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| If that was her grandpa, then I'm sure he was perverted like hell. XD Also, the part where he touched Watashi's boobs was very funny. |
| "Everyone wears their own panties inside their heart" - Kousaku Hata |
| So, hold on. Let me know if I have this right. Grandpa sends Watashi to go find the assistant and gives her a wrist sundial, which he received from a woman a long time ago, since her watch broke. Meanwhile, the fairies engineer a banana that causes Watashi to slip and fall, thus, for some reason, bringing her back in time. The fairies take advantage of this to gather as many Watashis as they could to bake a whole bunch of sweets for them. Makes sense. Anyway, the fairies mess up and end up making a banana that takes Watashi way too far back in time, where she meets a younger grandpa, whom we acknowledge as the "Ringo Kid". The kid is a real womaniser and becomes fond of Watashi quickly. He discovers the wrist sundial that she was wearing and he runs off with it(this is how grandpa received the sundial, and Watashi is the woman who "gave" it to him). Watashi ends up back in present time, presumably after the fairies fixed their mistake...? Anyway, the watch she had was gone, and she went off to search for the assistant again. She finds the hearth in the middle of the forest, as expected. She ends up asking her time clones what they think the assistant looks like, and they come up with a description of a silent, gentle, well-mannered kid who likes to wear nice shirts. After eating another banana and "falling" back in time again, Watashi goes to the plaza and finds the assistant as she was supposed to. The dogs represent different time paradoxes that the universe had to resolve to account for the fairies' mischief. So, if I'm right, the assistant never existed before Watashi found him, and came to exist only after she and her clones had formed a description of him. It's scary to think how powerful the fairies are. TL;DR this is some trippy alice in wonderland shit |
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| I literally went "Oh crap" when Watashi said that Grandpa stole the sundial. This episode did a lot of justice to the previous one and wrapped up this arc pretty nicely. |
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Snakebee said: Oniikami said: wait, can someone clarify a lot of things? like i'm getting the feeling that people are saying that the assistant is the younger form of the grandpa? or is the wild kid and the assistant two different people? grandpa = older wild kid = assistant? grandpa = older wild kid which is unrelated to the assistant? wild kid = assistant and the grandpa is unrelated? all three are unrelated to each other? i've never been good with time paradox/traveling themed things since you have to go back again to understand further, but it's not working for me this time Assistant has blue eyes. Ringo has green eyes. Grandpa has green eyes and the sundial. I think that's the most convincing evidence. Dont forget the eyebrows :D Omfg If thats the case then... SO MUCH INCEST |
| Thanks for summarizing guys. This episode made me like Assistent even more. |
| Holy motherfucking shit I just woke up from reality that the kid was the gramps. And a perverted male, seems typical Tanaka's way of portraying his male character/s. |
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Graser1 said: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=486797I'm confused. It seemed like this was the first episode where Watashi met the Assistant. But if it is then why was the Assistant in every other episode prior to this? |
| 5/5 The plot in hindsight seems a taken for a ride, but in the end the circle closes, and the fans corollary to everything dialogues always deep. These are set to Watashi, the best part of the anime. Very complicated history that needs time and a cool head in order to be understood. A very underrated anime that deserves to be rediscovered. |
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| Haha I didn't make the connection until the end. So that's what the fairy was talking about when he said the bug sent her pretty far back: the wild kid was her grandfather XD! That explains the sundial watch that was "given to him" by a beautiful woman whom he met before meeting her grandmother. Gotta wonder if that other woman was her grandma haha. Time paradog? This show...this show... |
"May those who accept their fate be granted happiness." "May those who defy their fate be granted glory." |
| Hahahahahahahaha oh fucking shit man! I knew right away that the wild kid was the professor when the fairy mentioned the bug about sending her WAY back. But as for the time paradox, might it be the paradox of the old professor giving the sundial watch to Watashi on the first time? After all, if in the past, the young professor STOLE it from a girl who came far from the future (Watashi), and if SHE was in possession of it ONLY because the OLD professor gave it to her, then how did Watashi even ever have it in the first place? (I might change this later because I have a feel this isn't what I'm supposed to say) Agh fuck, my train of thought died while trying to organise everything. Please be right. I'll think it over again once I get back home, lol. |
