Fractale Episode 10 Discussion

Monad said:
From the words of that creepy bastard and how she was talking it seems like he was raping her all the time she was there. Creepy rapist priest.
Can wait for his glorius death in the next episode.

That priestess basically wants Fractale to keep operating because she likes the idea of people being imprison by it as a revenge by her to the world that was unfair to her? That's what i got from her at least.

Char0079 said:


The way I understand it, Phyrne has not been raped at all, nor has she had sex. We know this because the Priest was going to have Phryne checked to see if she was still a virgin, which would kind of be pointless if he knew she wasn't because he had raped her.

That is how I viewed that scene anyway. It could be that she is already pregnant, and he wanted them to check if the baby was still healthy or something, but I'd think Fractale could check that without the need for a scan of any kind. Her sister (the priestess) not mentioning anything about a pregnancy also makes me think that she is likely still a virgin, and that he was checking for proof of that. Not to mention that enough time has likely passed that she'd be visibly pregnant at this point if that were the case.

I think having her "father" be a creep was a pretty cheap way of trying to get the viewer to hate him. I know they only had 11 episodes to develop characters, but I'm sure they could have found some reason other for the viewer to be on Phyrne's side. Her plight also doesn't do a whole lot to make Fractale seem evil, because her "father" isn't really a part of Fractale at all. He's one creep, in a job that hundreds of people have likely held over the many years Fractale has been operational. If her father was a great person, would Phyrne's life have been as awful as it was?

I hope they pull something original out of the hat for the final episode. Something between the ending where Phyrne gets raped and Fractale reboots, and the one where Lost Millennium completely destroys the temple with Phyrne, Clain, Sunda, and everyone else inside. Maybe Clain could help create the key with Phyrne, in exchange for Lost Millennium having more freedom? I don't see a reason why the priest absolutely has to be the one to have sex with Phryne (or why they have to have sex at all...is Fractale a pervert?)

DmonHiro said:

Actually, you're wrong. It very obvious that she has been abused many many times before. When that artist nomad attacked her, she saw a shadowed figure on top of her, and froze. That's classic abuse reaction. We just didn't know who that was before. That would also explain her not being ashamed of taking her clothes off... which makes a few earlier cute and funny scene seem not so cute and funny anymore....

EvianBubble said:
Totally expected the Grand Priestess to try and kill Phryne. She could have done it, too, if she'd held on for a bit longer -_-"
Clain's such a hypocrite, calling them murderers, I mean he was clearly ready to shoot the soldier people in the temple -_-"
So that weird red thing is the terminal? O_O Uh ... I still don't really get what it does, but apparently it's a big deal he didn't remove his right? So he still sees Fractale and stuff? O_O
Just saying there's no way Sunda and Clain should have made it in. The gate was closing way too fast -_-"
Well, let's see how the last episode turns out. Maybe someone will die but then be reborn or something? I hope it's good, I'm starting to enjoy this show less and less

Char0079 said:

If this were a multi-season epic, and I was a lot more invested, I'd be more angry at the actual character in the anime. Since the anime is so short though, I'm more just annoyed at the creator for making that a plot point. It does change the way previous things are viewed a bit , but without that ever being addressed, it's just one more footnote on an anime that is kind of riddled with vague plotlines and character motives. Her being an abuse victim makes me dislike one guy, when I really needed to dislike the Fractale system as a whole (for it to really have meaning for the overall plot).

Oosran said:
*sigh*
So everyone's Phryne nowadays. What a mess. And not just is it a mess, but pretty much everyone in the temple is fucking messed up.

...Also, that creep. All my rage. (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
Just sayin'.

GrufleSmurkle said:

But Fractale only lead to people not being social at all and forgetting what is important. They all live alone with dopples around them, and the world they see is fake. I want Fractale to end so everyone can real lives and see the real nature
(harmony, harmony oh love~)

Siva said:
I think DmonHiro is pretty much right on this. It is pretty clear that the father hadn't raped Phryne yet(since it would be pointless in doing so because they need a virgin girl to be the key) but since she was born from the capsule she has been having her body check up constantly by him(this was mention many times lately during the show and also 2 times in this episode).

@Char0079: I don't really think that you need such a "classic sign" to be your reference here. Just think about if he could do what he was doing in this episode to Phryne then don't you think something like this could have happened countless times before this?

I admit that they really know how to make a disgusting people doing disgusting thing.

And who else thought that those old women that working in the temple are also Phryne too?

SHFT said:
I still have mixed feelings about this show, the fact the Phryne might be abused is something far to serious, Fractale has a bit of identity crisis, on one hand they try to be frivolous and even childlike, on the other hand they add those grime elements. It all feels a bit schizophrenic to me.

Is the manga any better?

staticphrase said:
I just want to see Sunda survive. He's the only character I really care about here.