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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Best yet imo, focusing on a brother and sister. Interesting and surprising ending sequence. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| Surprising good ending.... I guess... |
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| I guess Manticore took them away,huh?Too bad...I'm finally getting closer to the truth. |
| "This Forest isn't going to reveal all its secrets for the likes of you." |
| Wow.. the ending, this has been one of the episodes I've liked the most from this series. |
| Dat poor kitty! But seriously... very positive ep, and once again, very sublte, with that overstrong feeling that nothing is gratuitious: we got both the killer and the little boy, right? I just hope the end will be as good as the meticulous building up. |
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| I enjoyed the episode, the relationship between the brother and sister was built up well. This helped really lead into what was a pretty big surprise as the episode was winding down. |
| So he hates everything just because his father missed his school play, god that is so stupid. |
| "Nothing is sweeter than your smile" |
| So they took out the monster cop, nice but Boogiepop took them out in the end. I admit I was a little sad about that. |
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| My greatest question yet - who was that at the end? Boogiepop...or Manticore? My opinion of this episode is really not very good, just like the previous one. Maybe due to my eager anticipation for Nagi and Touka to take a vital role soon, or maybe because of high expectations built to a climax at episode 5 that results in disappointment at this stage. Really, presenting two different characters' experiences as a result of Manticore's influence is nothing much more than fillers, to put it in crude perspective. I hope I am proven wrong later, that is, if the show can impress me that these two episodes are not the 'fillers' I expected them to be. |
| "If you reject me, I'll blast a hole in you!" Kanzaki H. Aria Just kidding.  |
| I actually liked this episode and thought the ending was bittersweet. Never break promises to your kid, lol. So that kid that lead Manaka to the amusement park is a physical manifestation of a young Mamoru? These composite human names are pretty lame. Spooky Electric? Snake Eyes seemed pretty cool until he got wrecked. So this Echoes fellow is one of the main causes of increased evolution. Also wondering if Boogie sent the Oikawas to the same place Jonouchi is in. |
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| Quite the episode I must say! |
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| I guess the big takeaway here is that the cop isn't/wasn't the only one "hunting". |
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| Yet another nice familial case. The death of the shadow group's agent surprised me. 4/5 grayrebornnhy said: my eager anticipation for Nagi and Touka to take a vital role high expectations built to a climax at episode 5 presenting two different characters' experiences as a result of Manticore's influence is nothing much more than fillers these two episodes are not the 'fillers' I expected them to be. I was under the strong iimpression that this show was only using an event from the popular novel that inspired it to do its own thing: talking about a "modern society problem" (or just a problematic if you want) with each episode. What you called a climax seems little more than a focus on the background story tying those explorations in order to make some informations clearer to people foreign to the book (telling the kind of story you want). I bet that the "main story" will only strike again for the finale (last eps, or last two eps). @Sean_Nessman Well, wasn't that what was pointed out by the pregnant mother's and grandmother bits? |
| That ending sequence, the story of brother and sister was amazing. I thought episode 5 was good, but this is next level. |
| Finally, Morita is dead. I dont feel bad for both siblings being killed at the end. They did bad things especially to that innocent cat. |
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| Story was much too thin; boy uses magical powers in a way that horrifies his sister; turns out she actually had the power; the end. |
| Did anyone else who watched the dub on funimation feel like the sound was off? |
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| Okay that was fucking amazing. Another masterpiece of an episode. The soundtrack is fucking amazing, as well as the sound design. The thing that makes me wonder is, how do they always manage to make a single episode feel like an elaborate arc? It doesn't feel episodic. It feels like I'm watching a 26 episode anime and this is the 14th ep. |
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| I'm unsure if it's a criticism or not, but due to how visually dark Boogiepop Phantom is, it's hard to tell what's happening half the time. However, there's also a lot of gruesome scenes that are actually enhanced via how dark things are. I love not being able to see the full horrific violence this show contains, as it leaves a lot of mysteries as to the nature of these killings. It helps that I'm not too keen on gore either, but I can see how this could get annoying for some viewers. |
| Well at least this one kinda made sense. What was the brother's problem from the beginning anyways? He'd just randomly go around and punch people? Edit: Apparently he was just mad about his father not showing up to his play. Well, Snake Eye was finally killed off. I see people talking a lot about Echoes here but I didn't see him at all. Apparently now they're saying Manticore looks the same as Boogiepop? Is Boogiepop even the good or bad guy? Considering that he killed off the siblings, I'd say he was the good guy. Not a fan of them anyways. Quiddity131 said: Echoes is the being that the Manticore and composite humans were created from. It's something one has to read the original light novel to understand, or watch the first 3 episodes of the 2019 adaption. Echoes was a being from outer space who was taken captive by the Towa Organization and used to create these other beings before escaping himself, which leads to the events of the original light novel. Manaka/Butterfly girl also seems largely based on him as she has the same method of simply "echoing" what people say to her. The Manticore is a being created by the Towa Organization based on echoes that escaped and started killing a bunch of people. In order to disguise itself it takes the form of people. At least in this show, the Manticore is typically seen taking the form of Masame Saotome (seen in episodes 1 and 3) except for episode 4 where its taking the form of Minako Yurihara because that episode takes place far earlier in the timeline, during the events of the original light novel. The same girl that Boogiepop Phantom takes her appearance from. That wasn't Boogiepop at the end, but rather Boogiepop Phantom. Interesting to note that Boogiepop has barely been in the show to this point, only 2 scenes in episodes 1 and 5 and the latter was without the costume and probably easy to miss as well if one watches the dub (where for whatever reason Toka's voice actress doesn't really change her voice at all like the sub does). Boy, it sure takes a lot to explain things in this show. :P Apparently you know your stuff. Who is Boogiepop Phantom? Is he even the good guy? What makes you think Manticore was at the end and not Boogiepop? Where was Echoes? WHO IS THE GOOD GUY HERE? What does Boogiepop even do? Do Snake Eye, Boogiepop, Manticore and Echoes all just aim to eradicate the evolved humans? |
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Okay that was fucking amazing. Another masterpiece of an episode. The soundtrack is fucking amazing, as well as the sound design. The thing that makes me wonder is, how do they always manage to make a single episode feel like an elaborate arc? It doesn't feel episodic. It feels like I'm watching a 26 episode anime and this is the 14th ep.
| @Monkey_Business They make the episodes have a twist at the ending that's how! |
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