This episode made me cry a little. It was pretty intense.
This is a cheerful optimistic image.
I think probably the strongest aspect of this episode was the imagery, especially as there wasn’t much dialogue. I know I won’t be forgetting the image of the pink tricycle anytime soon. I’m starting to think the imagery and symbols are what Bone is really focusing on, they say a lot using them rather then information drop through dialogue. Some of the images also show more then just a causal thought put behind them.
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I’m really glad that Mari got a happy ending. Not just happy, really really happy. It was so sweet to see her reunited with her daughter. We also now know what happened to Mari’s husband…she’s had one heck of a tough life. Not to say that everything is going to be rainbow and sunshine for her now, she’s lost her house. But still, she has what’s most important to her.
And interesting implication was presented at the beginning of the episode—that Mirai might go into robotics because of Yuuki. She’s showing a newfound respect for them that we didn’t see two episodes ago.
An interesting possibility...
There was one thing I was really wondering about…Mirai left Yuuki’s backpack with Mari. I wonder what this says.
“There was one thing I was really wondering about…Mirai left Yuuki’s backpack with Mari. I wonder what this says.”
It was there to show that Yuuki is definitely dead. Look carefully to the last sequence: Mari finds the bag, but Yuuki is carrying a bag of his own at the same moment. The bag duplicated? No, it’s just the Yuuki isn’t real.
Oh, okay. Since the flashback once Mirai sees the strecher confirmed it for me, I didn’t even think about that. Although there are a bunch more hints in this episode.
How is it that this episode is “one powerful” and “pretty intense” but then it only makes you cry a little?
When you are stating the strongest aspect of anything, please do state it strongly. Do not weaken it with “I think,” which you make it even weaker by following it with “probably.”
Are you sure you are just “really” glad about Mari instead of “really really” glad, which you really really follow that up in the very very next sentence. Really, using the word “really” is a really lazy way to emphasize your points. Cut it out!
But about the episode itself…
Mirai’s sudden interest in robotics is not a good sign for her. She is displaying the prototypical denial by grafting the personality of the lost one to her own. All her actions this episode are induced by the always-genki Yuuki. She never disagrees with him once except twice when Yuuki ties to tell her what her memory is trying to suppress.
Mari’s reunion with her daughter and mom is a plot device to heighten the difficulty during the eventual confrontation between Mari and Mirai when the former must help the latter to accept the reality. How does someone who has only brushed against despair understand another who has actually plunged through it?
Because I’m not that much of an actual crier.
Thanks for the crit, I think. Are you an English teacher? I’ll keep that in mind, although I was sick when I wrote my blog post, so this hardly my best writing.
I suppose it is a plot device, but it’s a nice one. I was honestly expecting Hina to be dead.
*is hardley
For the first screenshot: I don’t know if it was intentional humour, but when they first showed the ravens eating something, and didn’t show what, I expected, well, to see what ravens usually eat at battlefields. And then it comes out they eat some normal food, and not human innings and such.