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Onsa_Rin said: SeaJaeger said: Foolish in hindsight indeed, I mean she could've saved her daughter's email in other places for one, and used the crew's communications station for email and such later on. But then if not for that Yorimoi wouldn't happen in the first place so I'm not complaining lmao. Again, the reason Takako went back for the laptop was not for her daughter's emails. Look at her Inbox before Shirase's flood of emails came down - it was all work related. Her laptop contains all her research and work, which is priceless (and the whole reason they're in Antartica), compared to the emails, which as you said, can be done from any other machine at the base station (like Hinata's email from her "friends"). I'm p.sure they don't do research individually on personal computers without backing up everything on cloud servers when they are in such environment. |
Abusaeed said: Onsa_Rin said: Again, the reason Takako went back for the laptop was not for her daughter's emails. Look at her Inbox before Shirase's flood of emails came down - it was all work related. Her laptop contains all her research and work, which is priceless (and the whole reason they're in Antartica), compared to the emails, which as you said, can be done from any other machine at the base station (like Hinata's email from her "friends"). I'm p.sure they don't do research individually on personal computers without backing up everything on cloud servers when they are in such environment. If they were at base camp, sure. But you have to remember they were on an expedition to a new camp spot ("to be named Kobuchizawa Research Centre", as Gin said). There's no way they could have the infrastructure in place to be linked back to their servers at base camp, let alone the cloud. All her data and work she did for this expedition (like during the flashback to her typing on her laptop in the truck) would be stored on her laptop until they could get back to camp and backed up. |
| Jesus that last scene when all the mail came in and they started crying really hit me in the feels. |
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| finding yourself on the email account of a dead loved one and seeing all of the hundreds of unread emails you left them :((((( it took 12 episodes, but this show finally managed to hit me in the feels. |
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| Wow, all those unread emails... she spent three years sending emails to her mother, even though she knew she was dead, only to be reminded that those were basically never delivered. Amazing episode. And they even kept on delivering adventure portions during this ep. |
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| hinata's quotes sound like things tuxedo mask would say after saving sailor moon, now that i think of it. on a real note, 1000+ emails within 3 years that will never be read is heartbreaking |
| So she went to get her laptop back . Goddamit my chest hurt so bad . And here i thought I'm already i immune with this kinda stuff . |
| "Mountains, beings, and nature's laws are bound by an arrangement, and within it, we live." -Mushishi Zoku Shou Suzu No Shizuku |
| heartbreaking. the best episode in the series so far. bumped up score to 8/10 |
| What a heartbreaking episode... It's impossible not to cry when Shirase finally realizes and is able to admit to herself that her mom is truly dead. All the emails she sent to her mom, all the emails her mom will never, ever read because she's dead. Oh my god, my heart. And all the girls crying outside the room as she screamed and cried. Fuck |
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| The feels train really hit the station this episode! My heart actually broke a little in the last few minutes of the episode. This show definitely knows how to hit home. |
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| OMG, the unread mail part killed me. |
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| Yeah...wow. The tears started rushing in as fast as the messages. I'm at a complete loss. |
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| Cried way too much at the ending |
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| Whoa this was jam-packed with emotion! |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| I don't know anything about Japanese intonation, but when Shirase was recounting her money, the way she said each job made me think she was also expressing how much she liked/disliked doing the work. |
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| The place that they go to is a real place called Mizuho Station, Antarctica 70° 41′ 57.02″ S, 44° 16′ 44.6″ E -70.699174, 44.27905 From 19 minutes in I cry every time. Finally she’s able to... 😭 |
| This, this is peak anime sadness, the calm music, the dusk ambiance, the sorrow transmited by Kana's performance, the heartbreaking realisation that her mom will never come back. Not so much time have I cried from watching anime such as this one, but it confirms it's merit as one of the best CGDCT slice of life/adventure and perhaps the best anime of 2018. Madhouse went full on this show, even while being normie as hell, it still has the pure anime aura and vibes you can only get from this media and form of art. Thank you for such a both enjoyable and tearful story of a bunch of random highschool girls accomplishing something in their life through friendship and help. |
| Damn the 1000+ mails from Shirase That was really some dedication right there I wonder if there's any last will from her mom |
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| Poor shirase it really sucks to lost someone you loved |
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| Extremely good episode. Super powerful. I'm so glad I finally decided to watch this. Jesus Christ. |
| pretty sad seeing all those unread emails, hammering home that her mother really is dead. but jesus christ this really is crying: the anime. |
