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| The pacing is like, all over the place. Ahhhh, what the hell. |
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| I'm assuming that Mashyu is Kimimaro's sister who was lost when his father became bankrupt because that information gatherer was talking about Kimimaro's asset and how she's related to Kimimaro's father.. This is just a hyphothesis of mine but Mashyu being Kimimaro's asset means Mashyu is somewhat part of his future right? .. then it could mean that Mashyu can be a part of the real world too if he can gain back some, if not all of the lost futures that the financial district took... Oh well, guess we'll have to wait for the next episode.. |
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| If Mashyu is Kimimaro's lost sister , and the information dealer recognized her, how old was she if she was lost as his father's future? And if it's so, then those with parents who 'lost' their children in some way, Kimimaro's father lost in the FD and Mikuni's father didn't pay for the hospital fee of Mikuni's sister, usually gain the 'lost' siblings as their assets. Is there some special reason for that or am I imagining things? |
'Everything is impossible until proven possible.' - Me |
| What is going on with Hanabi? If she did so well in her student teaching why is she cutting up cards and being depressed? What is C? The thing that Mikuni uses to carry out his plans? I am excited to find out what happens to Mashyu/what she represents in the future. |
| Only 3 episodes left.. I hope they won't screw up. |
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| It was once again a deeply complex thematic episode with thought-provoking (or evoking if you like to think about such stuff - like me) ideas and of course, great character development. The direction and pacing were way beyond the last episode though. |
 In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
| wow, this is getting interesting, i was not expecting this. i absolutely cant wait for the next episode i mean, SERIOUSLY! |
Koi-Miru said: I really wonder WTF is that giant tentacled thing that destoryed part of the FD..... The Kraken. Epi was fabulous. A lot of info and development. The end is sweet, haha. |
| Oh. So that's what happens. Also, exactly who was it that died? |
| Dear Math, I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. Oh, and Algebra? Stop asking us to find your ex, she's NEVER coming back. |
| Pacing was really TOO FAST. The change in the mood from episode 7 to 8 was totally not right. It's like I just skipped 3-4 episodes. Other than that, the district just collapsed and there was no explanation or justification what-so-ever. The urgency of the Southeast Asian district was not really well portrayed either. Therefore I think it's very lacking in terms of using a complex concept (i.e. any "deep" meaning is useless if just thrown randomly out there). Very disappointed. As an action series, it's decent. But I had higher expectations (although it dropped after the first few episodes anyway) |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| argh. i want more. right now... and seriously only 3 eps to go? (( meh. it sounds kinda lame, but... i wish this show had more than 11 eps. |
| Mashyu is somehow (blood) related to Kimimaro, it seems. KimimaroxMashyu is now weird. |
| Shit is about to get intense, lol |
| IG: @ChrisCrossCrash "There isn't a single guy who doesn't want to spoil his girl." --Amagami SS |
AngelicFeces said: Mashyu is somehow (blood) related to Kimimaro, it seems. KimimaroxMashyu is now weird. Kissing a DS character is wrong in the first place. |
| Even when I was in crowd, I was always alone |
| Wow. Hell really brought its game on in the 20th century. Destroying humanity through the use of money! :D |
| This series is more thought-provoking than people think. It's a silent middle finger to capitalism. |
Yumekichi11 said: This. Plus, I don't really get the whole Hanabi part. she's kind of been skirted around, and I'm not sure where she ties in with the scheme of things.Kimimaro x Mashu could not have been visually showed nicer with a Mashu pose next to a Kimimaro being shown in black with his sephiroth diagram as follows, find it absolutely pure as it shows what both people are while Kimimaro as a human is not exactly the real form in the Financial district, the mirror/portrait shows the true appearance. Also according to the following spoiler I really find it totally screwed that people disappear such as Kimimaro giving back the kid his money then poof with the mom forgetting about the kid in the spoiler shadesofblack07 said: this was a good episode indeed! they have finally moved on with the storyline and into something more interesting. hmmm. and i am more along the side of saying that mashyu might be kimimaro's sister, only because they gave a hint that mashyu was somehow involved with kimimaro's father. Exactly. she's tied in with Kimimaru's father somehow. either way, i'm sensing blood relation. Then again, she could just be a projection, where the REAL blood relation died some time ago...or something. *sigh* just 11 episodes? Can they pull this off? I guess we'll just have to wait and see... |
itssimplymeJun 4, 2011 4:38 AM
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| so Mikuni's sister is really in deep coma and not totally dead yet im anxious on how this anime will end up i hope it will not be an open ending one |
