I have to admit, I laughed pretty hard IRL at the latter-half of the sacrifice suicides.
I have to admit, I laughed pretty hard IRL at the latter-half of the sacrifice suicides.
Using the hypnotism to get him to sacrifice himself made me laugh so hard.
When I first heard him talking, I was thinking God was trying to hypnotise Angel or something, but then seeing the other fellow run off was just great.Originally Posted by NeoCybercoin
Yui... doesn't even take down anybody. XD
Original Kanade being screwed up when all the clones came together was pretty foreseeable, but I have to say that it felt "strongest" when Yuri was playing with the program, and I gradually forgot it as all the hilarious sacrifices took place. I was expecting something like Kanade having to fight over all her other consciousnesses for control or similar.
@Al: On the other hand, I didn't expect Otonashi to hug Kanade until after the 10 second timeout, be he was still 2 seconds late (according to me), which lead to my mentally screaming HUG HER GODDAMMIT!!
Besides his ability to get along with Kanade, Otonashi is pretty much useless. I don't dislike him for it, but it's even more obvious when everybody's sacrificing themselves (again) to get him down there.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Angel had some personality problems to begin with so this might even end up being good for her. Maybe it will crack her ice and with Otonashi taking care of her, she will become more wholesome.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take Nep.
Hate to be a downer, but that is pretty unrealistic atleast to me. A major cave-in in a subway tunnel and it takes 7 days? I don't know how elaborate or how often the subways run where Otonashi lives but if something like that happened in NYC, that would've been cleared in a day or two max. They would work throughout the night. Could be an unfair comparison on my part since the subways are such an integral part of NYC transportation. It just seems unlikely it would take a whole week.
My minor grievance aside I really enjoyed that episode. Seeing all of those survivors sign up to be a donor tugged at my heart strings.
Yeah, the seven days thing seemed to push it... especially considering the human body isn't supposed to be able to survive longer than three without some type of nourishment (if I recall my 7th grade Health class information correctly). The cave in idea itself though was confusing, because I could have sworn in the last episode it showed Otonashi's memories, he was on the train and it was outside (as in, light shining in, nature in the background) when it derailed. Doesn't make sense it would make it all the way into a tunnel, and then have both ends collapse. I would have to redownload that episode though to confirm.
Thank god it was the "normal" Kanade that woke up, even if you knew it was going to happen. I was afraid they might make the "internal mind" battle take place after she had woken up, and the next few episodes would have focused on that. But seems they decided not to show us her struggle, and just have her wake up and say it was a miracle she won. It was touching to see her first pat Otonashi on the head, then put her hand to the side of his cheek. Even though she doesn't show emotion, you could tell she was happy he was there with her.
So called that Kanade was trying to make them accept their fate (kind of). We still don't know if she has any regrets, but at least we know we were right in theorizing her role. Can't believe it wasn't obvious that this was a place "young souls" went to that hadn't experienced a "happy childhood". /facepalm
All in all, good episode, though I dislike how Kanade had to return to her ways before Otonashi befriended her in order for him to help her.
Last edited by Alhuin; Fri, 06-04-2010 at 10:18 PM.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take Nep.
@animus - the cave in might not be isolated. If it happened in several areas or in a larger area than what we could see, it makes sense that it might take a week before they are found. They might have just been really unlucky.
@Alhuin - People have been known to survive worse for longer. As for it suddenly going dark, if you recheck the episode, the lights just went off outside the train when the trained started shaking, which obviously means they are artificial. That means they are underground at that point and the lights were the tunnel's illumination that got cut due to the incident.
Peace.
It looks isolated, considering at around the 16:10 mark they drilled from the surface down where the sun shone through. If there were other areas caved in they would've dug through the tunnel level in succession to clear to there, that is if that was why it actually took that long. If there were other areas it wouldn't make sense to make a ton of surface holes for every cave in.
Anyways they're lucky that tunnel had some decent lighting. Some of the subway tunnels in NYC are close to pitch black.
There are numerous possible reasons for drilling surface down. An example would be if the cave in rubble at both ends are much thicker and harder to dig through than the subway roof part. The point is, the scenario is not unbelievable at all.
Peace.
Clearly there are reasons for drilling down, but it doesn't make sense to continuously drill down in multiple spots of the same subway line. Considering it took 7 days, that would be a lot of holes and a lot of unusable roads, etc.
They were basically four days without water, Otonashi and his lieutenant perhaps four and a half, which isn't impossible for a healthy person. Not eating for that long is certainly no problem for a sound human as long as energy is conserved.
Seven days is a bit strange for sure unless it was some major earthquake with lots of rubble and victims everywhere or somebody made a really big mistake.
Too bad Angel needed to be isolated for the plan. I hope Otonashi will steal some moments with her when nobody's watching. He should be considering her one of the people that needs saving, after all, and obviously playing the role of a lonely villain isn't going to do that.
and you have to remember that otonashi had a major inside bleeding...
Man I hate the "who made YOU in charge" dudes. At least someone took charge. It's not like it's fun you know.
Kanade in PJs was the most huggable thing ever. I'm honestly surprised Otonashi still hasn't asked Kanade about why she's here. She never calls herself "Angel", and since everything he thought was true about this world's been revoked, you'd think he'd go right back to basics and get things straight from there.
Maybe he's just too glad Kanade's back to work with him again. I know I would be.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
What a way to die for Otonashi, right before help comes and after helping everyone else.
I remember I did not like Otonashi's behavior in this after world, because he was near people disappearing. Well now he wants to be active in that, even if you could find his reasons as good as Yurippe's ones, he still is betraying her and his new friends for that change of mood...
He does not even try to argue or think a little more. He doesn't know that much about that place and what comes after. In a way, that would be like preferring to die rather than continue living. I really do not like the idea.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Nah, they all know they died already, and with regrets. This world in-between they now inhabit seems pretty static, though filled with possibilties - a perfect place to try time after time to come to terms with those regrets and move on. Yet nobody could say it's a second chance and trying to disappear would be choosing death over life.
Although it's perfectly possible somebody might immensely like that world and desires to remain there for a long time. Although that makes me wonder if such a person couldn't accidentally find happiness in that - and disappear. Otherwise it would be just carrying regrets and possibly anger from one day to the next.
Am i the only one concerned with how they seem to be spreading themselves a bit too thin? How are they gonna resolve the inner conflicts of 10+ characters in under 4 episodes?
I was wondering that as well. Maybe his plan won't really continue on and some intervening factor will change the story again.
A second season would be awesome though.
Peace.
Wow, I work late and I'm still the one to link the episode?
Mazui - Episode 10
Oh, and to whomever: Yes, I delete Mazui's episode after watching it so I can save room for the BD releases. I thought that was common knowledge.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take Nep.
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