| Lol so the assistant is based on her fantasies over her grandfather as a youth. Young grand dad is the overall clay, and she molded him into that. |
| Jaywalker. |
| I think that Assistant, like the sundial watch, is a bootstrap paradox himself. It all started when Watashi mentioned to the fairies that more hands=more sweets, that's when they suggested to clone Watashi. Except Watashi was against cloning, so they had to come up with a plan where multiple Watashis would exist without cloning and without her realizing it, hence the time loop. Assistance origin is a mystery, like the watch itself. It's unknown where the idea of Assistance originates, but because the bug in the banana, Watashi with the idea of an existing Assistant was sent to the far past, thus planting Assistant as an idea in the past and he was waiting all this time to gain a personality and a form to be more than just an idea "he is from an isolated land. He is left alone. No identity. He is smart" I base this on the fact that no one knows exactly what Assistance looks like. They all base him on their ideals and perception of what average is, the grandfather thinks of Hercules and the doctor thinks of numbers and blood type. It's hinted that he took his form from Watashi's ideals at the tea party, that's when there was an enough number of Watashis to intensify her ideals making them stronger and clearer for the idea of the assistance to take physical shape. I loved this arc and I think it was brilliant. I'm glad I have decided to pick up this show. |
| Now I really want to re-watch this in chronological order. |
| wow, this is amazing. time traveling based story is great yet hard to make. even sometimes it hard to understand which made you have to watch it over and over. i always wonder, how did someone can came up with such stories ? |
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| Time paradoxes, my favorite cause for headaches. So much mindfucks to be had after piecing together all the mysteries. |
| Not my cup of tea. |
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| The first episode of this 2 episode arc had me kind of bored with the frequent loops, but seeing the Wild Assistant was very nice. I really liked his character. And then the reveal at the end had me like YOOOOOOOO. >One of the banana models glitched her too far back. >Felt like her watch got stolen >Grandpa told her story about beautiful woman who gave him said watch I still can't handle this. YOOOOOOOO. 10/10 |
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ⛩️  |
| Yeah, I think this show has blown my mind way too hard here. I usually hate time loops, and I kinda hated this one too at first, but the way it all came together at the end really sets it apart. This series really is something special. |
| Time paradogs! LOL! that's hilarious! The other wild assistant was hilarious but real assistant has a sad back story. How does everyone know it was her grandpa? o_O oh because of the sundial watch, nevermind. |
stephtastropheNov 16, 2015 1:06 PM
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| The repetition was beginning to get tedious, but the time paradog pun almost made it worth watching. I seriously hope shows stop doing that endless eight trash. |
| If I hadnt visited the forum, I never noticed the Ringo kid as grandpa and I never realized how deep this arc can get. I watched this arc in hurry so I dont have time to think deeply. My score for this episode before visiting forum is 3.1/5 and now raised to 3.5/5. |
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| Just wanna ask because nobody seems to have mentioned this already, but what's with the line "You've seen a little more of the world now." which one of the Watashi clones said? |
| "There’s no point in the world. But isn’t that wonderful? Because if there isn’t one, then you can decide what it is for yourself." ~ Filicia Heideman, Sora no Woto "Senpai...please grow up." ~ Fumi Manjoume, Aoi Hana "I wonder what tomorrow will bring." ~ Yunocchi, Hidamari Sketch: Sae and Hiro's Graduation Arc |
| I'm also having a hard time believing that the Assistant was actually willed into existence. It's implied that he didn't have any real form before he attained identity from the Tea Party, however there's never any explanation why this is. Maybe the ethnic minority the Grandpa mentioned may have been a group of formless creatures, or maybe the ethnic minority was also just something the Grandpa made up from the top of his head just like the muscular body type he said the Assistant had because he didn't actually know the Assistant's true form and that the Assistant was really just found somewhere. I don't know. There just doesn't seem to be a reason why the Assistant would be formless in the first place. |
| "There’s no point in the world. But isn’t that wonderful? Because if there isn’t one, then you can decide what it is for yourself." ~ Filicia Heideman, Sora no Woto "Senpai...please grow up." ~ Fumi Manjoume, Aoi Hana "I wonder what tomorrow will bring." ~ Yunocchi, Hidamari Sketch: Sae and Hiro's Graduation Arc |
