What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
49.4%
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4Liked it!
24.4%
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3It was OK
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2Disliked it
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1Hated it
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Average 4.1
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This definitely succeeded in making me want to read the manga. |
heartpatternedOct 20, 2015 8:58 AM
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| Yeah, I don't know what happened with Kumi either she died or it was a dream. Good stuff, a bit strange but I enjoyed it 8/10 |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| That was a f*cked up tease. You would think that they'd answer the question of why or how Kumi died! Bastards! Now I'm forced to follow up on this. I hate it when things are left undone. |
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DonKangolJones said: That was a f*cked up tease. You would think that they'd answer the question of why or how Kumi died! Bastards! Now I'm forced to follow up on this. I hate it when things are left undone. It's very obvious that the purpose was to get us to read the manga. They succeeded in my case. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| So it's same to assume that the manga continues past that Yellow Knife event? Or was that last bit made up to end the anime? I'm confused. |
| I enjoyed this episode quite a lot, because I am a fan of totally screwed-up anime like this. Even if it isn't a complete work, it deserves to have a higher rating than it has. DeusExMachina said: Yeah, I'm pretty sure the manga continues past that point.So it's same to assume that the manga continues past that Yellow Knife event? Or was that last bit made up to end the anime? I'm confused. Unfortunately, as Central Park, who distributed the manga in the west, have went bust, and only the first two chapters of the manga have been scanlated so far, you are either going to have to buy a second hand copy of the manga or wait for the rest of it to be scanlated. |
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| It was pretty "meh." 7/10 |
flygon250 said: I enjoyed this episode quite a lot, because I am a fan of totally screwed-up anime like this. Even if it isn't a complete work, it deserves to have a higher rating than it has. DeusExMachina said: Yeah, I'm pretty sure the manga continues past that point.So it's same to assume that the manga continues past that Yellow Knife event? Or was that last bit made up to end the anime? I'm confused. Unfortunately, as Central Park, who distributed the manga in the west, have went bust, and only the first two chapters of the manga have been scanlated so far, you are either going to have to buy a second hand copy of the manga or wait for the rest of it to be scanlated. Well, that sucks. I was gonna try to find it too. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| Rightstuf happens to have some 'ultimate collection' in stock that comes with the DVD and all three volumes of the manga in one box. It's only 13 bucks, too, so I'll be getting one myself and making the first post in the manga's forum :D Now if only the sequel were available. . . This sounds weirdly like advertising, but I like tracking down whatever's available for these obscure things. And about the actual episode; |
| Any kind soul to share what continued in the Manga? Thanks. |
holydreams said: Any kind soul to share what continued in the Manga? Thanks. Lol seriously.. I wish someone would correct me here so as to be sure, but I'm going to throw out my guess here. They give you a couple of hints that Kasumi didn't come out of the "Yellow Kife" in a stable mind set. I think, if I remember correctly, there is a part where her borg says (when she wakes up in the hospital) "you ARE Kasumi, right?" implying that either yellow knife took her over, or that she didn't come out the same person. From there I think it's decently safe to assume that Kasumi killed her, since she had already tried to kill her after first exiting yellow knife. Either that, or like someone else said, it was another dream. However, they don't even drop hints at why the fuck the yellow knife was brought there and who was manipulating the aliens (other than the teachers). Also, it's never clear whether the teachers themselves are aliens, or if they just have that weird "borg like" hair. It's also hard to note how much of this is supposed to be symbolic or not, since they never really set a clear line. You can assume that the song in episode 2 or 3 "everyone is an alien" and the whole alien concept in general can be correlated with puberty, especially since they are in the 6th grade. I also figured that the 3 boys with borgs on their head was a symbolism of being addicted to sex, and their drills were symbolic of.. well yeah. That's a weird spin though.. but it makes sense in its own right. I gave it a 5/10 overall as well. |
| Thank you very much for that explanation, now the story doesn't sound like a complete waste of time. |
| Pretty fucked up episode but I actually liked the development, the overall character and story development up until the end sure was pretty lovely, the concept was interesting and the way it got executed wasn't bad either! I would've loved to see some more of this series but well all in all it was pretty lovely! |
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| i gave this a 6/10 it was going to be a 5. but the last episode was OK and interested me a bit to go and start to read the manga. All through the whole show i kept wanting to throw something through my screen(but then i would not be able to watch any more anime so i didn't) because of all the dam crying there was way to much crying. i didn't really like the art style most of the characters ( i liked Kasumi) but the others weren't bad just they didn't have the pop you get when you see some cool/cute characters. So again 6/10 |
