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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Welp, this episode got strange real fast especailly with the story style. It featured very peculiar characters that were non-human in a sort of bizarre adventure. The one in particular that looked strange to me is the guy with the one eye. A very bizarre episode, probably the most unique one from this series yet. Feelings are complicated.  |
Stark700Aug 18, 2017 7:44 AM
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| One of the best episode for this show. the artwork was simply gorgous. |
| This was an odd, yet very good episode. The art was quite unique and so was the story. The robot was Pol all along and he was forced to killed Pot or he wouldn't be able to become king. Nene got angry and destroyed his kingdom. Got to see them have fun together before all that happened. This episode was very strange from the start. |
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| skipped the whole thing hopefully its the last of its kind they better waste budget on some actual animation not this cartoon stuff..... |
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| Pol Pot Pottery in the making |
| I wish Cowboy Bebop never existed. |
| It was the girl's dream affected by her surroundings. I guess it all came together as her real desire to see someone and she woke up. Pot and the cat dying might be who is dead in real life. |
ichii_1Aug 18, 2017 10:41 AM
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| So her dream are from information she keep hearing everyday? I don't understand this "i want to see you" on the end. are some of them was dream and some of them from her own memory? |
| Into the Internet! |
| the art and animations looked simple but were very good. the episode felt very unique (and the entire show is unique in on itself). i don't get the point of the story, though. the girl has Sleeping Beauty Syndrome for whatever reason that was never explained. she dreams up the entire story cause of The Wiizard of Oz playing while she was sleeping. the story is about a guy executing his friend to become king along with a huge part with the population along with 70k people that died from starvation. the girl goes through those 5 states. she ends up ruining the kingdom for him to realize what he has done. he feels regret but it's late as there's nothing left. the MC does practically nothing the entire episode and we have no idea how that connects to why the girl is asleep in the first place. i feel there is a lot of symbolism in the episode but i get none of it. if someone knew what's the point of this episode, please share it with us. pretty enjoyable episode overall, though |
| Visuals and music made this really good already. |
| I was considering dropping this show up until this point, but I'm glad I kept watching. This was probably the best episode of any show I've seen this season. The animation was great as well and it shows that when you are going for a unique style and not just emulating existing styles of 2D animation, CG can do some amazing things. |
| Did they really just throw in the Cambodian Genocide into an episode? You don't just randomly name character Pol and Pot + mention 70k dead from starvation. Visuals were interesting and impressive, but I ultimately lost my interest in this one. I'll just wait for the next episode. |
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| This episode alone made me raise the anime's rate to 9/10 (the episode is a masterpiece, 10/10, if only the anime was consistently as powerfuly good as this) I'm shocked, this was just too beautiful |
| What an amazing episode, this is something I would recommend people watch on its own without any of the context of the show needed |
| This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to see out of a series that has a different director every episode. Hopefully we get a few more as unique and interesting out of this series before it ends. |
| damn the artwork was interesting |
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| Seems like this show is really hit and miss a lot of the time. There are great episodes like this, but then there are episodes that are really mediocre, or even downright terrible. |
| This episode though. I wasn't expecting an art style such as this for this episode. It was truly beautiful and mesmerizing. Kinda feels like I'm watching a children's fairy tale which gone terribly dark. So this is where Inori Minase's character was going to make her appearance. Interesting. I think her voice was really cute and fits perfectly for Nene. Kinda reminds me of her voice as Noel from Sora no Method. :) However, after all the events played out, the main characters didn't get to do a thing. They were just spectators in this episode. It feels like nothing was resolved. So what happened after that? Nene woke up, but who was it that she wanted to see? The ending of this episode was depressing. :( But this episode is leagues way better than the last episode with the ending that involved mechas fighting in space. Started from bullying problems and then giant mechas.........that one was so all over of place... >_> |
| When I started this episode I was irritated, but it turned out to be one of the best of this show. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| This episode was great! I appreciated the way the story was executed(pun intended). The ED was nice as well. |
HeroVladimir93 said: I can't fault the episode on a technical standpoint. The animation style was absolutely gorgeous and the voice performances were amazing. The story was beautiful and poignant, at least if we take it at face value. But I got confused during the whole thing. Why did the girl of the week became a Witch? Was the story real or just a fairy tale? And why didn't Haruto didn't do anything? He was just a spectator and never affected the plot significantly. This episode was weird, even by this show's standards. I'm guessing the girl this week became a witch when she learned what happened to Pot(I don't know if she found out what was going to happen to King Pol prior to her falling asleep but that could have affected her as well). The story in the dream was an interpretation of what occurred in the real world. I think sometime before King Pol's execution, he fell asleep and got caught up in the witch's dream. The falling of the flower petals signified the time the King had before he had to wake up for his execution. As to why Haruto only had to be an observer this week, I'm still trying to figure that out. lol |
