Sora Kake - Episode 9 Discussion / Poll

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[Fishfood1]

most random-random episode seen so far, i'll hold my vote until i see the sub

definitely killed 10% of my braincells after seeing the raw without knowing what really happened

[C.A.]

lol I'll just move, copypasta, my summary over here for convenience:

Originally Posted by C.A.

Episode 9

Spoiler:

Basically the episode tells of QT users, players with super human baseball techniques that are destroying the baseball leagues.

But for some reason QT users are disappearing one by one and the rest either stopped or went into hiding.

Then Shigure brought back Akiha, as the Masked Pitcher to trash all baseball leagues one by one. Shigure tells his plan to his father Nerval, telling him that its the end of normal baseball leagues and its the start of QT leagues.

But Tsutsuji convinces Kannagi to counter the Masked Pitcher. And was able to do so but both sides ended in injury.

We then learn that Akiha's 2 elder sisters were both QT users and died mysteriously, that's why she stopped. But she went back to baseball as the Masked Pitcher so she can make money to pay for Nami's medication.

Meanwhile Itsuki is told by Tsutsuji that she can become more powerful by visiting the baseball demon. So Kannagi sets off to find it, which she found out is a shrine called 礼央破流堂, reads 'Reiouparudo', basically Leopard.

Itsuki learns that she needs to train and master her swings before she can pick up the demon bat and gain true powers of a demon QT user. She masters and Leopard says he longed for the moment to take over a player who can wield his bat, but is stopped by Nerval and Tsutsuji who appears to be working together.

Itsuki then takes on Akiha, they clash with full power and Itsuki looks like she's out cold or dead. Then Nerval and Tsutsuji appears and reveals that he was the one who killed all the QT users so he can retain the baseball leagues, Shigure and Akiha were shocked. Shigure now knows who's the real demon of baseball.

Akiha realises her sisters were killed by Nerval and so she uses her QT powers to wipe them or everything out.

Quite a puzzling but entertaining episode, Sakura and Imo-chan were super cute. There was major baseball homages, Dokuro chan's Excaliborg, maybe FLCL or something. Not sure if it really foreshadows anything or the QT displayed in this episode provides us with any real QT info.

Episode 9

Spoiler:

Forgot to mention that the QT users were people who loved baseball and played it as a sport they loved with all their heart. But they were too powerful and Nerval wants them to be wiped out.

In the final round, Itsuki and Akiha were tricked into fighting each other. Itsuki was cheered on by the church ophanage she's working to support and Akiha was cheered by Nami who's she's returning as Masked Pitcher to pay for medical fees. They were cheered on to play baseball with their hearts.

Nerval took advantage of their love for baseball to destroy each other. In the end Akiha released all her QT to destroy Nerval, but seems like everything was destroyed as well.

Anyway MAKO made Akiha sound hotblooded, I'm hoping to hear that in the story itself. Hotblooded female mecha leads are my favourite types. Akiha's pink hair and mecha lead status reminded me of Noriko and Nono, that's why I picked her as my waifu very early in the show.

The preview seems really exciting though, especially with Aleida going to take off her mask.

[Flo]

I lol'd hard in this episode, also Itsuki is hot with glasses (without wig)

[Hypernova]

This was one WILD acid trip.

I'm wondering if this is a metaphor for the main plot? Some back scene mastermind wanting to wipe out the QTs...

[C.A.]

Yea there's a good chance the episode is either doing foreshadowing, tweaking character relations and developments to show either what's coming up or what happened in the past.

Not that this event happened in the past before, but that a similar arrangement of stuff happened.

[technomo12]

ok watched the raws (since its the only raw available since raw ep8 has been removed or somthing)

i dun quite get the baseball theme

[C.A.]

Just did a little bit of rewatch at the Leopard shrine portion.

It seems that Nerval puts Leopard as his ultimate enemy because Leopard was the one who spread QT powers to create QT users in the first place. Nerval seals Leopard the QT demon in the shrine, so that he can carry on to erradicate all QT and preserve normal baseball that he is dominating over.

Not sure if its true in the real Sorakake universe.

[SaintessHeart]

The gun that Tsutsuji Baba used looks like a SAR-21. Here is a reference.

Spoiler for big pictures:

In the second picture, the way she is holding the grip close to the barrel pretty much explains it is a bullpup, and with reference to the first picture, it looks like a SAR-21.

And this is how the gun looks like IRL......

Spoiler for IRL:

Congrats Itsuki. The first anime character to be killed by a "collapsible" advanced combat rifle.

[C.A.]

Hey, the SAF will be hunting you down for this lol, its even worse than your mini ban.

Its better to post the US or German or Swedish equivalents.

[Fishfood1]

^why would they hunt him down?

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by C.A.

Hey, the SAF will be hunting you down for this lol, its even worse than your mini ban.

Its better to post the US or German or Swedish equivalents.

They won't. I assure you. The weapon is NOT a military secret, and besides the sources are from opensource bodies. They have to sue wikipedia and Sunrise first for making such references.

Besides the gun almost looks like an IMI Tavor, but I dropped it because of the carrying handle is bigger than that of Tavor's. It is just the Norinco QBZ-97 front sight that makes it look totally different.

The recoil of the weapon makes it an excellent mid-range sharpshooting weapon, not surprising if it has its own "Khyber Pass copy" in the future.

[Cat Megex]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Congrats Itsuki. The first anime character to be killed by a "collapsible" advanced combat rifle.

I thought she got taken out due to the backlash from the collision of the two QT forces. (Hers vs. Akiha's.)

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Cat Megex

I thought she got taken out due to the backlash from the collision of the two QT forces. (Hers vs. Akiha's.)

I thought I heard a gunshot as she was resisting the baseball.

[Hypernova]

Doesn't very close to the SAR-21 IMO. Grip and butt shape all look different.

[uis]

I dunno this episode weird or not but still enjoying for me...

[Fishfood1]

it feels AU when you see it without knowing what really happens.

glad CA at least did some good summary of this episode, which make a lot more sense

[Myssa Rei]

Man, was that random, but knowing Sunrise, the madness in the episode VERY LIKELY relate or reflect events (past or future) in the 'normal' Sora kake universe.

[Duo Maxwell]

You made it sounds like Sunrise always do this kind of thing O_o.

Completely off-topic: Sanae is in the next Touhou :3.

[jennkei]

Like Fishfood1 says, it does feel AU -- but also as if I was missing some in-joke or reference. For some screenshots..and bewilderment.

On OT: Yay Sanae! She's purty.