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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Eh, I had an odd impression of this episode. The gimmick with the mask felt strange (not scary at all imo) The second half of this episode felt more thrilling compared to the first. Honestly, I think when this show gets serious, it feels more appealing. Never trust a strange man with a mask! A timely save by that nude woman at the end. |
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| wow, i dont think they will adapt Used Record, and there’s a lot of things missing there. they practically cut 1/3 of the manga i think, the explanation is so vague. if they have short on time to adapt, it’s best not to adapt that chapter, what makes it creepy is the backstory, yet it so simple in here. the second half is very good, keep me curious till the end. basically that places are getting wider and wider it reaches her home, and the lack of privacy is so severe, that a person can even breach your dream and kill you, damn that was creppy. i have a lot of question almost about everything, but seeing the MC is not dead is fine i guess, her aunt must be a total pervert not feeling anxious living like that. shit, there are a lot of question to be asked in second half:( |
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| The second half is so vague, someone really knows what happened? |
| Quite few scene censored, as mentioned before me its really annoying... Also lack of explanation and abrupt endings, horror factor also really low again. |
| for anybody who's thirsty enough, the aunt in 2nd story is topless in the manga :^) |
LeturLefrFeb 17, 2018 1:06 AM
 he takes what he's lost and discards what he's won, he's every bit as alive as you and I |
| This was an okay episode, but the horror was not good. It just wasn't there and scenes being censored made it bad. The second half had quite an erupted ending. |
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| First one was boring. Meh. I liked the second one a lot. I had a bit of a deja vu when I saw that because the theme is very similar to a dream I had a while ago. |
 "No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself." -- Murakami Haruki |
| Hmmm... a lot of interesting ideas, but there was either not enough there or there was too much there... The first part about the record was interesting, but there just wasn't enough there to really make it stand out... Then in the second part, the idea of this town with no privacy was surreal and fascinating, but they didn't do enough with that itself, and instead added a bunch of other weird things that just kind of made it feel disjointed, like the dream stuff and Aristotle and the big-headed people with lots of eyeballs... Meh. |
| "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!" "PLUS ULTRA!" |
| Broken Record made no sense with this adaptation honestly, like at the end you hear the melody out of nowhere, think that MAYBE it's the girls like the singer back then and that's pretty much it. It's cutting out too much! |
| Missing details obviously but it was alright, I liked the the 2nd half more with jack the ripper getting owned. The after death record should be affecting it's owners. |
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| Moral of the story: find someone who wants you as much as those guys wanted that record |
| So... her aunt was asking her to become an exhibitionist like her? Ok, Jokes aside, I felt mostly confused during the entire episode, what is a shame because the idea of a town with no privacy at all sounds interesting. Inukanura said: the second half is very good, keep me curious till the end. basically that places are getting wider and wider it reaches her home, and the lack of privacy is so severe, that a person can even breach your dream and kill you, damn that was creppy. Oh so that was the connection between the Aristotle dream stuff and the town. For some reason a didn't get that. In that case, that makes the story even more interesting. |
Unleashed_SM said: Prior episode were uncensored, it looks like crunchyroll made a mistake or received the censored version from Japan.Were the last few epiosodes also censored? Or are they starting to censor now? |
| The Anime Binge Is Life -PolarCyrus97 2k17- |
| The first one scared me and threw me for a loop. I think the second one could be explained by her perverted family whispering in her ear, but since I don't really know, the vagueness kinda killed it. I like the first censored scene, because it actually draws your eye to the death that's happening inside her mind, but since she's not actually going to picture it, it makes sense. As for the other censors, if the scenes don't take place in the girl's mind like the first one, I don't see a reason for them to exist. |
| Not bad. Second solid episode in a row. |
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Mario_Isla said: The second half is so vague, someone really knows what happened? Like Alan Wake has said.. "In horror story, the victim keeps asking 'why', but there could be no explanation and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and what we'll remember in the end"... |
| I like Furina, I love Furina. |
holy sheeeeeeeeeeiiiiiit! these stories jus get creepier and creepier.  this episode started boring but the second half started getting a whole lot more interesting. if you think that's weird or something, that's just how junji ito is.  i can't wait for them to adapt the enigma of amigara fault!!!!!!!!!  |
| Lmao, the 2nd story's family cracked me up with their terrible excuses on how they hurt their eye and finger haha. |
| So many eyes in the 2nd story on these "people" ... no sleep for me tonight ... :/ |
 ~Mirror, tell me something~ |
| Shit the second story was disturbing af. Saiko's parents making holes on her wall was the most eerie part imo. |
| A very weird episode, and I didn't quite like it. Probably the best things in this anime are the OP and the ED. The art is really bad, and most of the stories are ok. It definitely could be better. The first story was just as weird as the second one, I don't know what else to think about them. I wanted to see a proper ending of the second story, and maybe the first one too. |
| Some episodes are good, some are not.. But it's still a great anime. |
| My opinion on this episode seems to be diametrically opposed to the general consensus in that I really liked the first story and didn't really care for the second. I'd argue that Used Record was more effective in the anime than the manga for one simple reason: sound. Being able to hear the recording added an otherworldly atmosphere to the story that simply wasn't there in the manga version. I also thought that the exposition dump by the jazz bar guy was a bit too much to swallow and think that cutting it down was the correct directive decision to make. I did miss Ogawa's corpse "singing" the song to Nakayama, making her think that she was still alive, but I it's ultimately a pretty minor gripe. On the other hand The Town Without Streets was possibly an even greater unfocused mess than the original manga. At 70 pages long, there was bound to be some things cut out/be at a faster pace in order for the one shot to fit into 16 minutes. The problem is that none of the ideas really flow well with one another and generally lack a message (except perhaps the lack privacy being commentary on CCTV systems if that was the intent). The censoring was odd to see as well, made me wonder why it's okay to show a character slitting their throat vs disemboweled characters and nudity. Painfully average overall Gave this a 4.5/5, but it probably deserves a 4/5 if I wasn't being so generous. |
