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| Wow I really wasn't expecting the plot twist at the end now I can't wait to see what happens with the story now. |
Damn, this episode cleared up a certain doubt but dropped a crazy plot twist. Who would’ve thought Akira was also an android? Now it all makes total sense. We’re in the final stretch and still no answer about whether Towa is alive or not. I just wanna know that already 😳 |
| HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE WAS AN ANDROID THIS ENTIRE TIME?? Fair enough PA works, great job dropping a bomb on us there. Never would’ve anticipated that in a million years!! So was Akira really never human or did they swap his mind into an android body after the shooting? We saw him bleed so surely he was flesh and blood at some point, no? Plus he grew from a child to adult so yea ok on second thought, def happened after the end of the world. Speaking of which, we will finally get the truth about what happened next week!! I know it seemed kinda random, but I really loved the Casta plotline. I think this show has done a great job of depicting some very realistic behavior and concepts. Casta is a perfect example of how you might love someone, but you need to love yourself more at the end of the day. Vare was so confident he could win her back with an apology and flowers and it’s like nah dude, you violated her trust and broke your vows. Casta just couldn’t get over that disrespect and the feeling of inadequacy that gave her. When someone breaks your trust like that, it’s best to just leave because deep down you’ll never really trust them again and it’s not fair to either of y’all to keep fighting over that. I feel for the kids, but she made the right call. That situation also segues into today’s big reveal as we find out Yugure has been hiding the truth from Akira. She should’ve been upfront with him, but tbh it’s not nearly as big a betrayal as cheating on someone. I’m sure Yugure received orders from Towasa to not tell Akira because of what we’ll see in next week’s episode. That Yoiyomi Yugure fight went so hard. That awkward moment when it clears the entirety of OPM 3 lmao. I actually feel bad for Yoiyomi because she’s obviously just hurt that Yugure and Towasa disappeared and didn’t say anything. She loved both of them and doesn’t know how to cope with that perceived betrayal. She’s a sweetheart though. Amoru as well! I hope Akira finally addresses her feelings because things really seem to be weighing on her! Very good episode |
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| Its funny seeing the truce between the OWEL members and the former ones. Really feel for Amoru though. It was nice to be able to hear Casuta's actual voice for once. Though its unfortunate to what it meant in that families bonds. The fight between Yuugure and Yoiyami was a long time coming but was pretty good. The revelation about Akira's true nature though sure was interesting. Can't wait to see what actually caused the end of the world. |
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| This plot twist alone deserves high praise, because if you look closely, it's not really that unexpected, especially since it happened almost from the very first episode, when Akira couldn't understand someone else's speech, but then suddenly he started to understand it. In general, in his memories, the second scientist was very similar to the grown-up main character. Great episode. |
| tbh, in the context of 12 eps overall, ep8 & ep9 should've just been one ep or something because how is this gonna end in 3 eps dawg. good twist at the end, felt it coming |
| Wow. I had a feeling Akira would be an android in the first episode. |
| Welp, that was the big one. |
| Lord Cruelty V "But my Dreams they're not as empty, as my conscience seems to be" |
| I was waiting for the story to have some twist and it finally came. Now I'm hyped for next week at least. |
uselessDMNov 27, 11:23 AM
| https://www.honeyfeed.fm/u/34774/novels Why must the products of man trouble me so? |
Blazesword said: I don’t really get why they spent two whole episodes on this story that isn’t particularly funny or meaningful. Yeah, just so Amoru could say that one sentence in the end that doesn't really matter that much anyway? But who knows, maybe it will come back in some form, but as it stands it feels like a waste of time. |
| https://www.honeyfeed.fm/u/34774/novels Why must the products of man trouble me so? |
| So you're telling me we could have this kind of storytelling from the beginning, but they decided to throw those random side stories in the middle just for the sake of making the 12 episodes? Anyways, I have to say this is probably the best episode ever since episode 2 (might even say the best episode of the anime so far), so it seems the anime is finally on track. To start off, I found the ending to that side story quite unexpected. The preview hinted that Vare and Casuta would get back together, but that wasn't the case. In fact, Casura actually managed to gain the strength to finally impose herself and express what she really feels about the situation, ending up breaking up with Vare. The truth is that love many times is like glass, once it breaks, it never gets back to what it was, and it seems like Vare's cheating really made this love break from Casura, since she couldn't trust him anymore. While it's valid that a person might forgive a person for such action and break in trust, is also as valid for a person to not forgive that and end the relationship, in this case, Casura couldn't keep up with the act, even if she loved Vare, and I think she did the right thing to think of herself first in this situation. Not only I feel like this story actually makes you reflect about this aspect of love, due to how it ends in a sad note, it actually fits the theme of the episode, as we see later on. It's a shame they weren't able to do the same with the other 3 side stories. Then we got the Yuugure and Yoiyami fight, and honestly, it was really well done, One Punch Man wished to have this animation for its fights. The animation was fluid and it had a lot of movement, while still being easy to follow. We also got a bit of backstory to Yoiyami and the creation of her sisters. However, the best thing of this episode really was the reveal of the plot twist: Akira was an Android all along. I had many theories about this anime, but Akira being an Android all along wasn't one of them. Like, wow, this adds a whole other layer to the anime, especially to how Akira and we, the viewers, perceive