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Originally Posted by webkid94
Actually I really liked this.
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I also liked it in ep 15, but to me it just felt wrong here. The "hello" could've been alright on its own, but the "good-bye" was a bit too much. It's like, guys, we understand, you don't need to spell it out for us.
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You seem to complain alot about the changes in this show,
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Eh? I think this was the first time I ever
complained about changes...
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Maria suddenly caring about Mamoru after being a complete jerk to him by teasing him around.
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Except, of course, she didn't...
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Whatever changes happened, I'm looking at Shin Sekai Yori the anime not the novel. This is why I always avoid reading manga period (that, and I like things to be in color and in motion which manga sadly is not except for the occasional 3 pages of color).
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Actually, up until now I was absolutely satisfied with the show, changes or no changes, animation derps or no animation derps, etc. I still think it's a fantastic show. But now I have a feeling they're steering it in a direction that I won't like, simple as that. I hope I'm wrong, though.
And I never said this was a bad episode? It was pretty good, I was just kind of underwhelmed with it, and that Maria segment didn't help at all.
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Originally Posted by Rosalena
Next, what is with the crazy-eyed man with the fans (whose name I don't know)? Whereas every other character in the entire show is fairly placid and self-contained he is bombastic and all over the place. He doesn't fit the tone of the series at all in my opinion.
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He's pretty special, isn't he.
I think it's not that he sticks out because he's so boisterous, it's more like we didn't get to see him enough in the show to get used to him and his creepiness. (Not that he has a bigger or different role in the book, but for obvious reasons he's more "in place" there.) In any case, I think the point is that someone so blatantly confident in his superiority gets taken out by the same lowly bakenezumi he was playing with, on a festival that was held because he dismissed Hiromi's concerns about the village's safety.
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Also, I didn't understand what happened when he died. So far no one else has released their cantus in such a manner upon their death. kuromitsu, was this addressed in the novel?
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Not really.
It's a random woman, presumably someone he loved once. I
think the point was how beautiful and fragile the mirage was (Saki is like "and then a
giant Rei woman appeared and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen"), to underscore the "holy" aspect of humans and the "monster" aspect of the bakenezumi. (Maybe.) But since things like this tend not to work in anime, I think they should've just cut this part...
ETA: Sorry, I just noticed, you were asking about the mechanics?
It's just a mirage. Earlier on Satoru explains to Saki that the "ghosts" of Maria & Co. she saw were born out of her strong feelings of wanting to see them, projected on the water. Presumably the same thing happened with Koufuu, either with a woman he loved, or as an artist "releasing" his creativity or something like that.
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Meanwhile Mamoru...
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Mamoru who?
Poor kid. All this Maria->Saki push pretty much undermines the reasons why Maria went with him in the first place. (And they didn't even mention that it was him who drew that picture of Saki and Maria!
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I think the show's dropped a fair amount of hints about that. There is no need for Maria to do that now, especially when she's dead. Judging by kuroumitsu's dissatisfaction that scene was entirely anime original and it shows, cause I can't imagine reading a novel and suddenly run into a paragraph of "Hi, I'm Maria, 14 years old and dead. I loooove my friend Saki but it's too bad lesbians can't have children. Did I mention how much I love Saki? Wanna see a picture? Here, let me sing it for you." at this point in the story.
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XDDDDDDD But yeah, it's not like they haven't been dropping hints since as early as ep 14.