(L+CR) Kyoukai no Kanata (Beyond the Boundary)

[Anime Online]

The Spirit Hunter Society guy looks so much like the bad guy that I hope his behavior and action is a red herring to throw off the viewer. But I doubt something like "The guy we thought is the villain all along is actually the hero!" will happen.

[rulfo]

While Jerseykid's take on it is pretty ballsy, my guess would be a little bit more reserved.

Since there are two factions going on about right now and that's the Nase Clan and the Spirit Hunter Society. White and Black would pertain to those two while Gray would be the stance of the 4 people who are in between this mess.

Neutrality? Maybe... Maybe not...

[Reincarnated]

Originally Posted by ices

The summaries for episode 10:

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...84#post4899984

Don't click the spoiler if you don't want to be spoied.

thank you very much! I remember now..

Spoiler:

and if the summary is true, what a letdown. It's like, all those dramas in episode 9 is nothing after all.

[darkchibi07]

Originally Posted by Reincarnated

thank you very much! I remember now..

Spoiler:

and if the summary is true, what a letdown. It's like, all those dramas in episode 9 is nothing after all.

Or if the episode titles are any indications...

Spoiler:

we might see different versions of it, maybe?

[molitar]

So Mirai is just as bad as the others as she was part of the plot to kill Akihito. I think though she can't forget all the belief he had in her and helping her that at the final moment she could not kill him and reported she did.

Now if it is true that the One Beyond the Horizon is part in him that would mean that is his father and that would mean it's intelligent and not evil like the others. How else would she got pregnant to have him unless she loved his father.

It seems the Spirit Hunter Society and the Nase family are just out to kill the strongest Dreamshades for more power. Use the cores for power and they will kill anyone to get that power so the real evil is that family and the Society.

Not only that if that is a part of the The One Beyond the Horizon do they not think that it will get pissed having it's child killed? We already know that many are smart and can reason if he did die they would probably be the cause of it destroying the world in vengeance.

[mangatron]

Where's her pantyhose?

[Breimoon]

how are they going to destroy the kyokai no kanata if they couldn't manage akihito ?

[RobotCat]

Originally Posted by Breimoon

how are they going to destroy the kyokai no kanata if they couldn't manage akihito ?

Maybe KnK really isn't that harmful, and Izumi just wanted the hollow stone like with the Hollow Shadow.

[MartianMage]

Spoiler for Comparison to Gatchaman Crowds:

Well they can do an offscreen final showdown with the KnK to compete with Gatchaman Crowds as one of the most anticlimactic endings ever.

[Miraluka]

Originally Posted by Reincarnated

thank you very much! I remember now..

Spoiler:

and if the summary is true, what a letdown. It's like, all those dramas in episode 9 is nothing after all.

It's just the usual for this series.

[Triple_R]

I wouldn't be that critical of Mirai. Izumi's given rationale for killing Akihito was fairly persuasive.

"If we don't kill him, we'll have an unstoppable monster on our hands, and who knows how much damage he could bring to the world?"

It's not a purely speculative concern, either, as we've seen what an out-of-control Akihito can do, and it's quite explosive.


Izumi is playing people, of course, and Mirai may even suspect it, but is this a bluff you're willing to call?

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by MartianMage

Spoiler for Comparison to Gatchaman Crowds:

Well they can do an offscreen final showdown with the KnK to compete with Gatchaman Crowds as one of the most anticlimactic endings ever.

Spoiler for Reply to Comparison to Gatchaman Crowds:

Just so you know, but that showdown was cut out due to time constrains, and it's going to be included in the BD box as a bonus ending.

[RobotCat]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

I wouldn't be that critical of Mirai. Izumi's given rationale for killing Akihito was fairly persuasive.

"If we don't kill him, we'll have an unstoppable monster on our hands, and who knows how much damage he could bring to the world?"

It's not a purely speculative concern, either, as we've seen what an out-of-control Akihito can do, and it's quite explosive.


Izumi is playing people, of course, and Mirai may even suspect it, but is this a bluff you're willing to call?

Hiromi understands the repercussions too, but he still doesn't want to kill Aki. Aki is way more important to Mirai than Aki is to Hiromi. They also really underplayed Mirai's sense of duty to eliminating Youmus in the anime, hence the conflicting emotions are not that clear.

Anyways, that's assuming Aki does die, he probably doesn't anyways.

[Triple_R]

Originally Posted by RobotCat

Hiromi understands the repercussions too, but he still doesn't want to kill Aki. Aki is way more important to Mirai than Aki is to Hiromi.

My take is that...

1) Hiromi has been handling Aki for quite some time now, and he doesn't want that all to go to waste. Outright killing Aki would make all those containment operations seem a bit of a waste. "Why did we ever bother looking after the guy when it was just going to end with him getting killed like this anyway?"

2) Hiromi hates the idea of being played/manipulated by other people, like Izumi. Perhaps Mirai doesn't have the same sort of pride here that Hiromi has.


Mirai probably has more feelings for Aki than Hiromi does, but Hiromi has a greater sense of personal pride and investment here. So he's the one more reluctant to have Aki killed.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

My take is that...

1) Hiromi has been handling Aki for quite some time now, and he doesn't want that all to go to waste. Outright killing Aki would make all those containment operations seem a bit of a waste. "Why did we ever bother looking after the guy when it was just going to end with him getting killed like this anyway?"

2) Hiromi hates the idea of being played/manipulated by other people, like Izumi. Perhaps Mirai doesn't have the same sort of pride here that Hiromi has.


Mirai probably has more feelings for Aki than Hiromi does, but Hiromi has a greater sense of personal pride and investment here. So he's the one more reluctant to have Aki killed.

Not to mention that if Izumi is up to something (which she is, but viewing it from Hiromi's perspective), there may very well be no need to kill Akihito, in which case the guy is still his friend. Killing him is the choice you make when "if we don't, he'll nuke the country." It's a last-ditch option, not a first.

[Triple_R]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Not to mention that if Izumi is up to something (which she is, but viewing it from Hiromi's perspective), there may very well be no need to kill Akihito, in which case the guy is still his friend. Killing him is the choice you make when "if we don't, he'll nuke the country." It's a last-ditch option, not a first.

Right. I'm pretty sure that Hiromi has more reason to suspect Izumi than Mirai does, so that could be a factor as well.

[RobotCat]

Just thought of something. Mirai should have tried to hug Aki instead of stabbing him. I mean, it worked once right?

[winhlp32]

Taken from /a/, here's a nice image that cleanly sums up what is currently going on with Mirai.

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EDIT: Idol Trial Episode 2:

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

Taken from /a/, here's a nice image that cleanly sums up what is currently going on with Mirai.

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That does spell things out a good bit more clearly than the episodes themselves have.

EDIT: Idol Trial Episode 2:

...Still don't know what to make of these.

[Raviel]

^Wow................I just realized how distracted I was by all the hijinks in the show to actually take note of all that.

.....things sure did take a while to get exciting.