| Oh, such a depressing episode. But very good nevertheless, and thought provoking which is pretty rare nowadays. However, I can't help but agree with this opinion: wakka9ca said: Totally the same feeling. Things should've gotten to the boiling point in a much smoother, slower fashion. This is where I cursed the fact that C has only 11 eps to hell and back for the second time (the first was when Kimimaro vs Sennoza fight was skipped).Pacing was really TOO FAST. The change in the mood from episode 7 to 8 was totally not right. It's like I just skipped 3-4 episodes. unkindness said: I'm afraid their collision is inevitable, as much as I don't want it to happen too... Besides the OP that is literally centered around their collision, there were a couple of gruesome shots in one of the PV for the show (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpmXBR4Aqhg&feature=player_embedded)I don't feel that Mikuni and Kimimaro would become enemies. They're on the same side, it's just that Kimimaro doesn't see what Mikuni sees. Well, that's what I think mystik said: This. The dilemma is what they need to save and what - to sacrifice. And what we have here now is that BOTH points of view (Mikuni's and Kimimaro's/Sennoza's) are absolutely valid.I still don't see Mikuni as a bad guy. he wants to save the present while Kimimaro the future. On one hand, there's no future to even begin to speak about if you're "deleted" from the real world in the present, if you were never born to begin with! That makes Mikuni's viewpoint valid. On the other hand, if you have only future with no possibilities for further growth, personal development left, there's little point in living at all. The future with no hopes and dreams leads to the meaningless miserable present you want to escape (by means of commiting suicide as it was hinted). That's what the episode showed - Hanabi throwing kids' letters into the trashbin, people just dumbly sitting on the streets depressed, and even Mikuni's own secretary dropping the case with money. All this makes Sennoza's viewpoint valid. Now, in this episode the show has finished putting last touches on its main question, and it turned out a really interesting one, I must add. But what I really fear at this point is that the show will prove only one of these two points of view (Sennoza's/Kimimaro's, obviously) in the end, which will result in the show's epic failure as the whole. To me, at least. Because of what I said above, because of the two perfectly sound viewpoints. Proving only one of them equals proving nothing, like seeing only half of the bigger picture and totally ignoring the other half, just cause you want to. So what technically needs to be done is finding some compromise, some sort of fusion of the two, some aggregative 'golden mean'. Only that would seem 'right'. And that's what I hope Kimimaro will do in the end (I do hope he listened to all these people's minds for the whole 6 tps not for nothing, so he won't choose one of them, but unites all of them). I do not, however, have the slightest idea how he's gonna do it and what that 'combined' point of view might be. On another note, WTF with those tentacles reaching out from above to grab that huge coin-like monitor?! Just WHAT is that?! Am I the only one who thinks it's the same thing that's drawn on the black Darkness cards?... Still, it doesn't explain the heck was that. I thought about it for the whole 5 minutes and my best guess will be it's human greed taking form. Or we have a case of alien invasion. Or it was... Baphomet said: and in person to boot, huh)Cthulhu. And on yet another note, wasn't surprised about Mashu's possible daughter/sister thing. That was a very popular opinion among jap fandom, after all. |
CGJun 4, 2011 9:49 AM
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
| Good episode, but the issue that about this episode.... RANDOM PACING!!!! Made me feel like I missed episodes even though I didn't. (Well, what do you expect, 8th episode out of 11 really...) Otherwise, not surprised about Kimimaro's future and Mashyu (or however it's really spelled). The district is about to be destroyed somehow and what will happen?? |
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| Since there's a conection between Mashu and his dad, she might be his father's lost future, as well as Kimimaro's. More likely his sister. |
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That was f*cked up. Really, really f*cked up. And everything seems to be moving along quickly, too. Though with only 3 episodes I suppose it has to. Man, I really hate these 11 ep series. There just never seems to be enough. |
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| Giant floating coin got tentacle raped. Looks like the show is gonna get pretty heavy from here on out. 5/5 |
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| WOW. Its really intense and like how people are saying, real fast pace. I hvant even got my head around how the whole game and duels go. =_='' hehe I understand how thier interpreters are thier future. Seems like that Mashyu is his future daughter. And Mikuni's interpreter looks like his little sister. hmmm. Shes still alive though.. CANT believe that this is going to end in just another 3 episodes! Too fast! i bet its all gonna end like a cliff hanger. o yea. And all the Misakaki versions are creepy. |
| Great ep Who is Mashu to kimimaro hope she is not her future daughter !! |
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| The Financial District is a scary thing huh,people disappearing,losing hope and the CRAZY part is that if the district is gone the reality is also affected, now that is a mess up shit !! |
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| destruction of the future in present |
| lightness vs. darkness Nani mo kamo wo hoshigatteita Mayoeru mono no chikai Mada miru sekai o tsukuridasu koto Kuchi hateteiku |
| I see many saying the district collapsed but i go the impression that the district we saw wasn't the Japanese district. Maybe is that of Singapore that was mention before. Masakaki also seem to had different hair color so maybe is not the Masakaki we know at all. This district really is crazy. Making whole countries disappear? Who is the head of Midas bank? God or some super advanced Aliens? Kyuubey is that you? Did you find a new game after playing with little girls? Seriously crazy staff and from the way things are going the whole planet will end up non existed. |
MonadJun 7, 2011 4:56 PM
