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| Y'all need to stop sucking Satoshi Kon's 3cm penis and learn the difference between "deep and profound" and "nonsensical and pretencious". |
| That was a good closure. Thank god the series ended well, I was afraid it would end with another filler-like episode. But well, if you set aside the filler episodes, the series is fucking amazing. But if you include them, the series is very good. So 8/10. |
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| enjoyed the first half of the series more than the second half, but the show overall was pretty good. i feel sorta confused still, like not all my questions have been answered; however, in hindsight i feel like the story wasn't that difficult to understand. i interpret the ending as basically the entire plot repeating itself. some person invents a being to invoke paranoia in society, everyone gets caught up in this being and it spirals into hell, some kind of big climax happens and the being disappears - then society resets. rinse and repeat. seeing this new cat creature and seeing maniwa take the place of the white haired old man kind of help me believe that this is the case. maybe that white haired old man helped to resolve some kind of past case of mass hysteria in the town. also i wasn't sure if that girl at the end was sagi or if she could possibly be the person responsible for creating the next mass hysteria. |
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fatbastard69 said: TRUEEEEE LMAOOOOOOOOY'all need to stop sucking Satoshi Kon's 3cm penis and learn the difference between "deep and profound" and "nonsensical and pretencious". |
 lets all love lain. |
| This series is not that weird and complicated once you get that it's meant to be allegorical, exploring Japan's mentally stressed and overwhelmed, overworked and suicidal society through its use of technology and escapist consumerism, with great visuals and directing. Too bad plot and characters are just an afterthought to deliver that message. |
| Meh, in the end I didn't like this show much. There were a few good episodes but as a whole it felt like it was trying to be like a David Lynch film and missed the mark. Also these last few episodes feel insulting to the viewer's intelligence in that they out and out tell you what all the symbolism meant as if the viewer is too dumb to figure it out themselves. I think I'd recommend people to just watch episode 8 and not bother with the rest of the series. |
KristiwazhereAug 27, 2023 12:45 AM
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| no fim do dia os maiores vilões da sociedade continuam sendo as grandes corporações, a menstruação, daddy issues e a hello kitty. |
| One of the rare times when I find baseball not boring.... |
| A great anime although not on par with Kon's films. I think the point was pretty clear, it's about people avoiding responsibility and instead making themselves victims believing that it will somehow save them. Maniwa becoming the sage in the end means that the cycle will continue, with new people taking the roles of previous ones? Or well, that's at least how I understood it. |
| That was quite the ending. I honestly enjoyed watching Paranoia Agent, even though there were times when I was confused about what was going on due to the random fillers. Still, it didn't take away from the powerful message of the story. |
Sun_ChanMar 3, 8:17 PM
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| The only part I don't understand is how exactly the city turned like that due to Maromi. It baffles me. Other than that, I think it was a good show with some out of the way storytelling. 7/10. In shows like this, The ending is almost always going to be unsatisfactory but what matters the most is Keeling the audience hooked as to what the mystery is and in that regard, Paranoia agent succeeded for sure. Avant Garde anime can't be classified like regular anime anyway, Their enjoyment depends upon the state of mind of the watcher I think. |
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| '@Zarutaku 6/10. |
| “π¨πΏ π ππΏπΎ ππΎππΎ πππΎπ½ππΌππΊπ»π πΎ, ππ ππππ π½ πΌπΎπΊππΎ ππ π»πΎ π ππΏπΎ πΊππ½ π»πΎ πππππππ πΏπ πΊπππ.” – π€π πΎπΊπππ π±ππππΎππΎπ π |
| This was definitely one of the weirdest animes I've seen, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. It started more as a psychological thriller, reminding me of Perfect Blue, but later on it became weirder and weirder... to the point of no meaning at all. Still, these final three episodes managed to tie most of the pieces in a (somewhat) satisfactory way: it's all about escaping from reality and creating substitute fake realities, where you may feel safe and secure. That's what happened with Tsukiko: Shonen Bat represents her fears of reality (or her father, perhaps) accentuated and taking a physical form... and Maromi, the pet doll, represents her protective "cocoon" in which she decided to hide herself... essentialy making Shonen Bat and Maromi two sides of the same coin (that's why we're told "they're the same"). That's similar to what almost happened with Ikari, as well, when he decided to hide himself inside that ideal town - the town he dreamed of spending with the daughter he never had. But his wife reminded him in the end his own words to her: "You’re just trying to escape. A makeshift salvation is nothing but deception. No matter how hard it is, don’t run away, and we’ll overcome it together". And this, as an overall message, is really deep and important. No matter how hard reality gets, escaping can become dangerous in its extreme forms. There are some things left unexplained though. What about the rest of the city? We can say they were all trying to escape reality in their own way (we saw this in each and every character), but what about the mass disaster in the end, the dolls disappearing and everything? Did their escapism manifest itself into some kind of physical mass energy, becoming a reality in itself? I think we could say that, although that's my own interpretation. If we look at things from a social/historical perspective, we can find situations where escapism was combined with hallucinations of mass power and hostility - just think of all the military nationalisms, for example. Mass psychology is real and just as a person can become psychotic, so too can a collectivity - metaphorically speaking, but you get my point. And there's no doubt each and every age has its own collective escaping routes and its own collective follies. So... that's my interpretation of what happened in this series. It was a symbolic way of showing what actually happens when too many people choose to escape reality... and yes, sometimes "it starts with a dog". An escape route for one can become an escape route for many. Final scenes showing, once again, all the people in the train lost inside their cellphones isn't really optimistic... but I guess that's the escaping route (or perhaps "reality"?) of today. All in all, this anime could use some more explanations, but I enjoyed it still. Not on par with Satoshi Kon's movies, but an essential watch, in my opinion. |
Lethal_RabbitAug 25, 6:57 AM
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