Sora yori mo Tooi Basho Episode 12 Discussion

Jaeger07 said:
To round up Hinata's waxing poetic:

"If you can still turn back, it's not really a journey. When you hit the point of no return, that's the moment it becomes a journey."
"It's a thin line between self-assertion and selfishness."
"Never think the stars you see are all the stars there are."
"Sometimes, people are just mean. Don't fight mean with mean. Hold your head high."
“Keeping busy is the best way to speed the clock’s hands!”
“To act is not necessarily compassion. True compassion sometimes come from inaction!”

Truly pottery.

Also,


Is this the Secret Society BLANKET Antarctic Chapter? Looks like their influence is spreading fast.

Aversa said:
A nice ending tho i doubt a computer would run after years in extreme cold.

shanimebib said:


I was thinking the same and I prayed that it runs the moment she pressed the button.

Even military grade ICs cannot operate from cold start because the semiconductors wouldn't have free charges or simply wouldn't form gates at such low temperatures. But it ran and even got instantly connected to the network so I was about to say we are all good but I cried so it's actually not very good. :'(

AbeldeMedici said:

Wasn't all that stuff inside some crates? I assumed they were some kind of protective crates since the laptop only seemed to have a thin layer of frost on it.
Which would make Takako's decision even worse. Seriously, they could have sheltered in the snowcats and wait for the blizzard to stop then return. I don't want to think about it because it would make her death so pointless...

shanimebib said:


I was thinking the same and I prayed that it runs the moment she pressed the button.

Even military grade ICs cannot operate from cold start because the semiconductors wouldn't have free charges or simply wouldn't form gates at such low temperatures. But it ran and even got instantly connected to the network so I was about to say we are all good but I cried so it's actually not very good. :'(

hazekashi said:
Too bad they kind of messed up their astronomy. Early on, Shirase says it's a warm day for the middle of the summer. So the sun should have been 23 degrees above the horizon.

Halfway through, they're all marveling at the sun pillar, but it should have taken the sun three months to set. Then, at the end, it's broad daylight again, like it's been nine more months. I guess you sleep deep when it's cold.

Phaetons_Folly said:
That ending really bothered me, and its more messed up the more think about it. The emotional punch doesn't come from Shirase's mom, but Shirase herself. It just showed that Shirase did in fact care for her mom, which is something that has already been well established by this point. I also don't really get what Shirase was supposed to be feeling at that point. She sent the emails so she should know they were there. I can understand a more bitter feeling now that she has to admit that her mother is dead, but the anime didn't feel like it played that angle.

What gets me is that this scene feels so inappropriate. The entire catalyst for the journey has been Shirase fighting to go where her mother died, and when they finally reach the closest thing to a grave, Shirase's own pain of losing her mother pushes aside said mother. A note or message from the mother is what I was expecting and would have been much more appropriate. Watching those emails literally push aside the final words of Shirase's mother felt so wrong to me.

Amble said:
The mail scene was sad but it started weirding me out when it got past 500 mails.

Jaeger07 said:


Do check my first post on first page.

ituhata said:
The final total was like....1100 or something. That's roughly an email a day.

shanimebib said:



It was much more than that. The last number was shown 1101 and the count was still refreshing.

ituhata said:


I like that. One more is much more :3

Anywho, 1,095 emails would be one a day for exactly 3 years, and I can only assume when they say Takano disappeared 3 years ago they aren't being sticklers about the exact date.

My money is on Shirase sending her mother an email a day.

shanimebib said:


I don't think so. The animators/writers probably didn't pay much attention to it because usually people don't experience them. Cold start and cold cycling is very important thermal profiling in engineering for electronic devices. I have seen many hollywood movies where stuff like this is not paid enough attention to.

Regardless of the minor thing, they anime has done exceptional research on Antarctic expeditions and that alone deserves a lot of applauds. The same can be said about Yuru Camp and Violet Evergarden. Violet Evergarden presents us a psuedo post world war era right before industrialization in a pseudo European setting. The reason why I really liked episode 2 because it actually set the world up for the anime to be founded on in the latter episodes which I explained in the episode 2 discussion thread. Yuru Camp on the other hand is so accurate. As an avid hiker/camper I can tell how much effort they put in place to make the anime as informative as possible all the while making it so fun. And I personally experienced so many of them which I seasoned myself after many years of being in the same activities. Yuru Camp almost makes me want to do solo because that is one thing I never personally experienced. Gah. I am going off topic.

Coming back to what you said, I will be pretty darn shocked if she died for the reason. But sometimes people make decisions that they normally wouldn't make when they are very emotional. The fact that her dying words were those make me think she was overwhelmed with emotions at her final moments.

darksidemlz said:
So, anyone know the song title at the end?

Phaetons_Folly said:
That ending really bothered me, and its more messed up the more think about it. The emotional punch doesn't come from Shirase's mom, but Shirase herself. It just showed that Shirase did in fact care for her mom, which is something that has already been well established by this point. I also don't really get what Shirase was supposed to be feeling at that point. She sent the emails so she should know they were there. I can understand a more bitter feeling now that she has to admit that her mother is dead, but the anime didn't feel like it played that angle.

What gets me is that this scene feels so inappropriate. The entire catalyst for the journey has been Shirase fighting to go where her mother died, and when they finally reach the closest thing to a grave, Shirase's own pain of losing her mother pushes aside said mother. A note or message from the mother is what I was expecting and would have been much more appropriate. Watching those emails literally push aside the final words of Shirase's mother felt so wrong to me.

hazekashi said:
Too bad they kind of messed up their astronomy. Early on, Shirase says it's a warm day for the middle of the summer. So the sun should have been 23 degrees above the horizon.

Halfway through, they're all marveling at the sun pillar, but it should have taken the sun three months to set. Then, at the end, it's broad daylight again, like it's been nine more months. I guess you sleep deep when it's cold.