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May 17, 10:26 AM
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Poor Doug. I guess being called a 40-year-old by Christine hit him hard, but it was even surprising to me that he's actually 23, and it turns out that Christine is ~27, the oldest in the group.

Lol, looks like Axel likes his barbeque extra extra smoked. It was funny how Eleina put lots of snacks on the table for her to enjoy while waiting for the others to reach their destinations.

Skinner's view on the world is neither wrong nor right; it's the only one that leads to the ideal future that people desire and work for. But the possibility that Skinner knew something like this would happen and created his own desired future to lead everyone—I wish to see that. So it seems Hersch worked with Skinner as a researcher and was in love with him. This path isn't an easy one for her.

Christine in that swimsuit looked like a smoking hot babe, and those beautiful killer curves of hers—she's an angel with those looks and body. From the ending, it looks like she goes by another name: Alexandra.
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May 17, 12:27 PM
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Damn this shit was just soo smooth, I lowkey felt like I was in da show with them.

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May 17, 1:05 PM
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This was Pure Gasoline

May 17, 1:43 PM
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Nature is beautiful. Humans are destroying nature. Therefor it's fine if humans go extinct (almost) like Skinner wants? Is that how Christine thinks?

I never understood why edgy or self-hating people would agree to such POV. I still remember how people said Thanos snapping 50% of all life was also a good thing.

I think the problem is people don't interact with enough humans, and I mean actual people, not randos on the internet.

There are tons of people who are worth protecting and don't deserve to die just because some edgy loser with god complex decided to give up on our species. Skinner should just get a rope and a ladder and leave the 99% of mankind alone.
May 17, 3:17 PM
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“The only beautiful places left are those without humans.” I’ve been saying Skinner did nothing wrong for a month now, so Christine and the others gradually coming to that realization today was nothing new for me. I love the way this episode was directed though with Leland becoming sad about finding skinner and the group disbanding, as well as the beautiful scenery contrasted by the apocalyptic undertones and biblical symbolism. Superb from Watanabe as per.

I really wish we could get some OVA episodes of the Lazarus group just hanging out after all this is over with no stakes and just talking shit 😂 I feel bad for my boy Doug, it’s one thing for people to think you’re older than you are, but damn 17 years older is wild. My guy does NOT look 40.

Seeing places like the Maldives, parts of Manila and Tuvalu under water is a surreal experience, but sadly not too far off from reality. The attic is indeed melting and we need to take action instead of prioritising corporate greed.

So what I’m thinking is happening with the Skinner chase is that he wants to be found as Hersch said, but he wants people to go through his journey, retracing his steps and understanding why he did what he did. If you go through all the steps, see the damage humanity has brought to the world and want to have an honest discussion, then I think he’ll hear people out. Think his big issue is that no one took what he said seriously despite numerous warnings. He does strike me as someone with a bit of a God complex with the whole 7th trumpet thing, but he’s not a bad guy.

Well that ending had quite a few reveals! So hersch was a researcher with Skinner?? And who’s that at the end with Christine?!!! Her sister maybe? We’re definitely due for a backstory episode for her! She looked so good today 😩 such an icon.

One of my fave episodes because of the philosophical focus.
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May 17, 5:07 PM
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Christine backstory next time
May 17, 6:08 PM
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Probably the best episode of this series so far. Was it because of parkour or high actions sequences? The plot moving forward? The characters gaining personality? The animation getting better? No, it was because for once we could listen to more of the soundtrack as the montage happened. I feel a bit bad those jazz composer only got exposure through this anime but the work is appreciated.
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May 17, 6:11 PM
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Nature is beautiful. Humans are destroying nature. Therefor it's fine if humans go extinct (almost) like Skinner wants? Is that how Christine thinks?

I never understood why edgy or self-hating people would agree to such POV. I still remember how people said Thanos snapping 50% of all life was also a good thing.

I think the problem is people don't interact with enough humans, and I mean actual people, not randos on the internet.

