T.P BON Episode 5 Discussion

When I saw the episode title was Witch Hunt, I knew it was gonna be dark and I wasn't wrong.

Bon and Ream getting shot by arrows took me by surprise ngl. The cute artstyle almost made me forget this series doesn't shy away from depicting violence.

Man, those torture scenes were brutal. I felt uncomfortable seeing characters with character designs from my childhood getting tortured like that. Wonder if the manga depicted violence like this too. I had the idea that Fujiko F. Fujio drew kid-friendly mangas but I guess I was wrong.

The only censorship I could notice was that they censored the Christian cross and references to Christianity in general. Seems like a pretty worthless censorship considering what they did.

Man, with how Celine was living in the forest with animals and gave people strange medicine no wonder outsiders thought she was a witch. But it's still inexcusable what they were gonna do with her and did with so many innocent people. I'm glad that period is now over.

Celine is too naive. God isn't cruel. But humans are. She was lucky that she was saved by those time patrollers. But one thing I don't like is how they were unable to break her naivete/delusional views.

This episode reminded me of Devilman kinda because of how depraved and untrustworthy humans can be. I also liked how the events in the past were connected with the social media of today. I doubt the manga had that. It's also another thing that Devilman Crybaby did which is also a neat coincidence.

Of course, getting flamed online is nowhere near as horrible as getting burned at the stake. But it's still something that affects our daily lives. And with rampant cyberbullying, some people with weaker mental fortitude may actually do something that might hurt them. So in a way, humans didn't really change. Our methods have just become different.

I can't say I liked the ending of this episode that much. I think the way Ream and Bon saved Celine was a bit too convenient. I liked the Egyptian episode the best because it truly felt like the characters were in a hopeless situation and they used their heads to help their target.

They could have spared us the part where the woman was like Snow White, friends with the animals... This anime is in a limbo between wanting to be family-friendly like Doraemon and dramatic and cruel like Made in Abyss. Imo this has been the best episode so far.

@Satoshi17 I don't know what it was like in the manga. But after watching this episode it felt like the writer(s) thought that this episode's story was too dark. So, they tried to compensate for it by putting these Disney-like elements into it to make it less bleak. I think they overcompensated. And the fact that the girl never learns the true nature of humans and stays blissfully ignorant is detrimental to the story and what it's trying to teach IMO. At least in the Egypt story, the man found out that he was betrayed by his employer and learned that it was a terrible idea to disobey his "god."