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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- That's the vengeful Sawa I know. Blue eyes filled with anger and with a purpose. However, it seems that spending time with Asahi gave her a final moment of mercy and hesitation. Not going to lie, watching Sawa's continuous struggle with herself and feelings was touch to watch. This show is like a curse to her...Sawa's journey, personal vengeance, life, etc. |
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| The way that the heartless Makoto shape-shifted into a fox-ninja demon and literally forced Saa to summon her blue blood as an act of revenge, that's quite the bigotry from a peaceful life to yearning for one with a sole mission. Yelp, sike for losing more people: first Asahi, and now Makoto. It's only thanks to Jin that Sawa is given another chance to live, and she is left alone once again to lament on past deaths that deserve a second life better than her. Try as she might commit suicide to forgo her original mission, Yukimura's life has been one much of tormenting situations one after another, and releasing all that pent-up frustration with him (real name Iori Makabe), they're peas in a pod one way or another. Well well well, not all players are exactly dead, not just yet as a farce plot device. The last job, most likely with Book 3 for the final quarter. |
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| From putting yourself into Yuki's perspective, it's crazy to think how many people she used to care about have died. She has lost so many loved ones. I felt really bad for her. To escape from this reality, she tried to take an easy route, taking her own life. Luckily, Jin rescued her in time. Glad to see that at least Jin is taking care of her and understand her feelings quite well. But, looks like he's off to one last job there at the end. And, Elena is also alive. What a surprise! |
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| And she still has to live, a tough life that she has. Struggling and struggling while losing people dear to her. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| I don't know how to feel towards Makabe: I hate him, yet I don't know anything about him...besides this, an episode that touches very deep themes such as the meaning of life, suicide, the loss of a loved one, really beautiful! |
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| Damn. That was just endlessly depressing ouch. |
| Man, Asahi better be alive too, for me this show's score is solely depending on that. |
KanameYuukiMay 18, 2021 12:27 PM
| Damn. Sawa just can't ever catch a break :/ Let's hope that the next job is really the 'final' job... |
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| That episode was good. I can tell they used all of their budget on this one episode. This show loves killing off characters doesn’t it? |
under”Mebius” is my salvation  |
| Sawa's tsundere boss, is so unpredictable that I don't have the idea about his real deal. |
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| "One last job" said every dead guy ever |
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| Makoto did take a crow from the top rope into a gaping hole in the chest, so that's a little more like it, but you can only kill and revive main characters so many times, and right now, the number of named characters who have stayed dead after totally for real being killed is still well under the number who have popped right back up no worse for wear. Still, at least someone did end up with a gaping hole in the chest, so we can count that as a vaguely positive thing. Anyway, after the welcome brief return to action at the start, the rest of the episode was unfortunately re-consumed by Sawa continuing to exististentially despair. So much for this arc being about her getting her assassin groove back. It's fine for the hero to lose their way after a setback, but at some point, they're going to need to come back from the brink, rediscover their purpose and reason for existing, and take control of their destiny again. Sawa spent this entire four episode arc wallowing in misery, and come out the other side… continuing to wallow. She didn't grow as a character from these struggles or find new purpose from the hardships. So what was the point? To kill off a kid? Maybe? If Asahi is even really dead? |
| Confusion. I understand Sawa's pain, it must be very hard on her. How did Elena survive, didn't she get brutally murdered or something, that sure was a surprise. Also like hope Asahi survives. |
   Has a 8.60 mean score Akasaka > Other Mangakas  |
| The fight between Yuki and Tsuki was a bit underwhelming, but what the fuck was that at the end of it that killed Tsuki. I’m pretty sure that has never even been mentioned before. I didn’t expect Jin to be so comforting to Yuki and I called Elena still being alive a while back. Honestly, I’ve been wavering between dropping this series for most of the time I’ve been watching and at this point I might just have to watch it to the end. |
| Man, the world sure hates Yuki. I'm still hoping Asahi is alive since we only saw Jin carry out one body. Maybe the Makoto's cat fused with her and healed her? We saw it healed Makto's arm. Or maybe Jin gave Asahi the last blue pill. He took one himself and I don't think he'd have a need for another. Elana is still alive, that much was obvious. |
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| could’ve swore it was supposed to be obvious Elena lived and whatever dead body that was found wasn’t actually her but simply a body double since she ran away from the association |
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| I think it is quite obvious, that Asahi still lives and Makoto helped her fake her death again. |
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SkwebSalt said: I'm seriously wondering wtf is the point of this show. There is no point. The storyline is a shambles. |
