What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
38.6%
170
4Liked it!
26.8%
118
3It was OK
19.5%
86
2Disliked it
9.3%
41
1Hated it
5.7%
25
Average 3.8
440 votes
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This show is making less and less sense with every passing episode. |
KinetaNov 23, 2012 9:24 AM
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| I've pretty much given up on trying to piece anything together. At this point the only character I recognize is the old man (sage). |
| This is going downhill since the officers got fired. :/ |
| if we die we'll meet again in valhalla... |
| 3 eps left; hoping it will be pieced together by then o.o |
| Yeak kinda hoping it'll get better although i am liking it. At first i thought this ep was in chibi form. xD |
| Why are we getting more and more episodes that have nothing to do with the actual story? |
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| This didn't make any sense. Did the guy dream that everyone died? I know he didn't hit the director with a bat, but I guess the other people were murdered or injured. |
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| I got a stuttering avi file and so I missed every third second X-( so all I got from this episode was that the anime crew were cornered because of that idiot and so shounen bat appeared and hit their heads. |
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| I liked how the story was told for this episode: piece by piece, everytime he fall asleep in his car, we see all the work of the anime crew and how he screwed up with it and got fired. And just before he got hitten by the shonen bat we learn what he did just before taking his car. Although this episode show some basics of the making of an anime, and all the pressure that goes with it. The narration was what made this episode, but it really need to get back to the main story. What was the use of giving half of the answer of the mystery, if it's for throwing more episodic stories? It's like the author didn't know what to do with his number of episodes and was throwing all the fillers he could think of. |
| Now the whole anime is just confusing. |
geyik said: well, you know what they say, 'wtf? o.O' Hahah, that is definitely what they say. Three episodes and so much to wrap up? I'm doubting it... |
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| It will be wrapped up, don't worry about that. |
| Satoshi Kon should've just removed all of the filler episodes and made this series into a 2 part movie, or one really long movie. I'm starting to get annoyed by the fact that we haven't moved on at all during the last 3 episodes. |
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| for a short series there sure is a lot of 'filler' episodes. hopefully they have some significance in the end... |
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| The show doesn't make any sense. I hope the last 3 episodes will be better.What did this episode had to do with the story? ~The radio in the car played the opening xD |
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| Seemed to have lots of references to feudal japan with the director being called Oda Nobunaga and the other guy being monkey-like seems like a reference to Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
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| Useless guy is useless. |
 If you don't remember something, it never happened. If you aren't remembered, you never existed. <3 |
| i really hated this episode. maybe because i had to watch it with english dubs which are the worst for this show |
| Wow, I can't believe you all disliked this. |
 Steam: Zeemanhuismerk |
| meh, not only is this series starting to make no sense, the but last few episodes really have just fallen away from the main story :/ i cant see this being made clear in 3 episdoes! someone else hit the nail on the head... its gone nowhere since the detectives were fired :/ |
Shoryuuken said: Wow, I can't believe you all disliked this. I can. It is MAL, after all. :P Though I was hoping someone had posted the true message behind this episode. I have an inkling, but I'm not totally sure. |
| きみ は だれ だい？ ぼく は ラムボ！ ぼく は だれ だい？ きみ は ラムボ！ ラムボ なんでし！ |
| It was wonderfully absurd how the staff member got knocked out one by one. Overall an enjoyable episode. |
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| What a way to showcase that it's okay to die as long as you get things done. lol I think all the stories are similar to each other in that the characters all have problems and see 'Little Slugger.' Little Slugger probably isn't real since he really cannot be everywhere. I'm sure it's just the peoples' imagination and they're using him as a sort of way to escape from reality.... or... I don't know... |
| HEY! |
| I don't think it was a bad episode. I liked it a lot more than the last one. I do feel like the show lost its way a bit since the two police officers were fired... but I still think it will all come together in the next few episodes. I'm digging it regardless. |
| Should have just ran him over... =p |
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| Funny how they can continue working when they know they will be killed one by one. I dont see where this is going anymore and my head hurts after watching the past few episodes. How are they going to tie everything up in the last 3 episodes.. Guess i'll have to watch to find out. |
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dysphonia said: This is going downhill since the officers got fired. :/ Yeah. It was really good, then it got bad. I noticed for the other work that I watched from this director as well. :( Hope it gets better. I want to rate this high. |
| Maromi saying "take a rest" over and over at the end was unnerving... Overall, the flow of this episode was really good. ( Much better than that last episode, anyway.) I like Maromi's explanation of each individual's job in the production staff group and the stylistic choice of the whole episode. |
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| Quite the educational episode. |
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| Yeah I didn't really care about this episode. But I've learned something new, so it's not so bad in the end |
| Damn I would've fired such a fool a long time already I mean come on so many mistakes in such a business? Pretty weird episode in general though. |
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| this episode connected with last episode (9) right ? >the housewife's husband got hit by shounen-bat, then explained in episode 10 that the script writer is hospitalized. It's supposed to be him right ? :/ |
| I actually really liked this episode,though it was quite frightening. "The one who laughs in the end is me." |
| Interesting episode. The whole idea of how they're making a short about rest, and yet they're stressing and killing themselves over getting it done. Also parallel to Oda Nobunaga, with the name of the dude, and also Saru. He annoyed me badly in the end, I think that's what the anime wanted us to feel. I do want to get back to the main story as well, though. This episode annoyed me slightly. Perhaps it provided context for the whole fandom of Maromi, but it wasn't substantial enough for me. In episode 9, we saw how the myth of Shounen Bat permeated society, which was really cool. Even episode 8 was pretty enjoyable with its morbid humor. I just didn't like this one though, tbh. I hope the next three are better. |
| This episode was horribly boring... I want more of the actual plot please. |
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N09A said: Stop crying because you're confused and let the series play out. If you still don't get it, Re-watch the episodes that confused you.. This shows really easy to understand a second time around, but it never gets old.. People got better things to do than watching a show they don't like twice. |
| Although the MC of this episode was annoying an completely incompetent the episode as a whole was incredibly well made. The way it was edited in particular, they did a fantastic job of showcasing flashbacks through each sleep cycle and revealing that the majority of the staff working on the anime had been killed. In particular I really liked the scenes that broke the 4th wall a bit with the characters making an anime within an anime with basically a young shonen bat boy and the main visual motif of the stuffed animal comforting him. My only gripe was with how incompetent the main guy is, there's no way he would not be fired past the first few mistakes, especially with how little power he had and how little he contributed. I actually thought he might of been Shounen Bat early on, kinda looked like him, but of course that wouldn't make sense due to the fact that Shounen Bat exists in his world and that he took on the form of the copy cat(presumably). Still a cool episode with a lot of intense moments and dark humor which I enjoy. - As a side note, interesting to see people don't like these last few episodes. To me these are some of the best of the series. Made me bump up the show to an 8 from a 6. It's getting much weirder and a lot funnier and unique to me in these last few episodes where I felt it kinda overstayed it's welcome with certain things originally(took itself very seriously, too much time on unlikable characters, etc). |
PANDEMlCJun 17, 2015 10:36 PM
| WTF did I just watch? Also aero said: Why are we getting more and more episodes that have nothing to do with the actual story? |
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| I legitimately thought they were about to go full ep 25 & 26 Eva on us with that opening scene. |
| Another episode that has nothing to do with the main plot. Granted, it was decent, plenty messed up, and the theme song insertion was kind of hilarious. Regardless, these irrelevant episodes and separation with the main plot are extremely annoying, and have thus far dropped this anime from an 8 to a 6 for me. |
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