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So am I the only one being surprised about Migi´s lack of reaction to Shinichi revealing its secret to Kana? All it took was a "she won´t tell anybody" and that´s it.
Either Migi changed, like Shinichi changed, too. Or, and that´s where I currently stand, Migi somehow played a role in Kana´s death, somehow leading her and the other parasyte into each other.
I doubt Migi had anything to do with it. It would mean that he could transmit signals from another place.
But I think his reaction had more to do with the fact that he already thought Shinichi might have already told her or done something.
That's an aggressively stupid post, Shinichi made a clear and coherent point which Migi accepted. It's in both of their best interests to cooperate with each other as much as possible.Quote:
So am I the only one being surprised about Migi´s lack of reaction to Shinichi revealing its secret to Kana? All it took was a "she won´t tell anybody" and that´s it.
Either Migi changed, like Shinichi changed, too. Or, and that´s where I currently stand, Migi somehow played a role in Kana´s death, somehow leading her and the other parasyte into each other.
He could have made the same argument for telling his parents or other people. I even went to lenghts to explain that several weeks ago. You told me why Migi wouldn´t agree to that. Now about a single sentence excused Shinichi´s disobedience. I mean, come on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
He's not in denial nor shock. What he is, is logical. A few episodes ago his dad was in denial and shock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
The fact that Kana can actually sense them puts her in a different category. For one, Migi can tell that even though Shinichi has told Kana about him, Kana isn't avoiding him nor seeing him as a monster. Getting emotional and upset that Shinichi told Kana doesn't solve anything either. Migi has to accept it, or kill Kana.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
I think that this episode set a new world record of death flags set.
I match your link and raise it by lossless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
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Episode 13, 14.
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Tamiya Ryouko being able to laugh now is creepy and undesirable. Migi became more human in an understanding way while Ryouko just because crazy, batshit way. It's largely due to Shinichi being a constant moral guide. Migi comes up with ideas and Shinichi tells him the human's perspective. Since the two coexist, Migi learns that some options that sound good to him are unacceptable by Shinichi's standards and ends up discarding them. Ryouko doesn't have this feedback and goes about her ways. The best word to describe her difference is inconsideration.
I wonder why Ryouko changed her hold of the baby when facing Shinichi. It would be hilarious if the conversed while she holds the kid like a kitten.
She probably knows how a baby is supposed to be held but simply doesn't bother every time. Since she's so academically interested in Shinichi, though, I imagine she wanted to initially hold the baby normally in front of him. After all, the conversation might have had a different kind of start if she had still had the baby in the bizarre hanging grip.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I can't make much sense of it. If she's aware of how people see her when she grips the baby by the clothes, surely it should affect her behaviour around normal humans. She's smart enough to not draw attention to herself. You'd think she would be more observant of such things after the mother of the real Tamiya Ryouko saw through her despite everything.
It's offhandedly calculated. The random people don't mean anything to her. So, she only bothers to act more like a human in front of those humans she really interacts with. Most people don't know of parasytes, so they wouldn't initially think a woman carrying her baby in a wrong way is a real monster. They might wonder about it, some might say something, a few might eventually even report her to the authorities, but in the end that only happens rarely and mostly if they see her doing it more than once. Let's not forget it takes her effort to act even remotely like a human and trying to do it continuously might distract her from more important stuff.
You think she has to act more like a human in front of Shinichi who knows she isn't human, but doesn't give a fuck about other humans watching her?
That carrying a baby in two hands takes effort and might distract her from more important stuff?
Actually, I think they do. Especially after the hair-pulling trend.Quote:
Most people don't know of parasytes
Yeah. Because she's interested in Shinichi. She wanted to meet him, so I don't think she would try to stop the meeting before it even began by making him concentrate on the poor handling of the baby. I reckon she also wanted to confuse him by looking like a proper mother. One kind of a shield already, even if the inhuman literal baby shield was more effective in the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
We just saw the evidence in this episode that she doesn't necessarily naturally carry the baby with such a loving care a human would. She just carried the baby like any baggage. Who knows what happened between the auditorium and the roof? Maybe she noticed all the stared and finally realised the carrying method was all wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Nah, didn't the council of geezers decide that it would be too dangerous to alert the whole nation and thus they only started the trend? If everybody knew, there's no way the private detective wouldn't have known. It'd be his business to know such things. But instead he could hardly believe his own eyes and didn't expect Ryouko to believe when he reported back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I think I'll apply Occam's razor here and go with Ryouko not wanting to antagonize Shinichi, who she knows acts very human, by holding her baby in a weird way. She wanted to discuss, after all.
