Gilgamesh Simulwatch

Feb 3, 2016 12:01 PM

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Let's continue here.

tsuyokunaru said:
Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Episode 16

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Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

tsuyokunaru said:
Episode 17

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Feb 3, 2016 8:00 PM

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Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 20

Episode 21

omakaseFeb 4, 2016 8:52 AM

密室殺人はなぜ美しいのか。

Feb 4, 2016 11:09 AM

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Episode 16

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Feb 5, 2016 8:37 PM

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Episode 17

Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 20

Episode 21
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AlcoholicideFeb 6, 2016 4:02 AM

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Feb 6, 2016 4:20 PM

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Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 24

密室殺人はなぜ美しいのか。

Feb 6, 2016 8:18 PM

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Uh, not sure what happened to my ep 21 comment, I'm pretty sure I typed one but maybe it was in the wrong tab or something like that, it was pretty late/early already when I watched those episodes yesterday.

Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 24

Episode 25

Episode 26

AlcoholicideFeb 6, 2016 11:58 PM

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Feb 7, 2016 8:47 AM

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Episode 25

Episode 26

Well... that was disappointing! It's just as you said. The ending was just so generic, even if it was unexpected. The characters that we have been learning to like were just murdered like that and at the end the Countess' jealousy bringing tragedy to the whole world seems childish. She was presented as this holier than thou woman, but then she was just a kid pining after a married man. We were never even told what her role was at Heaven's Gate, so I'm reluctant to think she even had a relevant role there, since we were never told she was a scientist. Also, I never quite understood if Reiko was a clone of the old man or of the Countess?

I'm kind of angry that after all this badass build up, we just get a bunch of "yes, erasing humanity is the best just because the guy I wanted had a family." I resent that. I resent all the misplaced symbolism and how thought-provoking I thought this was. It's true that they said man should not look for eternal life and maybe this was how they wanted to deal with Gilgamesh and Tear from a scientific point of view or whatever, but even after mentioning a religious conflict and including so many religious symbols (red cross, that Shall we gather at the river song, mentions of Noah, etc), it was better to make it a moral issue and not this shit!

I've seen the "Humanity is corrupt and we have to re-start it" on fiction several times and here it's one of the works where it feels a bit out of place? It's like they decided to reveal it completely at the end, but the problem with doing that is that it didn't feel like the purpose of the story throughout the series. It feels like the pulled it out of their ass if you weren't paying close attention to all the details. The use of the "we've been around longer than you, so we know more" twist in the adults vs. children argument is so cheap too. I definitely think the show was good before this and the way the young characters developed was amazing, but the planning left a lot to be desired if this was the ending they were going for. Maybe they wanted it to be a shock and that's fine, but if they could just bring this cleaning flood from the beginning, why push the fight between Orga and Gilgamesh? It just seems not needed.

I honestly tell you that I don't know what I expected. It just seems a petty "the man I love doesn't like me, so why not destroy everything? If I can't have him no one can" and this kind of doomed narratives related to romantic love in this anime really pissed me off. It's a 6 for me.

Would you like to watch something else in a couple of weeks? I was considering RahXephon if you're up for it.

omakaseFeb 7, 2016 12:38 PM

密室殺人はなぜ美しいのか。

Feb 7, 2016 12:00 PM

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tsuyokunaru said:

Would you like to watch something else in a couple of weeks? I was considering RahXephon if you're up for it.

Sure, that sounds great :)

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Feb 7, 2016 12:41 PM

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Alright. I'll download it and then I'll contact you about the thread/start date afterwards.

密室殺人はなぜ美しいのか。

Feb 8, 2016 9:01 AM

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tsuyokunaru said:
Alright. I'll download it and then I'll contact you about the thread/start date afterwards.

Sounds perfect. Looking forward to it. I'm free to start anytime :).

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