There are tons of people who are worth protecting and don't deserve to die just because some edgy loser with god complex decided to give up on our species. Skinner should just get a rope and a ladder and leave the 99% of mankind alone.
@Sigmar-Unberogen While I understand with some people feeling doom and gloom as we destroy the planet to the point that they feel that us going extinct is a good thing, I can countenance that there are people worth saving. But here's another thought, what if everything we are doing, destroying the planet and thus ourselves, is part of the natural order and that us causing the sixth mass extinction is natural. I mean we are part of nature, everything we do is, well, natural.

Also, the destruction of the world is done by 10-20% of the human population (middle class and above). The poor don't have that much negative impact on the planet as the top 20% of our species. So most of the human species is too poor to be blamed but they are suffering the most.

In summary, I agree with Skinner but not the way he does it. I say we do as we are doing normally. If we can't realize our way of live is not sustainable, we will die out (and take most of the planet with ourselves). But life will still thrive. Even after a nuclear apocalypse, some corner of the world will have life to rebound back and spread again.
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May 17, 7:52 PM
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I actually really like this episode, specially compared to the previous one. I really like that at least it looks that more interesting things are about to happen. I like how they show what global warming and climate change can do if humans do not take more responsibility and action to help our planet. I might say its one of my favorite episodes, will see if episode 8 follows the good flow or if goes south again.
May 17, 9:37 PM

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I’m so in love with Christine fine ass

She’s the best waifu in all of Lazarus
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May 17, 9:43 PM
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it's great as always
May 17, 11:13 PM
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P vibey episode, just chillin on the waves🌊
May 18, 12:51 AM

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Axel follows the number one brazilians families rule: Sunday? let's eat some barbecue

Good episode. I dont agree 100% with this "Human can go extinct for the better" but I understand their view about it, after all, only the righteous deserves the salvation in the doomsday

Next week we will see doctor and christine backstory.
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May 18, 1:34 AM

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in the an interesting ep

today it was not about action, it was more quiet

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May 18, 1:42 AM

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Skinner is taking team Lazarus on a very scenic view. If he wanted them to understand his way of thinking, coordinates to sunken islands is an interesting way of doing so.

Skinner using the genes of pain immune humans in his research is a neat discovery. If hopna changes DNA, it'd be insane.
May 18, 3:31 AM

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HellindiuM said:
In summary, I agree with Skinner but not the way he does it. I say we do as we are doing normally. If we can't realize our way of live is not sustainable, we will die out (and take most of the planet with ourselves). But life will still thrive. Even after a nuclear apocalypse, some corner of the world will have life to rebound back and spread again.
Good points. I agree, if decision we make leads to our extinction eventually, I guess we failed as species. Natural selection at its finest.

The reason why I won't ever approve people like Skinner, Thanos or you average rogue A.I in sci-fi, is because they generalize and "boil everyone in the same pot" basically.

If it's natural for us to eventually destroy ourselves, so be it. Just curb your god-complex ego and don't decide fate of entire species on your own. As you said it, tons of people have no say in climate change and many other global problems. It's simply not fare for most of the ordinary folk.

Imagine just living your average, honest, hardworking life and then someone like Skinner says he's ending you and everyone else because he believes humans are destructive species and nature needs to heal or whatever.

They should find the guy and hang him.
May 18, 3:33 AM
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At this point, this anime is more childish and crude than any Narou Isekai of the last decade.
May 18, 4:22 AM
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No way Chris thought that Doug is 40 years old, that’s was insane, but also funny😂

Nice coming from Skinner to but that island in order for residents to live a better life. Their navigation is going well, can’t wait to see more.
May 18, 4:25 AM

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This may possibly be the most boring anime I have ever watched in my life. Here's a 5 minute montage of the characters walking around various locations while renting boats. Oh and we get to see the hacker girl setting up snacks for herself back at the base. Thrilling. This is after like 10 minutes of them sitting around a table trying to make sense of clues left behind by Skinner and Naga, or whatever.

I just hate how contrived this shit is too. Axel just happens BY CHANCE to meet one of the people with analgesia at that location, and that guy just happened BY CHANCE to get smacked in the face by a bunch of flying fish while Axel was diving, drawing blood and an irrelevant conversation that somehow times back to Skinner... YEAH OK.
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Sure it must be a special feeling to go all these submerged islands and see how beautiful the earth was before it got destroyed and polluted everywhere... more and more mysteries with Skinner buying all these islands and people being immunized to the pain
May 18, 6:17 AM

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Wow, just wow.

