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@Antony000555 Yeah, I know it was the bodyguard but my question was whether it was just a random crow that was passing by or if it had any previous connection to Yoka.
@rasterman7 I was curious about it too, so I skimmed through the previous episodes. There's nothing in the show related to Yoka and crows in her past or anything, but if you watch the first episode, the crow actually does randomly show up and land next to her before she presses the button, and you see transformed Pochi laying next to them. Pretty cool detail from the show actually.    |
| Average MAL user's media literacy: Marinate1016 said: Not reading allat cause I don’t care. Tensura peak. Have a good one tho |
RIP Pontaro soup, you got what you deserved  |
| Average MAL user's media literacy: Marinate1016 said: Not reading allat cause I don’t care. Tensura peak. Have a good one tho |
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@rasterman7 I was curious about it too, so I skimmed through the previous episodes. There's nothing in the show related to Yoka and crows in her past or anything, but if you watch the first episode, the crow actually does randomly show up and land next to her before she presses the button, and you see transformed Pochi laying next to them. Pretty cool detail from the show actually.
| @stevejawbs Ohhhh, good eye, so it really is a random crow who for some reason turned into her bodyguard. Weird. |
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| Decent finale, I like it! Definitely a weird show, but I enjoyed it a lot. Very solid 7.5/10. |
| The true MVP of this anime was, definitely, the soundtrack. |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| Really good final episode, the train chase scene was great. Loved this show pretty much all the way through. 8/10. |
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| Felt kind of weak of an ending compared to some other episodes but ended like i expected. Lol the zombies became mindless horny idol worshippers basically. I liked the vibes of the show and it being fairly different but it also feels like it could have done so much better. Maybe the issue is 12 episodes really isnt long enough for any interesting stories that are both episodic and have a larger plot. It really needed to be a two cour and could have played up some of the slice of life vibes and add more suspense as well with the longer length. It needed at least 18 episodes, 24 might be more than needed depending on writing. |
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RIP Pontaro soup, you got what you deserved
| I love weird anime!!! The fact that the world has changed is such a fitting end, so much better than "it was like nothing happened at all". This can also symbolize that Yoka has changed and grew. Also, Pontaro soup is a much more satisfying end than seeing him arrested. He truly got what he deserved. |
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| This is one of my favorite shows this season. It was bizarre and insane, but I loved it. Shout out to the boat guy. He's the goat. |
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| I did enjoy this show, but the 2nd half made it go from an 8 to a 7. Just started to not click with me as much. The ending wasn't the best, but it got the job done. Maybe just 1 more episode expanding on the post-7G world would've been good. |
| Is it just me or did they conclude 5 separate times that Yoka needed to press the button? Show wasn't as good as I could have hoped from the start, but it was fine. Not a huge disappointment like Wonder Egg Priority. Not a flare of originality like Sonny Boy. Moments were more random than poignant, and I don't think this will stick me long after, but I was always happy to catch an episode. |
utopica said: Giving Pontarou one final attack after he was definitely thrown into the wide abyss was so unbelievable stupid and unnecessary. The show did tumbles and cartwheels in order to explain thru visuals that laws of physics and logic didn't work in this world after the 7G incident. utopica said: And then that random wanderer being the one preventing it out of nowhere was just to much. You mean the wanderer that showed TWICE in the girls' path despite them traveling in a straight line? Which also furthermore cements the idea that logic and physics do not apply to this altered world. The series implied quite early that everything would be solved if Yoka pushed again the 7G button which created this anomally based on her memories and imagination. And you're complaining about ONE Deus Ex Machina was hard to swallow, when the whole journey of these girls was "expected" to succeed on a deus ex machina? |
Bio said: Not a flare of originality like Sonny Boy. I don't know about that one chief. Both Sonny Boy & Train to the end of the world both borrow stuff from already stablished works (like Babel's tower and Gulliver's Travels) and at the same time they both pour original stuff like the mushrooom people or invisible apes playing baseball. Also originality doesn't necessarily equals to quality. Whenever I have a hard time sleeping I just remember the boring whole apes playing invisible baseball episode. |
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Bio said:
Not a flare of originality like Sonny Boy.