I think it simply wasnt meant to be of significance when Ryouko held the baby at its clothes. If it was and she´s found out because of it, Id agree shes being careless and stupid. But as of now, Ill assume that it was meant more for us, the audience, to get another glimpse at her ruthless behavior towards her baby, rather than to introduce a future flaw in her disguise.
My two hopes for the future:
1.) The detective not being killed any time soon. I want him to be more fleshed out. Let him be Runge-san.
2.) Shinichi making a push to help ruining the opposing parasytes. No more hiding and doubting.
Maybe she doesn't understand herself as well as she thinks she does. She seems to be rather surprised of her own actions, like the laughing. Maybe she isn't even aware she carried the baby differently around him.
Episode 18 - HS
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That fapping scene... No corners cut in seinen. It did a lot to make the criminal seem more like a sexually oriented serial killer. The police officers would have been so lucky if they had got Kana instead of this dude. Still, I can't blame them for wondering why on Earth Shinichi seems to be always there when shit happens.
I'm so happy I remember so little of the manga.
Dat cliffhanger >_<
I hope shit gets finally done. Ive said from the beginning, Shinichi should have convinced Migi to let itself be revealed. Much easier to work from there.
Not sure why Tamura had to die, though. Whatever message about humanity she intended to deliver to Shinichi must fall flat after the fact of 30times murder. lol
Work what? Migi isn't working on anything. He's just existing and teaching himself about the world, civilization, humans, and his own kind. Getting revealed certainly wouldn't help that goal at all. In fact it wouldn't serve even Shinichi that well. It's not like the officials would let a unique sample like Shinichi wander around and continue anything resembling a normal life even under the best of circumstances. Sure, he could tell himself he sacrificed himself for the sake of humanity, but apart from meaningless feelings of martyrdom, that would grant him absolutely nothing as a reward. He might as well be looking at an alternative universe mirror when staring at the pervert prisoner, seeing the version of himself that went to the officials.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
That was bloody hilarious. All the better that the female staff member was took it in her stride.
I have a feeling that the telepath will let Shinichi off. If he really is a telepath, then he should know that things worth both ways. Shinishi's Fuck Off message may get to him as long as he stays calm instead of freaking out like he wants to there.
Reiko is probably tired at this point. Her kind is at odds with her (at least some of them) so she isn't in a position to direct their course of action anymore. She also discovered that she can't further their cause either because she refuses to experiment with the baby.
She did take 20+ rounds, but her fragility and "Thank you" certainly were not lost to Migi at least. Appreciation isn't an animal concept at least according to him. You should be confused about someone's altruism, then take advantage of it. Her time with the baby and thoughts have made her more human than Migi is. The latter converses with Shinichi, but never moved beyond the idea of helping his kind survive. That's understandable since his "kind" only barely extends to the other hybrid.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
HS - Episode 19
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LOLOL, a filter for non-human material? That's the aspect of this show that's required the biggest suspension of disbelief so far. The hair-pulling trick was good. This is an ass-pull.
Shinichi should appear somewhat translucent in in that scan overall, but if they get his whole body they'd find his right arm to be completely see-through. However, Migi's also been gradually humanised as well. I wouldn't expect such behaviour if he was simply 70% of the original Migi.. so does that suggest he's actually 70/30 Parasyte/human tissue? Hard to say.
You know what's funny? A simple X-ray should have done the trick. The parasytes don't copy the bones and internal structures. They only mimic the surface, obvious when they split open their heads when attacking.
Uhh... I thought it was a simple X-ray scan? What was it then? Surely the "filter for non-human material" was just a fancy name for the perfectly ordinary machine (the world of marketing is full of exquisite names for the same old shit)... Although I suppose it might be also some application of a different wavelength. It would hardly be the first fiction story to depict a scanner that could do what x-ray, infrared, MRI, and others could do combined. They were checking for the skeleton and almost immediately found a woman walking without a skull inside her head. Very plain and simple, no super filters needed. I'd expect the parasytes to actually be able to fake a skull if they knew it'd be necessary. It seems like even the military types didn't think of putting Shinichi through the scanner. Now that Migi knows of it, he'd probably build the bones when necessary.