The fact that they were talking about the seven trumpets in ep 7 too 🤯
May 18, 7:12 AM

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Nice, does Lazarus has a comeback after last week's episode?

I love the quiet tone of this episode. The setup in the first half was on the weaker side though.
May 18, 7:17 AM

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Eleina setting up her little hikikomori tropical party at her computer reminded me of Sagiri from Eromanga Sensei, haha.
May 18, 8:09 AM

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W épisode again crazy, show is still getting better and better
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And here we have it, took them long enough, seven episodes. The ultimate sacred cow & golden bull of the left. The global warming hoax poke his head out, for any one with two brain cells to have a good laugh.

They've been peddling the same b.s to my gen for the last 40 + years, someone really needs to reminds this sanctimonious aholes that 1: they are not on the right side of history. 2: Polar Bears are not drowning, they are actually becoming a pest. 3 Coral and Ice around the world are actually growing not shrinking. 4: Water levels are the same todays as they were in 1890.

And finally me and countless others would actually believe follow the trend if we didn't see the Obamas of the world buying beach front mansions, the Al Gores & Bernie Sanders of the world buying multiple McMansions. The Taylor Swift & Bernie Sanders and so many other flying around the world in their private jets, sometimes taking multiple flights in the same week. Or taking their Superyacht for a little spin to Corsica or whatever destroying the ecosystem and polluting the planet more in a single trip than I will do in a year or more.

So show please spare me the b.s I and many, many more have had enough of b.s mountain.

Oh and another thing that needs to stop right now. Evils is evil, a bad person is a bad person Skinner is a villain the end. This grey bullsh!t that the villain is not so bad need to stop.

No but, no if's, the end. Evil is evil pure and simple.
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The soundtrack continues to be the MVP of the series providing more chill vibes in this episode. Sad to see those island communities being submerged underwater, but that's one of the dangers of climate change as the melting of the polar ice caps causes the sea levels to rise. Doug at 40? lol. I thought he was at least 25.
May 18, 8:57 AM
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so the origin of the pain killer is research on people that do not feel pain aka condition of analgesia

backstory for christine next
May 18, 9:10 AM
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Beautiful and moody. Main story just doesn’t quite justify it though. Doesn’t feel like an episode you would come back to despite the vibes unlike the moody bebop or champ lol episodes
May 18, 9:39 AM

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So many interesting developments this episode, among these the depiction of those submerged places was a particularly striking sight, one you admire in awe but wouldn't really wish to happen.

Skinner intrigues me even more now as it would seem he has been orchestrating this Hapna plan for decades, and possibly even expects to be found? I wonder if that implies that he has set up this witch-hunt so only the 'chosen' ones who unveil some secret can find him? Is the hunt for Skinner a plan for him to try and 'cleanse' humanity? Render it more benevolent? Get rid of people hurting the world and only preserve those willing to hold nature in good regards and work around and with it? But that would seem too extreme of a measure for someone like Skinner, who appears to be a genuine person deeply caring for the wellbeing of others, considering his past contributions to society and all of his past accounts and recordings? I just hope they're cooking up something good for the last few eps, and give us a satisfying outcome to Skinner's whereabouts.

It also felt like we got a double cliffhanger there at the end with Hersch and Alexandra??
May 18, 9:50 AM

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Finally, a good episode. Took em long enough, we got character development this episode, and a real clue into figuring out Skinner, so far the best episode, mainly because it was the first competent episode. (first ep gets the pass because it was an introduction)
May 18, 9:59 AM

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HellindiuM said:
In summary, I agree with Skinner but not the way he does it. I say we do as we are doing normally. If we can't realize our way of live is not sustainable, we will die out (and take most of the planet with ourselves). But life will still thrive. Even after a nuclear apocalypse, some corner of the world will have life to rebound back and spread again.
Good points. I agree, if decision we make leads to our extinction eventually, I guess we failed as species. Natural selection at its finest.

The reason why I won't ever approve people like Skinner, Thanos or you average rogue A.I in sci-fi, is because they generalize and "boil everyone in the same pot" basically.