Not a flare of originality like Sonny Boy.
I don't know about that one chief. Both Sonny Boy & Train to the end of the world both borrow stuff from already stablished works (like Babel's tower and Gulliver's Travels) and at the same time they both pour original stuff like the mushrooom people or invisible apes playing baseball.
Also originality doesn't necessarily equals to quality. Whenever I have a hard time sleeping I just remember the boring whole apes playing invisible baseball episode.
| @Kimurah Tastes are going to differ. For all the weirdness and wildness that went into this show I rarely felt like I was exploring something new. We established the level of chaos at the start and the train stayed on those rails with the surprises mostly coming in the details. I'm not holding Sonny Boy up as a perfect show either, but it came to mind first as a weird mindscrew series I got more out of. |
Bio said: I'm not holding Sonny Boy up as a perfect show either, but it came to mind first as a weird mindscrew series I got more out of. That's the big difference. Train to the end of the world never intended to be a "mindscrew". It was expected from day one to be a safe CGDCT with trippy visuals. Bio said: Tastes are going to differ. I agree with this. I personally disliked Sonny Boy for being pretentious and vague for the sake of appearing to be avant garde. I acknowledge a ton of people liked it exactly because of that. |
| @Kimurah yeah, you're absolutely right. The absurdity was clearly established, so I'm not sure why this scene in particular threw me off so much. In this context it's even more believable than in an live-action show that is ankered in reality. Maybe because I just saw this happening way too often that I found it to be a pretty cheap trick and not a creative turn of events. If we got to see how exactly reality was warped so he could survive this fall it would be different. But then the unexpected surprise wouldn't be there. Wouldn't it be way more satisfying as a story (absurd setting aside) if the girls saved the world rather than the wanderer being randomly in the right place? It was played for laughs and it just didn't land for me. Even if it was in the realm of possibilities, I just didn't liked the solution. So yes, my suspension of disblief broke in this moment. It's a me-problem but I still wanted to point it out tho. |
| It was a good anime, better than I expected when I started it, and the ending was fine, I think. The anime was weird all the way through and ended in the same way, but that doesn't take away from how enjoyable it was. |
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| Great anime, interesting premise, fun cute ahh girls, shit and rushed ass ending, could have been a 10/10, but it's so rushed is insane. I hate Youka and really dislike Akira. This final episode was about Shizuru apologizing about the dumbest reason ever when it was all Youka's fault for taking some shit talk to heart, the world went to shit, and couldn't even fix it, this sucked so bad. I'll still miss it tho, Shizuru, Nadeshiko and Reimi are really great girls. I give this a 8 but in reality is like a 7.5 to me. I'm really disappointed, this should had 13 episodes instead of 12 + a fumbass recopilatory episode as 11.5 lol |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| I'm willing to classify this ending as "sticking the landing". Shizuru and Yoka made up with each other, and Yoka didn't make it too easy. Nice battle preceding that too. I think there was a term for this - "astral finale"? Marinate1016 said: Add in the subtext that the known world comprised just the Seibu-Ikeburo line, and they were effectively on the other side of the known universe from Yoka.With 7G gone, Tokyo looks.. mainly back to normal? But I like the twist of “what did normal even look like” I guess normal is just what we make of it and accept. Apogee is a very fitting name for the train too. Shizuru and the girls were at their furthest from Yoka, it’s only closer from here 🙏🏾 That's a representation of the tower of Babel at the end, right? A symbol of what humans might attempt to achieve if language were no barrier to communication. Just kind of feels fitting for what 7G was supposed to accomplish. I wonder if the crow was a symbol for something. There are some associations between crows and death (and I suppose Yoka was in some ways, near death, as the queen of 7G-ravaged Ikebukuro), although in other myths they're also servants of gods (again, having pressed the button, she became kindof like a goddess of the world ravaged by 7G). |
| Satisfying ending. Nakama power can overcome anything!! We got Youka-chan back, The world is back to normal again or was it?? (I like the hidden messages with "What Was Normal Again?) Shizuru explaining the meaning of Apogee was a such a poetic way to end this Anime. Overall what a WILD ride indeed. Such a bizarre and unique concept. It was chaotic, absurd, weird but somehow grabbing my attention to every single of their conversation. The NeriAli episode is definitely the most WTF moment episode for me, i laughed so many times and it hurt my stomach LMAO 8/10 I'm gonna miss the girls and their shenanigans. This is why i always give an Original Anime a chance, you just never knew what you gonna get and also spoiler free from those noisy Manga Readers. For one last time, GA-TAN GO-TON GA-TAN GO-TON SHOO SHOO TRAIN 🚉 |
