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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Wow, just wow. This episode was just full of so much information. (brain overload) So let me try to get this straight, cooks, who was an investigator mentions that he found evidence of the 5 white haired children in different time frames dating back 500 years ago. Now my question is how is this guy able to actually witness events in those time periods, he would have to live to be over 500 years old. Did his scientist invent some kind of time travel or something, anyways im so confused on this show and i think i may have to re watch some of the earler episdoes to really under stand as the plot progresses and starts answering some of the more important questions. The mystery of the Children of Befort is a little more clear though now, here we have 5 children who at some point in their life were regular kids from what i gather. But then they went missing, after that, they were found dead, but the children reappeared in different time periods with white silver hair instead of their normal black and blonde hair. yeah that parts easy to figure out, but what bout this mystery stone that GED discovered. I am sure that will be explained at a later date. What really has me intrigued is that the one boy "samahade" i think is his name. Thier was a portrait of him and he apparently had another life style, but his hair is also white. Meaning that this was after the fact that they ran away and wound up dead. Some how i get the impression that these children are able to manipulate time to an extent, or at least enter different time periods and rewrite history in some way. This series that really makes you think and annylize every bit of info to try and solve the mystery. Series like that, if they are executed in the right way usually turn out to be nothing short of a masterpiece. I am really surprised to see that i am the only one commenting on this show on MAL. Just weird. |
ArtimesGamerMar 3, 2012 1:57 AM
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| Very interesting episode, really liked the backstory from this! Really wonder what's next. |
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| Yeah so they are somewhat immortal, but their memories are somehow killing them? How do they keep getting reborn? Do they really take over other kids bodies? |
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| I realise that everyone else has probably finished this series already, but I think they are reincarnated and recover their memories somehow. If you re-watch episode 1, they were too late to meet the woman who had been reincarnated 100 years after someone else (Tina, I think). And now Helga is drawing the same images as that woman. This was my favourite episode yet. Plenty of backstory and no Thoma, Chitto and Helga. I prefer every other timeline and character to the scenes with those three. But maybe they will improve as the series progresses. |
| poor hatsumondai, all he wanted was a normal human life, albeit he was aristocratic it seems. kinda spooky, again. (hasmodai is the correct spelling, but the sub i'm watching uses this name so it feels right) |
| Great episode, gave a lot of infos and made things easier to grasp. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| So originally there were 7 children, now there are 5. Helga is probably the sixth, making the same drawings as Serafine. Does the 7th appear? Could be Thoma based on his age. But it's still unclear how often the children appear and what happens if they don't die at age 11/12. Serafine has appeared again, but she died in 1901, the same year as other children. The missing 7th child would be a reincarnation of Röntgen, but that seems to be a different case: he voluntarily chose to live into adulthood and leave the white-haired gang, whereas in the scene where the kids found Serafine, it seemed that they had never found her as a child in the first place, so she didn't become aware of who she was. But maybe I'm misremembering the scene. But anyway, could be that Röntgen has left for good. So far I've been liking the pace of the series, there aren't really empty moments filled with mundane slice of life, as even the scenes with Thoma, Helga and Chitto on the island are telling us something about the characters. It makes me think about how rare it is that certain tropes are missing. There's no padding, no genius teenager to investigate the mystery, no running to school while eating toast, no cherry tree blossoms. And there's exposition, but it's done in a smart way to keep the mystery going. So far people who couldn't possibly fathom out something don't figure it out yet, and viewers are kept in the dark at the risk of confusion. A lesser series would have already made the white-haired children talk to each other about their origins, even if in reality they wouldn't have reason to mention something each of them knows already. |
| Was that a whole episode with no padding? Please let that continue as we move on with the show, it was certainly a nice change in pace, literally, and very welcome with the amount of information that we got. The way that they used the opening to set up for the later part with the memories and shadows stood out to me today. Hasmodye's memories as Andrew Chaseman, and then the other kid's memory of the dog plus that house we saw earlier. It seems to me that the shadows seem intent on making them forget their origins, their original society and culture, and appeal to their "happiest" times in their new lives to try and make them stay around in order to achieve that. The shadow sequence was terrifying the way that it wrapped him up and absorbed him into its own little world and even one of the others couldn't help if he went too far into it. I wonder if the nine Children we know about is all there ever was or if they've lost more along the way. The white hair is definitely linked to their memories though, which is part of what makes me think that the memory storage may be genetic in some way, as the hair reverts the moment that the memories fade, whether its by age or death. I still don't really like the OP. Despite the song being nice I find it to be a bit of a jarring song to start each episode off on and it doesn't really set the tone for me. The ED on the other hand is a perfect send off to each episode, a bit soothing after the heavier events of the episodes and really fits the show as well. |
| This clears some things up, and solidifies the legitimacy of existing information. A welcome episode. |
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