| this is based on a game right? that will never be translated? shows like these makes me realize just how much I'm missing in life. I'm sure the game format is different from the anime episodic format but meh, not really complaining. |
| >I had no brain when I was 12 >Then everyone must had no brain when they were 12 >I experimented 100 samples and proved that they had no brain when they were 12 >Therefore children cannot consent This is what science has done to humanity. |
| First, Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart Episode 6 now this... strange episodes :D |
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| Meh. I didn't like this episode at all. A fairly tale which is trying to be deep for any price. Artwork wasn't that bad for full 3DCG, but I don't want to see something like this. |
| kougai! kougai! kougai! no, I don't understand what the hell is going. I'm gonna assume that since this is an anime adaptation, the original game explains the arc in further detail and the anime can't possibly elaborate everything in 24 minutes and the game will never be translated. |
| >I had no brain when I was 12 >Then everyone must had no brain when they were 12 >I experimented 100 samples and proved that they had no brain when they were 12 >Therefore children cannot consent This is what science has done to humanity. |
| Best looking thing Gonzo released in years (obviously whole episode was outsourced) |
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| Woah this was so different. This show has divided from itself before but this was like a completely different thing. I gotta say, I liked it! absolutely one of my favorite episodes. the visuals were really cool I like the art style a lot. Something about it left an impact on me. huh. |
AniMatt17 said: Seems like this show is really hit and miss a lot of the time. There are great episodes like this, but then there are episodes that are really mediocre, or even downright terrible. that depends on the episode director, they change it every episode LunyRed said: This episode though. I wasn't expecting an art style such as this for this episode. It was truly beautiful and mesmerizing. Kinda feels like I'm watching a children's fairy tale which gone terribly dark. So this is where Inori Minase's character was going to make her appearance. Interesting. I think her voice was really cute and fits perfectly for Nene. Kinda reminds me of her voice as Noel from Sora no Method. :) However, after all the events played out, the main characters didn't get to do a thing. They were just spectators in this episode. It feels like nothing was resolved. So what happened after that? Nene woke up, but who was it that she wanted to see? The ending of this episode was depressing. :( But this episode is leagues way better than the last episode with the ending that involved mechas fighting in space. Started from bullying problems and then giant mechas.........that one was so all over of place... >_> no, mechas fell in quite nicely she is a girl who was bullied for a long time and was depressed so it was a way to have fun again, first time in a while, and mecha was chosen because she's an otaku |
| This episode was really good |
| Liked the episode a lot. That art and direction in general was very good. Very beautiful art. Also that beautiful ED in the end during AND THEN THERE WERE NONE part <3 As for the story thats what i got: 1)girl was in coma for unknown reason 2)everything she was listening to got in her dream. Like that OZ story. Alright you know when a person is in a coma, nurses would play different cassettes for a person in a coma to listen to, because your brain is always working so it would pick up those sounds and those tapes stimulates a brain and it gives more chances for person to wake up. They would put up an OZ story and she was imagining it in her dream and thats how we got that art. The king story was influenced by him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot Cambodian genocide... killing of intellectuals, 70k died in starvation. All of that was mentioned in this ep. Pot the friend he killed is a symbol of all intellectuals that were killed, glasses is a symbol of being smart after all and Pot looked really smart. It looks like King was forced to make that decision. The falling of pettals in the end and the "then there were none" line meant that there were none intellectuals left? cause king killed all of them? And then the king himself was sent to the guillotine, whole country was probably blaming him for that incident while he was forced to do it (at least it seemed like it) So a pretty sad story when all is said and done, kinda sad for Pol and Pot Couple of things i didnt understand though. 1)What those suspension bridges meant the one Nene was showing off 2)Why did Nene said she wants to see him when she woke up? 3)And what was the point of MC anyway :P Oh also my guess as to why Pol was in that robot form, since its an OZ story and the ironman there had no heart, signifies that Pol(king) head no heart? also he had lots of medals there, signifying his importance |
| Okay... I'm pretty sure this was originally a short film, but "18if' just integrated it into the series because the writers didn't feel like coming up with a story on their own. I've joked about every episode of this show feeling like it belongs to a different genre of anime, but this felt nothing like any of the other episodes. From an artistic standpoint this episode was spot on. Beautiful animation and sound design, though the drastic deviation from the normal art style was a bit disconcerting. I can only imagine how jarring the change will be for anyone binge watching the series in the future. The additional lack of any kind of introduction (especially after half an episode of introduction in last week's episode) made this episode feel even more disconnected from the series as a whole. While the story was interesting, all be it intently vague, it in no way allowed the main characters (Haruto and Dr. Cat) to play an active role. The two were merely passive observers in this story, so their presence in this episode felt extremely extraneous. I don't understand the Wizard of Oz references. Yes, I get the comatose girl was listening to "The Wizard of Oz" audio book while she slept, but other than that it connected in no way to the story. While the main characters ran around as a scarecrow, tinman, and lion, there were no other character/setting in the story bore any resemblance to anything from Oz. The references to Oz in no way connected to the themes examined in this episode. It seemed to me that it was thrown in merely for the sake of extra artsy-ness, rather than any real constructive reason. |
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