davidyodo24Jun 26, 7:42 AM
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| Another anime with rushed and lacks-of-something ending in this season. This was good though, but I can't say I'm satisfied with how they wrapped up things. Well, thanks to the staff for working hard for this. I've heard some production issues that caused the delay and some other stuff, but they still able to keep the bare minimum so this anime still can be enjoyable and conveyed what it wanted to. They're real hero for that. |
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| Yoka can finally be happy again, no one can defeat the power of Nakama. I really like this strange anime, it's not surprising that this episode feels rushed because from the start of the season it already feels like that, especially since their dialogue is really fast, but if this gets 20+ episodes it will be 10/10 in my dictionary with a unique story. This is still one of the best anime for this season, with a unique OP and the ED is still the best ED for this year, and don't forget the OST still makes me addicted to listening to it.  |
| Color me surprised. They actually managed to wrap mostly everything up in 20 minutes. Though I think a 13th episode would have made things flow better but oh well. Personally, I gotta say I liked it when Youka when physical on Shizuru when she remembered her hurtful words. Not gonna lie, Shizuru seriously deserved a slap or two. Really good show and easily, one of 2024's surprises without a doubt. Ended up enjoying it way more than expected and though the conclusion wasn't as wacky or unpredictable as the rest of the series, I think it was still solid with how things went back to "normal" but in a "new normality" kind of way. Just like how Youka returned to the girls but not as the same Youka that left Agano. As for other aspects, animation as well as visuals remained surprisingly consistent and above-average throughout the whole show, OST was really immersive and the premise of each episode never felt dull to me. 8/10 - Akira best girl, btw. |
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NekOniiChan said:
it was unfortunate that that we weren't able to cover all the stations in detail.
it was unfortunate that that we weren't able to cover all the stations in detail.
Especially that trauma station. We legit just got a couple seconds of it before moving on to some confusing thing about a kid's anime that was alluded to in the end as something to help bring Yoka back, but never actually came up.
stevejawbs said:
They were short on time, which makes me wonder why they added some of the useless scenes: the zombies forming the tracks, the manga city and the miniaturized city's bad guys showing up only to get oneshotted, Pontaro shooting actual bullets and artillery shells at their train and doing almost no damage. Why was there a fork in the tracks? Why did Pochi guide them to the wrong one? None of it mattered because both tracks converged back into one, so why were these details included?!
They were short on time, which makes me wonder why they added some of the useless scenes: the zombies forming the tracks, the manga city and the miniaturized city's bad guys showing up only to get oneshotted, Pontaro shooting actual bullets and artillery shells at their train and doing almost no damage. Why was there a fork in the tracks? Why did Pochi guide them to the wrong one? None of it mattered because both tracks converged back into one, so why were these details included?!
I'm glad someone brought it up. I tolerated the zombies being a convenient plot point to bring them the button, and then the weird tentacle-like mass they formed to move in on to the tracks, but everything past that felt entirely unnecessary. Technically speaking, they could have just gotten her, gone back to Ikebukuro then had her push the button, though. There was no need for basically anything before the big talk with Yoka. By comparison, the bit where Pontaro starts fighting back and manages to fuck himself up with this own incompetence actually works and makes sense- bad execution aside. But then there was a split in the tracks for no apparent reason- presumably it was just added to set up Pontaro shooting at them. Once the staff realized there was nothing they could possibly do to counter literal cannon fire, they figured "Fuck it, put them on the tracks and have Pontaro self-destruct".
stevejawbs said:
Honestly, as with the rest of the show, I didn't see it coming. But this time it's because I thought there's no way this show would write such a generic tropey ending.