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| ............................What? That some weird shit though, Yuri doesn`t fit in that show, she fits perfectly in Hentai series because her voice is God-tier moaning. If this is an OVA then why they don`t have nipples if they`re naked? 5/10 |
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My reaction through the whole show: It was enjoyable. A 6 or maybe 7. |
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| This is such an underrated series! The concept is very interesting and the Borgs are cute somehow. It reminded me of FLCL, with the symbolic about growing up and the animation. I think its biggest flaws though are Yuri's constant whining and the end that isn't very conclusive. Overall a weird but very enjoyable anime ~ |
| I wish they continued the anime, it would've been fantastic I read the manga. It gets weirder. So much weirder. |
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| Just finished this series myself. I can find some pretty crazy stuff when i just randomly pick and play an anime, this was one of those shows that really got me good. Even from the first episode i could tell that it wasn't normal. The MC was weirdly emotional, to the point where i still feel like crying even to this moment, i feel this is serious shit. I don't exactly know how much symbolism this series actually had, it's pretty cryptic if you ask me. Or maybe i've been nurtured and conditioned to much by the anime i usually watch. I guess this one fixed me up though huh? XD I got some serious NGE vibes from this, yuri reminded me of shinji quite a bit. The obscure imagery was quite strange, specifically the alien song, the yellow knife(kasumi's heads) and the tripped out dreams. What i can make out of it though is that, when you're depressed and or young. Things can get extremely tough for you, as seen by yuri's over dramatic emotions. Everybody is an alien to you, you don't really have anybody but you or in this case, the borgs. The last "dream" yuri hs seems to be her dealing with her depression, she is getting stronger and i think that dream was her tying to let go of her depression. I wouldn't have thought that without the borgs dialogue. The borgs in my eyes is the part of yourself that want's to believe that there is good out there. That life isn't an empty space with nothing in it. I know depression can do that to people, however. I would NOT recommend anybody that is dealing with depression to watch this. I am borderline depressed right now because of this show, very powerful and sad stuff. i guess i should be glad i found this show though . Usually i don't engage in discussion like this and i doubt anybody will respond. But damn this anime freaked me out aha. If anybody wants to correct me on my deduction and educate me in anything i missed that'd be awesome. |
DontYouWishOct 28, 2015 8:21 AM
This is it!, are you ready? |
| They want me to read the manga, don't they? 9/10 |
| People seriously liked this shit? |
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| Wait...wat...anyone care to explain what happened at the end? I'm gonna read the manga, but I don't have time now so it's not gonna be soon so I'd like to know what happened actually, because I won't stop thinking about it. |
ParoleModel said: And that's the Alien Nine series. Long winded explanation, sorry! There's also Alien Nine: Emulators, which explains a bit more and adds to the previous story by being a direct sequel. Anyone want the summary for that? lol Thank you so much for explaning the manga after the OVA ends since there are no English scans available outta there. And lastly I'd also like to hear short summary of what happened in the Emulator series too if it isn't too much asking. And yeah that was great and bizzare yet rather underrated series. Full of symbols in grotesque form. No wonder they didn't do any sequel since it gets more violent and guro after the end of episode 4. |
| Here's my one word review of Alien 9: Nyaaaaaaaaaa! 7/10 |
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| This was a surprisingly awesome anime. From what I gather, there is an unlimited number of alien races that are seeking hosts. The drill/borg race seems to be the most reasonable, in the sense that they care about the host's survival. (The only other race we've seen is the Yellow Knife at the end, and they are less than forgiving, as we can see from Kumi's death.) So if there is these vast number of aliens out to get you, why not pick the group that you can have a symbiotic relationship with? It's better than dooming all humans to less savory aliens. In the same vein, these symbiotic aliens need time to acclimate to their host, which is why the kids go through the training. I figure the school doesn't expect such a huge threat as Yellow Knife to show up so soon, and that in the very least Kasumi is the best candidate to defend others especially in the year worth of training. But Yellow Knife exploits her weakness... which screws over the whole process. The host needs the alien for about a year before they can fuse together, which is the main goal. There also sadly turns into a school competition of sorts, which is sickening in itself. (I believe the boys attacking Yuri was an intentional pressure from the teacher to increase her confidence, but it didn't go very well, as we can see.) From the manga summary above, it seems Yellow Knife learns to live with Drill, and the Sunflower race is an even bigger threat. I think if you want to look at the anime without the manga, you can take Kumi's death as a foreshadowing of what's to come. So the anime is more of a bad ending versus the manga's alternative good ending? Unless you are able to somehow guess the Kumi's borg has information on her and is struggling to survive so she can be regenerated. I'm going to rate this a 7/10. I'm taking points off for personal animation taste (those ears were distracting me) and two because this was obviously a ploy to get people into the manga. I don't really appreciate that you NEED to read the manga to really understand the whole scope of what is going on. If this was a standalone, it would get a 9/10 for sure. I'm a huge NGE fan and some of the themes in this anime has some common denominators. |
