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| Certainly, the role reversal was easy and quick to figure out. As already said, it's somewhat disappointing that Kino chose not to intervene, but unlike in episode 0 with the tower guy, she didn't hand any advice down. This is probably the first time her lack of involvement actually ended up causing harm, even if the recipients weren't human. Perhaps she believes that individuals who cannot think or exist for themselves are worthless, and don't deserve a guiding hand? This would be supported by the constant existential theme of the entire series. Nonetheless, it's quite sad: The mechanical dolls lack the ability to decide for themselves and ultimately chose self-destruction rather than accepting a lack of purpose. |
| A bit depressing, the family was of no use anymore, so they dont have to exist. While Kino sees it somewhat different, for her its not hard to live alone, she does have Hermes though. Was kinda obvious from the start the old lady was in fact human and not the family. VanishingKira said: Immediately knew the the old lady was actually human and the family were the real mechanical dolls.It kinda reminded me of another anime that had a similar situation after a tragedy Yeah didnt pick it up as fast in that film as in this show though. |
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| I figured out that the granny was much more human than the family right after the dinner scene, but I thought that she was just a more advanced robot built by the robot family. A self-improving AI, basically. The idea of the maid actually being the inventor is interesting, but the rest of the explanation felt too contrived to be interesting. Plus, although I did like the eerie atmosphere around the family, I think it gave away too much. Not really a bad episode, but probably my least favourite. |
| That was broooootal. |
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Shirayuki_a_qt said: I knew from the start that the family were bots, but I would of never guessed that the old woman was human. Yeap, they made it so obvious that the family were robots, so I really did not expect the old lady to be a human. After her family died and she got hit she just kind of slipped into denial and swapped roles with the robots. Those robots ironically also demonstrated humanlike qualities in how they went along with it out of consideration for her, and even killed themselves while holding hands because they had no purpose anymore. Man I can't get enough of this show, I might have to get onto the novels at this rate haha |
| ~ The world is not beautiful, therefore it is. |
| This episode was predictable but still it was good. I think Kino should have encouraged those robots to live on. |
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| "No, there is no country by here" "No, there is no country by here" Confirmed robots. |
| Why do people have such bad taste? Anime isn't subjective anymore. |
| No! Not the food! LOL Kino wanted that food. Good idea robots... suicide because nobody needs you! |
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| I actually thought that old lady was a robot not-knowingly serving a family of robots. then i saw her fixing Hermes. But this is not a detective story anyway. I loved the city under water. hooked on things like that! |
| see you, space cowperson . . . |
| Man, that was messed up. The first half of the episode was better imo |
| I think that those mechanical dolls were more than robots. They weren't programmed to rebuild the apartment, or bury the city underwater beyond a dam, or even take care of granny at any rate, but they did it anyways. I feel like it goes beyond a mere "to serve a human": they actually took care of her with their souls. So maybe they're not incomplete, or maybe, not in that regard. They're convinced they'll die if they don't have any human company. So maybe they're human after all, humans that are a tad more "twisted" than usual. |
| I suspected that the role reversal but I still really liked the twist. |
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| Not as good as the other episodes but still a good episode. I didn't care for the side characters, perhaps there was not enough build up for the events. |
| Not as deep as usual neither the action was good . |
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| Aww sad end as always Kino could just say "build your own country to help humans" or something like that It'll be something much more better than this sad empty emotion I have :( |
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| The twist was super obvious but the story was interesting nonetheless, RIP everyone lol. |
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| Maybe not one of the best episodes, but still very thought-provoking. On top of what everyone else in the thread has already said, when the dolls walked off the ledge and drowned themselves at the end, it did make me realise that they weren't just subservient robots meant to carry out duties and nothing more - they were capable of having desires of their own. They could so easily have just shut themselves down in the house for the time being and waited for the next traveller to come along, but clearly they didn't want to wait that long, if another traveller even came at all. They said that they wanted to continue serving humans, and if they weren't able to do that, they would rather die than continue on without a purpose. Makes me wonder how defined the line truly is between robots and humans in this world. |
| "Get chance and luck!" |