| Just now watching and finishing up this series and my tears can't be stopped, this is simply a beautiful story. In the truest and most literal sense of the word, it's definitely up there with Koe no Katachi for me. Lost my dad 8 years ago and I relate to that pain so much, especially holding it in for so long. I thought Anohana and Maquia had prepared me for everything, I was wrong. I hate how slept on this is, absolute masterpiece. |
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| Holy sh1t, that might be the hardest I've cried for an anime episode. Unbelievable. |
| Damn, had to shed one or two manly tears in the end, that was a powerful moment. Wonder how they will finish this in the last episode, I wanna know why her mother disappeared. |
| I knew this was coming and I still couldn't stop myself from crying. |
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| This was totally an emotional episode. I can imagine the amount of pain Shirase was suffering and her fears. That makes me feel depressed now. Here's to the hope she finally moves on in her life after this moment. |
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DaLaw said: I don't think the emails actually stopped at 1101 unread emails though, they simply cut the scene at that moment for the obvious reason the above posters pointed out. Yeah, there were more unread emails.. |
| Corona virus + depression from this episode = life |
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SeaJaeger said: how come nunuwanu translates to 1101?Yfw you realized the laptop was what Takako forgot back at the base and left the snowcat to retrieve, only to get killed for it. She was willing to risk her life so she could read emails from her daughter.  F*CK! *Deeply inhales* FFFFFFF FF FFFFFF FF FF BaronBrixius said: The password in Japanese would read "Nunuwanu" (ぬぬわぬ）by the way, and the incorrect one would be "Waunuya"(わうぬや). Don't know what those mean, google didn't turn up any meanings for either of them, so maybe it just typed in the numbers and not the hiragana, then the correct number is 1101 and the incorrect one is 0417. 1101 - November 1. Shirase's birthday |
ttcchen said: how come nunuwanu translates to 1101? Check the keyboard as she is typing. It's not a translation. The 1 key is also used for the character ぬ (nu), and 0 key for わ (wa). |
| That was unexpectedly dark... Poor Shirase, I can't imagine how it must feel like to be in her position, and just see all those unread messages appear... (It reminded me of an episode of Princess Sara.) And Kana Hanazawa did such a great job, as always. She always makes me feel for the characters she plays. I also like the whole thing about Shirase feeling she doesn't have a lifegoal anymore now that she's here, and doesn't even manage to feel the emotions she wants to feel. But I feel so bad for her... However this episode raised an important question : if the members of the expedition already know way too well how dangerous this trip is, why are they even allowing inexperienced teens to come ? I know I won't get an answer since the show isn't about that but come on, those adults are completely irresponsible. |
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Fafette said: That was unexpectedly dark... Poor Shirase, I can't imagine how it must feel like to be in her position, and just see all those unread messages appear... (It reminded me of an episode of Princess Sara.) And Kana Hanazawa did such a great job, as always. She always makes me feel for the characters she plays. I also like the whole thing about Shirase feeling she doesn't have a lifegoal anymore now that she's here, and doesn't even manage to feel the emotions she wants to feel. But I feel so bad for her... However this episode raised an important question : if the members of the expedition already know way too well how dangerous this trip is, why are they even allowing inexperienced teens to come ? I know I won't get an answer since the show isn't about that but come on, those adults are completely irresponsible. Because Yuzu's agency sponsored the antartica project. Also remember episode 4 when they trained the gangs. they aren't that stupid |
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gadboyz said: Fafette said: That was unexpectedly dark... Poor Shirase, I can't imagine how it must feel like to be in her position, and just see all those unread messages appear... (It reminded me of an episode of Princess Sara.) And Kana Hanazawa did such a great job, as always. She always makes me feel for the characters she plays. I also like the whole thing about Shirase feeling she doesn't have a lifegoal anymore now that she's here, and doesn't even manage to feel the emotions she wants to feel. But I feel so bad for her... However this episode raised an important question : if the members of the expedition already know way too well how dangerous this trip is, why are they even allowing inexperienced teens to come ? I know I won't get an answer since the show isn't about that but come on, those adults are completely irresponsible. Because Yuzu's agency sponsored the antartica project. Also remember episode 4 when they trained the gangs. they aren't that stupid Oh yeah I forgot about Yuzu's agency. I still don't believe them allowing the three others to come was that much of a good idea though (well, maybe Shirase could've been allowed to come anyway considering her background, but for Mari and Hinata, I don't get it). And yes, I know they trained them, but they stated multiple times how risky this mission is even when properly trained, and the show has been using Takako's fate as a way to prove it, to prove how dangerous it is, even for experienced adults. If people like Takako can die during the expedition, how can they be sure that people like Mari will be able to handle it ? And the thing is that it has been shown multiple times : they aren't sure. They aren't sure the girls will be fine by the end of the trip. So I agree that they're not "that" stupid, but that doesn't mean they are that responsible either. |
