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Nov 23, 2023 2:40 PM

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i'm so confused.
i really like weird anime, but wasn't expecting this to turn into this weird out of nowhere.
Nov 23, 2023 3:07 PM
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This episode took another path that it was completely crazy (in a bad way). Hoping next episode will make me feel like watching it, because this episode was very bad
Nov 23, 2023 5:45 PM

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This episode's idea of Vuonna 85 was trippy. The eighties, huh...
Nov 23, 2023 6:41 PM
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I really want clean images of the floppy disk girl art from the end credits to use as PC wallpaper.

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Nov 23, 2023 6:44 PM
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Also want to say after reading negative comments, I thought this was one of the best episodes yet. It made me want to read the manga. Love that there is something deeper going on than just a simple time travel story. It's like a real visual novel.

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Nov 23, 2023 8:37 PM

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Are we still in the same show? This episode had a whole different vibe to it. It was different from the normal, "let's make a game" setting, this episode got me thinking about stuff. What does it mean to imagine? What does it mean to be human?

In the end, it was an amazing episode, I wonder if we will meet Echo 1 or 2 again, this episode motivates me to read the manga and see what happens after the anime ends.
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Nov 24, 2023 12:14 AM

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wtf did I just watch 😭
Nov 24, 2023 1:19 AM

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This show is such fun. I don't mind the tonal shift at all.
Nov 24, 2023 4:58 PM

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Moments like this always make me wonder how far scientific progress can go in just 10-15 years and how backward our current technology will look years from now.
Nov 24, 2023 9:57 PM

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Marinate1016 said:
Buddy did not watch the episode at all. Confirmation this time. Konoha isn’t even in the episode
He can't keep getting away with it!
Nov 24, 2023 9:58 PM

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@reapercreeper he will since he’s a former mod . This happens in every thread
Nov 24, 2023 10:49 PM

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Now he knows how Konoha feels and what she goes through each time. I hope they can bond more over it now.
Nov 25, 2023 1:06 AM

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The episode was almost as weird as Stark's post lol
Nov 25, 2023 6:13 PM
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I find it amusing how so many posts in this thread are complaining about how confusing, pointless, unnecessary, etc this episode was, when it was literally about the nature & importance of imagination in the face of cookie-cutter, linear thinking 😆 Lol, humans, amirite? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Nov 26, 2023 9:11 AM
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This episode was completely different from what I imagined but I liked it in the end
Nov 26, 2023 9:07 PM

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I'm unsure if Echo 1 2 and 3 are aliens or beings from another dimension that were seemingly trying to figure out how to get back home or transcend their existence but needed imagination to do so but they along the way wound up really liking bishoujo games. That was trippy.

Oh so Echo 2 was that girl in beginning of Ep3 that everyone here suspected was a god...well not too far off we were

I wonder if Konoha will be mad Mamoro used up one of her games and got to meet these beings without her

HollowDoll said:
WTH is that thing that appeared at 0.07, it appeared 3 times in this episode. It kinda creeps me out..

Huh? Do you have a phobia of drinking bird desktop physics toys?

traed said:
Huh? Do you have a phobia of drinking bird desktop physics toys?


ohhhh it seems like the bird is drinking whatever imagination they are trying to produce.

But yeah def a new phobia, still creeped out haha
Nov 27, 2023 6:11 AM

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I have no idea what happened but ok...

I think it's just me being dumb but well nevertheless that was... Interesting.
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Nov 27, 2023 5:43 PM
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Well, not sure how I expected this to go after the last ending. But this was far from it. Feels kind of out of place, almost like it should have had more build up. Still enjoyed it though
Nov 28, 2023 12:50 AM
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so this Echo guy looks like the one who make the time travelling "game" ?
at the end Mamoru travelled back into '99 via something that look like a game cover
Nov 28, 2023 5:42 AM

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Reply to Stark700
This was one of Konoha's deeper time dives as she goes back to year 1985.

PC-98 is still apparently a thing in this timeline and a company is involved in making a game with such technology. Gotta say, Konoha is bold for getting into this timeline.
Stark700 said:
This was one of Konoha's deeper time dives as she goes back to year 1985.

PC-98 is still apparently a thing in this timeline and a company is involved in making a game with such technology. Gotta say, Konoha is bold for getting into this timeline.

Literal AI post, pretty pathetic.
Nov 29, 2023 11:46 AM
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Reply to matrograde
I really want clean images of the floppy disk girl art from the end credits to use as PC wallpaper.
@matrograde

Don't think there's been a higher-res post of these, but here's them without the credits:

https://twitter.com/chipushishi/status/1712136560592978165
Nov 29, 2023 3:17 PM
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@matrograde

Don't think there's been a higher-res post of these, but here's them without the credits:

https://twitter.com/chipushishi/status/1712136560592978165
@lawlies1234 thank you so much!

