Wonder Egg Priority Special Episode 1 Discussion

FMmatron said:


I underestimated the possibility to make a bad situation worse.

deg said:
ok after watching with subs they just all jump to a parallel world or alternate timeline where their old friends that died are now alive on that new timeline but they all become strangers to each other eh

now Ai is gonna rescue Neiru (that jump on another timeline or parallel world too) that feels like an AI/robot rather than a human

is that Frill the original AI convince Neiru that she is an AI at heart too rather than a human?

are they playing with the word Ai as AI meaning robot and Ai as love in japanese translation?

Koito is a bad girl all along too lol and she accidentally killed herself too karma is bitch much?

and i guess in this new alternate timeline or parallel world the Mom of Ai and her handsome crush teacher (Mr. Sawaki) was never a romantic partner

also there is no Resurrection of the dead like promise by the Accas when they finish their mission its all about Parallel Worlds or Alternate Timeline jumping

welp an open ending and i do not mind a sequel

but ye like i previously said this is a huge anticlimactic ending too so i understand why its score is so low now

84DaysWithout said:
So, you're saying they advertised a one hour special only for half of it to be recap.

MenchiK1 said:


OK I rewatched it and understand it better now. I need to correct some things.

First they are still in their own world.
In the beginning we see Neiru leaving her apartment, it's not until later we find out why.
After being contacted by the secretary we learn the Neiru Ai goes to see at her business, who claims not to know her, is actually her sister Airu who has been brought back from the dead. As explained by a parallel world Kotobuki (who has come to this world since this world's Kotobuki is dead), this world's Kotobuki created an identical AI of Airu who is Neiru. Airu gets jealous/creeped out and stabs her then commits suicide. When she brings her back Airu tells Neiru there will be "no place for you", Neiru agrees and that is why we see her leave at the beginning. Rika rejects her after learning this (there never was a Neiru) and Ai rejects her when she throws her phone away when she tries to call her. So Neiru goes to the parallel world where Frill (and her "fly girls are)who had offered to be her friend since she was an AI too and offered a way to make her human.
The consequences of them bringing back their friends alters their world back to the time when the original committed suicide. They are also not the same girl but a parallel version.
Rika's friend was never a fan of hers but of a different idol, and Momoe's actually likes boys. Ai's Koito wasn't her friend and also since there was no suicide sensei never visited her house and developed a relationship with Ai's mom. It's also revealed Koito's original suicide was just an accident when she was trying to pretend as a stunt to get sensei's attention. Ai decides to transfer schools and drifts apart from Rika and Momoe after they refuse to go to the parallel world out of fear for their lives. (still traumatized by what happened to their pets) If you recall ep 12 Ai didn't sacrifice her pet, but the parallel Ai sacrificed herself to save Ai. And Ai declared she would be a "warrior of love" to fight thanatos (death) in the parallel world.
A conversation she overhears sparks her memory of Neiru and Ai runs back to the park determined to see Neiru, though the Accas welcome her back they warn her Neiru might not want to see her, and she says she doesn't care but will go as many times as it takes. Declaring she is back. (as a warrior of love in reference to ep 12 and what she promised her parallel self).
So I feel a little better about the ending after understanding it more but still feels like we need a movie or OVA to see what happens to Neiru.

Tubstar said:
does anyone know what this episode was actually telling us? also at the end I feel like that is a teaser for season 2 as they didn't clear up a lot and gave us more questions which for an original series doesn't really make much sense. hopefully we get an announcement for it soon.

MenchiK1 said:


OK I rewatched it and understand it better now. I need to correct some things.