I wanted to believe the same but rewatched it. I confirmed the Japanese script saying something along the lines of "a machine that filters out any material with human DNA."
Just a fancy way of saying X-Ray scan.
Except it isn't?
They specifically mentioned human DNA. X-Ray doesn't give a shit if it's human or not.
Did that look like a DNA scan to you? A DNA scan is either a pattern of lines for a comparative analysis, like a fingerprint, or ultimately a nucleotide sequence. A DNA scan doesn't show you a shape of a person and their skeleton. In the first place depending on the environment, diseases, and nutrition, the same DNA could produce two different kind of human shapes and skeletons. We probably won't have the kind of technology before a distant future that it could instantly predict the adult shape of an individual organism simply from the DNA.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Let's just say this was a minor error in an otherwise excellent series. Nothing to worry about. Especially when what we actually saw (the x-ray scan) made perfect sense. The machine was x-ray (or similar), the filter was the human operating it! When you saw the x-ray of a living, normal looking person without a skull inside their head, you can say at least the head portion probably doesn't have human DNA.
Kraco, that's what the guy said. I'm not making it up nor do I want it to be like that. It is what it is.
Calm down. Maybe it was just the guy being fancy and he chose to say "hey, look, this awesome machine of ours filters out anything that is not human (because non-humans won´t display certain bone parties)".Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I thought it was an excellent idea to identify parasites using realistic measures.
I have no idea where you got the impression that I wasn't calm.
I am actually the only person in this discussion who is speaking objectively because I am not even expressing an opinion. I am just restating what the guy said.
Pretty slick using an x-ray to sniff out parasites (I suppose a little radiation is the worth the cause). Excellent cliff-hangar as well as we have no idea how they can stealthily eliminate/capture the positives without alerting the others, if thats the plan.
There's no way to do it since the parasytes will know as soon as one of their signal disappears.
Has Shinichi told the officials that, though? They could still proceed normally with the evacuation, as if nothing happened, to mark them all and then try to take them in one fell swoop. That way they would at least know, for the time being, who are parasytes and who are not. It would be a big risk for the normal civilians around, as they can't really separate the parasytes without alerting them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Maybe they have installed a remote controlled mine in every seat of the busses and thus they can individually get rid of the parasytes, all at once! The bystanders would just get a really messy surprise!
Episode 20 - HS
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That worked surprisingly well for the humans, at least until nothing but the real beasts made of multiple parasytes were left. It was largely due to Kiritsugu being so decisive. Hesitation would have meant a big failure, and they still might have lost some lives. Of course what happened to start the turmoil was a mistake, but there aren't really any existing troops trained to deal with alien monsters, so what can you do?
They need better ammo in the future, though.
That was a poorly directed episode. There were a lot of parts that leave the viewer questioning why the characters were acting that way. The worst part was when the soldiers shot a faker parasyte's arm, let it run away for some inexplicable reason, only to chase it two seconds later, shoot it like crazy, let it run off again without confirming the kill, and then allow it to meet with our big bad. Wow, that was horrid. It reminded me of the first episode of Seiken Tsukai, which I dropped after finishing.
The only other thing that made less sense was a bunch of soldiers following an obvious parasyte to an open room. Sure, it wouldn't have made a difference if they fought in the hallway, but they didn't know that. If anything, it reeked of a trap, but for some reason, they all just followed along like good little kids.
I sort of understood shooting the parasyte's arm. The police weren't entirely convinced so they tested the waters by shooting the arm. Giving chase was a little slow when you should have just shot though.Quote:
at was a poorly directed episode. There were a lot of parts that leave the viewer questioning why the characters were acting that way. The worst part was when the soldiers shot a faker parasyte's arm, let it run away for some inexplicable reason, only to chase it two seconds later, shoot it like crazy, let it run off again without confirming the kill, and then allow it to meet with our big bad. Wow, that was horrid. It reminded me of the first episode of Seiken Tsukai, which I dropped after finishing.
Following the parasyte into a larger room was a mistake in that it gives the other guy more room to run (not that he needed to use super-speed). Shotgun spammage down a hallway works wonders. These guys need to play more video games.
They also need to watch Terminator 2 and do what Arnie did to T-1000 at the end. And more video games, because any FPS player will tell you all about noob tubes.Quote:
They need better ammo in the future, though.