If it's natural for us to eventually destroy ourselves, so be it. Just curb your god-complex ego and don't decide fate of entire species on your own. As you said it, tons of people have no say in climate change and many other global problems. It's simply not fare for most of the ordinary folk.

Imagine just living your average, honest, hardworking life and then someone like Skinner says he's ending you and everyone else because he believes humans are destructive species and nature needs to heal or whatever.

They should find the guy and hang him.
@Sigmar-Unberogen take into account that the people who take hard drugs and drugs in general are those in the low income side of society, Skinner's decision to release a drug that relieves pain because he is mad at the state and the capitalist class is literally the opposite of his message lmao, who would take the pain killer, a nepo baby or someone who lives in a ghetto? Obviously the former would be more prone to that, if anything the humans who would survive the most are the ones responsable of fucking the planet up.

It makes no sense.
May 18, 10:39 AM
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It also felt like we got a double cliffhanger there at the end with Hersch and Alexandra??


i smell yuri or lesbian ship coming considering hersch has a tomboy haircut
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Beautiful episode. The ocean is so beautiful, but not as beautiful as shirtless Axel. I can write a whole book about Axel's lickable muscle but no one's gonna read so let's stop here.

Leland talking about disbanding the group make me realized that Lazarus reminds me a little bit of the Gread Pretender, which is the attempt to push this genre that's about a group of criminal doing something good to the new era while Lazarus is trying to conserve it. Both have merit. And I like both of them.

This genre usually have diversed characters, cultures, and locations, so what's really new in Lazarus is the climate-awareness message. Yes, it's the same old message that we see in media for several decades, but I think it's still effective.
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Jesus CHRIST Christine, looking fine AF 🥵 Looks like we'll be getting more info about her next episode, plus it seems that there are some things about Hersch that might come out over the next couple of episodes as well.

Btw, the #25 forum post in this thread has to be the funniest thing I've read on this site 😂 *sigh* this place really has become Twitter lmfaooo.
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May 18, 11:18 AM

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i dont think this show thats been running in circles for the past 5 episodes with dead ends deserves a cliffhanger like that. world war iii is looming and the ice caps are melting but theres no change in urgency. the stakes are still gotta find skinner tick tock. I dont think there was even any action in this episode, which was admittedly very pretty. I'll keep watching but I have sorta given up hope on getting satisfying answers in this show.
May 18, 11:22 AM

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This may possibly be the most boring anime I have ever watched in my life. Here's a 5 minute montage of the characters walking around various locations while renting boats. Oh and we get to see the hacker girl setting up snacks for herself back at the base. Thrilling. This is after like 10 minutes of them sitting around a table trying to make sense of clues left behind by Skinner and Naga, or whatever.

I just hate how contrived this shit is too. Axel just happens BY CHANCE to meet one of the people with analgesia at that location, and that guy just happened BY CHANCE to get smacked in the face by a bunch of flying fish while Axel was diving, drawing blood and an irrelevant conversation that somehow times back to Skinner... YEAH OK.
@poemofdevil i kinda love how they navigator got the injury off screen. Of all the things to not show its the awkward fish slapstick.
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And here we have it, took them long enough, seven episodes. The ultimate sacred cow & golden bull of the left. The global warming hoax poke his head out, for any one with two brain cells to have a good laugh.

They've been peddling the same b.s to my gen for the last 40 + years, someone really needs to reminds this sanctimonious aholes that 1: they are not on the right side of history. 2: Polar Bears are not drowning, they are actually becoming a pest. 3 Coral and Ice around the world are actually growing not shrinking. 4: Water levels are the same todays as they were in 1890.

And finally me and countless others would actually believe follow the trend if we didn't see the Obamas of the world buying beach front mansions, the Al Gores & Bernie Sanders of the world buying multiple McMansions. The Taylor Swift & Bernie Sanders and so many other flying around the world in their private jets, sometimes taking multiple flights in the same week. Or taking their Superyacht for a little spin to Corsica or whatever destroying the ecosystem and polluting the planet more in a single trip than I will do in a year or more.

So show please spare me the b.s I and many, many more have had enough of b.s mountain.

