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Dec 13, 2008 12:51 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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"His Smile is Forever Gone!"



A very powerful and sad episode. Andre's death, you could see Oscar taking a spiral into depression and grief. I was disappointed not to see or hear from Antoinette again this ep. But at this point its all about Oscar & the Revolution.
Dec 22, 2008 10:19 PM
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Nuuu ;_;

Poor Andre
Apr 10, 2009 1:40 PM
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Oh man, Oscars seiyuu did an amazing job at showing how much pain Oscar was going through with Andre's death D:
Such a powerfully sad episode ;_;


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May 30, 2009 8:49 PM
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Poor Andre and Oscar, they were finally a couple now and everything ;_;
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May 31, 2009 9:11 PM
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André, the horse, and the accordian player, man a lot of sad deaths, and maybe Oscar herself.

Very sad episode.
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Nov 6, 2009 3:24 AM
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Nooo! Oscaaar! Live! It's only the second to last episode, you can't die now!
Dec 21, 2010 12:33 PM
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO! DON'T DIE OSCAR, YOU WERE TOO BRAVE TO DIE NOW! :(
I know that how it will be, but no, I don't wish for this.

Feb 16, 2011 2:40 PM
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Epic. Just epic.
Mar 2, 2011 11:39 AM
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ANDOREEEEE D=

wait wait OSUKARUUU..?
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Apr 26, 2011 8:25 PM

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God damn it, they killed off Kirchesis
Even when I was in crowd, I was always alone
Aug 20, 2011 5:31 PM

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mitamaking said:
André, the horse, and the accordian player, man a lot of sad deaths, and maybe Oscar herself.

Very sad episode.


exactly!.. the accordion player T___T
Sep 25, 2011 1:04 PM

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In a way Andre really was lucky. With Oscar being terminally ill there would have been no future anyway, and a few episodes ago he said he'd never want to see her die before him. I guess that wish was granted (Though to be fair he probably wouldn't have "seen" her die anyway, harhar).

And the accordion player had a daughter, I am surprised. He was really a great, mysterious side character.

I guess the last episode will cover Oscar's death, foreshadow the reign of terror and bring everything to a very tragic ending. Looking froward to it.
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May 19, 2012 8:00 PM

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Accordion player's daughter taking up the mantle was just. Wow. idk I'm probably doin' it wrong but that whole scene was the most moving part of the episode to me. Well. Along with the French Guards coming to man the cannons. Just. This whole episode oh my God.
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Sep 6, 2012 11:39 PM

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Winner of this thread.

Anyway, grand tragedy in the making. And Andre's words are just too much to bear. Everything was just starting for them and he is even refusing to believe he is dying.
Oct 12, 2012 8:08 PM

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;_______________;

I don't know if I even have enough tears for the last episode... but I... must soldier through.
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Dec 13, 2012 4:39 PM
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LaSalle didn't get the same treatment as Andre! They literally left him for dead. That ending was done really well, especially each time the cannons fired. Oscar's been shot before, so we know she'll be okay! Right?
And not the accordion guy! He lost his sight before everyone else started doing it.
Feb 22, 2013 7:25 AM

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Wow so many powerful emotions this episode. I almost cried when Andre died.

Now it looks like Oscar got shot too just great. -___-
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May 24, 2013 8:05 AM
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My big question is how they escaped getting cornered on a bridge and being fired apon by two seperate army regiments.

Its just like oh we slept underneath it and only one guard was posted near the entrance.

Andre gets a main character burial. Poor LaSalle. Where the hell did they get the time to pick all those flowers anyway? Isn't Paris a city of concrete, and the military patrolling everywhere?

the accordian player was a bro. that's just sad.

I really hate glorious last charges or going out in a blaze of glory mentality where heroes die in slow motion. ROV has been dipping into that lately and I just lose all interest and sympathy.

Especially when you consider what a bloodbath the French Revolution actually was. There's nothing glorious or "epic" about violence and suffering.

In other news the show would instantly redeem itself if it showed Antoinette and the King getting beheaded a la guillotine. I'd slap a 8 on it for that alone. Come on last episode don't fail me now!
Jul 13, 2013 5:00 PM

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NOT THE HORSE T___T

I feel sad the next episode is the last one this is definitely one of the best animes I've ever seen also I wonder how much we'll see of the beheadings
Oct 31, 2013 1:29 AM

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Andre only had a day with the woman he loved...about as tragic as it gets and now Oscar will join him soon enough.
Nov 4, 2013 2:00 AM

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"Kill em all Tomino!"

Is what i like to say about this episode.
Feb 5, 2014 10:36 AM

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"If i realized that i loved you sooner, we could have had much better days. you were beside me, to quietly and too kind..."

that one of the most saddest line i've ever read. she couldn't realize she's in love with him cuz she was raised as a man, she thought she's a man. now that's what i call "Drama"
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Dammit I knew this would end up as a tragedy T-T Farewell André, at least your love finally came true before you died :(

mitamaking said:
André, the horse, and the accordian player, man a lot of sad deaths, and maybe Oscar herself.

Very sad episode.