| So I really enjoyed the last two episodes. And I almost really enjoyed this one. But one thing held me back. For starters I thought for such a delayed reveal. It was REALLY obvious that the humans were actually the robots and vice versa. At the point where Kino had dinner with them what else could it be? But that's fine. It was still handled in an interesting and entertaining way. And I like how the delay of the reveal can be chalked up to Kino's apathy. Once the food dries up they're just about to peace it. When the robots are like "Wait, aren't you curious what the dealio is here?" There's something kind of funny about that to me. But my big problem came from the explanation of the back story. Everything else was perfectly fine. But the unseen and under explained race war rocking the grannies nation in the past was a bizarre and frankly unearned plot device. And the robots just wiped the country out because of that? I thought the underwater city was really spooky. But that's what we ended up with? The one thing that hurt an otherwise perfectly fine episode. The a little too convenient and a little bit preachy race war. |
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| It was pretty obvious she's human who somehow thinks she's a robot. Sad her research went to waste. |
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| didn't care much for the twist but still probably my favorite episode so far |
| "I like young-girl sexual creations, Lolicon is just one hobby of my many hobbies," he says. I ask what his wife, standing nearby, thinks of his "hobby". "She probably thinks no problem," he replies. "Because she loves young boys sexually interacting with each other." |
| I figured most of this out....but the memory loss I didn't see coming. I figured something happened to her though, but the robots committing suicide....makes you ask what was the point? |
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| I'm enjoying this series. The original is, writing-wise, better than the remake. This episode especially reminds me of old Outer Limits episodes. Very philosophical, asking existential questions and with an unexpected twist at the end. Brilliant series! |
| Best episode by far in my opinion, even better than episodes 4, 2 and 7 |
| Nakamura is a monster for creating such a twist, at first I was questioning why they would create an old maid in the first place, but then it hit me. I also knew the family would be robots, it was so clear from the way that they were acting. |
| Anyways, this was a very deep and amazing episode, much better than the previous episode. Overall, I give this episode a 5/5. |
| A fine episode. Very emotional. |
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| Liked this episode quite a lot more than the last few (although in retrospect i do think i was unfairly scathing in my thoughts on ep 9, it did become more interesting in the second half). A woman who built 3 human-looking robots ends up believing she is a robot herself and ends up serving her creations... what a wild scenario, and it proved to be a fertile plot for digging into the philosophy of so many things, be it the ethics of unlimited invention or the psychology of self-fulfilling prophecies. You can only get so deep into these questions in a space of 20 mins, but i think this episode ended up illustrating these ideas very vividly just because of how unique the scenario was. Like, this would be an episode of Twilight Zone in the Blade Runner universe. |
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| RIP Robots and Old woman, pretty sad episode... |
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| Probably the deepest episode of the series so far. It was pretty good. |
| There are only a few anime that I've watched that have made me cry, and Kino no Tabi is one of them. But I didn't cry for this episode, I almost did though. |
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| Dang the robots can talk. Man granny went crazy after her family died. Rip to all of them. |
| To me Kino did the right thing, sure it may sound brutal but remember what the machines said, they are willing to be exploited in order to serve humans, and that can be a dangerous thing. For the sake of the memory of the Old woman, Kino would much rather have these robots share the fate of their gentle creator than regret following undeserving humans. But at the same time she didnt knew/wanted them to just jump down and die just like that, so i think if she would have known that she would maybe have said something |
| the real robot was the emotionless kino who was unhelpful and unwavering in her 3 day timing protocol leading to their suicides, and even then she didn't care |
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| Weirdest episode yet but I kinda saw it all coming, of course that didn't really effect my final expierence much |
| That was great. Don't see any point in throwing any more praise considering how much there already is for this ep in particular |
| Well, it was indeed obvious at one point that the family was rather weird, but outside of that, I'm surprised by their human-like behavior of wishing to be of use to someone and I can feel sympathy for that |
| sad n creepy but I don't really like how Kino handled it in the end. next level your business after being treated so kindly. |
 張大です for 張大勇督察 |
| As far as I can remember there was no episode with this theme in the remake version, so I honestly really liked it. I like Kino's response, "It depends on the person" (about decisions and purposes in life). Although, I kind of wish Kino could give some meaning or purpose to those mechanical dolls, since they weren't a "person" but a "doll". Even so I understand that this all related to what the theme meant this time. I think this is also somewhat related to episode 4 about Kino deciding to become a traveler. |
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| One of the most enjoyable episodes so far. It's lamentable that the mechanical doll "family" couldn't be convinced to live for themselves, and felt that suicide was the only option in regards to their lack of a master. Got to say, for a universe that has yet to master aviation, it has a generous bevy of intelligent robots and automata. |
  ｲ乇刀乇乃尺ﾑ乇 ╔⏤═⏤╝   ╚⏤═⏤╗☽ Shaded Horizon ☾ |
| The plot twist was insane 10/10 |
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