[Futaba-chan]

Originally Posted by fignae

Spoiler for one scene in episode 4:

I would love to know what Aeru and Rimone think of the enemy soldier's speech

Spoiler for episode 4:

As far as I can tell, they don't understand a word of it.

Spoiler for episode 4:

We understand them; they do not understand each other. Hence the audience gets a double helping of pain, which I personally feel results in a tremendous, heartbreaking force.

Spoiler for episode 4:

That's an interesting point -- my initial reaction to the episode was that they had undermined the humanizing effects of having the Argentine pilot narrate Episode 1 by making Argentum such obvious bad guys. (I had wondered whether Argentum would turn out to be a republic with a bad population problem and few resources, and Simulacrum an authoritarian, highly stratified society. Neither seems to be the case.) But now that I think about it, the soldier is shown to be clearly a victim rather than a monster, for whom we feel sorrow.

I'm extremely impressed that Simoun understands the concept of non-consensual gender identity imposed by society, let alone making it the chief object of horror in a work of mainstream entertainment.