My god, why does this show keep trying to put a plot twist in our heads every 5 seconds? It has no impact, I don't know how someone managed to be sad or angry about the events or deaths, they were all spread out by the Episodes in a lazy way hoping that something would work out, I can only think of one thing every time I see an episode of this anime and it is:  |
| Well, that was pretty depressing. Great episode! Best episode so far. And the fight looked beautiful, though I wish the sound effects had a bit more oomph into them. Damn, so is Asahi really dead? Though I wouldn't rule out Tsukishiro doing some fake death fuckery again with Asahi. Didn't expect Tsukishiro to get doughnutted by a gigantic monster crow, that thing's probably gonna be important. Sawa's life is nothing but pain, that I wouldn't have minded if no one stopper her from drowning herself, you can't blame her. I am guessing Iori's lover is one of Sawa's people or she might even be related to Sawa. And as expected, Elena faked her death, presumably with the help of Iori. That must be the end of book 2, looking forward to book 3. |
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| I don't understand the confusion about the plot and where it is going, it is quite evident. The only thing barely detailed is the political stated of the country and the mistery about the organization. She'll probably find a new reason to live, but it wouldn't be a bad thing if it didn't happen |
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xoxogirl said: My confusion comes from the motivations of some of the characters, especially Tsukishiro. She was obsessed with Sawa and wanted to help Sawa get revenge? But she also wanted to be Sawa’s center of attention which conflicts with the revenge part (esp cuz Tsuki was doing things in secret to help Sawa). Tsuki wants Sawa to be happy but then she doesn’t with no real explanation on what changed, unless you count the secret info she found from the 3rd item of the treasure hunt. Tsuki thinks Sawa still needs to get revenge but had no plans to explain why or who also had a part in the killing of her clan. So which is it? I understand that motivations for characters can evolve but this show seems to be changing them just because they want to add another random plot twist. ‘You’ve always been strong and beautiful’ - strong since when? Sawa was never shown to be emotionally strong and she struggles in every single fight. She has no real growth and the only time we saw her somehow get stronger was half-way through her fight with Janome. Also, why did Hana and Sawa hate each other? They briefly touched on that in their ‘goodbye’ but it seemed like such a weak reasoning compared to everything in the world around them. Yes, the trigger for her change is omitted, but the dichotomy of his desire to give to Yukimura happiness and freedom vs his obsession with her that was always there. This obsession grows while she has a mental decline from pain and allusions. It's before those moments that she gives him the poison. In parallel, she discovers that Yukimura isn't free yet, which we see in this chapter where the place where she live was also part of the organization, that makes Sawa go find Yukimura and want to run away with her because everything is a lie (Part where Sawa literally says "you are fragile, but strong"). Faced with her refusal, she does not say anything to her and takes a monstrous form as a visualization of victory of her desire over reason, as in Dororo and in so many other similar anime. Yes, not great not terrible. The great mystery of the series remains the organization, politics and the importance of her clan as supposedly revealed by the third treasure. |
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| If Elena returned then maybe there's a still a chance Asahi will...nah, better prepare for the worst. Let's see how the last book will wrap things up. |
| so there's no hope of Asahi rising from the dead huh... instead they made Elena alive huh... 1/5. |
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| that was the most emotional episode by far, hearings words like those are sometimes real comforting to me i hate it. but ah.. of course elena is still alive, and asahi also probably is too. makoto's villain shit is still really ?/??? to me, but that shot showing that makoto had a robot(?) hand, what's that supposed to mean did i forget a plot piece |
| that was a heavy episode i can only imagine how desperate sawa's feeling right now with no one left i just wanna hug her |
| Sawa breakdown was quite sad to watch. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
matias067 said: so there's no hope of Asahi rising from the dead huh... instead they made Elena alive huh... 1/5. Come on, her death was so anticlimatic that was obvious she was alive. |
| I have a few things in my mind, I wonder if any of those will be proven right. Also as expected Elena is alive. |
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| It's sad to see Sawa like that, she even tried to kill herself... and wow, turns out Elena is alive, wtf |
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| (English) Sawa experiences the greatest suffering of her life for the second time. Losing the closest people is never easy after all... (Portuguese/Português) Sawa vive o maior sofrimento de sua vida, pela segunda vez. Perder as pessoas mais próximas nunca é fácil, afinal... |
| this and last episode were.. oh God.. wtf... this started to go down the hill |
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| I knew it! Elena is still alive and well, now hoping Asahi is also still alive... Sad to see Sawa having lost a lot of loved ones to the point where she wants to commit suicide. |
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| Feeling bad for Sawa in this episode |
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