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Jan 23, 2009 3:00 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Seems to be picking up pace a bit now. The one thing I don't see how they're going to explain fully: If the voice really is Tsukasa's mother, how exactly did his mother end up in a video game?
Jan 24, 2009 7:04 AM
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^_^ can't say,that'd be a spoiler which is explained later on.
Jan 24, 2009 8:27 PM
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Oh I know. I just like to ask questions and speculate. I am a psychiatry student, after all. Haha.
Jan 25, 2009 4:58 AM
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Never did take that subject at school,pretty sure you needed a decent english grade and for some reason I got a better mark for french than english.

Perhaps one of the most important questions in history was "Why did the Germans listen to Hitler who told them that Germans were the master race,yet was Austrian himself".
Jan 25, 2009 1:49 PM
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Yeah... I must admit I've always wondered that myself. He definitely wasn't Aryan. And, if the rumors are true, he was also homosexual. So, pretty much, he hated everything he was.
Jan 25, 2009 3:30 PM
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Good thing the "master race" didn't think about researching him too much or his reign as furher would've been much,much shorter.
Jan 25, 2009 3:52 PM
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That's the problem with people in general. They accept what they're told as the truth. They let others think for them.
Jan 25, 2009 4:13 PM
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That seems to be the truth which is most difficult to change,widely accepted truths like Hitler planned to make a musical called "Springtime for Hitler" after winning the war.
Jan 25, 2009 4:14 PM
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Hahaha, Springtime For Hitler indeed.
Jan 25, 2009 4:18 PM

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@_@ and winter for Poland and France

The song exists in a movie called "The Producers" which simply is a musical
Jan 25, 2009 4:27 PM

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Oh, I know. I've seen that movie. Uma Thurman for the win.
Jan 25, 2009 4:29 PM

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:? which version did you see? the old one or the remake?

I've seen the remake and watched the old version of "Springtime for Hitler" on youtube,that legal place.
Jan 25, 2009 4:33 PM

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I must have seen the remake. Came out a few years back.
Apr 21, 2009 10:58 AM

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Haha.. dont mess with Tsukasa. The World in anime is much beautiful than game ps2.
May 3, 2009 6:01 PM

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now they put out a bounty on his head, not good considering that monster of his just pwned 4 characters and didn't even go for killing shots, but was just cruel just beating them up.
so i wonder why tsukasa is out of the loop? why isn't he affected by the rules and restrictions?
the only way to stop a gamer from playing is either: beat them, or wait until they get bored (though 2% percent suffer seizures
May 6, 2009 3:04 AM

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@.@ its all explained in time
Aug 30, 2009 2:47 AM
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hu wonder h0w Bear guy found "her: irl like srsly wdf??
Aug 30, 2009 6:07 AM

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He probably did some digging into people who fell into a coma while playing "The World" and found that girl.
Nov 25, 2009 9:44 PM

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Wow, Tsukasa hasn't logged out for 10 days. o_o

.. and they spelt die wrong in the anime. u_u

Also, that Sora seems like a double-crosser.

Also a possiblity that Tsukasa is a girl? =O Well that's the info Bear gained from the real world.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Nov 26, 2009 10:43 AM

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@.@ well Tsukasa is unable to log out
Jun 29, 2010 11:38 PM
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Prettty sure that "the girl" bear and that chick is referring to may just be the crimson knight in hospital.
Jul 2, 2010 5:15 AM

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RAOR said:
Prettty sure that "the girl" bear and that chick is referring to may just be the crimson knight in hospital.


Wasn't he already said to have come back before?
Jun 19, 2011 8:17 PM

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10 DAYS...
Considering my attention span is terrible and I get bbored in less than an hour...
I think I know why he's a bitch nao T3T
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Jun 20, 2011 9:23 PM
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Hm, getting pretty interesting. Lots of questions!
Aug 21, 2011 2:14 PM

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omg Tsukasa is a bit of a psycho! he looked so cool when he about to fight the 4 biatch,

nice episode! can't wait to see the next one, though i can see why "common" and "average" people with no taste hates this anime.

ps: whats with the hitler confersation at the 1st page discussion? lol
Oct 1, 2011 6:33 PM

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This is getting good! I'm curious to see how it all turns out. This anime seems so well made, "the world" really pulls you in. It's very surreal.
Nov 6, 2011 10:11 PM

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Heh, Sora continues to annoy me.

Also, I like how that calm g major theme that first plays when Tsukasa sees the girl hovering over the bed is now an agitated e minor theme with a vocal part at the end of the episode.
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May 6, 2012 9:44 AM

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Hehe. I kind of understand it now.

