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| Best anime episode I've seen in a long time. Just wow |
| The characters in this show are so good. I am not so sure about the plot devices but they sure are creative. It's hella 4th wall-y with the movie theatre, I feel like I would have to watch it 10 times over to get a full appreciation of this episode. |
| Very good episode, this made me much more excited for what's next to come. And yeah I agreewith @nuttre , the characters are top tier and dont the fit the generic school anime archetypes. |
| I knew the talking dog's voice sounded familiar. It's the same person who voiced the Black Hooded character in "To Your Eternity", Kenjirou Tsuda. |
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Angel Beats much? err ye  |
| Has any other anime moved on to (and then past, in this case) literal deconstruction of the medium this quickly? |
| Aki-sensei is leading a military group out of nowhere. Feels bad to be with her. Asakaze pretty much ended as her lapdog. Radjhani and Nagara were close to bringing themselves back to the ''original world'' but sadly it was just a copy. Seems like there will be some kind of time travel. |
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deg said: i have to lower my score of this show for now you need some basic quantum mechanics knowledge to understand this episode so this episode shows the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics especially the time travel part that you cannot change the past and if you do go to the past you just gonna create another branch or possibility or new timeline while the old timeline is not gonna be affected so that is how time paradoxes are avoided god plays dice is what quantum mechanics says so the world is about chances or probabilities rather than classical physics which is deterministic but Einstein famously said that god does not play dice though since his discovery the general relativity means reality is deterministic  i guess the ending will be they gonna exactly time travel to the past where a new timeline or branch of time will be created for all of them also they might be in Schrodingers Cat state which means they are both dead and alive at the same time so they need self-awareness or observer of themselves or they need to start recognizing each other to finally break out and have a future or outcome Nozomi is both dead and alive clearly in this episode she is a Schrodingers Cat for example even Wikipedia has the film analogy of the Many Worlds (or This Worlds like the anime likes to call it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation so this show is not about structure vs agency of social science anymore but the multiverse and hard science too being a huge metaphor of yet another coming of age story  One thing dosn't exclude the other. I'm still seeing the social metaphors and critique in the new episode. The Quantum Mecanics isn't essencial for the interpretation of the other side. If you clone someone, both will think be the original, and you can see that way with the new discover, without using Shorindeger, just logic. Sorry if i did a grammatical mistake |
| this show blows my expectations out the water every time, amazing episode |
| Wow, just when I thought I was starting to understand what was going on, this episode happened. What a trip, I loved it! |
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SideCharacterKal said: Aki-sensei is leading a military group out of nowhere. Feels bad to be with her. Asakaze pretty much ended as her lapdog. Radjhani and Nagara were close to bringing themselves back to the ''original world'' but sadly it was just a copy. Seems like there will be some kind of time travel. I think THEY are the copy, and what they saw is real. Doggo also said they had already graduate. But they never did. |
| Tachikoma saves the day !!! |
| Hmmm that's also mean doggo is a few years younger than them, but has also been stuck there for about 5000 years. Clusterfuck time in coming. |
imperator69Aug 19, 2021 4:05 PM
| Tachikoma saves the day !!! |
| I was on the fence about this show up to this point, but this episode was done so well that I'm kind of sold on this show now. Like most people, I still don't know what the fuck is going on, but the directing on this episode was perfect. The animation (love the blurred animation they used when Nagara adjusted the film spec), the song inserts and the way the episode ended was perfect. I really hope they keep this up until the end. |
| This episode blew me away, I never expected the twist to be so good. |
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| None of the previous episodes were as confusing to me as this episode was. So many thoughts crossed my mind, and more questions keep piling up. The thing that struck me the most in this episode though was the egocentrism and the disappointment that comes with not being the center of something or being mere copies, just like the characters in this episode. I liked that detail a lot. In an alternative future, Nozomi is dead, but in their future or the present they came from leading to their future, they all might be dead, or alive for that matter. I'm curious about Hoshi and the teacher. We're halfway through the show. |
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| A lot of twists in this episode. Nozomi's still probably the most interesting character. She'll probably have to make some important decisions in the future. |
