Now this was good. This was a completely trippy episode that had even more visual symbolism than usual. It was both gorgeous, fun and disturbing to watch. It’s in this arc in which we finally get to see the full extent of the trauma that Mine Fujiko had to endure. While all at the same time Mari Okada is on a roll again with bringing her beloved Oscar back on top of introducing yet another person dressing as Mine Fujiko. Dressing up really is a large theme in this series, especially considering how often Fujiko dresses up as someone else.
One thing I’ve noticed is that blogging this series turned out to be more difficult than imagined, mostly because I don’t have much to say about the individual episodes. They really are things to be experienced and there are a lot of very imaginative pieces of art amongst them, and this episode was the same. Just watch this trip.
I do have to say though that the final third of this series is without a doubt its best. It’s filled with imaginative and meaningful episodes that all attempt to be really creative in all kinds of ways: script, setting, theme, mood. And they’re all completely different. The variety between them is great.\It’s here where this series gets much more cohesive, and it really fits this series better than the random stories of the first half of the series.
Rating: *** (Awesome)
hmm..severe lack of comments, ha. watched it wednesday; very interesting ep, very nice slice of alternative anime. and sprinkled with a few brief bits of good animation. took me this long to comment cuz like you said, just not quite sure what to write..
The demented Owl heads are finally beginning to get to me, im naturally expecting the father from the previous episode to be the count but im still not sure if the lackeys are wearing fake owl heads, its an illusion or a delusion of the perceivers, im expecting the ending to be the illusion shattering.
But seriously take a step back and look at this series from a broad perspective, a series about the escapades of a thief and his compatriots has become a demented tale about a man who runs a humoungous pharmaceutical company with seemingly infintie resources experimenting on drugs to try and find world peace, trying to manufacture a perfect daughter that loves him with hundreds if not thousands dead, failed experiments or mentally scarred because of it. Shaping her whole life to fit his narrative and unlock the conditioning she mentally suppressed when she escaped.
Im starting to think Neon Genesis Evangelion or Rahxephon had a more plausible plot and storytelling!
I wonder if people got put off by how dark and twisted the tale is.
Watching Mine breakdown like that hasn’t been fun, and both the plot and the visuals are disturbing.
Owls have definitely started to look more sinister to me.