Like I said earlier, with the exception of Kiritsugu, there were no pros among these troops. Furthermore, like Bill said, they couldn't trust the killer (quite understandable) nor themselves. Following the big boss instead of shooting right away was very dodgy, but I kind of could understand that well, following the same logic of being hesitant to shoot first, or being hesitant all over. They hardly had any alternatives, though. Japan doesn't have the same amounts of armed criminals as the USA, for example, and they haven't taken part in any war since WW2. They simply wouldn't have people with experience. They could perhaps handpick ruthless individuals one by one to form the unit, but that would cause different sort of troubles (the copulating couple would have been slaughtered, as an example).
At least they've chosen a good weapon to deal with Parasytes - AA-12 full automatic shotgun. sadly they've chosen wrong rounds..
They knew that fire, and generally speaking burning works great vs Parasytes - why they haven't used HE ammo - which would've obliterated the guy who shot their bullets back at them.
Heck, showmanship Dragonbreath rounds would work well too - but guns might get damaged by it.
I don't think that's a good reason though. Special Tactics teams train to a standard, and also mingle with other teams internationally. Just because they haven't seen a real deal before shouldn't affect how they perform. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
I just think that the rest of the squad have trouble aiming at people who aren't obviously criminally-pointing-guns-at-people's-head bad.
It doesn't seem like any of them were briefed that killing civilians was a secondary objective compared to wiping out the parasites. Had they known and agreed, they'd perform much more smoothly.
In a fight, to hesitate is to lose. It's worse than not hesitating and making the wrong choice. Kiritsugu didn't hesitate at any point, even if he was every now and then caught by surprise by the new developments. But you could clearly see in this episode that many of the grunts didn't possess such mentality. You can say they should be pros after a fashion, with international cooperation training and whatnot, but did it really look like that? Besides, training is just training. It can never replace real experience. There are things you can't train, at least not fully, like the mentality of a killer. Still, like you said, their pre-operation preparation could probably have been better. It didn't really look like the troops were appropriate instructed about what to do if Plan A fails.
Rather than the writing, I think it was mostly a direction/production issue. There were a lot of parts where there are pointless stills, as if they were running out of budget or something.
Episode 21 - HS
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Yamagishi should have pulled off a Leon there. If only he had had a few hand grenades. But then again, his limits became evident when he didn't reassess the level of danger when his men started dropping dead. Instead he just decided to push forward with the exact same methods that had led to the deaths of the earlier men. He didn't have what it takes, even though he looked promising in the beginning.
Quite nice LSD addict scenes with Shinichi afterwards. I kind of liked him more during the mid-phase when he was like a robot.
I didn't feel like this episode flowed well. From Shitting-his-pants Shinichi to revitalising-sex-with-Satomi it all felt kind of forced. I too am so used to seeing a fearless Shinichi that this reverting back to himself seems bizarre. I get the whole "reverting to your instincts" thing, but the hallucinations were simply over the top.
its so frustrating to see all these special forces guys go down like flies, simply cause they dont follow basic tactics. Yeah, please everyone line up in a half circle in close vicinity of the monster enemy. sigh
The last two episodes were horribly directed. I'm betting budget issues, or the director got sick.
I wasn't a fan of the random-no-build-up sex with Satomi (who he seems to have a pretty bad relationship with lol) either but once you live in Japan or watch real Japanese couples for a while it makes perfect sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I feel like Shinichi's emotional arc is really great. An "emotionless" parasyte is the one who brought him back to humanity? The combination of his "weaker" emotions flooding back, realizing he's not indestructible after all and seeing that that threat is DIRECTLY after him, and having 4-whole hours of being totally vulnerable sound like a great recipe for pants-shitting to me.
Wait, is that true? I need to get one of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
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Originally Posted by Sapphire
The thing that pisses me off about freaking out is that Shinichi should have the combat experience now to know that "freaking out" doesn't accomplish anything and he needs to take the next logical step.
That said, I forgot that revenge was a bit part of what made him robotic/logical before, so if that's out of the way now and he's back to pants-shitting-mostly-human mode, then so be it. :s
Episode 22
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I miss the Shinichi who one-shotted the parasyte who killed Kana. At least he now decided to fight again. But the Shinichi back then probably could have killed Gotou as the operation would have been much simpler for Migi as well. Now Shinichi could do nothing but throw the spear from far away. And then run crying like a little girl.