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| I feel like adding time travel to an anime could be hit or miss at times. So we will see how this turns out. Aki-sensei may or may not be a Sensei. She's wearing a Uniform in the Island world but she was clearly a Teacher in the "Real"/"Copied" world. So shining some light on that situation soon would be nice. Raj is seriously turning out to be one of my favorite characters in this series. How he's not considered a main Character at this point is absurd. I loved how he was actually not getting jealous about Nagara's powers. It's refreshing to see another male character support the main Male Character. Mizuho teaching the dog to sit, stay, and beg had me rolling. She is still the best character. Welp there goes Nozomi's light...now what? |
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| i think im too dumb to watch this show. not sure if im still supposed to be confused at this point lol, kinda understanding what's happening from reading the comments in this thread tho |
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| bruh nani the fuck i can't blame anyone for getting lost in the craziness that was this episode that was totally not a "final" would it make any sense of current Aki-sensei being from the past because there was a cut of her skirt that made it seem like it was a uniform but the one in the other world showed her as a teacher. |
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| Another very entertaining episode! I don't watch this series for any type of continuity, I watch it for weekly entertainment. I can just sit and let my eyes just take in whatever the screen shows me. I don't need to understand or even anticipate what is going to happen. I just watch and let it all unfold. Very nicely done! |
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| Best episode yet, although it was confusing and felt like an hour. |
| Great episode. A lot to digest with many different characters developing through many different plots that are also connected and spanning an unknown amount of time. All I know for sure is that the graduation reveal made this anime even more interesting. |
| There's a lot of things goin on. More wacky and trippy than the monkey world, for sure. The first attempt that almost break the circle of ''this' world'. Imagine that yourself already thought you win some jackpot, but, you get fooled by someone elses trick. Mad? Sad? Complete depression? That's them there. Anyway, the principal revealed to be the god, and some stray black giant-ass dog appeared revealing himself as a time traveller student, to their's perspective. This episode using another other worldy place, the movie world, and its own rule, as a device to figure out how to escape from the palm of God's hands. Well, unfortunately, its reach a failure. Try again later, lads. Because i am pretty sure there's always be a way to find the real path. The genuine path of their own future, away from those annoying old man who claims to be the God. Not a copy. Not from the dog and the teacher world. Their own world for the better future. To hell with the others. Could they? I hope Nozomi just be fine even though its hard knowing your future is death. Well, its sure have a lot of possibilities for what is coming next. But, as always i am just gonna say: lets see next for the real next .... |
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| There's so many layers at the 2nd half of the episode that I'm left confused but at awe at how many it tries to subtly communicate. One thing that really piqued my interest is that we can see "A Christmas Carol"-esque thing going on as Nagara saw a version of The Ghost of Christmas Future, a future where he continued running away from his problems. He has problems with his family, problems with his future and he's left friendless. Pixie girl died for some reason, possibly a suicide. It may be a direct continuation if the world didn't "drift away", or in this case, if they didn't drift away. Confusing but honestly the best episode yet, 10/10. Very excited for the next episode. |
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| I was enjoying this show from the start but with this episode my interest shot up high, it seems like with every episode I like this anime more and more, this could be something great let's hope it keeps this momentum up |
| Something about the teacher always felt wrong. And now, the dog says she might not be the real teacher. It was too early for the problem to be solved. And, what the dog said about the drifting, only made it more clear that the "teacher" and Asakaze would do something to mess things up. We finally see the voice of the person that Hoshi talks to. Hoshi: I don't know what I should think about him. But, I like him. He's very interesting. Nozomi was dead in the world they went to. I wonder if there's a bigger meaning to that. The story has so many interesting concepts. It's slow, but every episode leaves us with some clues to the end, and some time to process them, while also letting the characters live. I am really liking it. Can't wait for everything to come together. |
| The dog said "I don't know the cause of the drift" at first and "This drift was caused by the principal" after a while. Hey, what's happening to the scenario. When the dog said only students are chosen as drifters, the teacher was wearing a school uniform skirt. It seems a student is disguising herself as the teacher. Incidentally, the same voice actor for the teacher was assigned to a character named Tsubame at the credits of the episode 2. I'm not sure who Tsubame is, but one of the girls who were surfing with Asakaze might be she. Anyway, the teacher should be happy in the current situation with Asakaze. --- edit --- I didn't know that all the students' figures and names had been published by the official twitter account in July. For those who'd like to know them, open this: |
kuroneko99Aug 25, 2021 1:49 AM
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