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View Poll Results: Another - Episode 7 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 24 | 34.78% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 23 | 33.33% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 13 | 18.84% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 7.25% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 4 | 5.80% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-02-25, 04:55 | Link #141 | |
Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Chibiki -the "expert"- himself agrees with this interpretation, and I see nothing that contradicts it. Pretty much everything we know about the phenomenon comes from him, so if he says it's possible, then it's possible until proven otherwise. There's no reason to nitpick as of now.
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2012-02-25, 05:58 | Link #142 | |
Kamen Rider Muppeteer
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As for the above comment, where, oh, where did Chibiki say "That guy obviously did not want to kill himself or his mother."? The fact that it was caused by the calamity does in no way rule out that the murder-suicide was completely voluntary. |
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2012-02-25, 11:15 | Link #145 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
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If you ask me, all deaths can be explained by 'earthly' means, we simply don't know everything that may help to explain these deaths better.
The first two deaths (the umbrella and the elevator) may be a bit hard to swallow, but I don't think you can rule them out as being nothing more than freak accidents, either.
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2012-02-25, 17:09 | Link #147 |
The Voice of Reason
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I think the whole 'calamity' is just some unfortunate circumstances and a cop-out for people to fill in the blanks without having to do actual research. But until all facts surrounding these deaths have been found, I guess pretty much any explanation will do.
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2012-02-25, 17:24 | Link #148 | ||
Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Anyway, I don't get why you guys are so reluctant to accept a supernatural explanation when we already know there is a goddamn dead person walking around. It was reasonable to have doubts at the beginning of the series (I was among those who believed there might have been nothing supernatural going on) but the past few episodes should have cleared them away.
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2012-02-25, 23:02 | Link #149 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Hahaha, that bloody scene was so over the top I was tickled by it. Especially the expressions.
This episode was okay. Still confusing and none of it making any particular sense to me, so I unfortunately can't bring myself to guesswork anything atm. Poor me. Ah, but Mei is really crawling into my heart.~ |
2012-02-26, 07:06 | Link #151 | |
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To me it is like Damien in the Omen, they talked about it too, you knew it was his doing, but you never saw him doing. But in this case it is unwilling, or so they told us. So, for the teacher I like to think he became a paranoid instead of a physical force compels him to do it. But it was the another who made him a paranoid. It could be the teacher felt his presence an his slicing the air with the knife was a futile way to keep him away. In the flashback of the early morning he looked determined to do what he did. But the scene looks surely ambiguous. I bet they did it on purpose. As always. It's like the another bends the laws of nature to his will. But always inside the field of believable. And it is not unavoidable. In this way it would explain the glass broken by the wind. But this would imply that if you avoid your death you skip your turn, and I don't guess that. Plus is to far away as hypothesis. Another way to see it is like the Another were a sort of jinx. When you got his attention you are fracked. And for a jinx or bad luck you have some *spells* you could do, like touching iron or throwing salt grains over your shoulders, keeping little horns with you. Here they have found this spell, but it is not enough, no more. Anyways for the first three victims we got evidence that they broke the rule, but we didn't with the teacher. But for now looking at the extravagance of his death I surely'd count it as a victim of the calamity.
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2012-02-26, 09:06 | Link #152 | |
Kana Hanazawa ♥
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I just personally have a hard time counting the teacher and his mother's deaths as victims of the calamity if the teacher's horrifying actions were 100% voluntary. That would mean their deaths were unintended and it would make these two closer to unfortunate collaterals in my eyes.
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2012-02-26, 09:57 | Link #153 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Age: 62
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One thing to remember in this discussion of what is and is not supernatural is that the Japanese are more likely to consider things to be supernatural in origin than most Westerners. They tend to be more superstitious than Westerners as well. Yes, that's a broad sweeping generalization about a large group of people, but anime often uses broad sweeping generalizations to fill in the explanatory gaps in its logic. Keeping this generalization in mind, it's easy to understand why the librarian attributed the teacher's death to the phenomenon so quickly and absolutely.
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2012-02-26, 12:40 | Link #154 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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My definition is more like "If a force is causing events to happen by influencing probabilities to cause deaths", then the the event "influencing probabilities" is supernatural, whereas the "deaths" are not.
Also, it's not the Another that's doing these things. I thought that had already been established. |
2012-02-26, 19:34 | Link #155 | |
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I too really liked the melting scenes, would love to see the blu-ray of that. Too bad Umineko could not have gotten this kind of treatment.....Ange-burgers.... |
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