affected by what she saw, that she was dead. I wonder where her character will go. Really looking forward to the next episode. |
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| The fact that this anime hasn’t been crushed by the weight if its own ambitions (and even continues to improve) is really quite impressive. I’ve seen so many ambitious anime, not to mention original anime, that have lost their ways as they went on, so the fact that we are still getting substantive world(s)-building, character development, and poignant themes is quite the treat. |
| a whole ass campaign on hating nagara but.. thats literally the only thing they can do lol. i mean some of them have been trapped for thousands of years and its common to be trapped for hundreds. not all of them have powers and if they do it's not guaranteed that it'll be a good one, what else can they do besides pinpointing the blame on someone they're not close with? "nothing more" guy was pretty interesting, i would've loved to have him more in other eps but.. ah. rajdhani going on his own journey makes me sad, but it does suit him. a Lot. hope we can still see him some other time tho it'll be awful if he just continues to set sail Forever. annnnd asakaze is back !!!! glad he can go out of big booba teachers grasp |
| No, Raj. Don't go. You're the only likeable character this series has ♥ Overall, probably the episode I liked the most. Mostly because of Nagara finally finding his courage and deciding to move forward towards this goal of creating a new world for everyone. So... the whole deal with Aki and the chaos she has brought upon these kids just end here? |
| So Radjhani has set off an a voyage. That world of building was also interesting. Looking forward to the next episode. |
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| Damn I kinda teared up when our Boy Raj left the Island. I think the only ones who will make it back home will be Nagara and Mizuho. I feel like Nozimi seeing her death will make her reconsider some things and stay in the "Other worlds" But we will see. |
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| I came to this thread to see if this episode is even worth watching. But if Rajdhani is leaving the show, I'm out. He was carrying this show for me, along with cat girl. I might check to see if he comes back, but otherwise I wouldn't like the show without him. |
| holy shit so like 90% of the cast is just gone? AND RAJDHANI??? man the infodumps are gonna be dry af |
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| this show is interesting as fuck |
| i just hope we don't end up with another drifting net café ending. |
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| Looks like Nagara's little journey alone bear a little fruit when he learn something new from that 'kono sekai' upside-down created by those bat-boy. Do not give up, faith in hope, and changed the world by it. Whatever the nonsense, its important. Good. Though, i am really sad actually seeing all of the classmates really just leaving like that, especially with the indian boy. He seemed to be the only one that worth enough to be followed about his own journey. Guess that he still mad about Nagara dumped off his precious ant experiment and decided to just leaving. Fuck up moment there. Anyway, for their own good and safety, its better like to be like that, by keeping themself away from each other, rather than getting involved in conflicts among themselves under the same roof. It will be more of a disaster toward the whole drifting world. Like that girl-in-glasses that talked at the beginning, to avoid anymore tragedy. Rip to those cult meeting, tho. However, left aside that first, and looks like the false accusations of Nagara already over, by locking down all of those cult-castaways-members, yeah big rip. Then also the classmates get cooled off by taking a leave in one time, now the key goes back to those three young souls again. Sonny Boy, and his newly monkey furball item might lead into supposed tobe a better reality world, soon ... or no? |
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| The "How deeply you believe in nonsense is important. Because if it wasn't we wouldn't have anything. Nothing more." this quote sort of made me think that this show (or at least the episodes set it this world) might have some absurdist or existential themes. Especially since later in the episodes one of the characters said "We must by no means succumb to the absurdity" (but this is probably me over thinking it, but I feel as the first quote might be important later on) |
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| Damn. I'm going to miss Rajdhani and scientific expositions. |
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| I somehow liked the approach of this episode compared to some previous ones. The change of perception and comprehension of the matters of life came again with another sense of revelation, maybe a bit overly exposed if one could say so, but the dialogue hits anyways so there is no negative there. To turns things upside down, one could say haha |
| Nagara landed on that very weird alternate upside-down world where they all build a tower to access to paradise... it's really sad that Rajdhani is leaving though, and for the main group now Nozomi is kinda hesitant if she doesn't want to die IRL for real in the main world |
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| Hmm odd how things change when the environment is not to ones advantage but we are forced to adapt least be left wondering wtf we are doing, and even so we end up dying lolz, what a episode. |
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| Pretty weird episode, not that I disliked it and it did gave Nagara the resolve he needed so nice. Also time for the farewell also came. Many left and it's just a few of them now. Wonder what Nozomi gonna do. |
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KANLen09 said: Yeah Futsuboshi's and Nagara's friendship can definitely be compared to AA-2153 and AC-1677's friendship. 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. |
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| The comparison of the ant hill with the Babel us a great metaphor for the corporate world. And that worm foodXD Man, I'll miss Rajdhani. I wonder how the main crew's gonna figure out stuff without him.Let's see how that monkey furball's gonna help. And Nozomi's lost her resolve while Nagara has gained some reslove. |
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| Felt like more of a classic arthouse anime episode compared to the first 6. Not even sure what I mean by that to be honest, but to paraphrase I think that we had out there aesthetics, out there execution, out there characters and out there plot construction in the first 6 episodes but the latter two(ie characters and plot) are clicking into place at this point; so we are watching a more traditional/simple, more anime-like episode now |
| Miserable empty existence those fellow students copies are living with their brick carrying, I can see it being comparable to working a joyless office life or something. Sad to see Rajdhavi leave, at least he gave the never-changing monkey hairball perfectly fitting Nagara with his world-changing ability. |
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| idk what is going on, but I am on Team Hoshi. |
| Even when I was in crowd, I was always alone |
| It was very convenient for the script that Nagara couldn't use his power in that world. The excuses in this anime are shit. It is literally "because God wanted it". |
| Futatsuboshi and Koumori are the real ones ngl They're like 80% more likeable than the actual main cast |
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| Rajdhani went onto find the One Piece lol |
| The fact that the kiddo was bringing down these rocks for 200 years without knowing why or when would that Babylon version tower was heading, is scary :P |
| not sure exactly what happened with Hoshi... there was a lot going on back on ep 6 and i guess we reached some sort of resolution for him? but at the same time it looked like he was being set up as a major antagonist back in the beginning. maybe i'll have to go back to that episode |
| The classic display of how society works, particularly the whole encouragement of trying not to standout, probably the weakest episode so far but not as awful as the one with the monkeys. |
| I think one of this show's biggest drawbacks is how it separates all of its themes and ideas into self-contained episode. One week we get an episode about social exclusion, another week we get an episode about work culture, about fair trade, about whatever Sonny Boy's director has on his mind. Better (imo) shows will weave themes throughout all of the episodes and use them to guide the narrative. Their ideas have a payoff instead of becoming irrelevant week by week. |
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| I liked the design for Koumori inspired by Amefurikozou and the sock-on-the-head Beatnik dude haha. So they fipped the world because there was nothing at the "top" and forced everyone to work in order to "give them meaning and hope". Jeez. Also some nice meta exposition here - the people in these worlds exist thanks to the observer (Nagara) and the same can be applied to the viewer of the anime, an observer themselves (I wonder if blurred scenes have anything to do with this). Reminded me of what Shuji Terayama said about movies, they're only half-complete until the audience interacts with them. |
| Loved this incidental they played throughout the episode Sonny Boy OST - Beacon  |
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| It was good!, I enjoyed finding more about whatever is happening here. I think it's great how well this anime pulls off chill, or calm without being bland in Nagara. I've seen so many anime fall into this pitfall of having awfully bland male protagonists, especially in shounen. I liked the character interactions, and it amused me to see the food. The mysteries and moral questions it presents I still find very interesting. Great so far! |
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