Oh and another thing that needs to stop right now. Evils is evil, a bad person is a bad person Skinner is a villain the end. This grey bullsh!t that the villain is not so bad need to stop.

No but, no if's, the end. Evil is evil pure and simple.
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May 18, 12:12 PM

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It also felt like we got a double cliffhanger there at the end with Hersch and Alexandra??


i smell yuri or lesbian ship coming considering hersch has a tomboy haircut
@deg No Hersch is their group leader, and from what I understood it seemed like she was maybe attracted to or even in a relationship with Skinner before he disappeared. As for the tomboy haircut girl, I guess it has to do with Chris' dark past when she used to be called Alexandra or something. And she looked pretty scared so I doubt it's a sweethearts reuniting for a ship lol
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The episode this week really dived deep into Philosophy huh and it definitely gave me a great appreciation for nature around. The islands were really damn beautiful.

Also…

Hersch Being a Former Researcher at Hague where skinner was?! No shot she knows what happened to him back then. Even I was shook like Elaina.
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This was Pure Gasoline


Chris or should I say Alex is Quite a Smokin baddie huh.

Mature too, even.
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Is this a thinly veiled beach episode? There is actually no way a show that has already wasted about 6 episodes of filler is actually pulling out a swimsuit episode lmao.

This episode was genuinely the only one I enjoyed since the first, it was laid back and almost slice-of-lifesque while tackling some thematics which, even if they are shallow as they can be, is still more enjoyable than fucking around the most cliche cult that was ever conceived.
Lazarus has been hellbound in trying to make Skinner look like a tragic figure and a compelling character but it doesn't work in the absolute slightest no matter how much the main cast might stroke his cock verbally, Skinner is still an eco terrorist that has fabricated a drug taking hostage all of mankind just because he couldn't convince the big industries to reduce their carbon emission. In all possible kind of way Skinner is an hypocrit asshole who fabricated a whole game of pointless hide and seek placing himself as a martyr despite the fact the pollution he was seething about he 100% contributed to because you cannot distribute a drug to the whole planet without Big pharma sending millions of cargo around the world, and thus increasing carbon emmission in the process.

Now let's talk about more difficult subject, the melting of Antartica ice layers. (I don't know what's exactly the name in english I'm sorry)
Okay so first of all, this show takes places in 2052, barely 25 years from now, the closest estimation of Antartica fully melting because of human's carbon emission is stil around several THOUSANDS of years, which is pure bullshit.
Second, this show still has one of the messiest world building ever conceived. Not only most of these cities we visit are fully submerged but according to the local boat driver, they were already submerged for at least 10 YEARS, even more than that considering the population had time to relocate. The level of water and the fact the underwater buildings look all decrepit reinforce this idea meaning that, according to Lazarus, the city of Manilles is fully submerged underwater by the mid 2030s. If you just look at what the world and Antartica looks like right now, in 2025, you just realize how impossible it is.
Most importantly, is the way the characters and especially Christine reacts to the situation. The takeway the characters get from this little adventure is apparently that "Skinner was showing them what the world untouched by humans was like" (a completely hilarious theory that since the beginning the hobo guy in ep2 was really Skinner and he's fucking with them ever since lmao).
"This is it, the true form of the Earth"
"The humans who destroyed it"
*cries*
This scene is complete bullshit from a thematic standpoint. It suggest that mankind is evil and that Antartica fully melting is a done deal, there will be no more ice on Earth.
Anyone that has ever studied pre civilisation history knows that the Earth has went through SEVERAL ice ages during its entire existence and that there were multiple whole eras in Earth history were ice was nowhere to be found yet still managed to reform.
Earth climate actually mostly revolves around Solar cycles operating on period of hundred of thousands of years, far FAR disconnected from human activity, reminder that humans are anecdoctical within Earth's history (300.000 years among 4.5 billion fucking years).
The "true form of the Earth" will never change, no matter how much human intervene, especially if it's to spew out bullshit like Antartica melting in 10 years from now.

In the end, Skinner is in the wrong no matter how much the show is trying to portrait him in a good light. He is an egocentric maniac scientist who doesn't understand ecology and made most of humanity addicted to a drug just to prove how society couldn't function in a world of hedonism, something anyone with reflection would already know, and punished all of mankind for a sin only committed by a small minority of it. And no, showing the Night Watch doesn't make your comparison any less stupid because unlike the writer of this show, I studied Art history and I know Rembrandt more than they do probably.

tl;dr: The writing is still garbage.

