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Nov 26, 2013 8:39 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Holy shit, it's an alien invasion and bloody apocalypse.

Poor Miss Monochrome, I feel for her.
Nov 26, 2013 9:12 AM
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Lol... :D

Quite unexpected.. maybe it means we are close to the end of season 1.
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Nov 26, 2013 11:17 AM
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Dat TWEEST!!! XD

Who would've thought she was an already popular Idol in the far away past and now she's lost her memories of her eternal rival that has reincarnated into a popular idol again. They're meeting should be friggin emotional if she remembers her T_T XD

I wonder if the aliens will come again lol.
Nov 26, 2013 11:30 AM
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Fcking time loops and reincarnations lol
Nov 26, 2013 11:42 AM
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Well, events in this episode were quite unexpected...
Nov 26, 2013 11:44 AM
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THAT WASN'T A BIG TWIST OUT OF NOWHERE, NOPE NOPE
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Nov 26, 2013 11:44 AM
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so.. this was sort of a backstory?
Nov 26, 2013 11:45 AM
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...what...the....fuck.

Excuse me while I go cut myself. Depressing shit out of nowhere. Should've saved Non Non Biyori for today.
Nov 26, 2013 12:06 PM
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PLOT TWIST.

Seriously , wasn't expecting that but oh welp , I guess this is not just any typical shorts for fun , ne. Looking forward to next episode !
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Nov 26, 2013 12:23 PM
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Well that was unexpected.

I didn't think such a short anime would have such a deep backstory, i feel for Miss Monochrome, you'll become a super idol again!
Nov 26, 2013 12:29 PM

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So humanity was wiped out almost to the point of extinction, and kikuko was reincarnated...
Nov 26, 2013 12:43 PM

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What the hell...

Have to admit they sure cram in a lot into three minutes.
Nov 26, 2013 12:48 PM
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That was awesome.
Nov 26, 2013 1:18 PM

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So this is how it all started for her.
Nov 26, 2013 1:38 PM

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What the..... wait what?
LOL at this back story.
Nov 26, 2013 1:49 PM

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Those are some bad-ass aliens in that back story. I'm glad to see that Miss Monochrome's charging station could withstand the ravages of geologic time until those Sengoku era peasants came by with a double-A battery... Cue epic ED...
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Nov 26, 2013 1:52 PM

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What the fuck was that ?!
Nov 26, 2013 2:07 PM
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WTF? Life began again. That means that Mana will steal all the money again.
Nov 26, 2013 2:25 PM

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Gen Urobuchi, what did you do to Monochrome-chan ? :<
Nov 26, 2013 3:04 PM

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Wow, who thought BGM and super seiyuus could actually make a 45 sec. death scene touching?
Nov 26, 2013 3:13 PM

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Ekkaruto said:
Gen Urobuchi, what did you do to Monochrome-chan ? :<


Oh god lol.
Nov 26, 2013 3:14 PM

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lol that was unexpected. she was already popular idol back then xD

and still love the ending theme for this ! just too good!
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Nov 26, 2013 3:23 PM

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That was quite the backstory..
Nov 26, 2013 4:04 PM

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Shooooort! Anyway, nice background story :)
Nov 26, 2013 4:10 PM
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This had more feels than half of the dramas I've seen lately. That ED is addictive.
Nov 26, 2013 5:41 PM
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I cant tell if this was a backstory or if time just few by a few billion years.
Nov 26, 2013 7:20 PM

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I think it's a backstory, because Miss Monochrome already blew away those invading aliens in episode 3 or 4 ... which now all makes sense :P So our kawaii Vocaloid is millions of years old, and was a super idol with a rival who's been reincarnated in the present. Not going to question why there were humans millions of years in the past ... maybe the aliens vaporized all of them so there were no fossil records.

Shit just got deep for a 4 minute anime. :P And yay dat ED. I can't wait till they release that single.
Nov 26, 2013 8:04 PM

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Well shit. I was kind of confused at first, thought it was only a joke or a dream od Monochrome.
That 45 second death scene was pretty touching, more touching than all 12 episodes of School Days.
Nov 26, 2013 8:28 PM

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this is the first time that 5 minutes anime got their own deep story.

nice try.
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Nov 26, 2013 10:53 PM

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Edit:
All you confused people on page 1, please read this post...

I guess we're finding out about Monochrome's past.

Episode 9 ends with the scene Episode 1 started with.


It seems that Monochrome and Kikuko were competing idols in the past.
At that time, human civilisation was mostly wiped out by aliens.
Kikuko died in this event, and Monochrome lost her memory when her battery ran out.
Kikuko has since been reincarnated, and Monochrome has expressed her desire to become a super idol alongside Kikuko after seeing her on TV (seemingly still unaware of their past).

Interesting to note that Monochrome annihilated the same aliens this time round (in Episode 3) without even realising it.
This explains why Episode 3 was titled Vengeance.

Another interesting point is that it appears that humanity may not yet have regained the level of advanced technology that Monochrome was built with, which may explain why we haven't seen any other androids in the anime yet, and why so few people seem aware of the fact that she's an android.

