(L+CR) Punchline (Noitamina)

[dearfuture]

Originally Posted by Nvis

If they are all body-swapped, why don't they recognize each other?

Firstly, so many years passed. Secondly, the guy(G in P) appeared in ep1 recognized Mikatan(C in G) and Yuta(P in C). Also Mikatan and Yuta had a sense of familiar of each other when they met 9 months ago.

[Stark700]

I think according to the flashback, it happened nearly 9 years ago so it's been quite awhile. Glad to see it being confirmed in this week's episode though with all the foreshadowing already.

And heh, that outfit at the end is so familiar....

[Iby]

Originally Posted by bastek66

I love when speculah is confirmed

Bodyswitch of trio of kids confirmed. Yuuta is Pine etc

Which was really obvious at that moment Meika has stated that Yuuta's body is 100% female. Yet people were so shocked for no reason and decided that Yuuta himself is female and this show is yuri and this is some crazy unexpected twist.
Overall the episode was quite boring but there are several moment that still keep me interested (like Chiranosuke's agenda or Guriko's reasons to for being a leader of that terrorist organization).

[Idealist 99]

Originally Posted by Iby

Which was really obvious at that moment Meika has stated that Yuuta's body is 100% female. Yet people were so shocked for no reason and decided that Yuuta himself is female and this show is yuri and this is some crazy unexpected twist.
Overall the episode was quite boring but there are several moment that still keep me interested (like Chiranosuke's agenda or Guriko's reasons to for being a leader of that terrorist organization).

It doesn't change that fact that Yuta still has a body of a girl ! So he ether has to be a Lesbian or marry a guy !
Unless all 3 of them goes back to their own body.
But I don't want Chiyoko to return to her own body.

[Dop]

And there I was hoping that Yuta would be anime's first transman protagonist...

[ChampDream]

we finally see Yuuta's sister for the first time, even if is in a flashback and her role in the show. It look like the body switch is confirmed

[Tyabann]

That god-damned cat. Half the shit he said this episode is a blatant lie.

Why does he keep trusting the bloody cat?

Originally Posted by Nvis

If they are all body-swapped, why don't they recognize each other?

Because they were kids when they last met, and Yuuta's in particular looks nothing like it used to.

[Idealist 99]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

That god-damned cat. Half the shit he said this episode is a blatant lie.

Why does he keep trusting the bloody cat?



Because they were kids when they last met, and Yuuta's in particular looks nothing like it used to.

But I think Mikatan notice something since she tried to have Yuta translate keniji related to ''encounter'' & ''Accident''.
Specially since she saw Yuta Über-fy to protect her .

[dearfuture]

If we just blame both of the 6,373,153,740 "Kenji"s for failing to repeat the "history", then what is the so-called "history" on earth? And I don't think the 6,373,153,740 "Kenji"s are all fools, there must be something they can't do or they don't want to do(ex. sacrifice her friends). Or maybe like I said in http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...&postcount=230. The cat lies to everyone and there will be good ending.

BTW, the cat is amazing. How to imagine it can keep normal after suffered 6,373,153,740 loops?!

[Benigmatica]

Damn, what a twist for this week's episode! Now seriously, I wonder if Guriko (in Pine's body) will ever return as a member of the Qmay Group?

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 7:

Here's come another big reveal this episode. To summarize, Yuuta is re-starting the same mission without any fail this time, he found a way to almost successfully close his eyes when he sees panties. But, the thing is, such whole deal turned out to not be a running joke, instead it's another serious plot device added to a salad of numerous twists that seemingly don't make sense on the surface. And why is Chiranosuke such a liar and for what reason?

Heading to another particular part, I actually enjoyed Yuuta's flashback with his childhood mates at Ishigata's lab 9 years ago. It seems Yuuta must be Mikatan's childhood friend around that time and I find the bodyswapping element to be interesting, could Uchikoshi make something that let all three of them reunite and then possibly bring their souls back to normal?

