Your Forma Episode 9 Discussion

So is this the infamous “St Petersburg incident” that got cut from the beginning of the anime? I was gonna say it’s a bit late for Harold’s backstory but holy fuck man . They NEEDED this arc. Probably the best episode so far. Sozon’s death will forever haunt me. One of the most disturbing scenes I’ve seen in an anime.

It just feels like everything came and went with Harold and Sozon so quickly man it hurts. We only had one episode with the guy, but you could see how close he and Harold were and there’s a ton of parallels to he and Echika’s current relationship. One minute we’re painting rooms green and having late night drinking parties as a family, the next you’re watching your best friend get chopped into 20 pieces by a serial killer. Life comes at you fast.

You can actually see Sozon’s personality start to rub off on Harold over the course of the episode and Harold going from the uptight and traumatised Amicus bot he was at the start of this flashback, to the looser and witty person we know him to be with Echika. If there’s ANY consolation here it’s knowing Sozon lives on in Harold. He changed his life. I wonder what will happen to his wife though, I really hope she at least survived. No such thing as a “happy ending” here but that’s about the best we could get..

Along with the serial killer’s brutal and prolonged death. It’s one thing to kill someone, but to desecrate bodies and make a mockery of the dead is even worse. That 20 year old girl he chopped up and left on the bench reminds me of the Black Dahlia case from LA back in the 40s. Apparently St Petersburg Russia has a reputation for these sorts of crimes too 😳 just a crazy episode man. Did NOT think they’d be so graphic with the chainsaw and Sozon’s death.

I wonder how the conversation Harold had with his “brother” at the start will come back into play here.

We mourned Sozon's death more than the girl's, even though they were both killed in the same way by the same killer. When the victim is someone you know or you know about, the impact is different.

So is this the infamous “St Petersburg incident” that got cut from the beginning of the anime? I was gonna say it’s a bit late for Harold’s backstory but holy fuck man . They NEEDED this arc. Probably the best episode so far. Sozon’s death will forever haunt me. One of the most disturbing scenes I’ve seen in an anime.

It just feels like everything came and went with Harold and Sozon so quickly man it hurts. We only had one episode with the guy, but you could see how close he and Harold were and there’s a ton of parallels to he and Echika’s current relationship. One minute we’re painting rooms green and having late night drinking parties as a family, the next you’re watching your best friend get chopped into 20 pieces by a serial killer. Life comes at you fast.

You can actually see Sozon’s personality start to rub off on Harold over the course of the episode and Harold going from the uptight and traumatised Amicus bot he was at the start of this flashback, to the looser and witty person we know him to be with Echika. If there’s ANY consolation here it’s knowing Sozon lives on in Harold. He changed his life. I wonder what will happen to his wife though, I really hope she at least survived. No such thing as a “happy ending” here but that’s about the best we could get..

Along with the serial killer’s brutal and prolonged death. It’s one thing to kill someone, but to desecrate bodies and make a mockery of the dead is even worse. That 20 year old girl he chopped up and left on the bench reminds me of the Black Dahlia case from LA back in the 40s. Apparently St Petersburg Russia has a reputation for these sorts of crimes too 😳 just a crazy episode man. Did NOT think they’d be so graphic with the chainsaw and Sozon’s death.

I wonder how the conversation Harold had with his “brother” at the start will come back into play here.

I liked this episode. It was easily the best one so far, which made me realize Echika is a terrible protagonist and a very badly written character, and that she drags this show down. While the anime is partly at fault for skipping her backstory arc, but her dynamic with Harold is very dull, and there's nothing interesting about her as a character to make me care about her. This episode should have been the blueprint for the story. A buddy cop mystery thriller with Sozon and Harold solving serial murder cases, slowly bonding closer together and Harold becoming a real human bean in the process. Should have dropped all the Your Forma, Brain Diving and Amicus crap. None of it is interesting.

I have no idea that was months ago and this show’s largely been forgettable.

No, volume 1 only references this incident but is mostly about Echika, this flashback was actually in the middle of volume 4, so they're showing it earlier to compensate, which is the right choice.



No need to overreact about this. Just keep watching.

Everytime I see Harold going on his own it takes me out of it. What I mean by that is that he can't take any action whatsoever against a human so there was no point of him going in the shed... the moment he found the van he as a logical being should have called it in.

@Tithain actually yeahhhhh... anybody with police experience or military experience with approaching suspicious locations or breaching/clearing buildings is going to think Sozon and Harold were very stupid and unrealistic. so far (at least to me) this show has been pretty close to US TV averages as to its accuracy for a police procedural. so for THIS highly important incident in Harold's backstory... these events make ZERO sense. if the LN author wanted to 'trap' both Harold and Sozon 'together' for Sozon's death...WHY NOT send BOTH of them into this situation TOGETHER? backing eachother up. did the LN author not want a repeat of Harold being helpless while Echika gets 'bonked' on the noggin by Aiden Furman and kidnapped in that house in the English Luddite Compound? because the author... uhhhh... basically DID repeat it... except Harold and Echika DID go into that house together.

if you're going to write about cops, ya better be able to IMPRESS or at least SATISFY cops watching your show.

Sozon got chainsaw'ed for being the only interesting character in this show damn

@KiliianSleipnir I'm not saying you're wrong or that this show is perfect in regard to how accurate it is. But in this case you're supposed to feel like that and Sozon's actions will be explained if you keep watching. I don't know if you'll be satisfied, but let's just say he's not THAT stupid. Anything more would be a spoiler.