Kamierabi 2nd Season Episode 12 Discussion

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Dec 18, 10:52 AM

KANLen09

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The end of the road between Goro and God, with the latter contemplating creating the world as he sees fit along with Lall, finding his younger self yet again and communing with him to get his current self straight, and advising his younger self that the journey he's seen through all this while, actually isn't that bad after all.

This then, only permits the fight against Eko and the one who is in the line to be God, and Lall knowing that she'll face Eko either way, assists Goro to defeat her God self and bring her back to normal, to see an unfinished story that she wrote, that's finally being felt by the new God that she admired since the beginning of the season.

The new world Goro created, seemingly fading out of a casual rescue of a black cat...

This ending felt like there were answers given, but substantial questions do remain of what is left to be realized.
At least I'll give the benefit of the doubt that Yoko Taro's project is quite the ambitious feat.

Dec 18, 11:48 AM

AnimeFan500

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We got Yoko Taroed in the end😱😭

Dec 18, 11:53 AM

Lisasn

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Notice how the background characters didn’t have a face or weren’t animated in color throughout the whole season? And now at the last episode we see that everything has color and every person that goro passes has a face?! It’s like the other god only focused on her main characters, so kept the rest colorless, but since goro wanted to make it a better world he made sure everyone had a face and in color?

Dec 18, 12:13 PM

jekfrumstotferm

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Well that was something. Don’t know how I feel about this season relative to the first but I didn’t particularly like either.

Dec 18, 3:41 PM

FutoiOtaku

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Worth every minute of confusion to get a decent end-ish thing! Still never explained the situation in the ‘real world’ that was moments from nuclear destruction, but now Goro is god I guess there’s not much he and Lall can’t solve.

Dec 18, 4:43 PM

Sheol01

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Well, that was a nice way to wrap up this mess. Not too bittersweet, though the time loop thing...

Dec 18, 4:43 PM

Sheol01

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Well, that was a nice way to wrap up this mess. Not too bittersweet, though the time loop thing...

Dec 18, 4:45 PM

Sheol01

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Well, that was a nice way to wrap up this mess. Not too bittersweet, though the time loop thing... But it is what it is.

Dec 18, 10:54 PM

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I'll skip a few things that were made clear in the first season, like the animation and so on, because a lot of it was due to budget cuts. The only reason the characters even had faces at the end was because of that lol.

I think this theme of gods is pretty overused, at least the way it’s told here, because it’s always shallow compared to other stories, whether in anime or books (since movies are usually simpler, and even good series don't surpass an average anime). Even though the theme only really comes into play in the second season, the first was more focused on a battle royale—and a bad one at that. One of the worst I’ve ever seen, if not the worst. There was plenty of time to explore it, considering it was already being developed in the first season, even if it wasn’t the main focus. For instance, Mirai Nikki, the precursor of this style of anime, is infinitely better, though it needed OVAs to wrap up properly.

The characters in this show were all hollow. Even though the anime tried to show that each one had a motivation, it wasn’t visible on-screen. It didn’t feel real or make sense—it all seemed so silly. The protagonist, especially, was shallow until the end. I think the most fleshed-out character was Honoka, who was utterly useless this season and, like all the characters, didn’t have a remotely decent conclusion.

The story of the anime doesn’t make sense. WAIT, THERE ARE A FEW ANGLES TO THIS. When thinking about the story itself, like the plot and so on, it doesn’t make sense because everything presented doesn’t add up. It doesn’t make sense for a fictional world created by AI to want or even be able to generate a god. At the same time, the world being the way it was in the first season doesn’t make sense either, including the battle royale. There were many better ways to execute that. The whole god concept also didn’t make sense. While I’ve already said it was shallow, nothing about the story adds up—including the ending.

Now, focusing on the ending alone, you could say everything that happened in these two seasons was just the protagonist’s coma (lol, the classic anime coma theory becoming canon here). He tried to save the cat in the first episode and imagined this entire story in his head with the people who were in the accident with him.

Another interpretation, giving some meaning to the story but not the plot itself (since, as I said above, it lacks coherence), is that Ono as the god is an avatar for the authors of the work. It’s a parallel between them writing the story and god creating the story, blah blah—so basically, total nonsense lol.

Basically, the anime lacked everything. The romance and even the love triangle between Ono, Iyo, and Sawa went nowhere. At some points, it seemed like something was happening, but nothing was ever solidified. No wish was truly explored except Sawa’s and maybe Ono’s. But if his wish wasn’t for his sister to be born and instead was what his younger self said in this episode, then the little bit of depth there was goes out the window. Ono’s friendship with Akitsu, combined with Akitsu’s whole time-traveling bit, also went nowhere. Eko, like god (I know they’re the same), was a character thrown into this season. It didn’t make sense for Ono to die and come back, considering he was supposed to be god or close to godhood. From the moment he was recreated, he shouldn’t have been the same.

Man, everything in this anime was done poorly. For me, the only halfway decent character was Sawa because she was the most developed. But I still dislike her a bit because she was supposed to be the heroine, yet her personality was kind of trash. Lall was somewhat likable, though a bit annoying too.

Overall, this season was worse than the first. At least in the first season, there was the battle royale aspect happening, and in a way, there was some mystery. In this second season, the battle royale was gone, and all the mysteries had terrible resolutions, which hurt the show a lot. To wrap it up, it’s a 4/10 anime.

Dec 19, 1:26 AM

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A pretty simple ending, considering how unexpected episodes 21 and 23 were. But there is elegance in its simplicity!
I believe now that the best way to experience this series is by analysing it as much as possible. (Sorry not sorry binge-watchers!)
I see this story as a big metaphor, so everyone can interpret it however they want.
The best interpretation I was able to come up with is the one I mentioned in the discussion for last week's episode.
(Through the lens of which I still plan to make an analysis of the whole series (No idea when I will post it, but it will probably be on this Forum))
The interpretation is that Kamierabi is the story of a skilled writer, Gorō, who joined a Forum about a little known story.
The community was dissatisfied with how the story was progressing, but Gorō may be able help them...
Looking forward to writing a story about a writer who wrote a side-story of a story of another writer!

Oh, forgot to mention, this series resonated with me (as you may have guessed from my comments), so I have to give it...
9.6/10

gorkthe134thDec 19, 2:01 AM

Dec 19, 3:42 AM

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StateofOhayo

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the ending could have been written in a much more poetic and sensible manner, but as usual, toro had to go and eat a family size bag of mushrooms to finish it.
also there's supposedly two gods in the story but really there is three, or rather 2 and one bug in the system that is never explained? the guy when he was talking about why the AI was made clearly stated that humanity was being destroyed because they weren't living according to nature and building abominations, so the AI was made to basically matrix humanity, and became a quasi god-like entity, but then was usurped by some kind of self contained anomaly which never was expounded upon?
I felt the story was going one way and the whole thing went right off the rails at the end and left a bitter taste in my mouth.

StateofOhayoDec 19, 3:46 AM

Dec 21, 7:41 AM

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EmmyMoomin

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I enjoyed this series a lot. Yoko Taro outdid himself with this. And the ending was surprisingly straightforward. I hope people look back on this series and realise how good it is. So far the public perception of it is in the mud. Not to mention most people don’t even talk about it.

4/5

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