Yea that poor accordion player just had to die as well :c
Oct 19, 2014 4:40 PM

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Aw, I was hoping they'd do a bit more of the French Revolution. But I guess they covered some important figures and mixed in some drama, so it's alright. Was strangely nice to see the Storming of Bastille, ironic that the prison only had handful of prisoners at the time though.


No, Oscar!

Naw, not really. LotGH already pulled it off, I'm not surprised.
She can join Andre in the afterlife now.

Mar 10, 2015 10:36 PM

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well...............you could have at least given Oscar a more flashy death.......



I don't care anymore I hate this........why Oscar.........



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Jan 11, 2016 10:55 AM
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Oh.....Oscar ;_;
Feb 27, 2016 11:10 AM
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A fitting death for Oscar if so.
Jun 17, 2016 7:24 PM
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Three sad deaths

I'm glad Oscar and Andre we're able to acknowledge their love before both of their deaths. I'm kinda hoping she doesn't die at the Karma but either way she has terminal illness anyway so she wouldn't stand a chance :(

The accordion guys death was pretty sad too, he was a cool sort of foreshadowing character.
Jun 23, 2016 10:59 AM

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Fantastic episode culminating at the death of my fav character.
The last episode should be epic
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Dec 10, 2016 8:16 PM
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OSUKAAAAA!
Please don't die!
And on the next episode:
Then everything ends with some sort of Jojo reference, because memes. And lots of saabisu saabisu!
Apr 23, 2017 3:56 AM

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Such a heart-wrenchingly good episode. Andre went in peace, leaving Oscar in a storm of sorrow. It looked like all the bullets missed Oscar, and she collapsed on her own. The odds of that, though..

Jul 11, 2017 12:31 PM

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Everybody falling like flies, final episode hype
Sep 27, 2017 1:07 AM
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at least, they will meet again.
let's see how this will end.
Dec 14, 2017 4:26 PM

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Was waiting for the famous Storming of the Bastille.

Andres death was pretty depressing and I couldn't hold back a tear tbh.

Up to the last episode,Oscars death( most likely) and the whole wrap up.

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Apr 30, 2018 7:34 PM
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My children! My children Oscar and André!!! Don't die now!!!!!! Aaaaaah
Sep 11, 2020 1:31 PM

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Rip André and one legged man that played fantastic accordion and by the looks of it Oscar is going to follow her lover André soon to heaven in this official starting battle of the revolution!

Feb 25, 2021 11:57 AM
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RIP André, a true working class hero. I expected Oscar to die of tuberculosis, not in battle, but then again it would be highly symbolic if she died with the ancien regime.
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Apr 2, 2021 11:04 PM

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Finally they storm the Bastille!
Oscar and Andre both dying in the same episode, sad.

May 22, 2021 7:42 AM

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Wow, this episode is intense. The power of cohering people. RIP Andrè, white horsey and unexpectedly the accordion man, and Oscar too, maybe. She's gonna die either from gunshots or illness. Can't wait to see the king and queen be executed.
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Just tears... For Andre, for the Revolutionary Singing Man... And that moments with firing cannons by B squad, just amazing...
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Jul 10, 2022 9:09 PM

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Part of me feels like Oscar didn't fall because a bullet hit her, but because of her lung disease.
Dec 2, 2022 11:35 AM
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The worst episode of this anime!
Not the worst for bad, the worst for the feelings, pain, sad, desesperation .... the drama in all its splendor!!! kekeke
Dec 3, 2022 6:50 AM

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Now the horse, the accordian player and Oscar fall in an episode full of Oscar dealing with her mourning over Andre's death, it was a very touching and melancholic episode.
Feb 23, 2023 8:33 AM

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What an episode seeing Oscar losing it. She is succumbing to her illness and is heartbroken from Andre dying. And she goes on to lose her horse against the army. I recall seeing the accordion player few eps ago being carried along by somebody. I wonder if that was his daughter at the time. But regardless, Im surprised he had family. And so sad he passed. Honestly, he was the representation of the old regime. He lived underneath royalty and suffered. And he passes away just as soon as the Revolution starts. And his daughter takes over his accordion, to usher in a new age.
Also, i felt bad Oscar. She was seeing things, thinking Andre was alive but no it was Alain hoping she would rally the troops.



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Dec 8, 2023 10:47 PM

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The ending they deserved:







They ending they got:







This is just too much. They seriously deserved better.
Feb 10, 12:44 PM

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Did she get hit?

Well, I know looks cool to stand front and center as the cannons fire behind you, but this is no position for a commander. A squad is nothing without its leader. Was she trying to commit suicide by acting cool?
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Good episode even if a little uneventful. Shame Oscar so completely fell apart after Andre's death. As others have commented, even her death - where she so obviously makes a target out of herself was a suicide by proxy attempt. The episode showed quite well how without Andre she really had nothing left

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Andre... and her horse. Her horse had always been with her since her childhood... :'( And Oscar's lines were so touching: 'Not realizing one's love is more sinful than betraying one's love.'
Some events developed so quickly in this episode, it felt like they could have been explored more in another episode. However, despite that, it was still a beautiful episode.
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