| This episode is basically a repeat (or should I say loop?) of the previous episode, with more details. Interestingly, the doctor seems somewhat aware of it too, besides Watashi. I wonder why the tune played during the first loop or so was Rock-a-bye Baby, that's an interesting choice. Assistant's backstory that he was from a village on the plateau and that he was alone when he was found, and thus couldn't speak, was interesting. Reminds me of feral children, though Assistant has to be the most gentle and civilized feral child I've seen thus far. The ??? loop was the most different one, since we got a very wild-looking boy (who also turns out to be the actual Grandfather when he was younger lol). I wonder if that lady in the purple dress was Watashi's grandmother then? It makes sense that they were eventually separated, since if that boy had stuck with Watashi, well, Watashi wouldn't exist now. (Ah, I love paradoxes. In this case it would be the grandfather paradox, how oddly fitting.) One thing that the loop never showed, though, is whether Watashi made it to the forest. Or was there even a forest then? Since Watashi did make it to a time many years prior, instead of just several hours. If she didn't slip on that banana, how did it loop again? The part where the other Watashis were asking Watashi what the Assistant should be is the most interesting one. 1. The way Watashi talks about the Assistant's traits sounds a lot like Watashi listing out traits in a future romantic partner! I wonder if this is supposed to set up Assistant as a viable love interest. 2. Assistant using the tea party to get a sense of himself, though... I don't quite like it, because then his sense of self is essentially an idealized form from Watashi, instead of an organic one that he developed himself through social interactions. It's kind of like, he's not truly himself, but exists for others? I can't really put it into words. 3. Watashi thinking of that boy from that ??? loop while she talked about Assistant's traits - that oddly and disturbingly sounds like she likes her grandfather lol. Or it could simply be a case of how little girls say they want to marry their father - their parental figure provides basic traits that girls seek? (I have a feeling I'm overthinking this.) Interestingly, Ringo gave Watashi an *apple*, of all things - when apples are considered sinful and the forbidden fruit, and we're talking about incest here. As a sociology major, this episode also got me thinking about symbolic interactionism. George Herbert Mead developed the idea of the "I" and the "me", whereby the "I" is the innate, active aspect of the self, and the "me" is the socialized aspect of the self. The "me" is developed through social interaction with others - in this case, Assistant's "me" is essentially what Watashi thinks him to be. The "I" notes society's response through the "me" and forms its own responses and actions (which can be contrary to society's expectations). Together, the "I" and the "me" form the self, or personality. In this episode, though, we didn't see the Assistant's "I" side, only the "me" aspect. So it's fitting that Assistant was looking for a sense of self; from Mead's perspective, he's only fulfilled the "me" side, but what about the "I"? Only when the Assistant truly acts of his own volition can he really have his own self. Okay, enough about the deep stuff. Finally we hear Assistant speak! That surprised even Professor haha. FukuJun is nice to hear~ I also actually really like Ringo, he's a fun character (and a surprise pervert in this show). |
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| So the watch just ~~existed~~ in the universe loop, even though no one created or acquired it originally? Haha. |
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| Huh, that was pretty interesting. |
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| time paradog? ....that was the punchline?... all that buildup... ironic how the sundial was a paradox, never trust watches with imprecise time |
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| Time paradogs. I fucking love this show! |
| Lmao I can totally see the grandpa as that pervy little 13 year old now omg. They have the same eyes xD Assistant's voice is sweet C: |
| this Groundhog Day arc didnt do it for me |
| So if Assistant didnt exist prior to watashi creating him, how come the slutty doctor and grandfather were looking for him in the first place? And what's up with this being last of his ethnic minority backstory? edit: nvm LN explains it later |
KuroNekoAlchemyMay 14, 2020 4:39 PM
| So basically of all that "fucked up" time part they have the Time Paradog xD that sexual harassment part though...xD |
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| thank god we didnt have the sexually harassing assistant and he spoke finally in airing order. also time paradogses maybe a good idea to explore how they can offset the timeline. i thought it was prestige replicating sorta shit  My man |
 Without change,we end up becoming the very person we hate. I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was bound to lead me to a slow death. |
| Gramps sure was a wild one as a kid, and a pervert above that for even touching his granddaughter Watashi like that. |
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| I am so confused and enlightened at the same time. After reading the comments , probably I understood more lol |
| So she created assistant he was not existed before and I actually didn’t understand that it was her grandpa to the moment she mentioned the watch |
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