| Anybody else find the informant and the guy with the yellow shirt annoying? His voice..ugh. Anyway, despite the lively colored animation this is actually a dark, emotional anime. So did the sensei die in the end? |
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Lihn said: I will take into consideration what you said because Kimimaro's future daughter this can all be since he may have been seeing the far future but the view also can be seen as him being there and when shit happened to his father then that sister disappeared. Of course he was never told what happened to her, just perhaps whisked away to some place so that he can grow up calmly. We shall if your theory is right, I for one can't wait to find out the truth about all this.I think Mashyu is Kimi's lost sister. As Quasar said: The informant said he'd seen her before, meaning she has either existed before or she was somebody elses asset. Perhaps she was his father's asset, representing his fathers future? Which would make you wonder why she's Kimi's asset now. Or maybe she has no relation to him at all! Lihn said: Wrong, it's all hell. I pointed out back a few episodes the "666" on the taxi but yes hell wants to destroy us with money. IRL it always did so in a way, look at it this way, lose your job = to no money = to either welfare and not enough to survive or may be no welfare and die out with no $ or very little as a bum on the streets therefore why you see many of them by the end of the episode.For anyone who says this show doesn't make any sense my initial explanation would make sense (unless you can correct me) One way or another the district started a long time ago, and as it grew larger by destroying cities and claiming their futures as midas money, the district was able to slowly encompass earth. Of course I can't see why anyone would WANT to do that, other than greed for power, or perhaps the destruction of humanity? Maybe the district is actually aliens...using our complex modern concept of economy to destroy us? Antanaru said: She could be, how else do you explain the little kid in that segment with the woman. Even is she is not, she is part of something of the family.Okay, it is kind of confusing, especially this huge plot lap, but one thing is clear from the beginning. Mashu is not Kimimaro's daughter. She's not his future. She is embodiment of his future. Probably future with daughter named Mashu but nothing more. It's kind of like the difference between water nymph and water... So please, stop with those weird innuendos... |
| Events moved really quick in this episode, but seeing that they only have a few episodes left.. it's understandable. But yeah, I thought it was a fantastic episode. The whole baby Mashu/future daughter of Yoga scene was splendid. |
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Also, just as planned. |
| <i>When all else is lost, the future still remains</i> |
| MASHU'S HIS DAUGHTER WTF O_O People disappearing is really kind of freaky as the Financial District breaks down, especially at the end WTF? Is it like a Masakaki or whoever for a different district? Interesting talk about money and future being confidence, but it does kind of make sense in a way. Seemed a bit rushed to me though, but there aren't that many episodes left I guess ... Wonder what the Guild's plan is ... inject more money? That won't seem to work though ... crazy stuff gaiz O_O |
| "ED sequence for noitamina 26th episode.. has no name, but it called "C" " ? What is that about? |
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| This time I won't complain about how are the episodes not having direct links between each other. I find this episode much depressing one =\ Finally, this anime is going somewhere. Hanabi seems to be feeling how the world is going down and she seems to be getting more and more depressed. Yumekichi11 said: Same here, characters like her appear too rarely in most of the animes. I feel sad about her =\...nice sad drama that worked a lot on me because I appreciate Hanabi as a female character in this show. |
MeritasJun 16, 2011 12:32 AM
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| Eh, I don't like interpreting this show overly metaphorically. That's what creeped me out the most at the beginning. Had all sorts of unfortunate implications. Therefor I like to side with the idea that "Mashu" is really real, and not just some physical manifestation of his "future". Makes things a little less dirty and nasty in terms of what this show implicitly would imply about gender, ethnicity, and poverty in general. |
 Old avatar and sig retired for now. |
| So looks like Msyu is probably Kimimaro's daughter or something. Yay no more romance! Annnnnnnnd FINALLY, Mikuni has made his move. Took him enough time to reveal his true colours. |
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~ |
Yumekichi11 said: Antanaru said: She could be, how else do you explain the little kid in that segment with the woman. Even is she is not, she is part of something of the family.Okay, it is kind of confusing, especially this huge plot lap, but one thing is clear from the beginning. Mashu is not Kimimaro's daughter. She's not his future. She is embodiment of his future. Probably future with daughter named Mashu but nothing more. It's kind of like the difference between water nymph and water... So please, stop with those weird innuendos... its possible that he just named her after mashu becuz he really liked mashu but than she left or disappeared or somthing. |
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| This show is getting ridiculously out of hand, I'm sick of seeing money, tbh.. But maybe that's my fault because I watched 8 episodes in one day. X.x Either way, I'll be dropping this anime now. |
| The destruction begins...Kimimaro and Mikuni are destined to fight each other all along.. And Msyu is Kimimaro's future daughter? Well, that's to be expected from Msyu being Kimimaro's future. |
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| Getting intense. |
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