Sarazanmai Episode 2 Discussion

youcansmileagain said:
the only thing I could think during this was........ah.
also, I’m hung up over the fact that the cat swallowed the bag of weed whole like it swallowed a plastic bag that can’t be good

e_hoba said:


zombie are "dead". Desire is your life. Modern people often lose their true desire and fall ill, in other words, they die. Otter cops give literal death to those almost dead people. I supposed I am one of those "almost dead" half-zombies. If we fall ill/ become zombie, we start to steal someone's desire. "I want to take" was the theme/title of ep2.
kappa is an amphibious creature. They live between something and something, water and land, dead and alive. Kappa zombie is a ghost of unsatisfied modern people.
Otter cops also give us an advice about the modern mental disease in the lyrics of the dance scene.
Why Keppi needs those kids? You already saw it in Penguindrum as frog-kun's story. The problem of our world should be handled by ourselves. It's metaphorically our own problem because it's a problem of "desire".
Anus is deeply connected to desire even in psychoanalysis. Feces is one of object petit a" examples that Lacan mentioned in his theory. It can't be seen from outside, but any of us have it. It's totally natural for us to feel disgusted because our desire is disgusting. We fall ill because we look away from it and try to make do with something else.
Kappa was chosen because Ikuhara thought he had to talk about modern people's desire. You don't need to understand the mythological items to start watching this show.
Some of your questions are like asking "Why does fantasy needs magic? They should just do it with the real modern technology". It's just what Ikuhara thought to be best for conveying the message like above. Haruki Murakami did the same thing. Countless theatrical writers did the same thing. It's nothing special. just a common technique to tell a story. We don't even need the word "magic realism". In more popular examples, Tomohiko Morimi has a similar style. No one asks why the protagonist's house has a parallel universe gimmick in Tatami Galaxy, right? But the meaning of parallel universe in that series is obvious to the viewers.

papsoshea said:
Now here are some questions that people will say, "it will all be explained later on" - and even if they are, I am more so questioning the creative decisions, like why?

Zimzky said:
Man, I hate this show with every fiber of my body

Tsukizono said:


Sorry that this show isn't for you. You should've dropped it at ep 1 if you hate it so much. Although I'm quite curious as to why you dislike the show.

Zimzky said:


I dropped it at episode 2. And unfortunately I can't tell you why I hate it because I dont know why myself. It's just that every fram of the show makes my blood boil for some unknown reason. I just get mad when I watch it. Kind of the same feeling I had when I watched Cells at Work. I dont know. Maybe the show just isn't for me.