Welp I finished the episode and... man that was so hard to watch, in terms of EVERYTHING from the after 5 minute mark. EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!!
*cough* sorry, but I just really couldn't say much but I'll try to give my idea with the episode, albeit I do think there was one thing that bugged me, but anyone can correct me on this manner, hopefully they can understand of course.
The episode at least for the first 5 minutes were pretty nice to see, at least for the Junko moments. It was more like "Yeah I will show Munakata these pictures if you don't tell him that I am innocent." It also makes sense since you know, in the Future Arc I think he was of course rather staying loyal to Munakata, but that's because he betrayed him so he wanted to kind of keep that, if you get what I mean around here. It really connects at the very least in that sense.
And well as for the entire 15 minutes scene... Oh boy do I have to say, they made me feel like shit completely for today, that even I feel the pain of everyone from the source medias. I mean even twitter (which I use that site a lot more often tbh) have been pretty much going despair dosage here a shit ton, and I feel them really, it's painful, and just heart wrenching to watch, as well with a lot of shit would be going on around.
Actually before I go into it, let me point that props to the anime for referencing the intro of the punishment, and by that I mean this actually.
^ This felt so nostalgic in a sense despite me playing the game like... let's say nearly a month ago. Like shit time flies so fast of course. I felt a sense of fright when this was actually shown and I hate it when it was shown, because I knew that it was going to happen.
Now for the torture scene... Oh boy, I felt fucking heart wrenched, and well, its because Chiaki is one of my favorite characters in DR as a whole, so seeing this in the sense, makes me feel like shit, since I dont want her to suffer this way, and since I don't want her to die due to well, some connection to the one in the second game. I think it makes sense at least for this one for me. I just don't like seeing this scene.
Also another thing though, I think this would make sense and people were kind of complaining in some way, but the way the characters turned into despair seems pretty decent, yes the concept is pretty overused, but again it was used in a clever way. You don't really see it, but here's what I can point out in my honest opinion.
Although this seems rushed, but I do think that because of Chiaki being influenced and keeping everyone together, kind of meant that if they see her dying, well, it will break them over and turning them into despair, just because they were with her, shared times with her, they were friends with her, she was the one there around them and at their side, etc. You get what I am saying? By killing her off and taking her away from them, that somehow will break them because of the time they spent together. Yes it's rushed, since we don't see it in the anime due to the amount of episodes it has gotten (12, I mean why 12?), but I do see it working that way in some sense, especially with the thought when I have Chiaki from DR2 in mind as well. So you would get my point.
The scene between Izuru and Chiaki was like the cherry on top I guess, which was heart wrenching in some way because Chiaki wanted to help him out in some way, and she couldn't, heck she didn't even knew this would actually happen. So its a sense of regret that she would have in that aspect and I can clearly understand that, and that's actually pretty sad in all honesty. I felt like it was heart wrenching in some way, especially with the last scene.
I do think also that the way they used Izuru in this episode was pretty fine, though it could have been executed well. No I'm not talking about the scene itself, but to Izuru in some sense. I mean this can be cliche about "A person not remembering anything yet they still have feelings or at least emotions through" its like the memories are rather away and erased, but the feelings and emotions not really. It makes sense really, although rather cliche but it doesn't really take away the enjoyment out of it, and actually in Future Arc, it makes more sense in some way towards Izuru and the flower scene. You know?
Although I still had this issue: Komaeda suffered through a lot of shit, and he didn't got broken there, yet he got broken when he saw Chiaki being tortured? Uh... alrighty? That's kind of confusing. Unless he was rather stable in some sense but this scene broke him completely and turned him into despair and such.
Overall good episode though. Although it can be fixed in some way but oh well. |