Short Synopsis: There is NO WAY I’m going to spoil this episode in front of the blog aggregators. MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. READ AT OWN RISK!
Highlights: Why did I ever say that this series was bad at characterization?!
Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10
That was one AWESOME episode. It really fitted for a finale, it packed a punch, and it wasn’t afraid to go for the worst-case scenario. After the previous episode, I really expected the creators to find some way to revive Amachi. Guess what? She actually didn’t make it! She’d goddanmed died!
Basically, what happened is the following: after Amachi saw the extra set of footage that got saved from the victim’s brains, she went to investigate on the research facility of that woman that came to claim the body. That’s the reason why she was captured and her brains taken away from her. It turns out that the woman had a personal vendetta against Daiku, and that’s why she brought back the brain, in order to lure more Daiku members who’d come rushing in to save her.
Which Aoki does, of course. She captures him, but she didn’t take into account that the rest of Daiku would also chase after Aoki, and after that, her practices of human experimentation are brought down quite quickly, so she kills herself and destroys her brains. Amachi, unfortunately, had already died. Her body stayed away from her brains for too long. The thing is that when Aoki got captured, she actually was still alive! The two of them shared a dream, if I recall correctly.
I’m really impressed by how this series turned out. At first, it may seem like a strange idea to just go with anime-original stories, instead of keeping to the manga, but in this way, the creators were able to plan EXACTLY the sufficient airtime for each character, so that each one of them got enough attention. The result is an absolutely awesome cast in the end, even though there were enough times where I lost faith in this series.
And I’m really curious: what the heck did the creators have planned for the final two episodes? The first one will be another aftermath to the Kainuma-case, but what is the second going to be? Ooh, so many possibilities!
Have you read the manga. Is kind interesting. Thank you very much for the summary ^___^ I hope someone or group sub this anime again.
Thanks for the summary and the spoiler. I already knew this from the manga but there are several differences. I can’t wait to see the RAWs which, thanks to your summaries, I can actually watch. The manga is being translated online by a group called DRAGON VOICE and it is quite interesting to compate it with the series. There are many differences-like in this one Amachi was actually a brand new employee with a quirky personality. She was only in this one episode and it was rather sad when they discovered her thoughts from her dying brain. Go and check out the manga! They’ve only translated the first two books I think, but they are fascinating to me.
The dream shared by Amachi and Aoki were so nice and sad. No one would believe that not long after the Ferryland(?) ep., Amachi’s going to die.