But I didn't dislike the latter portion of the eps, so it's fine.
Edit: I guess I should ban myself for missing the episode number despite writing the rule myself... But instead I'll blame Bill whose "Today" post wasn't referring to today's episode at all.
episode 22 is out
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So .. what´s the big idea, Shin-chan? You barely stood a chance teaming up with Migi. Now you´re on your own. What is there to turn the tides of fate in your favor? :>
Also, super sudden emotional Migi. See, it was kinda noticeable that Migi got softer before this episode. Buuut it was still uncalled for how truly emotional Migi was now. If only he had been like that earlier, lotta things would have played out differently.
And Im not sure what to think of Migi´s situation now. So ... is the main Migi dead? If so, what´s with thos Migi-cells inside Shin-chan´s? Assuming they´ll grow enough to regain capability of speech and such, what kind of Migi will we see? A clone of the dead Migi with his memories up until the dead Migi separated from Shin-chan´s body? Weird.
Oh, and fuck, why didn´t Shin-chan at least take some fire-based weapon with him? sigh
Migi did make sense this episode considering his development so far. If their only chance of victory was to act together, once that failed then it's about avoiding casualties. Migi's prioritising Shinichi's life as much as his own now. Shinichi in his old form would have been able to finish beheading Gotou with his superhuman speed and reflexes, but right then and there I'd say he had no chance despite how much I felt he was best to commit to that plan instead of letting Migi die.
As for 70% Migi's fate, I feel that Gotou would have absorbed him. He's already got another 4 parasytes under his control. He'll probably feel that controlling a reluctant parasyte is within the power of the "ultimate lifeform". Migi might not even be all that reluctant given that it's a chance to survive.
That theory fits the idea that Migi is still alive and that Gotou is somehow even less human-looking than before. This development would also give Shinichi a winning chance since Migi can now corrupt Gotou's control through will/consciousness.
Life and Oath makes even better sense this way. Too bad this suggests Migi will have to die with Gotou in the process unless Shinichi is able to salvage him somehow. From memory 30% of concentrated cells is enough to have a talking Migi.
HS - Episode 23
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That was a pretty believable battle overall. Two things that really pop out though, is the fact that 30% Migi is able to come out now despite not having the other 70% calling in close proximity. The other thing is that Shinichi has better senses than Gotou somehow.
The latter one makes sense and has been mentioned several times in the series. Even Migi was impressed with Shinichi's senses. The parasytes can sense each other but don't have amazing sensory abilities otherwise.
Yeah, I'm quite satisfied the battle wasn't decided by one-armed Shinichi miraculously defeating that monster in an honest contest of brawns but rather by using a poisoned piece of iron. Although I didn't like how he was ready to give up a few times and then finally even did give up, as if it suddenly didn't matter anymore that the monster would likely still be around to slay the villagers mere hours later.
That was what I was referring to. I gave "sentient muscle" more credit than it deserved.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I didn't think he could be sensed. I mean, when Migi was asleep, parasytes couldn't sense him properly, even with all the cells spread in his body.
it was okay-ish. He won due to sheer luck. Finding himself inmidst of a waste dump that coincidentially features highly poisonous substances and parasites miraculously being weak to poison. Come on, parasites, even in Pokemon, poison is usually worthless!11
And I´m not sure im fine with Shinichi even being able to land that stabbing hit. Gotou was portrayed as faster imo.
But. again, given the circumstances, it was a competently handled fight.
Luck is a skill as well. It also makes sense there could be toxic substances among the waste because that would be more profitable for the mafia to get rid of illegally. Charge a good price for handling hazardous waste, then just dump it somewhere out of sight. Very classic. It doesn't matter whether a parasyte is immune to that particular poison or not, because the human organs wouldn't be. If you find poisons worthless, then you are a lousy poisoner. Poisons are biochemistry; any living thing can be poisoned. Why, even some non-living things can be poisoned as well: Pour something nasty in the fuel tank of a car and the engine will be poisoned!Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
The parasytes certainly were very fast individually, but Gotou had an extra layer between the head and the limbs. He basically had to command the aggregate parasytes to move as he wished. Once they already move, sure, they are fast, but the initial reaction time would suffer from lag. He somewhat compensated by growing extra eyes to see in every direction to avoid being surprised, not to mention he was a good fighter.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
outside of role playing games, luck is not a skill :P
And you just pulled that one out of your ass, regarding Gotou´s "initial reaction time" lol
But I admit, the poison being effective against the human parts of him makes sense. Although Id have thought the parasites would have a way to neutralize it somehow - afterally, Migi freaking repaired a heart!