Honestly, as with the rest of the show, I didn't see it coming. But this time it's because I thought there's no way this show would write such a generic tropey ending.
Not to mention the fact that instead of talking about the changes to the world, we got a little scene where they explain the Apogee name (Which could have happened earlier without all the other fluff), and then minutes of... just staring at looping track.
stevejawbs said:
RIP Pontaro soup, you got what you deserved
RIP Pontaro soup, you got what you deserved
Oh, I didn't realize that's what had happened.
Shirowhite01 said:
Other things that weren't solved as well was their past regrets that weren't really tackled when they got to the Regret station. Hopethey tackle those parts since it'll be interesting for their character developments.
Other things that weren't solved as well was their past regrets that weren't really tackled when they got to the Regret station. Hopethey tackle those parts since it'll be interesting for their character developments.
Not doing that station was the single biggest fumble in this show, followed closely by this episode.
Bio said:
Is it just me or did they conclude 5 separate times that Yoka needed to press the button?
Is it just me or did they conclude 5 separate times that Yoka needed to press the button?
I think they first concluded she needs to press the button for things to change back, then later on they concluded that it would also be good for her personally, since she's suffering in her new life, and the button is killing her.
utopica said:
It was played for laughs and it just didn't land for me. Even if it was in the realm of possibilities, I just didn't liked the solution.
It was played for laughs and it just didn't land for me. Even if it was in the realm of possibilities, I just didn't liked the solution.
A lot of the problems and conflict in this episode just didn't need to happen in the first place, since they're all just solved by random bullshit.
HyperlinkBlocked said: Much like the goat station and the itchy station, The regret/trauma station was too dangerous to stay at. It had to be skipped for their own sanity.Especially that trauma station. We legit just got a couple seconds of it before moving on to some confusing thing about a kid's anime that was alluded to in the end as something to help bring Yoka back, but never actually came up. Even supposing that the writers had the choice of making it safe enough to spend an episode at, I don't see how that helps the story either. This is a fast-paced, impulsive, wacky anime. What was it going to accomplish by exploring 3 other characters' traumatic pasts? Skipping it fits the idea that dwelling on past regrets and on things that can no longer be changed will just torment a person needlessly. Powering forward to the things that can still be changed is the better course of action. HyperlinkBlocked said: Pontaro has been set up as the main antagonist, fair assumption they must fight him, and a train-to-train battle seems like a reasonable writing choice. Hauling Yoka back to Ikebukuro just to push the button feels like it would break the pace, especially when they can just take it with them.I'm glad someone brought it up. I tolerated the zombies being a convenient plot point to bring them the button, and then the weird tentacle-like mass they formed to move in on to the tracks, but everything past that felt entirely unnecessary. Technically speaking, they could have just gotten her, gone back to Ikebukuro then had her push the button, though. There was no need for basically anything before the big talk with Yoka. By comparison, the bit where Pontaro starts fighting back and manages to fuck himself up with this own incompetence actually works and makes sense- bad execution aside. But then there was a split in the tracks for no apparent reason- presumably it was just added to set up Pontaro shooting at them. Once the staff realized there was nothing they could possibly do to counter literal cannon fire, they figured "Fuck it, put them on the tracks and have Pontaro self-destruct". |
| A train + lolis + LSD = This anime there. 🍄👽🌌♾️💭🌈🌀😵 |
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| A lot of questions has been unanswered.. |
| Man, I don't even know what to write other than this was an incredible anime. From start to finish, it was never a disappointment. The scenery was beautiful and the sky was always space. Surprise elements at every corner. The zombies really came in clutch! The ending was perfect IMO. We can't expect everything to go back to "normal" at least Yoka looks "normal" I'm glad her face and hair changed bc she looked ugly before. I guess the closer you were to Ikebukuro, the more likely you were to change, which is why everyone in Agano mostly stayed the same. I'm super happy I picked this one up. I'm surprised its as lowkey as it because its uncomparable to anything else. I'm going to miss this anime so damn much. Its going to be one of the few anime I'll recommend to newcomers. 9/10 for me tbh |
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