Mawaru Penguindrum

[Buffalobiian]

Momoka did not get revived. Sanetoshi didn't get revived. He is still trapped in that world of his created in the library. His "haunt" so to speak. Momoka declared that neither of them would win, and that it was now impossible for Sanetoshi to win, so she was moving on. Probably to get reincarnated or whatever. Her goals were accomplished, and she is willing to let it go. Sanetoshi still isn't, but now he will lack the vessel to project his will to and tempt as he did with Kanba. It closes with Sanetoshi stating that another chance for him will come, but Momoka confidently doubting that. She leaves notably using, "sayonara" (and all the finality that word implies)

That makes sense. Yeah.. I didn't mean that Momoka was "revived" as in living, but put back together so to speak so that she can still appear in some form. Wrong choice of words on my part.

Now that the "dual sacrifice" part is out of my head, the biggest part is where on earth did the Penguindrum apple come from??.

In the end, that's what they've been searching for for 24 episodes. Our final answer now is "you've always had it". >_>

[Kraco]

I finally finished this show. A baffling last episode. It was quite a stylish ending, even though I was really looking forward to Shouma and Ringo getting each other. But this kind of unbitterly sad ending is also a favourite of mine. I have nothing against the classical story of men sacrificing themselves to save the women they love, either.

I reckon a penguindrum is just a name for any fate altering device. Thus it was the split apple for Kanba and Shouma, because it basically altered the fate from only one of them surviving to both surviving the cages (or just the apple appearing at all, but that feels less profound, unless it was a trade-off between dying or living but getting cursed). It's hardly as fantastic as Momoka's diary/spell, but on an emotional basis not any less significant.