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| I swear thus author has to be a virgin. doesn't want couples to be happy. tragic ends. aaaaa. I'm watching this anime with my gf and omg wtf did I get into rofl |
| Man had to go through getting rejected by his village and his sister, only to go through watching his wife and daughter wilt away. Hope that ending means he's got a happy future. |
| Hopeful new beginnings at the end of this one. |
| Vic Mignogna. Ew. |
| My fav episode so far for sure. Damn that was sad, but at least they were reborn. Guess his wife will have to be his daughter now, so that's a little weird. Still loved it tho. |
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| What a sad story, but that ending though, that was messed up. |
“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro  |
| Big white bamboo ended up being such a great dad... Also need more episodes focused on human-mushi hybrids. There's a lot of potential there. |
| Wow this episode was sad but also, due to the twist ending, hopeful. That's a really unique way to do a twist for a horror drama. Those kids are like Cabbage Patch Dolls but Bamboo Grove Babies instead - something like that. |
| Okay. That was creepy |
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land) |
| Bamboo babies, ehh? Weird episode. |
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| Weird af, but this is the Mushishi I love - bizarre, alien, outside the bamboo box. Kinda like the bamboo wife, her mom, and Kisuke. The village shunned and rejected them because they were different, though the guy wanted to be part of the community again. He wanted it so badly that he overlooked that his community was right there with him, his wife and daughter. But all's well (is it?) that end's well....I loved the ending so much. Wasn't just, "omg poor guy lost everything" episode like the pillow. He comes full circle, now has to take care of the baby wife and baby daughter haha....well technically, both bamboo babies at the end are offshoots of his wife and daughter. So cute, so creepy, so strange. A-Tier episode. |
eyerokMar 16, 5:48 PM
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone β has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash β together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.β - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
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Honestly, one of the best episodes I've seen. Emotionally I think it's the best. So many times heart strings were tugged and strung and ;_;..... Just really amazing. All from the realistic reaction of his sister being selfish and the villagers not accepting him, to the pure love his wife gave. The ending was so powerful... when they both had died I was just about to call it quits. I couldn't take it anymore, too much heartbreak in this anime.... then one of the most beautiful endings occurred and they were "reborn" again thanks to the new Mushi. Totally caught me off guard and I almost cried / did choke up a bit because of just how well-written that story/ending was.. Makes you think, where else in life would you get something that powerful emotionally. I went from down in the dumps from the rejection/him being stuck in the forest, to happiness because her love managed to cut down her tree/parent, to sadness because of their deaths, and to happiness again because of the resurrection.
I like how the ending is left to our imaginations as well, I like to think the babies are the mom and daughter, who will regain their memories slowly but surely. And hopefully the mom ages faster than the daughter too so it's not too weird lol, like it takes her 2 years to reach her previous age, and the daughter 2 years as well, then the timeline is normal again. Or maybe they're just 2 brand new babies, who knows. I like the previous ending better though because I sort of feel bad for the guy.. Anyway, wuteva.
Amazing episode, def. one of my favs. A bit confusing in the middle but it definitely knew how to play with my emotions..... the beautiful ending was beyond perfect imo. Just enough mystery and enough left up to the imagination..
10/10
I like how the ending is left to our imaginations as well, I like to think the babies are the mom and daughter, who will regain their memories slowly but surely. And hopefully the mom ages faster than the daughter too so it's not too weird lol, like it takes her 2 years to reach her previous age, and the daughter 2 years as well, then the timeline is normal again. Or maybe they're just 2 brand new babies, who knows. I like the previous ending better though because I sort of feel bad for the guy.. Anyway, wuteva.
Amazing episode, def. one of my favs. A bit confusing in the middle but it definitely knew how to play with my emotions..... the beautiful ending was beyond perfect imo. Just enough mystery and enough left up to the imagination..
10/10
| @dvt Lovely thoughts, reflecting my own experience of the episode :) My rating on the Mushi-scale: A- / A Tier episode |
eyerokMar 17, 2:38 PM
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone β has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash β together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.β - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
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