2011-05-01, 22:06 | Link #642 |
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
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I'm actually of the opinion that Jintan is right all along, that the Menma he sees is a reflection of his subconscious. He subconsciously wants to play Nokemon? (for reasons other than playing the game in of itself, of course) Menma 'wishes' it to be so. He subconsciously is obligated to go to school? Menma tells him that might be her wish. Menma wants crab sausages? Jintan takes it first without a thought. And so on and so forth.
Of course I might be wrong, but for now this is the one I'll go with, since Jintan himself acknowledges it as such. One less thing I need to think about and just enjoy the emotion and atmosphere of the show. I mean, I really don't think the point of the show is to figure stuff like what Menma really is, right? Not that anything is wrong to wonder such things. It's just I personally don't like to dwell on these small details as I really don't think it will be explained in great detail in the end, so I just go with the most simplest explanation.
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2011-05-01, 22:34 | Link #644 | |
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2011-05-02, 02:12 | Link #645 |
~ Episode of Side A ~
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The website version of the preview of the next episode is out... :3 Unlike last week's one, it's made up mostly of different scenes to the TV version.
http://www.anohana.jp/story/04.html Spoiler for Episode 4 Preview:
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2011-05-02, 09:32 | Link #647 | |
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I find it easier to think that Menma visiting her house in episode 1 and crying was what happened to Jintan when he visited her house before (same thing with the muffin thing in episode 3 except it was Jintan himself who made the muffins), rather than try and wrack my brain into trying to speculate what Menma is, her purpose here, and why only now.
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2011-05-02, 19:51 | Link #651 | |
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If not that's a pretty huge hole in consistency.
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2011-05-02, 21:22 | Link #652 |
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1. I like how natural everything seems to be. The setting, the characters, their interaction with one another, it all flows so peacefully and without the need to play to the audience. I feel like I'm right there just witnessing it as it happens.
2. I love the mystery surrounding Menma. It's an excellent aspect of the show that makes it unique. Just being able to contemplate what exactly she is, or her wish, or the nature of her 'existing' at this point is a great addition to the rest of the show. 3. Anaru with her hair down is really fucking hot.
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2011-05-03, 02:14 | Link #654 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kyoto, Japan
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The matter of the muffins somewhat contradicts the notion that she has no material form, shadow or no. Unless you choose door number two, Jinta made them himself - we know that he does take his turn cooking so he probably knows how.
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2011-05-03, 11:07 | Link #656 |
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It's pretty obvious she has a poltergeist type effect, such as knocking over her brother's glass. Moving physical objects. Saying their shoulders felt heavy when Menma was hanging on to them. Other times she seemingly has no effect, but it's probably dependent on her will.
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2011-05-03, 12:39 | Link #659 |
Me, An Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
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Well since we're seeing Jinta's hallucination we can't be sure if what we see is really true. What we see Menma do is possibly what Jinta does but we simply don't see that. So it may not be that if Jinta is hallucinating, reality is exactly what we see but without Menma.
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