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Damn the music in this episode was immaculate. Well, not just the music, the vibe of the whole episode was just perfect.

It pretty much confirmed, or at least the characters came to the same conclusion, what I was thinking in episode 3 or 4 that Skinner is voluntarily leaving clues around, not to confuse them but to show his point. In episode 3, that the problem of poverty and marginalization wasn't resolved; in episode 4, that the privileged don't care about the situation, waiting for others to take care of it and trying to profit from the current state of the world ... And with this episode mostly focuses on showing both the ecological impact of mankind but also showing how people will just watch things happening instead of doing something ( kinda what has been shown through the whole show ). Skinner wants to show the characters the contradiction of the world and eventually bring them to him and leave them to decide if the world is worth saving, if I have to guess.
May 18, 1:36 PM
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I've still got 15 minutes left in the episode, but I'm going to register a prediction now that Skinner bought land in those islands for philanthropic reasons--to help out the people losing their homes.
May 18, 2:04 PM
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Called it. And given that it was so obvious to me, I have no idea why Leland is still struggling to understand Skinner.

I really loved the montage of everyone hiring boats in their own separate ways while Eleina piled up snacks to munch while stalking them from afar. Especially when Doug hired out an entire tourist boat for himself.

That guy with congenital analgesia seems a lot less worse for wear than I would expect of someone suffering that disorder. It typically leads to a lot of damage, sometimes crippling in a number of ways. I feel like Skinner could just as easily have figured out a way to develop artificial nociception for them given his genius.

It's nice we're finally getting into the origins of the formation of Lazarus. Looks like things are about to kick into high gear.
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Probably the best episode of this series so far. Was it because of parkour or high actions sequences? The plot moving forward? The characters gaining personality? The animation getting better? No, it was because for once we could listen to more of the soundtrack as the montage happened. I feel a bit bad those jazz composer only got exposure through this anime but the work is appreciated.
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@rasterman7 You do Know Kamasi Washington, Floating Point and Bonobo were famous before the anime, they like touring the wrorld for years
@Monsieur_Hobbs ...I did not but good to know so that now I can look them up and listen to more of their stuff. Thanks
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Marinate1016 said:
I’m so in love with Christine fine ass

She’s the best waifu in all of Lazarus
@Fukoku Hey now, don't rule out the cutie Eleina.

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not much happened this episode so there was not much to hate

best of the series so far lol
🌈 i just want gintama back
May 18, 4:43 PM

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@Sigmar-Unberogen While I understand with some people feeling doom and gloom as we destroy the planet to the point that they feel that us going extinct is a good thing, I can countenance that there are people worth saving. But here's another thought, what if everything we are doing, destroying the planet and thus ourselves, is part of the natural order and that us causing the sixth mass extinction is natural. I mean we are part of nature, everything we do is, well, natural.

Also, the destruction of the world is done by 10-20% of the human population (middle class and above). The poor don't have that much negative impact on the planet as the top 20% of our species. So most of the human species is too poor to be blamed but they are suffering the most.

In summary, I agree with Skinner but not the way he does it. I say we do as we are doing normally. If we can't realize our way of live is not sustainable, we will die out (and take most of the planet with ourselves). But life will still thrive. Even after a nuclear apocalypse, some corner of the world will have life to rebound back and spread again.
HellindiuM said:
Also, the destruction of the world is done by 10-20% of the human population (middle class and above). The poor don't have that much negative impact on the planet as the top 20% of our species. So most of the human species is too poor to be blamed but they are suffering the most.

Try "USA, China and India" instead.
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The story finally started moving forward? This episode was good? Are those miracles?

I do have one complaint though, which is the anime still failing at "show, don't tell" a bit: Don't TELL us "OH WOW, THOSE PLACE DIDN'T USE TO BE UNDERWATER AND NOW THEY ARE", that should be OBVIOUS for characters in that universe. Just drop the names of the places, show them there with stuff submerged and let the people watching do 2+2.
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