I'm pretty sure Tsukasa is the girl in the coma. Because he said "mother", and in that flashback there was a man and a girl. I believe that girl was the one from the flashback in the first episode, lying on the floor => coma. Then the flashback with the man in front of the hospital => the girl in the coma went to the hospital.
Tsukasa appears to not have any memories though... and maybe the father is responsible somehow? It seems like Tsukasa doesn't like the real world, so maybe after her mother died, her father became a drunk/abusive/ bad or something? (You know, that somewhat cliché past.)
And Tsukasa can't log out because he/she's in a coma. Somehow memories were affected and he/she doesn't know what a terminal is... or really can't access it.

What I still don't get:
1. If Tsukasa is the girl, why is there the girl floating above the bed? Subconscious...? (Who is she then?)
2. Who are the cat and the "guardian" and what is their relationship with Tsukasa and floating girl?

Heh. Getting interesting. Story is a bit slow, but it's building up and I'm enjoying it.
Gosh, and the music is awesome. <3
Oct 20, 2013 2:59 PM

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CyanideKoolaid said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Seems to be picking up pace a bit now. The one thing I don't see how they're going to explain fully: If the voice really is Tsukasa's mother, how exactly did his mother end up in a video game?
Exactly. It should be a)someone programmed that that way, it is a trap for Tsukasa b) it is just a bug, somehow Tsukasa got involved with it, the 'bug' got access to his memory and created those characters from it: the cat and the voice. His mom's spirit can't possibly go to a machine and act on his own, same with a cat.
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now they put out a bounty on his head, not good considering that monster of his just pwned 4 characters and didn't even go for killing shots, but was just cruel just beating them up.
so i wonder why tsukasa is out of the loop? why isn't he affected by the rules and restrictions?

Because of his interaction with 'the voice'. How or why he got to meet her, it is something that i'm curious as well.
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Heh, Sora continues to annoy me.

Also, I like how that calm g major theme that first plays when Tsukasa sees the girl hovering over the bed is now an agitated e minor theme with a vocal part at the end of the episode.

I like Sora (his seiyuu does always such a great job <3). and how is that girl related to Tsukasa? my guess is she is the 'Tsukasa' Bear found, and our Tsukasa using that ID isn't a coincidence, perhaps he knows her. I say this because seems that the voice and cat are related to him, so would make sense if the girl was as well.
Jun 4, 2014 11:09 PM

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I think Tsukasa was lying about being a girl. So far its the only theory that makes sense.

Either way he needs to be stopped, or moreso his guardian.
Jun 26, 2014 6:16 PM

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Tsukasa is definitely a girl, "he" doesn't remember who "he" is in the real world. Also, those four girl characters are dead, but the players in real life aren't right? Also I love Bear and Sora -great characters.
Mar 15, 2015 1:13 PM

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*laughs creepily* "You're strange." Tsukasa seriously freaks me out, I might be watching just to see how creepy he can get.
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*laughs creepily* "You're strange." Tsukasa seriously freaks me out, I might be watching just to see how creepy he can get.


For real, there are quite a few moments I find genuinely creepy/dark.
Jun 29, 2016 6:50 AM
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Well, people were right when they said that this show is a slow-burn, but it is interesting to say the least. Besides, we technically got two action scenes in this episode, even if they were pretty short haha.
Oct 29, 2017 2:56 PM
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Man, i just wish this show made more sense. World building is nonexistent, what are these servers they apparently traverse between? Why did so many care about Tsukasa before anything even began? I get why they're interested now, but not in the first episodes. What drives the other characters? The dialogue is also just plain weird. Conversations feel fake, but this might be bad translation, i dunno. Hopefully the show will become better as i'm a sucker for fantasy titles such as this.

Soundtrack is hauntingly good, except for a few tracks.
Mar 7, 2018 3:41 PM

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Based on what I remember from seeing some of this on Adult Swim so long ago, I think Tsukasa is unaware of who they are in the real world. I always wondered in there was a queer element to this story, though since I have not seen the end I can't say that 's part of it really.
Nov 8, 2019 1:59 PM

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So Tsukasa is a girl?

And now she's also wanted in addition to being trapped in a game. The other players aren't really a threat, but for someone who wants to be all alone it gotta be hell xD

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Sep 26, 2020 6:51 AM

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Alright, this episode was much better. All it took was a few developments and now there's things to mull over. Tsukasa was acting like a kid who got caught doing something and ran away, so I wouldn't be surprised if she(?) is the coma girl (though I wouldn't blame her for trying to hide that ~ don't doxx yourselves kids). I can't really blame Bear for looking into IRL leads though, he could just be concerned for Tsukasa's wellbeing and he is quick to throw formalities to the wayside. Something tells me Subaru is linked to the coma case IRL as well, maybe "she"'s the man that was shown outside the hospital? That's more hunch than reasoning though.
Nov 25, 2023 6:34 AM

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why are they so intent on harassing him? because he was seen with a cat? that's not his fault. they have no evidence he did anything wrong and now they're saying that him walking around is a problem, what the hell is wrong with these people? not a game i'd want to play that is for sure.

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