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| Nakura tricked Magenta into a suicide. Thanks to the headless rider, Magenta is alive. However, the first half of the episode was totally boring. And the second half was pretty much this: Kiayin said: That was an embarassingly simplistic way they chose to deal with a heavy theme such as suicide. As if that kind of half-assed empty speech and a one-liner that sounds like it's been borrowed from a motivational meme would convince anyone who's seriously considering taking their life. The dude in black was such a massive cliche, I don't even have it in me to roll my eyes. Disappointing episode. |
| Please more Izaya . Anyways, I think I'll enjoy this . It's somehow similar to one of my favorite anime . |
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| Strange way of dealing with suicide in this episode. Anyway, glad we got a bit more information as to what the hell was happening last episode. |
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| Like the first episode, the second episode also has terrible bgm. Good sound editing. The plot is okay. I don't understand how the kidnapped girl's hairstyle changed. She confused me with the glasses girl. Also, the philosophy was okay in this episode. I never really got what they were trying to say. I don't understand how the girl could just forgive her family. But suicide is a bad step to take. I didn't understand the email crazy guy's intentions to kidnap her, just for sake for understanding emotions. This episode was meh. I hope they have something concrete in stone by the next episode. |
 Without change,we end up becoming the very person we hate. I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was bound to lead me to a slow death. |
| This episode was great. Not at all what I expected after the first episode. Can't wait to watch more. 5/5 |
| Is this show really attempting to handwave adultery? |
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| This was some of the finest story telling and psychological exploration I've seen in a long time. And when the headless rider saved her from committing suicide, I actually got goosebumps. The way they showed him activating his powers was awesome. |
| I am not a weeb, I simply enjoy 2D girls |
| That dude must be Izaya because he's the most dangerous person introduced yet and that includes the Headless Rider herself. The guy must've had all the time in the world if he was able to befriend a random depressed girl online, have her kidnapped and saved all at the same night just so he can psychologically mess with her. He read her like an open book and if it weren't for the lovely shadow biker lady, she would've been just another one of the poor souls that most definitely danced on that man's hand like a puppet until the end. |
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| Shizuo is so funny, lol. |
| Generic chaotic neutral ENTP character... |
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| I hate everyone equally |
| Lot of scenes we had already seen, I was surprised the protagonist almost didn't appear at all. |
| The story telling is awesome, I'm enchanted by it and the ED IS SO FKN LIT >_< |
| So, every character have their own story tied into to a bigger story. "The world is not as cruel as you take it to be", I don't agree but anyway, I'm loving the structure so far. |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| Story telling reminding me of those Bacanno days, been a long time since i watched. So yeah good to have that same style again. |
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| That poor girl. Her father cheated on her mom. If any kid finds this they would be in a moral dilemma. That scientist somehow knows the mystery biker. Maybe he helped her get those shadow powers? Also, that mysterious overcoat guy who claims to be Nakura seems to be the biker's employer or smth? I wonder if he's human. The way he talks is as if he's some kinda superior being. The mysterious biker saved Magenta from committing suicide. What's going on with the glasses girl and the "I don't wanna go to school" guy? Couple quarrel? |
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| So the biker is a girl. Pretty sombre episode |
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| I didn't liked Izaya on the manga version, but seeing him on the anime (and voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya) made me get some Monogatari vibes. Loved it |
 ❝Only you can save yourself.❞ I only know what I know, I guess? Yuri enjoyer and El Cazador de la Bruja fan |
| This already seems like its going to be quite the unusual story going forward. Giving us a little peak as to how the events of the first episode occurred was nice I guess. |
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| That guy was a dick lol, he gave the girl even more traumatic experiences that she really did not need. Contrary to the opinions earlier in this thread, I thought the episode's depiction of adultery quite mature for an anime. Real life is not as simple as a cheating husband and father being instantly kicked out of existence when they're caught. Life is more complicated than that. Perhaps the mother didn't want the chaos it would cause her daughter to divorce the guy, maybe she literally can't afford to live without him, maybe she's sleeping on the side herself, maybe she just didn't want their status quo to shatter so pretended it wasn't happening, who knows. The whole situation was a profound eye-opening experience for the teenage girl, her parents are not perfect anymore, they're just normal fallible people, who in the grand scheme of things aren't evil or anything, so easy to forgive for their petty sins. Also, a random detail, but this episode depicts how real life Japanese view infidelity too, which is why Japan's declining birth rate is so paradoxical. Japanese couples aren't having enough sex, yet at the same time, guys sleep around outside of marriage a lot, and in some respects it's tolerated more than other cultures. (i.e - sex with a sex worker is technically 'not cheating' for some) |
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