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i just came here because i noticed a miles davis reference in the "Used Record" part of the episode it's on the top left, you can barely make out the text "miles davis". the album is called "kind of blue" if you're interested, it's a jazz classic and i recommend you check it out if you're into that type of music there's also multiple other records which i recognize but can't really figure out what they are. i managed to read "mulligan" in the bottom right corner and it turns out it's a reference to the Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk album, "Mulligan Meets Monk" |
| The song was so eerie in used record, I think that definitely adds something to the story. It's a shame they took away so much content from the story itself, however. That second story ended so abruptly, and with seemingly no explanation. I think It actually made me enjoy it more in some aspect. Although, an explanation would have been nice, but I guess it's also nice to have to think about the meaning rather than have it spoon fed to me. |
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| The first one had no explanations, I had to quickly find the manga to read it. The second one felt like it was missing a lot. Her family members are perverts, the guy liked her was a pervert that snuck into her room to whisper shit into her ear, her aunt likes to walk around naked (in the manga). LOL poor girl. Those cucumber voyeurs with a billion eyes on their cucumber noggins. Ew. |
| 臭い- |
| An okay episode. I think I'll go read the manga of the second story since it seems some parts were cut. I'm really looking forward for the crossroads pretty boy story to be back. |
| The haunting record, was typical but nice!!! The second story, about the personal privacy, was cool!!! Just think about it, and how could change this world!!! |
| Didn't expect it, but appearently Junji Ito did dive into some artsier territory at some point. Second story was fascinating, but slapping together the Aristotle method and the privacy stuff, just felt like slapping together 2 different stories for the sake of some sort of climax, that the privacy-part of the story would otherwise lack. That would definetly improve the first segment in my opinion. Sometimes it's better to not explain things, other times it's like this episode. The idea of a record, that makes people obsessed and willing to kill eachother over it, is not that scary of a horror story, cause we are subjected to different forms of gore way too often, meanwhile the backstory seems to have some urban legend potential, especially if the recording can come off as somewhat authentic or uncanny (unfortunately, that wasn''t the case). |
| One of the weaker episodes so far tbh, but still decent. Excited for the next one. |
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| After reading the manga version of Used Record I was exited to hear how the anime would make the song sound and I think they did a pretty good job in making it hauntingly beautiful |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| Wow. Lol that was creepy. This was the second ep I truly enjoyed. The song was scary af lol. |
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| Both of the stories that were adapted for this episode were kind of interesting in their own way. I'm really glad that I've read them before, so I could understand them better. In my opinion, I loved the first story because it made me feel uneasy while I was reading the manga and also made me feel curious of how the song would sound like in the anime version. It didn't disappoint, but it was a shame that they didn't tell (completely) the story of Paula Bell. Regarding the second story... it was interesting, but no more than that, at least for me. |
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YukiJudai_100 said: this episode started boring but the second half started getting a whole lot more interesting. if you think that's weird or something, that's just how junji ito is. Ehhh I watched that video recently and just to clarify... that scale is refered to the manga (not anime) version of Ito's works and the use of his "curious" narrative structure. Not to mention that the first part of the episode is not fully complete. And to be honest, I think that narrative works better on paper than in a tv show. |
| The "City without roads" one was pretty good, very oneiric, and so many subtle themes played out in one story. Gotta admit, I though this was gonna be like Yamishibai with better animation but this one was actually very good. |
| The record story I felt was better done in the manga, they skipped some stuff and the ending I feel was better done in the manga. I haven't read the second story but it was alright, though I think there were too many concepts for one story. |
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| I love the second story! At least the creativity and originality of it. I will admit that the series so far hasn't been perfectly executed and is 'inferior' to the manga. I am not talking about the endings, the endings are in-line with the Baccano narrative style, so-far there has been no happy ending.. Unless we talk about my man Souichi with his funny shenanigans going through an edgy eighth grade syndrome phase. By far the creepiest, although it's metaphor-laden, it is by far the most real and terrifying story! |
Cloud_IllusionFeb 21, 2018 3:16 PM
| Nothing can happen until you swing the bat. |
| This is probably my least favorite episode so far- found it boring compared to the others. The second story was pretty uncomfortable though, gotta give it that. |
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| The first one had so much cutting, I hope people understood the plot of it. The second one is super creepy in the manga, but they also did some cutting. I can't wait to see what's next! |
| I liked the episode even though things were cut. The first story still worked and showed how obsessive people can get when they're exposed to the cursed recorded. I really enjoyed the second one. The idea of having no privacy and wearing a mask in order to conceal your identity, even though everyone can still see you, or becoming an exhibitionist since people are watching reminded me of the internet. I did laugh quite a bit when she was with her family at breakfast. The way her father and brother just tried to act cool, even though they were super creeps was hilarious to me. Even though they didn't show the dream guy being creepy, I thought the episode implied he was a bit of a pervert since the ring box was there and it was mentioned that he was using the Aristotle method on her. |
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Bibimbapski said: The first one had no explanations, I had to quickly find the manga to read it. The second one felt like it was missing a lot. Her family members are perverts, the guy liked her was a pervert that snuck into her room to whisper shit into her ear, her aunt likes to walk around naked (in the manga). LOL poor girl. Those cucumber voyeurs with a billion eyes on their cucumber noggins. Ew. Thanks for this! That added background for the Used Record part makes the episode a bit more interesting. Wish they had included more in the anime adaptation. |
| Records are played from the outside in. Subs said "upstream" not downstream... That screwdriver poke! |
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