Akira's feelings, since it seems they all derivated from the Human Akira, and not from himself. So, what Akira felt until now, was it real, or was just what was left of Human Akira in him? And what was the purpose of his creation? Although this whole "If Robots end up having feelings, are they real or just their coding?" concept isn't particularly knew to media, it certainly isn't something common in anime, and I feel like the fact that we all saw Akira as a human until know makes you reflect about that question in a much different way, rather if they just announced he was an Android in episode 2 or 3. I do have to say that, from a storytelling perspective, this reveal wasn't that good, since it was never hinted before that he was an Android, not only that, back in episode 5, when he got shot, he even bled, which you don't expect from an Android. Considering the plan was this all along, I wished they spent more time building up for this moment, and obviously spent more time exploring Yuugure and Akira in the past 8 episodes, instead of all the random things that happened in between. The only hint we got might have been when we got the flashback of Towasa creating Yuugure and her sisters, where we see a guy just like Akira standing alongside her, which I found extremely confusing, considering Akira was supposedly in that jar from the 1st episode at that time. So it seems Akira never died from that bullet in Episode 0, which seems to be confirmed from next episode's preview. Akira and Towasa were able to continue living together, although something happened, and I'm really curious to know what, since the preview seemed to be quite tragic. This plot twist is so interesting, and is bringing a lot more to this anime in terms of plot development. This is what I was expecting from this anime when I read the synopsis. This is what I was expecting from P.A. Works. I was also pleasently surprised by the different ending, I think they are using the ending theme they used in episode 0, that never got released, and I always wondered why, and this now explains it! After 7 episodes, I'm finally super excited for Towa no Yuugure's next episode! This has a lot of potential, and if the anime ends in a good way, it might change my perspective on it! |
| Damn, who could have predicted that? It was prett clear since the start, after Akira awoke he fell from four meters on his head and shrugged it off as if it was nothing. |
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| Maybe I'm just biased against this series as a whole at this point, but wow. Talk about an asspull plot twist. I was shocked, I'll give them that, but merely because there was nearly zero indication or reason to expect this turn of events. I sincerely hope the androidification of Akira happened after the shooting, because that is the only plausible way to explain this development. Each week I think this can't get any worse yet each week it does, so my hopes aren't high... |
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| The hints were placed here and there in the earlier episodes, but they were rather subtle, so most people, myself included, didn't really notice it or didn't think too much about it. Regardless if you were someone who predicted this earlier on or not, this anime did do a solid job for pulling off a genuinely good plot twist of Akira being an android himself. The rest of the family segment sadly ended on a sad note, which I do feel for the kids to see their parents split up like that. Then came the fight between Yugure and Yoiyami and it was really well animated and was pretty tense and close from start to finish. That's when the plot twist kicked in and I can't blame Akira for being in shock at this realisation and how he reacted to Yugure for keeping this a secret for so long. At least now, Yugure will finally show Akira the truth of what happened after the events of episode 0. I highly look forward to seeing what will be told and I do think it's going to be a depressing and sad tale that should hopefully answer many questions. |
| What?? Akira is an android?? He always was?? When they revealed that he was an android, I thought that he was a human, but since he got shot to protect Towasa, she had him become an android so he could "survive" But if he really was always an android, I don't know what to think This episode was good, now I'm really hyped for the explanations in the next one |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| That surprised me a lot! Like, I could swear all this time that he was actually an iPhone.  |
| So our current Akira is an android version of Akira loaded with the (partial?) memories of the real Akira, and for whatever strange reason he was put into cryogenic sleep for a couple hundered years. Maybe, just maybe, the Akira-looking guy that was standing next to Towasa in the flashback and that also appeared in the preview for next week's episode was also an android Akira? But that would mean that the real Akira never managed to survive the assassination attempt that happened in episode zero and to be honest I don't really like the thought of that. |
| Great Episode and I sure didn’t see the twist coming |
| Not expecting them to have a good twist like this after pissing me off for 6 straight episodes. |
| well that was a shocking reveal!! :O i did NOT expect that at all!!! :O :O i guess i'll have to wait till next week for the explanation! :\ grumble /: |
just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either.  |
| And everyone gasped in unison at the reveal (sarcasm aside, seems like a few did lol).... Anyway, pretty based with the direction they went in with that couple and their problems, cheaters deserve nothing less. |
| the less focus on Amoru, the more amazing the episode feels :) |
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| @Anthony_25-04 There's Akira ''surving'' the fall after dropping from his cryogenic pod in episode zero, then there's Akira suddenly being able to understand the spoken language of the people around him in episode one and finally there's that thing about Akira always reminiscing his past memories with a peculiar semicircular visual effect.  |
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That surprised me a lot!
Like, I could swear all this time that he was actually an iPhone.
Like, I could swear all this time that he was actually an iPhone.
| @thewiru thewiru said: That surprised me a lot! Like, I could swear all this time that he was actually an iPhone. LOL good one. |
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