Somari and the Guardian of the Forest
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| WELP.... THAT WAS DARK. D: KuroAruu said: Hatsuyuki said: Well, that's an assumption. And we're talking about the meat of a fantastic beast right here, for all we know even ingestion of small quantities could be fatal. It doesn't directly explain it, but Uzoi states in the episode that people in general don't know much about human illnesses and it's not like Haitora would know why. The best they could've really done was either have the backstory explain that Haitora ate less or that Uzoi would explain that harpy blood is poisonous for some animals. It's not like all diseases and poisonous substances have a 100% ratio of success, simply being lucky (or unlucky given the circumstance) isn't out of the question. This reminds me VERY MUCH of I think it must be the same with how a few people experience deadly side effects of medication but many do not at all? Only the numbers are reversed and survival is rare but does happen. |
ChiibiMay 24, 2020 9:45 PM
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| Lmao, good idea to eat a monster. Couldn't they just take some blood from Somali and let Haitora drink it to see if it's actually helpful ? a little bit weaker than the other episodes but at least we saw partly what would happen to humans. |
 「 To other people, I might not have changed at all, but I feel like I was able to change... 」 |
| I know most people love it when nice, cute anime take dark turns but I do not. What happened to my cute slice of life fantasy parent child anime?! That guy ate her mother. He didn't just lie to her, he ATE her mother and didn't tell her. That's fucked. I dunno, this anime suddenly became less enjoyable for me. |
HendyJun 25, 2020 5:06 PM
  🔥 🔥 🔥 . 阿良々木 暦, 傷 物 語 . 🔥 🔥 🔥 Build a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night but set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life... - H E N D Y - |
| This show has turned unexpectedly dark and brutal. Knew nothing was going to happen to Somali, but didn't guess that things would turn out this way. Didn't expect that dark and tragic backstory to Haitora and Uzoi. Haitora's backstory was hard to watch. His home was destroyed and his neighbours probably enslaved or dead, and then out of desperation and hatred he killed a harpy and had his entire family eat it to survive... only to have his own family die brutally like that... It was really painful to watch his wife and daughter die as those feathers grew all over their body, especially their eyes... That might haunt me. Although I understand her feeling of being betrayed by Haitora, I think her deciding to let go during that storm was bad. I mean, if it was just herself I would understand it, but she was literally holding Somali and she didn't do anything wrong, nor did Golem. That aside, that was a nice ending. In a way, it mirrors Golem's and Somali's situation, except that the lie is that he'll be with her forever. The feeling I got from this episode was just despair and tragedy though. It feels like everyone's a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. This war between humans and monsters is probably because of faults on both sides, and neither are right. Humans probably committed atrocities against monsters, and so did monsters against humans (like we just saw). And it all just results in suffering for both sides... |
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| This show has turned unexpectedly dark and brutal. Knew nothing was going to happen to Somali, but didn't guess that things would turn out this way. Didn't expect that dark and tragic backstory to Haitora and Uzoi. Haitora's backstory was hard to watch. His home was destroyed and his neighbours probably enslaved or dead, and then out of desperation and hatred he killed a harpy and had his entire family eat it to survive... only to have his own family die brutally like that... It was really painful to watch his wife and daughter die as those feathers grew all over their body, especially their eyes... That might haunt me. Although I understand her feeling of being betrayed by Haitora, I think her deciding to let go during that storm was bad. I mean, if it was just herself I would understand it, but she was literally holding Somali and she didn't do anything wrong, nor did Golem. That aside, that was a nice ending. In a way, it mirrors Golem's and Somali's situation, except that the lie is that he'll be with her forever. The feeling I got from this episode was just despair and tragedy though. It feels like everyone's a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. This war between humans and monsters is probably because of faults on both sides, and neither are right. Humans probably committed atrocities against monsters, and so did monsters against humans (like we just saw). And it all just results in suffering for both sides... |
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| Oh man Haitora's dark past and sin was pretty gruesome and sad. Glad that Uzoi could forgive him after getting to know the truth (even though its pretty messed up to he ate her mom). Don't know why but something tells me there is a lot more to why Grotesques are hunting down humans other than humans talking bad about them and why the war started. |
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| Aww, how sad.. He lost his family. Ima cry |
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Reapermask said: Oh man Haitora's dark past and sin was pretty gruesome and sad. Glad that Uzoi could forgive him after getting to know the truth (even though its pretty messed up to he ate her mom). Don't know why but something tells me there is a lot more to why Grotesques are hunting down humans other than humans talking bad about them and why the war started. her mother was cute and he killed her that's crime and sin on its own, when u meet some1 like her ur response should not be kill her but to hit on her (ask her out) :D to be honest at first i thought he got cursed cause he knocked her mother up and she was the fruit, well if not cursed a illness that effects humans if they do it with harpy to me it seems harpy is not a species that eats human also possible her subspecies is vegan |
| That backstory was pretty sick and twisted. |
SerafosJan 30, 2:23 AM
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| Somali is so cute. Seeing her scared running away from Uzoi made me sad. Well that got fucked up real fast. That scene with the family eating Uzoi's mother; what the fuck. I'm gonna have nightmares tonight. For a second there I thought Haitora was actually going to get eaten by that monster. Only reason I can think that he's staying alive is that they might find a way to cure him of his illness. That makes me wonder why they didn't just give him a small sample of Somali's blood to see if that would fix him. Kinda miss the comfiness of the earlier episodes, but this darker tone is quite welcome as well. Just not what I expected going into this anime. |
| Some real Stockholm syndrome here... Well to be honest, she seemed pretty young, so frankly she spent more of her life (at an age where emotional attachment is at it's strongest) with the dude, so it does make sense, albeit a bit hard to relate to. |
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| Man im speechless , that was some made in abyss shit, it caught me off guard. Best episode far |
| Wtf is up with them and eating people. The thought of eating anyone with higher thought and especially humanoid looking is disgusting. Definitely the humans fault for their demise. Even in the back story they refer to everyone as grotesques. Literally didn't even need to kill her mom either. Look around for like a couple more minutes and he would've saw the berries too. |
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