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Nov 29, 2023 4:31 PM

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Cool to learn a bit about how the industry was in the 80s, would've liked to have more of that.

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Nov 30, 2023 5:24 PM

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Personally I think the last thing this (comedy / supernatural) show needed was a full episode devoid of the main character trying in under a half hour to unpack the depths of the human psyche but if some people enjoyed it good for them.
Dec 7, 2023 12:35 AM
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I thought Mamoru would travel in the future but now he got in the past in the 80s, but that was.... surprising and confusing with these echo alien guys
Dec 8, 2023 6:17 AM

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That was a very interesting episode, but one I'm a bit confused on what I just witnessed. Don't really understand what the point this episode was trying to get across other than the power of imagination. Looked quite pretty in the last few minutes though, good directing there.
@Mcsuper same. loved the concept of sup being mc but the episode kinda makes no sense.
And the cast their are ... robots ? kinda hard to find the logic.
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Dec 10, 2023 2:46 PM

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Just when I thought
Konoha had an annoying voice, a green haired girl appears... what's with the red band? This was the most bizarre episode I've ever seen. What the heck happened??
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Dec 12, 2023 4:32 PM
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That was trippy ...
Dec 16, 2023 7:18 PM
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Well, Mamoru learned the hard way how bewildered you feel when you travel to the past and future without understanding anything. I don't know if everyone noticed, but Echo 2 is the girl who appears at the beginning of chapter 3, who is lying down looking at the tank full of energy that was on the roof. The only thing I managed to understand makes me think that these Echo are nothing more than a species of life superior to humans who, by chance of the universe, became fans of bishoujo video games and, in their search to understand what it is that they allows you to get such energy with these games, they ended up investigating what imagination was. Now, I have 3 questions:
1. What gives the games that were given to Konoha the ability to travel through time, in addition to the energy that Eco mentioned, could it be her imagination and aspiration to create bishoujo games?
2. If the energy these games had were so valuable to Eco, why did they give them to Konoha? Maybe because they sensed that she might be able to use those games as "fuel" that would trigger the creation of more of them?
3. Understanding that Eco said the phrase "I know we will meet again one day" and that, in theory, they have already completed their investigation through imagination, will they return Konoha to the future as soon as they finish the game? Or will they take Mamoru along with her on a future journey?
Anyway, we just have to wait for the anime to answer all this and see how much weight the phrase "Imagination is what defines reality" will have. See you next week.
Dec 19, 2023 3:14 AM

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One of the best and wildest episodes this season. I loved how it was deep, but not preachy or overly convoluted. Simple, but prescient. Obvious they were aliens from their mannerisms, technology, and outfits. That was quite definitely real, he even laments at the end he wasn't able to bring that merchandise back. Looks like they used that device to open a wormhole and send him back. I thought all of this was fairly obvious on its face.
Dec 21, 2023 11:37 AM
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Cool episode. Turns out this show is more enjoyable without its main character.
Dec 22, 2023 2:13 PM

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what the hell just happened lol

while i understood most of it for the 1st 15 minutes, the rest was so random, is this how people feel watching Evangelion and Steins gate? :D

anyway, aliens or whatever, it was interesting to see how Echo1 just makes so many games and how cute Echo2 was with her dressing
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Dec 31, 2023 9:50 AM
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FUCK! There is only one possible explanation for that fabulous chapter: LSD and acids... very powerful acids! It's the only possible explanation!

That and... hehehe with her dressed like that I could let my imagination fly high!




Jan 11, 12:41 AM
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Yep. The 80's on some weird shit as per usual. That's not my time, but it just always comes off as this weird transition time to me. Like art feels like it goes backwards and everything. Seems like an oddly good time to explore what imagination is.

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Feb 15, 10:05 PM

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Imagination running so wild it can cause time-space paradoxes? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP BABY
Feb 19, 12:55 PM
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Was a little confused but i think im just dumb. i liked seeing the episode from a different characters pov. i also did not excpect that voice from the dog lol
Mar 16, 8:29 PM

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Wow, too much sci-fi in one episode. 😖
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and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it,
is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service.
Apr 8, 1:50 PM

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The end has HEAVY Kyubey feel into it, i was expecting them to eat the whole world before sending him back to another world
Apr 27, 12:19 PM

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That was insanely good. I really really loved that.
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