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Oct 9, 2008 8:35 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Woa, the art style totally changed.

Lol, the apples have taken over D:
KinetaJan 5, 2013 4:59 AM
Dec 7, 2008 8:34 AM
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Hehe, interesting animation. Didn't really like the BGM though.
Jan 29, 2009 12:00 AM
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The noise made it for me.
Mar 11, 2009 1:31 PM
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That was awesome.
Jul 28, 2009 12:51 PM
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so what do u think that the apple represented?
i personally think it was kind of punishment, cuz later when they tried 2 remove it it was planted again on their head as if 2 say '' u will always b marked as the apple people'' XD
Feb 19, 2010 9:49 AM
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Amazing... And don't know why, but it reminded me The Neverhood xD
May 15, 2010 1:32 AM
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wtf was this xD
damn this sh*t gave me a headache :(

1/5
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Jun 13, 2010 7:18 AM
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Wow, that was really creepy and dysfunctionnal.
And that noise in the background, hugh.
KinetaJan 5, 2013 4:58 AM
Jul 19, 2010 10:40 AM
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clannad4ever said:
wtf was this xD
damn this sh*t gave me a headache :(

1/5


lol

ya it was like wtf is going on
Aug 23, 2010 5:33 PM

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Creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life.


The only special worth watching was the first episode, IMO.
Aug 28, 2010 5:58 AM

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i'd love to watch it. but where can you find it?
Aug 28, 2010 6:26 AM

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hell0kitY said:
i'd love to watch it. but where can you find it?


Here you go -

http://www.mediafire.com/?m1wwzk4zkyk

It came with the Diary of Tortov DVD specials, which is why the title is like that.

Aug 28, 2010 8:56 AM

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"you are what you eat?"
that's the only thing i could think of.... and damn the bgm was weird....
DuzellAug 28, 2010 12:28 PM
Oct 24, 2010 11:56 AM

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I still keep asking "Where's Tortov Roddle?" while watching this one!
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Feb 5, 2011 2:45 PM

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Didn’t like it as much as the others. I guess it’s because Tortov wasn’t there and it seemed pretty… random.

I got reminisced of Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory when the apples’ cores were only left.
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Jun 26, 2011 5:12 AM
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WTF IS WITH THAT SOUND!?
Jun 26, 2011 8:41 AM
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The, er, "bgm" was perfect in every way. Well, I mean, perfect for this "anime." It was fitting. Fittingly bizarre.
Jun 29, 2011 6:22 AM
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Meh.
Feb 27, 2012 6:35 PM

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I really enjoyed the James and the Giant Peach-ish feel of everyone eating the giant fruit. I have to say, I'm wondering how much better this would be with a suitably relaxing soundtrack as opposed to the...noise that we got instead.
Mar 12, 2014 8:53 AM

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Mormegil said:
Creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life.


The only special worth watching was the first episode, IMO.


Argeed. Well, about the first one being the only one worth watching. I may not have cared for the last one at all but my god, I hated this one.
Apr 6, 2014 7:13 AM

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yeah i wouldn't read too much into it
Aug 18, 2015 4:59 PM

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best of the specials , I really like it
Apr 21, 2016 5:25 PM

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What the fuck is going on here? what happened to my nigga tortov roddle?
this shit creeped me out, not cool bruh. not cool.
Aug 9, 2016 6:52 PM

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Strange, it would've been better if they stayed with Tortov and his pig, this was just a bit strange...
Dec 12, 2017 12:54 AM

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I watched all of the Aru Tabibito no Nikki episodes in one sitting, during which time my lizard came over and fell asleep on my laptop. When this one came on it woke him up and he got visibly upset. This means that the soundtrack is 100% garbage. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar bye.

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Art was a mistake.
Jun 27, 2021 9:29 PM
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woahh uhhh, what the hell happened here...
Jul 18, 2021 1:20 AM

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this special were not very good. first short was pretty good. second was just a miss in terms of story themes and by third, art animation and music got worser
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Jan 8, 2022 11:26 AM

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That was certainly something. When I first started watching the episode, I thought that the sound quality of the version I watched is just poor, but that's not the case. Really gave the eerie feeling although with the style of the original, I think this would have been better.
Jul 9, 2022 1:28 AM

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God, this is shit. 3/10.
May 7, 1:33 PM
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Where tf was Tortov Roddle?

Eh

Main 6 episodes are either a 5 or 6/10 for me. Decent enough, liked the art style and fantasy elements. I’m sure there was a lot of symbolism that I didn’t bother to dissect. This is probably a masterpiece if you like artsy short films, but I can’t say that’s necessarily my thing.

Special episodes, I’m a bit more on the fence about. The hallucination one was actually my favorite of the entire series, but these last two, I didn’t like, since they felt so random and disconnected from the rest of the series. So I dunno. Either a 4 or a 5, I’ll decide later.
Jul 25, 8:27 AM

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I didn't really like this. It made me sleepy. Also very little to do with the rest in almost every way.

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