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I'm beginning to think these folks don't deserve to survive. Not because I'd side with queerats, but because the humans are so miserable already. They murder their own children out of fear, but then when something bad comes from the outside, they are totally unable to defend themselves and die like sheep. Such evolutionary failures have no business ruling any part of the world anymore.
You'd think out of all those people you could find a few who have lost their family and everything and thus wouldn't mind sacrificing themselves to destroy the fiend. Maybe that's what Tomiko had in mind, who knows. The fiend should be pretty tired already, having been so busy and all the time surrounded by some cantus mist. It must have run out of glycogen a long time ago and is trudging on fat alone already.
Lol @ the scientifc approach here, Kraco
My qualm with this episode would be the lack of care for all the dead people. We see Saki, that new boy and other people walking inmidst of dead and injured people. Yet, nobody seems to really freak out.
Maybe thatīs just me, but this anime went through great efforts to portray the ultimacy of the Cantusī power, and how people felt 100% safe thanks to it. Seeing fellow citizens being killed by those "measy" queerats should be super shocking. And I mean SUPER shocking, not just "well, we had one episode showing some reaction, now weīve moved on to what follows" kind of shocking. I want to see people break down, crawling on the ground, going into fetal position and crying - at the sight of the UNTHINKABLE: Human beings beeing killed by something, and in this case, by queerats.
As for what happened in this episode, yeah, I guess Tomiko is trying to sacrifice herself. And I agree with Kraco: Just someone kill this fiend. One dead human, one dead fiend, and itīs over.
But ... what happened to Satoru? He didnīt die, right? Otherwise, Saki would have shown a stronger reaction. But itīs stupid ... he couldnīt have gone far enough to be so lost out of Sakiīs sight to not find him again within seconds. But Saki just went all "whatevs" and journeyed away. :|
Satoru's not dead. You see him in the preview. The explosion sent everyone flying, so I can see the two losing sight of each other. That's especially if they were hiding from sight or if one of them fell unconscious. They already established that reporting to the village was more important than the party having to sacrifice lives, so I find it pretty believable. The lack of even attempting to find Satoru was strange. Maybe he can't fly so she counted him as dead.Originally Posted by MFauli
And it seems that there's a KD amongst the queerats after all.
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I wonder if Saki's latest flashback of Shun unlocked any more of her memories. Tomiko mentioned before that her mind is extremely resilient and stable, making brainwashing less effective on her. That flight through the air was the perfect kind of trigger to release more of her sealed memories.
I kind of hate how Shun keeps getting in the way.
Saki: I loved him.
Satoru: I feel the same way.
..COCKBLOCK..
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Oh, and donīt forget: She mentioned Maria, then "the other precious friend". And thatīs it.
PLEASE GO DIE, Mamoru! - is what sheīs basically saying :/
Yeah I was getting vibes throughout the whole series that no one really liked him they just kinda put up with him. Like the Bitch comment saki made about her and Maria being a thing and Mamoru being a third wheel. And there is probably resentment from Saki since Mamoru is the direct cause of Maria leaving and possible the fiend attacking them last episode.
Yeah. I would guess that the queerats are using the leakage to produce weapons against the humans. Depending on whether Maria or Mamoru is the fiend attacking the village right now, we might get to see something like this afterall.
I never really did like Saki, so a Satoru x Saki only mattered to me in that Satoru might care about it in more than a bonobo gene satisfaction kind of way. It seems like he does not.
This is why I hope Mamoru's the fiend.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
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So the baby/children theory was right...
And Queerats really did find ways to control fiends, their best human annihilation weapon.
Tomiko hinted there's a solution to killing fiends, but with luck. My bet is that it takes someone with her ability to manipulate their own DNA into erasing the deathfeedback... but only if the brainwashing part can also be removed.
I guess Tomiko can manage the DNA part, but never worked towards the BW part.
