Gokukoku no Brynhildr Episode 7 Discussion

Kerozinn said:
yay..we only have a month to live..lets go to karaoke!

So now we know about Valkyria although briefly, she's much stronger than an AAA and is in the S class rank.

VIStrings said:
Bah. Another crappy episode that only adds to the dissapointment.

All the silly girly stuff, fanservice and silly clichés ruin it for me. The author seems to think that just because you throw aliens and conspiracies into the mix, you can make a quality "mystery" anime. There's no thrill, there's no danger, no worthwhile mystery to this. If it was a 2 cour series I'd drop it here and now but since I've watched more than half of it already, I'll suffer through the 20min every week.

Elfen Lied was one of the first manga I read to the end (never watched the anime) and I enjoyed it a lot back then. Shame.

DGemu said:


And you would be doing?

AnimageNeby said:


Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. He makes it sound like it doesn't make any sense and is some lame-ass thing that is not consistent, like it was a plot-hole or bad writing... but actually it made perfect sense.

Mind you: I'm actually not fond of karaoke and I personally would not do that, because it isn't my thing. HOWEVER, it does make sense within the context of the anime and the story we saw. People DO like different things, after all, and it's clear that karaoke is something that gives enjoyment to many people, or it wouldn't be as popular (at least in Japan). It stands to reason, thus, that, if you never experienced something pleasant - or at least potentially pleasant or what is considered to be enjoyable with your peers - to try that out, ESPECIALLY if you had a life like a labrat and almost had no enjoyable experiences in your entire life.

Yeah, then I would go for enjoying myself more too. Just imagine it. You have some disease and they tell you: "you have only 1 month to live anymore". What would one do? Just continuing with your life as if nothing happened? Continue to commute and go to your boring work every day? Watch anime you dislike? ;-)

No, I think most would say: well, I have only that much life left, I'm going to get the most out of it. So you spend that as the most enjoyable you can. That can be going out with friends, having more quality time with your wife/husband/kids, travelling to places and doing things you always wanted to see or do, but never got around to it, etc. Those things. In those circumstances, you do what you think will give you enjoyment and what you think makes you the most satisfied with the limited time left - especially enjoyment and new things you didn't experience yet.

It makes perfectly sense, thus, for Neko to want to try a thing out she never tried before, but which is considered enjoyable. Especially for her, it must be far more enticing than for others, because of her past situation where she had no chance of doing it, and even didn't know such a thing existed.

In fact, it's my belief that that is also the reason Kazumi behaves so slutty. Ok, it's because she IS more slutty, granted, but the reason why she is so adamant about sex is because she wants to get laid, before she dies. That too, is understandable. I mean, if you were a virgin, and had an appetite in sex, wouldn't you do more your best to get laid if you only had a month left to do it? She's extremely slutty from a normal standpoint (the other girls have another personality, obviously), but the fact that she is *that* overbearing in regard to having sex, is mainly due, I think, to the fact she simply has little time left, and still would like to do it with someone she likes (the MC). It's her version of doing a karaoke. :-)

AnimageNeby said:


Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. He makes it sound like it doesn't make any sense and is some lame-ass thing that is not consistent, like it was a plot-hole or bad writing... but actually it made perfect sense.

Mind you: I'm actually not fond of karaoke and I personally would not do that, because it isn't my thing. HOWEVER, it does make sense within the context of the anime and the story we saw. People DO like different things, after all, and it's clear that karaoke is something that gives enjoyment to many people, or it wouldn't be as popular (at least in Japan). It stands to reason, thus, that, if you never experienced something pleasant - or at least potentially pleasant or what is considered to be enjoyable with your peers - to try that out, ESPECIALLY if you had a life like a labrat and almost had no enjoyable experiences in your entire life.

Yeah, then I would go for enjoying myself more too. Just imagine it. You have some disease and they tell you: "you have only 1 month to live anymore". What would one do? Just continuing with your life as if nothing happened? Continue to commute and go to your boring work every day? Watch anime you dislike? ;-)

No, I think most would say: well, I have only that much life left, I'm going to get the most out of it. So you spend that as the most enjoyable you can. That can be going out with friends, having more quality time with your wife/husband/kids, travelling to places and doing things you always wanted to see or do, but never got around to it, etc. Those things. In those circumstances, you do what you think will give you enjoyment and what you think makes you the most satisfied with the limited time left - especially enjoyment and new things you didn't experience yet.

It makes perfectly sense, thus, for Neko to want to try a thing out she never tried before, but which is considered enjoyable. Especially for her, it must be far more enticing than for others, because of her past situation where she had no chance of doing it, and even didn't know such a thing existed.

In fact, it's my belief that that is also the reason Kazumi behaves so slutty. Ok, it's because she IS more slutty, granted, but the reason why she is so adamant about sex is because she wants to get laid, before she dies. That too, is understandable. I mean, if you were a virgin, and had an appetite in sex, wouldn't you do more your best to get laid if you only had a month left to do it? She's extremely slutty from a normal standpoint (the other girls have another personality, obviously), but the fact that she is *that* overbearing in regard to having sex, is mainly due, I think, to the fact she simply has little time left, and still would like to do it with someone she likes (the MC). It's her version of doing a karaoke. :-)

-ShadowClaw- said:

Uh regarding that statement u made about Kazumi being sluty there is actually an even more valid reason why she acts like that but to do so would mean major spoilers for those who not have read the manga so il write it in the spoiler tag below

AnimageNeby said:


I know what you mean, and, in fact, when writing that post, I first said the exact sme thing:



And I know where it's coming from, because she literally says so, at one point. But, when I thought about it, it didn't make much sense if you really take it at face value. I think one should rather interpret it as something either being said deliberatly, to confuse you-know-who, or, as a genuine wish, but more as an afterthought, a mental sigh of an irrational longing that is not meant as a serious 'striving for' contemplation (and action). I don't think that's the actual driving force for her behaviour thus. The reason is as simple as it is straightforward:




In any case, some people are a bit too quick in depicting what the characters do as 'unrealistic'. Of course, to some extend it is: many clichés ARE typical of anime, after all, and this is an anime. But for some character-traits and interactions shown, some 'clichés' actually make sense and are more in line with the story and what you could expect from the extreme situation they're in, than in many other anime. So Kazumi might seem as the 'typical ecchi-craving character' like we often see in other anime as well, but it actually makes more sense in *this* anime THAT she would behave the way she does.