LycanJun 18, 2017 3:26 PM
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| 7/10, decently weird |
 -~◊~- Meduka, become meguca -~◊~- being Meguca is suffering... -~◊~- |
| I didn't really love Evangelion like a lot of people, and... this just felt like a shorter, less cool Evangelion. But it did have some nice animation, so it gets a 6/10. |
| The main character and the animation left a lot to be desired. Still the story was rather interesting so I'll give it a 6/10 |
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| The last episode managed to top the weirdness of all of the previous episodes combined. It seems that Yellow Knife screwed with my head as much as they screwed with theirs. YK going in Kasumi's stomach while pretending to be her long-sought brother is basically what happened to her outside the hallucinations only in a larger scale. Because of that, she's more spaced out probably due to being busy talking to the alien inside her. Strangling her so badly like that though...Yuri get a grip on those hands pls she's dying xD After drinking something that is most likely Megumi pee IV, Kumi's Borg crawled over to her dead body. Why did she die all of a sudden ;-; Quite a clever trick to get me to read the manga but I'm content with this I guess. Yuri's still a crybaby lol |
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| What a trip. Just wish that Yuri gained a little more confidence by the end =/ |
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| I was cheated by genres. A great piece of shit. |
| Feel bad for Yuri. The OVA ended on "well, she's terrified lmao, guess it'll be over eventually maybe?". It did, however, create an extremely fascinating world that makes me want to read the manga (though I see someone above gave detailed spoilers so I might just go with those). 7/10 |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| This managed to be the least fucked up anime I've seen today. Are they really going to do the psyche-invasion: 'you're all alone' shit on the character who said nothing but 'nya?' Kasumi is both competent and retarded at the same time, she basically is already an alien. Way too bland and uneven to have any impact whatsoever. Even the atmosphere, which took all of the preceding episodes to cultivate, was completely wasted in this fourth one. I don't even care about what happened in the credits, the story is obviously suffering for sufferings sake. But, this OVA series should be praised for its visuals. The designs and the roundness, the colors, the motion it all looks really good. |
syncrogazerMar 16, 2019 10:06 PM
| I think Kasumi is alive, but I'm wondering what triggered those things in yellow knife to blow up? Yellow Knife existence is still a mystery, Megu did state that it said it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. I really wanted to know more about those aliens that constantly attack the school, why are they making grade students to fight them? What are Borgs really? What are the principal and Megumi hiding? When will Yuri stop being such a whiny ass? These are the most crucial questions the series didn't answer. I enjoyed it and the animation art was cute, but those ears though! 6/10. |
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| It was a nice OVA, but also wtf inducing and I would've loved to get some closure, for sucks sake. That said, still cool open ending. |
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| Just finished this OVAs. Weird enough and pretty unique to keep me watching. Really wish it's longer tho. Hopefully I can find all the manga and also the sequels. Really want to know more about the alien or whoever motives behind all this 6.5/10 |
| One of those series I've vaguely heard about being weird over the years, and it's nice to see it lived up to the label. Could have done without the "read the manga" baiting during the ED though, so it'd feel a bit more self-contained. |
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| Yo that was so bad. Like the last episode and overall. It started off with an interesting premise, albeit a little weird (but weirdness isn't inherently bad), and I was hoping we would learn more about the world and learn about what was going on and why things were the way they were, but nope. We just got scene after scene of disturbing stuff happening, without any real explanation. I was hoping it would get better but after each episode it got worse and worse. I think it was successful in the aspect that it created an atmosphere, but like we never knew why or anything. I guess the manga is longer and that's why this didn't seem like an ending with close and I assume stuff is explained there, but the anime doesn't really explain anything all that well. Also wtf was up with the ending credits and Kumi randomly getting murdered??? Disappointed, I had been planning to watch it for a while and I was hoping I would enjoy it, but I really didn't like it for the most part. 3-4/10 |
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| the ending was definitely not the best but theres something about the cute girl / alien dichotomy and the character designs that leave me entranced in this show and wanting more |
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