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| I didn't think this episode would make me feel as sad as it did. It absolutely destroyed me. I haven't felt like that since I saw Koe no Katachi. |
| I can't remember the last time I cried this hard from an anime... it's been a while. Amazing, beautiful, heartbreaking. At first I didn't get why Shirase was having doubts, but after watching her conversation with Gin I finally understand, and it's something that I understand well too. For the last three years Shirase's had a single goal in mind: to go to the place where her mother was. But after that, then what? Will she feel empty for the rest of her life? When she put down all those 10,000 yen bills while saying what job she did to get that really made me go wow. She worked so hard for this, so extremely hard for this. It's hard to keep up motivation for that long, and especially hard when you're alone and tired and overworked. Yuzu getting all excited being called good friends was really cute and adorable! The montage during the journey was great after Kimari thanked Shirase for bringing her along and gave her the chance to live out her youth to the fullest. Shirase who had been fine alone now had the best of friends, friends who would even go to Antarctica with you. Gin may be silent, but what happened to Shirase's mom really haunts her to this day. Seeing someone so strong and silent like her have a tear flowing down her cheek was really something. "Kobuchizawa Station" A heartwarming moment. I was already tearing up throughout the whole episode but it just extremely intensified when those three started running around determined to find something, just one piece that showed that Shirase's mom was here, and that Shirase herself came here. Tears started flowing that moment. How determined her friends were to find that something, even when Shirase herself had already accepted it. And then they found that laptop. I guess this was the something that Takako forgot at the station and she went back to get it. I don't know what I was expecting. I was surprised that she couldn't log in at first. What numbers did she input? Her birthday? I really didn't think this was gonna happen. The moment she opened her mom's mail and her messages, all titled "Dear Okaa-san", started coming in... She started crying, shouting out "Mom!", and all her friends crying outside... I couldn't stop crying it. I was sniveling and struggling to hold it in as I saw that scene. All the emotions and pent-up feels from watching the episode and the entire series in whole just exploded. I'm just thinking and feeling so much that I don't even know what to say. I came in watching because of a lot of things. I had heard that it was good. I saw Gigguk's video of it. Some people compared it to Violet Evergarden, a series that I equally love and cherish and means something to me. I came in skeptical, because some people said this 'beat' Violet Evergarden. But the moment those emails came in I knew that, just like Violet Evergarden, this series was a masterpiece. I understood at that moment how beautiful and amazing this series was. I love and cherish both just as much. Truly a masterpiece. 10/10, not just for this episode, but definitely for the entire series. An amazing job, Madhouse. This is going straight in my top favourites. A Place Further Than the Universe. |
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| Absolutely beautiful episode, it had everything from the usual wholesome moments and the drama. Yuzu's reaction when they where called good friends was *chef's kiss* beautiful, you four are indeed good friend's T_T. So, the thing that Takako forgot was most likely the laptop and that makes it all the more sadder. When all those unread emails popped up I bawled inside. 10/10 anime hands down one of my favorites now, I love the characters, their friendship and their journey to reach this place further than the universe. |
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| Great episode again, but the placing of this episode felt weird in comparison to the previous. Shirase was slightly upbeat and peppy in the last ep standing up for Hinata but then suddenly becomes closed off and secluded in this, i get the reasoning, but the transition could've been done a bit smoother. |
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| i'm so sad this series is ending next ep TT bruh, that episode made me cry. shirase, well done! (': |
| Damn, even when you already know, it still kinda hurts man. All the unreads, that just destroys my soul A laptop surviving that long in the cold is kind of surprising though |
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| I don't know what to say or what to write... I'm out of tears and words to describe how I feel. I didn't even know that she went back to the island for her laptop which makes me even more down... T-T |
| Human lives by the obsessive ideas, hm.. Well, I guess, you can look at life like this.. And yeah.. Sometimes reality is just like on photos.. That's partially why I personally think sometimes there is no reason for travels in our century of internet.. I write not much some episodes.. But all of them are actually enjoyable, and have good things in them.. .. Last episode next.. |
| What I'm blown out the most is Shirase's friends considerate towards her. Just when Shirase said she's already happy she came her mother's place, her friends were finding out some evidence that her mother was there, and they found the laptop. The friends we make in our journey are best friends. Because we're on the destination. Even Yuzuki-chan happy she has friends. |
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| Bro, the tears D': |
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| The ending killed. ''1000+ unread''. She probably sent a mail everyday to her mother hoping for a reply. What a girl. |
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