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MEanimaniac1 said:
That 45 second death scene was pretty touching, more touching than all 12 episodes of School Days.
Yup ;)
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And yay dat ED. I can't wait till they release that single.
Same here. It's very catchy.

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Nov 27, 2013 12:04 AM

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So...biggest twist of the season: this episode, or Samurai Flamenco episode 7?

Someone mentioned Gen Urobuchi in this thread; seriously, with all that Miss Monochrome's been through, are we sure he's not writing?! This show can get downright depressing at times.
Nov 27, 2013 2:08 AM
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To think she got all her money from the villagers who thought she's a god. xD
Nov 27, 2013 2:48 AM

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Don't really understand why people are so shocked at what they saw. This episode links back to ep.1 and explained what happened before Ms Monochrome lost everything to the swindler staff, right? Don't really see it as such a big twist.

The one surprise is that the aliens we saw a few episodes ago (which Ms Monochrome destroyed while they were still in space) is also linked up as well. Got to give my kudos for the screenplay writer for connecting all these episodes together.
So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?

I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?

I wonder how long people would put up with this.

As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.
Nov 27, 2013 4:27 AM

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Never expected the plot twist.

I want to watch episode 3 again to see those aliens get annihilated.

The ending is catchy, but I'm also interested in Kikuko's song since episode 1.
Nov 27, 2013 5:10 AM

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The way she tried to feed her salt-water

Makes sense on why she is so clinging on her idol dream, great backstory indeed
Nov 27, 2013 7:47 AM

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I didn't feel nothing.
Nov 27, 2013 8:07 AM

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.......... i was like is that for real?

and... yeah it is. i thought it was a joke episode or sth

well 5/5 for the bloody appocalyspe and a fate reunite
Nov 27, 2013 10:43 AM

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Kind of weird episode... Well... keep watching :P
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Nov 27, 2013 5:12 PM

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Finally an explanation and some back-story on Ms Monochrome. It was well put together.
Nov 27, 2013 5:40 PM

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Ohhh...did the aliens did come back...only get defeated..i see
Nov 27, 2013 8:40 PM

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Wow that was such a clever back story. I didn't expect anything that well done.
Nov 28, 2013 12:03 AM

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Ehhhhhhhh?? LOL.
Nov 28, 2013 2:16 PM

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I thought it was surprisingly sweet as well. Definitely better than what I would have expected for such short episode. :)
Nov 28, 2013 8:11 PM
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Wait. I don't think this was all a back story... Remember in maybe Episode 3 aliens invaded and Monochrome stopped it because of some super powerful battery? Maybe this time it won't loop? 0.o I dunno... what do any of you think? (If anyone reads this.. ^~^" )
Nov 30, 2013 4:20 AM

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Well now we know how it all happened, too bad there wasn't more ><

5/5 still

Dec 3, 2013 11:49 AM

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KuraiKitai_524 said:
Wait. I don't think this was all a back story... Remember in maybe Episode 3 aliens invaded and Monochrome stopped it because of some super powerful battery? Maybe this time it won't loop? 0.o I dunno... what do any of you think? (If anyone reads this.. ^~^" )
Read my post on page 2.
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The events of EP9 happened before EP1.
Humans were almost completely wiped out. Monochrome survived.
She has waited hundreds of millions of years[1] for life to be born again on earth[1] and to be reunited with Kikuko[1] when she is eventually reincarnated.
(although it appears human civilisation hasn't quite gotten to the point of manufacturing androids like monochrome yet.)
At this point, the aliens return to enjoy the human hunting[1] of hundreds of millions of years ago[1], but they don't get the chance because Monochrome wipes them out this time round.
(In EP3, titled Vengeance: After putting in a golden AA battery[1], monochrome accidentally combines with Ruu-chan[1] and fires a laser through the ceiling of the apartment[1] and blowing every UFO as the alien is targeting the first human, Maneo.[1])

[1] Information from the official website.

The plot of this anime follows Monochrome's story as she tries to become (the now reincarnated) Kikuko's rival once again in the new human civilisation.

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Dec 4, 2013 9:37 PM

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wow that was an awesome and funny episode, i cried a little. Seriously.


awesome part : MM's past. Alien invasion and apocalypse. It also used the quite popular theory that human civilization used to be quite advanced before their sudden extinctions and finally back to the prehistoric times.


funny part : the peasants owned a battery lmao


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Dec 8, 2013 6:03 PM

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Dat TWEEST!!! XD

Who would've thought she was an already popular Idol in the far away past and now she's lost her memories of her eternal rival that has reincarnated into a popular idol again. They're meeting should be friggin emotional if she remembers her T_T XD

I wonder if the aliens will come again lol.

They did, back in episode 3 and she saved the world without anyone knowing about it.
What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

Dec 9, 2013 8:45 AM
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I went back and rewatched episode 1. I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet, MM actually has been having dreams about the death scene many times.
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Them Feelssss T_T
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