Miru: Watashi no Mirai Episode 4 Discussion

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Apr 25, 2025 5:04 AM

XArceusX

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This was a rather unique story, with Toshi as our MC, working as a diplomat seeking world peace. Unfortunately, his efforts fail. Then he receives a message from his lover, Miho, who he met a year ago— we get a bit of a backstory there and there he meets Adam, a kid who looked up to him as a hero because he’s one of the children who fled from the conflict zone, things start to unfold. But enough about him—back to Toshi.

The dude nearly gave up on life after receiving the message from Miho about an important conversation. He was seriously about to throw in the towel, thinking she was done with him, but it turned out that wasn’t the case. It was just about a job transfer and continuing their relationship as long-distance.

Still, the episode showed us that MIRU has the power to see the future or rather experience it, and that’s how they can create an ideal one. In this case, it was by saving Toshi from a car accident, leading to a successful peace treaty.

Apr 30, 2025 5:00 PM

SlugFiller

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This episode had way too many flashbacks. It was flashbackception. And the simulation ending felt like such a weird cop-out. Miru is a time traveling tractor-robot. I would prefer if Miru literally traveled to the past, than going "the past several minutes were actually all a perfect simulation I made".

Also, Miru saving Toshi felt so coincidental to ending the war. Sure, Toshi was presumably instrumental in ending the southwest continent. But the relation to the war with Rikua (i.e. Not!China) is far more coincidental. Miru could have just as easily stopped the war by:
1. Stopping the fireworks people earlier
2. Intercepting the firework
3. Saving the vice prime minister from the car crash directly
Or, most easily:
4. Not saving Toshi from the falling banner in the first place, which would have the same result of not distracting the fireworks people at the wrong timing. The southwest continent would be doomed, but the war with Rikua would not happen.

The message would work better if the vice prime minister still died, and Toshi somehow saved the day through diplomacy. Instead, the end result is so butterfly effect, that Miru's actions seem tangential to the outcome. Like, he could have just as easily released a butterfly somewhere in the southwest continent, and it would have had just as much of an effect.

I guess the real intended message is that not even future tractor-boy Miru could stop a nuke, and therefore diplomacy is the only option. And yet, setting aside how much easier it would be to stop a nuke than to stop space debris like Miru did in the first episode (Ironically, made by the same writer), the idea of a laser missing its target multiple times was just silly. Does the writer think that laser is aimed manually? Or that it needs to, and has potential trouble to, lead a target on a ballistic course? A beam that travels at the speed of light could easily hit a subsonic, or even a supersonic target, anywhere within the atmosphere, so long as the weather was clear.

There was no excuse for the laser being too inaccurate to take down a mere 8 targets. A real nuclear warhead would have significantly more, most of which would be dummies to thwart interception systems. And a real nuclear attack would have way more than one missile. And we have real examples from just the past year of a far greater number of missiles being successfully shot down by weapons significantly more primitive. So the laser should have totally saved the day. Although, maybe it can be excused as Miru's simulation being inaccurate.

End to end, this entire episode is a space whale aesop. You need to jump through too many hoops to get to "Toshi is the real hero. Miru just helped".

Jun 10, 2025 3:24 AM

phantomfandom

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This anime is more like a political statement than anime itself. I'm not saying that anime can't be political, but at least it has to be engaging.

With that said, there are some depth in this episode. For example, the homeless guy has the cassette player, could he be Toshi in the future? I can't solve this puzzle.

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