2012-08-12, 13:13 | Link #462 |
Yuuki Aoi
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This was probably my favorite episode so far. Weird and hard to put in order -- although I guess the fairies can shift people into different spacetimes, and either clone adults in no time or simply populate new spacetimes with illusions. In any case, I loved the feeling. I'm still unsatisfied with the minuscule amount of actual human emotion, but the rest is enjoyable. And Watashi's gentle confusion was good. Maybe I'm finally "getting" this show.
I made that characters/seiyuus page from the characters page on the official site, but this time we had one more fairy voice: Arai Satomi (Kuroko in Index and Railgun). The doctor from HQ was played by Kuwatani Natsuko (Alistia in Last Exile, Suiseiseki in Rozen Maiden, Alph in Nanoha, Asakura in Haruhi, Sae in Yurumates). Lol. I had a pic all set to go -- and then discovered he had no seiyuu....
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2012-08-12, 13:18 | Link #464 | ||
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Got one word for this episode: boring.
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I just didn't find this episode fun, amusing, or interesting. Must be the after affects of the Endless Eight. |
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2012-08-12, 14:59 | Link #465 | |
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That being said, I felt Episode 7 was Ok. It's a good origin story for Assistant-kun, and I liked how it shows just how mischievous and generally untrustworthy the fairies are. Fairy 1: No Clones? Ok, we'll just enact our 'Happy Place' plan where you keep tripping on banana peels over and over again, enabling us to steal your DNA while you sleep! Fairy 2: Then we'll use your DNA to clone you over and over again! Fairy 3: We'll then use your clones as slave labor to make candies for us! Fairy 1: Ha ha ha ha! Fairy 2: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! All Fairies: Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
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2012-08-12, 15:25 | Link #467 |
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We have entered a endless recursion of spaghetti code.
Who needs time loops, when you can have time overlaps, and have an army of Watashi's happily making sweets? I agree with the faeries, it is a happy place. Or alternately, If Watashi falls in the forest, and only Watashi is there to hear it, does she bake sweets? Last edited by 00Coyote; 2012-08-12 at 15:32. Reason: Quantum banana peels |
2012-08-12, 15:56 | Link #468 | |||
Franco's Phalanx is next!
Join Date: Apr 2012
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2012-08-12, 17:36 | Link #471 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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It is hard to understand with reading the light novel,but watching the anime are helping me to make theories.
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I need to watch 3-4 times to understand and make theories XD Please make comment and criticize what I might miss with this theory. |
2012-08-12, 18:19 | Link #472 |
Mmmm....
Join Date: Sep 2006
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The fairies are definitely creepy.
Watashi said "No clones!" so they just fooled around with time loops until there were enough of her to make lots of sweets. Then there was the whole thing with bananas, like the mk I banana having no taste, which does tie in nicely with the fairy food factory of episode 1, given this episode clearly happens earlier (before Watashi had met Assistant, and before she'd had her involuntary haircut. |
2012-08-12, 19:08 | Link #474 |
Guess what time it is?
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Assistant tends to wander off? Well, I know he disappeared in the fairies' factory, but I thought they just got separated. Otherwise, it looks like he comes to be content enough to stick around his new employers.
I knew the fairies loved sweets, but I didn't realize they'd set up a Mars Needs Confectioners plot to turn Watashi into The Girl Who Slipped Through Time. |
2012-08-12, 21:35 | Link #477 |
lost in wonder forever...
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Wow, I knew this anime was weird but this episode just takes the cake. It felt like something outta of the Twilight Zone.
I don't like this at all with the Fairies obsessiveness with sweet as they seem to do anything possible to get some...evil time slip banana. I would understand if they used some poor bloke to use as a slave to make them sweets, but to make our heroine their temparary slave is concerning as she's probably the only human around that treats fairies well and give them candy.
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2012-08-12, 22:29 | Link #479 | |
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Another take would be think of it like a film strip. Each frame shows her progress in going to get Assistant. The fairies borrow a Watashi from each frame, so that they can get lots and lots of sweets baked in the Faerie woods. So you have early time Watashis who haven't met Assistant, other Watashis who have made it further into the story, late time Watashis who have lost the sundial wristwatch, those who have met Assistant, and so on. In the woods, there is a disconnect that keeps them from recognizing that they are all the same person. In the outside world, when two different Watashis meet, they fuse, leaving a fuzzy, mixed memory, and one slightly confused MC. Spoiler for Order of events:
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