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Jan 30, 2021 1:29 AM

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Deserved deaths of those three. Poor victims and the rabbits.
Feb 5, 2021 11:42 PM
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This episode was a perfect example that outside appearance is second hand to eternal appearance. Cause someone you love the most, help the most, or give charity too the most can be the ones to betray you.
Apr 28, 2021 9:34 AM

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Imagine being traveling and some strangers attack you after you helped them. I am a person that does not help almost anyone so I will not have that problem.

I also can say that those men were really ugly.
May 30, 2021 1:22 AM

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This was a dark episode, didn’t expect some of the things that happened here at all
Mar 8, 2022 11:46 AM
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Pretty random how that king died and wow i didn't expected this series to be quite gory

Apr 22, 2022 1:12 PM

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This showcased Kino's quick witted capabilities in action. Nice mix after a more relaxed intro. I want to say I'm enjoying this because normally I'm really into these kinds of atmospheric character driven adventures but something feels missing. 3/5

Edit: the right word I meant to use was iyashikei
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Apr 22, 2022 1:32 PM

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The thankfulness for the life of the food is a beautiful thing and I've seen that message in an Anime that was focusing on a farmer's life (forgot the title)

Contrary to what many people wrote, I do not see the death of the rabbits as a waste. Because they died for the sake of the great ideals Kino has held: as in helping those in need as fellow humans

This episode makes Kino quite sympathetic: as in believing in doing good things because you would wish for others to do good things to you when you are in need, but still being prepared for the worst
Apr 27, 2022 1:09 AM

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What an awesome episode, infinitely better than the first. I guess each episode is going to come with it's own sort of philosophical lesson.
Aug 4, 2022 10:27 AM
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This episode was tense, it questioned some moral issues, firstly animals serve to serve humans, if she had to kill a thousand rabbits to help them she should do it, now the other story is they are bad characters, besides having fed of humans they were going to sell them first, this is a bad thing and they were punished accordingly.
The good thing about the anime is that it didn't try to convey that the lives of animals are more important than that of human beings, nor did it try to relieve these slavers.

PT-BR

Esse episódio foi tenso, colocou em xeque algumas questões morais, primeiramente os animais servem para servir os humanos, se tivesse que matar mil coelhos para ajudá-los ela deveria fazer, agora a outra história é eles serem mau caráter, além de terem se alimentado de humanos eles primeiramente iam vende-los, isso é um coisa ruim e eles foram punidos adequadamente.
O bom do anime é que ele não tentou passar que a vida dos animais são mais importantes que a dos seres humanos e nem tentou aliviar para esses escravagistas.
Sep 21, 2022 7:27 PM
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Very thoughtful and philosophical-- the premise of a show like this is already rather bizarre so using that concept to really explore the world in depth like this episode did, and challenge our characters is what makes anime great. Also, the animation of this show is particularly impressive for a 2003 anime
Sep 26, 2022 10:57 PM
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So if I didn't know better I'd think Kino wanted to become a slave lol. should see who they really are before helping (especially 3-1 and no one around) and concerned if they were thieves than guilt for hunting a rabbit, well what do you know, close enough human traffickers?

Kino is philosophical than a happy fruitcake. A character that don't fabricate. I like the character, but Kino doesn't know much about safety, luckily she built good to take care of the minimum, a real posse

Wonder if most of these travel going to be Kino's judgment call, stepping in gravy. Not to say not interesting, but average.

Traveling is a good interesting theme in this world as achievements would likely fall on deaf's ear.
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Nov 27, 2022 8:30 PM

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I was not expecting this at all
Dec 18, 2022 8:50 PM
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I really enjoyed the parallels between the three dead rabbits and the three criminals, Kino sacrificing the rabbits for the men with the preconception that the men would have done the same for him. This all comes crashing down once he finds out the people he saved are human traffickers with the end of the episode having the quote "these things are bound to happen because we are only human"
Feb 17, 2023 7:06 PM
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another verry good episode!
Mar 6, 2023 1:53 PM

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At first I thought that Kino had a ballistic knife but I guess not. Surprised that the gun had aim though, usually these types of guns don't have any aim let alone a laser one (I think).

I didn't think about cultural stereotipisation until I read about it on this forum. Maybe it's true?

Idk how some people saw the twist coming, I didn't have any suspicions
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Mar 27, 2023 4:57 PM
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Its really cool that the episode name has a dual meaning or at least at the beginning of the episode I thought the meaning of the name was that the people with the truck take advantage of other peoples help.
Jul 4, 2023 2:27 AM

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Didn't expect Kino to be that armed — guns, knives and knife-guns all over.

I wonder if that changed her outlook on hunting animals for strangers. This episode displays that while humans can return the favours that most animals can't, they are also more likely to take advantage of your altruism for their own potentially malicious ends than animals are. The risk didn't really pay off in this case, and I wouldn't take it myself.



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Jul 5, 2023 5:08 PM
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Did they eat the girl in the truck, what? This series is sooo eerieee. I wasn't expecting this at all. 
Apr 30, 5:30 AM
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So that's why they wanted to eat that rabbit raw.
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