Yeah, this indeed was a bit of a weird episode in which the creators use a 5-year-old kid to try and outsmart the two lead characters. At first I thought that they’d have some very suspenseful build-up or something, but instead this entire episode turned into a really weird game from the kid to try and kill them.
The big problem was that it relied very much on plot convenience. The plan of the kid relied that he would be able to get away from Yukiteru’s mother long enough to send away a package, that Yuno just wouldn’t tie him up. The final ploy with the poison gas would also have been completely useless if Yuno remembered to just open some doors and window and wait a bunch of minutes.
So yeah, this episode was full of plotholes, but plotholes aren’t everything. Sure, they don’t exactly help in retaining the viewer’s suspense of disbelief, but there shouldn’t be a problem if it makes up for them as long as the story is interesting. Still, the lack of aforementioned suspense didn’t make this the most interesting episode. This is something that I’ve been noticing throughout most of the latest episode. I don’t know exactly what it is, but this series seems to be missing something in terms of delivery.
I also wonder: could another reason why Deus ex Machina picked the twelve owners of the diary be a lack of interest in becoming a god? I mean, so far I have seen nobody who really was burnt on the end goal of this series. Yuno just wants to be with Yukiteru, that twelfth guy just wanted to extract his justice, fourth just wants help with his investigations, Yukiteru just wants to live. And this episode suddenly had ninth helping out Yukiteru and Yuno, who could have been her biggest roadblocks. I wonder for what reason that turned out to be…
Rating: (Enjoyable)]]>
Mirai Nikki – 07
Sorry dude… except the 12th… those motivations you wrote are dead wrong. You will have to wait and see.
I found the anime’s decisions interesting in this episode wrt the original story in the manga:
Fifth actually had some out-sized tea bag that emitted poison gas every time he bounced it on the ground and did not tape up the windows. But the animators decided to ignore the bag and add the taped windows which only complicated the story or heightened the already absurd nature. It seems to add to the absurd theme at the cost of convenience or plausibility. Seems like a creative decision.
@psgel, After the previous episode I bit my lip and marathon-ed the manga. Looking at your assessment per episode has only increased my respect for your on-point-perspective. Although by that the token of that admission, and knowing what lies ahead, you’re going to be trolled so hard I would pay in gold bullion to see your face spitting out bricks! 😀
I’m laughing at Carbines msg and preparing self for what the f uckery.
The episode had more holes than Swiss cheese and didn’t really work, although I did like how he lured Yuki into opening the package.
Wouldn’t it be easier to manually turn off the damn breakers instead taking some time, probably several minutes, to look for and turn on simultaneously every electronic appliance from air conditioners to hair dryers in the hope that they will overload the breakers in time?
When I first saw that scene I thought its idiocy will make it stand out, but after watching the endless stream of stupid scenes that composed this episode I’m not sure about that anymore.
I don’t really understand how you can be an anime fan if you’re so concerned about realism… surely this isn’t the first thing you guys have seen that stretches the suspension of disbelief to its breaking point.
I really enjoyed the last two episodes. They weren’t as good as the first five buy I’m anticipating a return to glory with the conclusion of this arc.
Really, I’m not concerned about realism, but those scenes feels plain stupid and doesn’t feel believable in the the ‘reality’ frame inside the fiction.
He didn’t want to upset his mom so he didn’t go throw the switch directly. But yeah still derp, if fun derp.
We had a lot of problems with the plotholes and the underlying premise of a five-year-old continually switching willy-nilly to “Conscious, Calculating Adult Mode” whenever he needed to.
The logical problems present are too numerous to mention here, but Rei just seemed like another throwaway diary holder; his ultimate fate was never in doubt.
*cringes*