Saki might be the only one who does master both, although we never really witnessed her working on DNA manipulation.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
I don't like this. The plothole is so huge. I have nothing against employing fiends as such, but in reality the fiends should be killing queerats randomly and in far greater quantities than humans. There's no way to control them, only manipulate them exceedingly crudely, like possibly making them wander in some direction (still likely at the cost of many queerats). The one in this episode clearly showed how utterly deranged it was. If it kills humans for sport, or even without an intent, it will kill queerats, or anything else, just the same.
I really hope Squeeler will find that out the hard way, or I will need to consider the last portion of this show trash.
Still, the humans in this show are so miserable they totally deserved this catastrophe.
I suppose it would really depend on how the queerrats are indebting the children to them, but the bigger difference is that I doubt they are true Fiends.
They feed them, care for them, maybe even treat them as something special, so the "fiend" sees the queerrats as their family/allies. The "other" that the queerrat-raised-fiend would hate and loathe would be the regular humans. It wasn't hard to see how Maria and Mamoru's child viewed the queerrats as friendlies (6:50). I would be surprised if any queerrats had died by the hand of this fiend. The "otherness" of humans is reinforced every time the Queerrat Fiend witnesses members of their "family" callously murdered by humans with Cantus.
So the Queerrat Fiends aren't Fiends in the traditional sense. The regular Fiends suffer a mental break, out of rage or isolation or whatever. Pure psychosis. The Queerrat Fiends simply aren't trained and have zero discipline or restrictions on their abilities. They are simply raw power. A return to the original murdering Espers from now-ancient Japan. The queerrats don't control them, but they do not have to fear them. They're family.
I don't get how unconscious leakage was supposed to be the key to overpowering Shisei, but it does make some sense that deranged Fiends (and now untrained fiends) aren't able to lock down their Cantus.
I so should have replaced MFauli's avatar with Yakomaru's mug 2 weeks ago.
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If the fiends could be controlled and lived happily with like you are suggesting, Ryll, then the humans would never have needed all that bullshit brainwashing, conditioning, gene manipulation, and hypnosis treatment, or culling out the undesirables. Half of the show was about making a point of how absolutely necessary it supposedly was for a stable society (or let's say a society at all) to bring up the children with absolute, and ruthless, care or none of them would survive. That's why the adults were so afraid of children, as absurd as it seemed.
And now we are supposed to believe the queerats can pull it off? One look at that abomination's face and behavior was enough to reveal it must have killed hundreds or thousands of queerats before it got to these villagers - or it's a huge plothole.
Nor do I believe the fiends (humans) would anyway live too long under the rule of queerats. Superior ability breeds superior ambition, like they said in Star Trek. They wouldn't suffer happily a rule of rodents much weaker than they.
Hold on. Death Feedback was genetic, wasn't it? How did Maria's baby get rid of it?
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I was asking myself the same question.
Maybe Mamoru of Maria were able to manipulate their child's DNA to eradicate that gene.
But that would still be a problem for the babies they stole, and I do not see M&M child being able to manipulate DNA.
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Death feedback isn't genetic. We've seen a flashback of Saki being subjected to the brainwashing that causes it. When she was still in Harmony School ages, the old man at the temple repeatedly blames her for hurting him (well before she had her Cantus) and then stabs himself in the leg with a knife, traumatizing her.
That's where Death feedback comes from. It's very deep brainwashing.
Bonobo genes are the genetic factor. That is, in times of stress they start to think of... things that aren't violent (like sex). I can't really see something as fancy as death feedback being plausible genetically. There might be some factors that could be partially affected genetically, like nausea when seeing blood or paralysis in front of violent behavior. However, I don't see it being fully genetic with creatures as complex as humans. The existence of fiends in fact means it can't be. I doubt fiends become fiends by having a mass of genes spontaneously altered in their brain and elsewhere in their endocrine system.
I initially had the idea that death feedback wasn't genetic, but somewhere down the line I got the impression that it was.
Perhaps I just lumped it with Bonobos genes and thought there were two genetic factors..
In that case, Satoru and Saki shouldn't have it, right?
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