Migi didn't repair a heart simply by using part of himself. Took a long time to do plus he needed the nutrients in order to do that. Or at least plenty of glucose.
No, it's called giving the story a chance. Instead of saying that the story sucks because there's an unexplained detail, you can instead try to look for a plausible theory that would even have some basis on stuff we do know. Then it's just a matter of whether it's too far out there to be believable in the context or if it could satisfy you personally. During the previous assault arc I found the actions of the special forces quite laughable towards the end, but Shinichi managing to surprise Gotou once didn't cross my threshold.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFauli
Gotou underestimated the shit out of him. If you have an unbreakable shield, you tend to let your guard down. That's a simple and believable explanation, yeah?
I wasn't disappointed that Gotou couldn't detect 30% Migi, but that Gotou only had senses no better than a normal person. His requiring sleeping also came out of nowhere. Migi only needed to sleep once he gave up some of his cells, but presumably it was because he was affected by Shinichi's humanity (did he take in some of Shinichi's cells too?). Fatigue was never actually an issue prior.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I'll have to agree with Gotou letting his guard down and not believing Shinichi could hurt him as opposed to somehow having a delayed reaction time.
Shinichi giving up on life while remembering naked Satomi was hilarious. To me that says "Yep, banged her. No more regrets."
Of course he underestimated Shinichi. And not only subconsciously, he did it willingly because he wanted a good fight, not a slaughter. He could have simply finished off Shinichi any time using those blades, but instead he just kept throwing him around without cutting him into pieces. Even at that pile of waste he couldn't drop that honourable fight mentality because he walked right over to Shinichi instead of deciding to kill him from 10 meters away, giving Shinichi zero chances to counterattack. Only after getting poisoned Gotou got serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
But does this all mean he wanted to get stabbed? I don't think so.
Episode 24 Final - HS
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Quite a jolly show all in all. The setting was very solid to say the least, and I kind of liked how it all turned out so meaningless, or without a grander purpose in other words. Just like nature works. There's no special meaning or thought to it. I'm not sure what Migi's decision to go to sleep permanently meant, though, but it's still understandable in a way, since he apparently liked sleeping and dreaming a lot, when under Gotou's control. It's probably not so different being under Shinichi's control, in the end.
The whole psychopath escapade felt abrupt and forced. I think we were already past the point of Shinichi needing assurances that he's still a human, and the whole "the real monsters are humans" thing is such a cliche. As for saving Satomi for the #th time... Duh. Not to mention having the extra violence of the psycho leaving behind two more corpses, as if this show absolutely needed more to pile up before the end. Maybe this whole thing could have been replaced with Shinichi saving Satomi from a traffic accident. That's what Migi was concerned about, after all. At least Shinichi performed one final punch to send the show off, if nothing else.
While under Gotou's control, Migi experienced what it was like to stop tending to his survival and just see, listen and think about stuff beyond his own existence. He grew tired of daily life and sought to meditate instead. He's pretty much become a sage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
I really liked this show overall, though I felt the last couple episodes got a little heavy handed with the philosophy themes.
That´s supposed to be the actual ending of the story? Doesnt feel like it. If so, a rather disappointing anime in hindsight. Id really like to see a lot more. SHinichi making proper use of his partial parasyte-fusion. Telling his gf the truth. Figuring out the parasytes and their origin. Stuff like that.
Agreed. I much more enjoyed the first half of this show. Not to say the second half is/was bad, but it was certainly unsatisfying, and as mentioned, heavy handed in the philosophy.
The greatest tradgety in this show, however, is the essentially nonexistent character development of Asano. She appeared to be there only to nervously ask if shinichi was really "himself", as if she was prepared to accept an answer of 'no'. Her interactions with the story at large were generally forgettable (repetitive in substance) and she was important for reasons we were told, not shown.
Who is Asano?
LOL.
For a second, I was not sure which one of you was joking, then I realized I wasn't even sure if the name was wrong or not.
Case in point.
Sorry, Murano. Don't know where the name Asano came from.