First they are still in their own world.
In the beginning we see Neiru leaving her apartment, it's not until later we find out why.
After being contacted by the secretary we learn the Neiru Ai goes to see at her business, who claims not to know her, is actually her sister Airu who has been brought back from the dead. As explained by a parallel world Kotobuki (who has come to this world since this world's Kotobuki is dead), this world's Kotobuki created an identical AI of Airu who is Neiru. Airu gets jealous/creeped out and stabs her then commits suicide. When she brings her back Airu tells Neiru there will be "no place for you", Neiru agrees and that is why we see her leave at the beginning. Rika rejects her after learning this (there never was a Neiru) and Ai rejects her when she throws her phone away when she tries to call her. So Neiru goes to the parallel world where Frill (and her "fly girls are)who had offered to be her friend since she was an AI too and offered a way to make her human.
The consequences of them bringing back their friends alters their world back to the time when the original committed suicide. They are also not the same girl but a parallel version.
Rika's friend was never a fan of hers but of a different idol, and Momoe's actually likes boys. Ai's Koito wasn't her friend and also since there was no suicide sensei never visited her house and developed a relationship with Ai's mom. It's also revealed Koito's original suicide was just an accident when she was trying to pretend as a stunt to get sensei's attention. Ai decides to transfer schools and drifts apart from Rika and Momoe after they refuse to go to the parallel world out of fear for their lives. (still traumatized by what happened to their pets) If you recall ep 12 Ai didn't sacrifice her pet, but the parallel Ai sacrificed herself to save Ai. And Ai declared she would be a "warrior of love" to fight thanatos (death) in the parallel world.
A conversation she overhears sparks her memory of Neiru and Ai runs back to the park determined to see Neiru, though the Accas welcome her back they warn her Neiru might not want to see her, and she says she doesn't care but will go as many times as it takes. Declaring she is back. (as a warrior of love in reference to ep 12 and what she promised her parallel self).
So I feel a little better about the ending after understanding it more but still feels like we need a movie or OVA to see what happens to Neiru.

davidmaqui10 said:
Before hating and giving it a 1/10 as much hater as I am seeing, I will wait a reasonable time, because I have not seen ANYTHING at the moment that indicates that this is the end of the entire series.

Gippy said:


You can always change your score later. If you feel the show is a 1 right now, give it a 1. I gave this a 2, and went back and gave the show a 2. If a season 2 or movie gets greenlit, I'll change my score accordingly if it fits into a bigger picture.

LBi said:


If I understood your comment well, you seem to hint that Neiru leaving was partly because Rika rejected her and Ai didn't answer the phone, if I got that right, I think there's a problem regarding timeline. My issue is where the "Ai not answering the call" actually is in the timeline. At the beginning, Neiru is seen on her way to leave (at this point she made the decision to leave to another world), yet when she comes across Ai, there doesn't seem to be any awkwardness, Neiru leaves Adam to Ai and then, presumably, meets Frill and goes to a different world. Ai's phone isn't broken so we know for sure it happened before the ignored call where the phone is indeed broken. She calls Neiru later on, worried about her sudden disappearance (the phone is still in good shape), no answer, we can assume Neiru is gone already.

If I misunderstood you hinting at Neiru's motives for leaving being shunned by the group, ignore this whole message.

My question though is : who was the Neiru calling at the end? Did Neiru get replaced because she left this world and if so how does she know Ai (or care altogether)?

davidmaqui10 said:
I didn't understand nothing, but nothing nothing NOTHING.

I think this isn't the final, it will have another season and I give 9/10 because the plot is very good and I like the things that I don't understand at first.

For me it is impossible that this is the real end, impossible. Before hating and giving it a 1/10 as much hater as I am seeing, I will wait a reasonable time, because I have not seen ANYTHING at the moment that indicates that this is the end of the entire series.

TheKewlPerson said:
If it's a finale I'd give it a 6/10. If there will be a season 2 I'd give it an 8/10.

MenchiK1 said:


OK I rewatched it and understand it better now. I need to correct some things.

First they are still in their own world.
In the beginning we see Neiru leaving her apartment, it's not until later we find out why.
After being contacted by the secretary we learn the Neiru Ai goes to see at her business, who claims not to know her, is actually her sister Airu who has been brought back from the dead. As explained by a parallel world Kotobuki (who has come to this world since this world's Kotobuki is dead), this world's Kotobuki created an identical AI of Airu who is Neiru. Airu gets jealous/creeped out and stabs her then commits suicide. When she brings her back Airu tells Neiru there will be "no place for you", Neiru agrees and that is why we see her leave at the beginning. Rika rejects her after learning this (there never was a Neiru) and Ai rejects her when she throws her phone away when she tries to call her. So Neiru goes to the parallel world where Frill (and her "fly girls are)who had offered to be her friend since she was an AI too and offered a way to make her human.
The consequences of them bringing back their friends alters their world back to the time when the original committed suicide. They are also not the same girl but a parallel version.
Rika's friend was never a fan of hers but of a different idol, and Momoe's actually likes boys. Ai's Koito wasn't her friend and also since there was no suicide sensei never visited her house and developed a relationship with Ai's mom. It's also revealed Koito's original suicide was just an accident when she was trying to pretend as a stunt to get sensei's attention. Ai decides to transfer schools and drifts apart from Rika and Momoe after they refuse to go to the parallel world out of fear for their lives. (still traumatized by what happened to their pets) If you recall ep 12 Ai didn't sacrifice her pet, but the parallel Ai sacrificed herself to save Ai. And Ai declared she would be a "warrior of love" to fight thanatos (death) in the parallel world.
A conversation she overhears sparks her memory of Neiru and Ai runs back to the park determined to see Neiru, though the Accas welcome her back they warn her Neiru might not want to see her, and she says she doesn't care but will go as many times as it takes. Declaring she is back. (as a warrior of love in reference to ep 12 and what she promised her parallel self).
So I feel a little better about the ending after understanding it more but still feels like we need a movie or OVA to see what happens to Neiru.

