I have been watching this show only now, altough I have been wanting to watch it ever since 2019, but hey, better late than ever.
I have been reading the forums ever since episode 1, but never felt the urge to post a reply, since this series has quite some time now, and the forum isn't really active, but after this episode, I had to express my feelings!
Not going to lie, at the beggining, I never thought this show would be really good, I was never a fan of how the animation was, the story was so minimalistic and random, and the characters seemed so stereotypical. But I always felt the urge to know more about that world, and the fact that they gave us less than the bare minimum when it comes to the plot of the show, oddly made me much more interested in what was going on in that world. I must say, setting this up is not easy, but the writer of this show is really brilliant! I really can't express enough times how this show was able to pull us viewers with the bare minimum of content. But I'll save the rest of the commentary for the final episode.
With this, I feel like dumping all of this info in this episode was so intelligent and satisfying too! The thing is, the hints were there, so all of this info didn't fall from the heavens! Knowing the past of Wakaba and Riri was so shocking really, because now so much makes sense. The sudden interest of Wakaba in the Kemurikusa, the state of the world, why the white robots followed Wakaba's orders (and that the captain they were talking about was, in fact, Wakaba, he was the one who made them), and even the reason why Rin was feeling that way towards Wakaba, like Kaname Yuuki said:KanameYuuki said:I love the fact that even this explains Rin's feelings towards Wakaba, lots were complaining about it on the first episodes and well it was Riri's feelings from the Memory leaf.
Also, during the memory leaf's part, I was really confused why Wakaba said Rin to run, because we were seeing Riri, not Rin, like Smudy said:Smudy said:Oh my god, i just fucking realized how ''hidden'' the meaning behind the last scene was inside the episode.
We saw a line of Wakaba that said ''Run, Rin-san!'' but she wasn't able to snap out of it. I was wondering what that was all about when the line came up, holy shit o.o
And I thought if it was because something was happening in the "normal world", and it seems like it really was! Like, it was just such a good touch, because you could easily think that phrase was Riri's imagination or something, but then at the end of the episode they show you Wakaba being "stabbed"(?) by the red root.
Talking about the red root, it's really interesting to see it was created to go against Kemurikusa, and that explains A LOT. Specially why normal bugs turn into Red ones. Also, now that I think about it, all of the Red Bugs were normal bugs built by Wakaba,
right? That's so interesting! Also, I did not expect the red tree to be an undesired experiment by Riri. As I said before, IT ALL MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW.
I can't wait to watch the final episode, and to see how this will end up, BECAUSE THOSE LAST FRAMES, OMG, WHY IS RIN ALONE? WHY DID EVERYONE DISAPPEAR EXCEPT FOR RIN? SHE WAS THERE UNTIL THE VERY LAST FRAME, WHICH IS NOT THE NORM HERE, THEY USUALLY DISAPPEAR A BIT BEFORE THE ENDING ENDS (forgive me here for the double use of end). I SWEAR MY HEART WILL NOT HANDLE IF THEY ALL DIE BESIDES RIN.
As some other users have pointed out here, the MAL score really doesn't give justice to this anime. Also, let me just spread some love here for the opening of Kemurikusa. I will miss it after the final episode =( IT'S SO GOOD. One of the best anime openings ever, and if you don't agree, well, argue with the wall, the song fits the anime perfectly, and it SLAPS.
Wish me good luck for the final episode! |