Besides, I still like the pantyshots and their creative camera angling, it's just that I just can't watch this show for them anymore now that I think about it over what happened to the last two episodes. It's rapidly growing on me and if the overall events occurring as the foreshadowings could still lead to a happy end, nevermind.

[revive4563]

The author Uchikoshi is writing a loop story always. I respect him as a loop master.
And I understand that if he did want to write a story like Steins;Gate. But honesty I can't say this story development is good.
Maybe the problem of the story development is that they 'canceled' a collapse of the earth easily and Chira declared that "the ghost can do anything in anytime" from the first episode.
Therefore everyone would think "So what? you are ghost. You can do anything, right?" So maybe episode 6 and 7 were bit boring for us since they lacked catharsis.
Well, still, I like this somewhat and I'm going to enjoy this till the end.

[Kanon]

The biggest remaining mystery right now for me is Chiranosuke's identity. It's obviously going to be important. I'll take a chance and trust him. He might have lied about a few things, but I think he has good intentions.

[cupumanager]

For some reason we can't see a big, pink C Tattoo on Yuuta's nape.

Even though I think on why Pantyline is the trigger to Yuuta's Uberfication would be one of the Punchline of the series; I wondered on some things anyway for now:

Pine has lived as a girl for about half of his live, starting before adolescence, and clung to his old gender identity for that long. The trigger to Yuuta's Uberfication is strangely specific, i.e. a panty over a women crotch. No, Boob Groping, Cleavage, or any part of the female physique do not serve as a trigger, even though as a male spirit he's attracted to all of it. Remember, he's living as a girl. In her daily life, she's okay at, presumably, binding her chest (or Chiyoko body a pettan), and all things related to her female genitalia - She has to see her own, but that does not trigger Uberfication - the difference is that she's wearing male panties instead of female lingerie.

[Nvis]

What happened to Yuta's breasts?

Chiyoko's body doesn't seem to me like she would be flat-chested.

[larethian]

Truly surprised by how interesting this show is turning out to be. Is now one of the non-backlogged shows I look forward to weekly amidst my crazy schedule.

[Gan_HOPE326]

Originally Posted by dearfuture

BTW, the cat is amazing. How to imagine it can keep normal after suffered 6,373,153,740 loops?!

It's a cat. Not giving a fuck is their special ability. And for all we know it's just having fun leading mankind to destruction time and time again anyway.

Anyway, the weird thing about this series is it's like a puzzle. The plot is extremely convoluted (as it often happens when time travel is involved) but at the same time extremely logical; every tiny detail has a reason and points to something. Which leads to the somewhat odd consequence that sometimes the plot twists and the reasons things happen are SO well integrated and foreshadowed you get them BEFORE they are revealed, especially if one reads a forum like this and discusses the plot with others. For example the fact that we were looking at a time loop and Miyazawa Kenji was Body!Yuuta, or that the three kids bodyswapped. It's detracting a bit from this series for me because I have basically seen all the big twists coming so while I'm curious about it I wonder whether they'll ever truly shock me out of the blue. It's a bit of a pity because otherwise I like this kind of plots a lot . Maybe I should check out some of Uchikoshi's VN.

[Nachtwandler]

Originally Posted by Gan_HOPE326

Maybe I should check out some of Uchikoshi's VN.

Try. Either his or Takumi Nakazawa's. They worked in team on famous Infinity series and now work separately but both are good in puzzle-plot sci-fi stories.

[Tyabann]

The ending aside, Remember11 remains the most satisfying of Uchikoshi's games for me. If you haven't played one before I'd recommend it.

I haven't read VLR yet but people cry about that one a lot, so

[jeroz]

Originally Posted by Iby

This was posted before the start of the series somewhere around there.

can I have the actual Japanese text instead? there's too much chinese whispers in your post atm
The fact that it says "they" means there is likely to be misunderstanding of the context of the interview.