tl_dr said:
They didn't have to do us like that man. Wonder Egg Priority was a really good show, up to the point where the script writers (or whoever was in charge of the story) decided to throw in way too much additional stuff that could never have been concluded in such a short amount of time. I'd really hoped for this special to clear some of that up, but sadly I'm just disappointed:

davidmaqui10 said:


But if you give now 1/10 the new people watching this will think "this is a garbage" and this isn't a Garbage.

You may think that now you have been fooled with this ending but if then CloverWorks says "We are very proud to announce the 2nd season of the series", would you change your score for this? You better wait before hating.

If in 2 years there is no news about a new season ok let's take the torches and burn the cities, but if we had to assess a series for leaving things unanswered (without knowing if they will be answered) One Piece for example would be buried, murdered right now without reason.

deg said:


alternate timelines or parallel worlds does not mean the environment will drastically change though

sure you can interpret it that way that the alternate timeline versions of their dead love ones just came to their original timeline or world but to me that is still alternate timeline or parallel world stuff

MenchiK1 said:


Well the second they returned they altered their world creating an alternate timeline soooo however you want to word it, but this is still their original world. I just use the shows terminology. The 4 girls they brought back and Kotobuki are all from parallel worlds, bring them to their original world altered the timeline at the point they all met that girl. Ai never met Koito, all the pictures of her together with her disappeared from her phone, yet the picture and friendship with Rika, Neiru and Momoe was unaltered as was her memories confirming those four are still continuing in their original timeline unaffected by the changes. Everyone else WAS affected, thus sensei and the mom are now no longer a couple as they don't repeatedly meet to discuss Ai's absence from school. Interestingly the Accas are also unaffected along with Neiru/Airu's secretary, presumably because they have been to the parallel world too?

thiago52192 said:
Now that I actually watch the episode, I think this does makes more sense than EoE although it suffers from the same issue: "throwing away too much new elements that wouldn't conclude in a satisfactory way". But what really made me angry was that the episode itself was just boring. Even when they had info dump episodes, they were still extremely impactful (I still defend Frill's episode as one of the best of the series because of it). But this episode just felt without an actual goal and that made such an uninteresting experience. Had to pause 3 times and force my brain to pay attention to what was happening. 4/10

deg said:


that is the thing that made me say its a new Alternate Reality or Parallel World since in that timeline Ai never became friends with Koito and in this new timeline Ais friends are Neiru, Rika and Momo instead

you may say its the original world but to me its a different world now and the show focuses on the Parallel World or Alternate Reality/Timeline stuff like even Ai implied to Rika that Resurrection is not possible anyway its just too good to be true

but im not denying your own interpretation its good too and very possible too

MenchiK1 said:


I think in a way we were supposed to feel the way the girls did. They thought bringing back their dead friends would make everything better, it didn't. We all assumed them bringing back their friends would lead to a happy ending it didn't.
It takes Ai, and us, until the end to realize the important thing was the NEW friendships the girls made and she immediately goes to fix that and get Neiru when she realizes that.

thiago52192 said:
I actually understand that, but my problem was that the message felt it wasn't delivered as impactful as it could've been. All I wanted was they make the scenes feel more powerful.

Sondfer said:

Ai flashes two Vs, or II, so season 2 maybe?

deg said:


the thing is in science Alternate Timelines or Parallel Worlds does not work like you interpret it or it will have a lot of those time paradox

so for me they just jump to a world where the Accas and the Secretary of Neiru have the same memories and experiences of the previous timeline or world

MenchiK1 said:


I'm saying it's still their original world because the 4 girls the Accas and the secretary all kept their memories and continued unaffected by the changes that happened by bringing the parallel girls into their world. I think Kotobuki is the key she is a parallel Kotobuki who came on her own (or did the secretary bring her?) after looking for a world without a Kotobuki. Notice Kotobuki coming didn't change anything, it was still the original dead Kotobuki who created Neiru.
This was all very Rick and Morty-ish. (like in ep 6 of season 1 where they accidentally Cronenburg everyone and start over in another world where they are dead but everything else is the same, which is what Kotobuki does)