| Beautfully worded. I'm not smart enough to write a full comment with my thoughts but I resonate with every word you wrote about the story. Takopi won't leave my mind for a while. I'm leaving this comment because I can't give you a like. |
| I also want to thank you for this because having just finished watching it I felt like the ending was kind of abrupt and lacking and reading your take on this helped put it more into perspective. |
| I heard several times that the ending was disappointing, and that's exactly why I was 100% sure it was going to be a good one even before watching the last episode. |
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| All his happy gadgets were useless, in the end he was just a common friend between the 3 of them. |
| I think the ending sucked and what could've been 9/10, is now 6/10. it was still enjoyable but felt extremely anticlimactic. I can tell I was supposed to be sad but I didn't have any attachment to takopi. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| i get what you mean, it's a great central message, and i imagine this might what author intended. but it's a bit ironic that the first thing i feel from that ending is it's a literal magic, just like what i imagine how friendship ribbon will works if it used properly. |
| I don't get how anyone can think that Shizuka and Marina becoming friends isn't a happy resolution for them after everything that happened. This is neither a tragic nor neutral ending or whatever, this was literally ending on a happy and hopeful note xD You don't need erase all the problems in their lives for a happy ending, their friendship is enough to be considered one. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| *Insert “someone cooked here” meme* |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords. |
Reply to Hebi_op
Stories like Takopi aren't my perfect cup of tea, i enjoyed it but i'm not the type who goes deep thinking about what happened here and there ecc.
But BUT i did find the ending very satisfying. It's not a happy ending, not a tragic ending, just what i needed to see to find myself still thinking about it after some hours.
But BUT i did find the ending very satisfying. It's not a happy ending, not a tragic ending, just what i needed to see to find myself still thinking about it after some hours.
| @Hebi_op You sure have a lot of anime on-hold. |
| Fuuuu... I'm reading some and what would make you happy? School Days style ending? But... hmmm... maybe not so bad. Ahhh shit now i'm feeling like jackass. |
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| I deeply respect how the anime doesn't actually fix any of their problems that got them to their lowest points, I think it really makes it far more relatable and well meaning than if it had some condescending fix it all ending (or worse a cynical depressing one). |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
Nirinbo said: I heard several times that the ending was disappointing, and that's exactly why I was 100% sure it was going to be a good one even before watching the last episode. I actually got "disappointed" that the ending wasn't disappointing at all. I really enjoyed it! |
| If an otaku in Springfield sees the "Moe's Bar" sign, wouldn't he mistake it for a Maid Café? |
Reply to Zoathhh
@yusamisa
2022 Marina killing her mother could not have happened without Takopis meddling though?. She says it herself in Episode 5 that she wouldn't have taken that path if it wasn't for Takopi and wouldn't have met Azuma which in turn wouldn't have led to her mother having a breakdown.
2016 Shizuka successfully commits suicide BECAUSE of Takopi's reconciliation ribbon. That is why Shizuka is alive in the 2022 timeline, the original rope she planned to use must've broken.
Takopi's meddling DOES change the timeline and lead to further tragedy.
Azuma's realization that he can rely on his brother is central to the story. It leads to episode 4's conclusion.
The vague sense of dejavu occurs to Azuma too because his self before the final reset tells Takopi to relay the message "Don' be afraid to have fights with your brother" to his past self. Azuma likes Shizuka because he seeks validation from Shizuka, who happens to look like her mother. That isn't the case anymore
1. He can rely on his brother
2. We see him making friends instead of spending all his time studying
What Takopi symbolizes is hope, even when he's beaten up by both Shizuka and Marina or berated by Azuma he still wishes to make them happy . He is the unwavering hope all three characters have in common. Azuma finds hope in his brother. Marina and Shizuka realize they have a lot in common with each other that they're victims of the same type of trauma so Shizuka and Marina find hope in each other. If you look at the final reset literally it does seem like magic brought together Marina and Shizuka. Those deja vus and Takopi are just symbolic representations of what they already had before Takopi's intervention, they were only left to be realized which the author uses Takopi to address.
2022 Marina killing her mother could not have happened without Takopis meddling though?. She says it herself in Episode 5 that she wouldn't have taken that path if it wasn't for Takopi and wouldn't have met Azuma which in turn wouldn't have led to her mother having a breakdown.
2016 Shizuka successfully commits suicide BECAUSE of Takopi's reconciliation ribbon. That is why Shizuka is alive in the 2022 timeline, the original rope she planned to use must've broken.
Takopi's meddling DOES change the timeline and lead to further tragedy.
Azuma's realization that he can rely on his brother is central to the story. It leads to episode 4's conclusion.
The vague sense of dejavu occurs to Azuma too because his self before the final reset tells Takopi to relay the message "Don' be afraid to have fights with your brother" to his past self. Azuma likes Shizuka because he seeks validation from Shizuka, who happens to look like her mother. That isn't the case anymore
1. He can rely on his brother
2. We see him making friends instead of spending all his time studying
What Takopi symbolizes is hope, even when he's beaten up by both Shizuka and Marina or berated by Azuma he still wishes to make them happy . He is the unwavering hope all three characters have in common. Azuma finds hope in his brother. Marina and Shizuka realize they have a lot in common with each other that they're victims of the same type of trauma so Shizuka and Marina find hope in each other. If you look at the final reset literally it does seem like magic brought together Marina and Shizuka. Those deja vus and Takopi are just symbolic representations of what they already had before Takopi's intervention, they were only left to be realized which the author uses Takopi to address.
@Zoathhh good analysis, you understood everything, and I'm sure you enjoyed the story as much as I did. In fact, I'm very happy that most of those who responded to my post were able to see the virtues of the story. Thank you all. |
| What I'm looking answer for is how Shizuka and Marina made up afterwards. I mean, in Takopi's first attempt with Shizuka, he didn't interfere with her life, but Shizuka got bullied and tried to commit suicide regardless. And since Takopi's not here anymore, it should've gone by the same route. Now, there's one thing that's different this time. It's that, they all have a vague memory of Takopi, not actual memory, but something they all have in common. Which made Marina to act kinda different towards Shizuka for the first time. But how can their entire relationship change because of that? |
Reply to omarnewgate24
@FMmatron buddy
| @omarnewgate24 It's a bittersweet ending, yet a happy one for Marina and Shizuka. You gotta see it in relation to how things were before. Happy ending doesn't necessarily mean everything is perfect all of a sudden. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
Reply to omarnewgate24
@FMmatron I mean if we separated it using "for" we can turn any ending into a happy ending.
I would say it is a hopeful ending. but happy is another topic
I would say it is a hopeful ending. but happy is another topic
| @omarnewgate24 Not really, there are definitely endings where everything turned to shit with no hope and one hell of a depressing note. Like this one comes to mind for instance https://myanimelist.net/anime/529/Saishuu_Heiki_Kanojo?q=She%20ultimate%20&cat=anime And compared to all the bullying before or Shizuka and Marina being dead it's pretty much overwhelmingly positive that they're alive and friends now. At least in that one regard. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
Reply to BEaSTPadwal15
OziDB said:
The deja vu isn't a memory;
The deja vu isn't a memory;
Thank you for that explanation! It was the only thing I didn't quite understand. I absolutely loved this series start to end. Altho I was shivering for most of it.
| @BEaSTPadwal15 imo there's a more logical explanation to that, their parallel versions memories of Takopii linked with them, Marina may have survive if helped arrive early |
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