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| i wish we had a better explanation as to what happened to this world but seeing as there are only 3 eps left i doubt it so the city above ground is also dying, i guess we are getting a depressing ending? |
| That indo-dump over jazz music that began the episode was very strange. Things like Doc putting her own cells into Ichise's limbs or the mysterious obelisk being connected to all texhnolyzed body-parts seems much too important to just blurt out all at once and the music was too "cool" and relaxed for anything in this bleak setting. |
| Just when you think things can't be even more desolate and lifeless.. we see above ground lolz. |
Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
| So the Obelisk is really here to give the powers to the texhnolyze, and they can't work or only partially outside. And finally they went outside, but it's as creepy as Lux, they couldn't manage to get help there... The final part with the short movie was really interesting, a backstory of the creation of Lux and how horrible it was before. |
grayrebornnhy said: -Tien- said: "A mirror improves the ability to think." Great quote referring to self-reflection. The title of this episode, Heavenward, helps us make sense of it. The surface world is essentially heaven, a utopia. The people living there could not find purpose in a perfect world, so I guess they eventually lost their sense of self-preservation and are now empty shells of their former selves. Indeed. Utopia is but another dystopia, due to it losing its original purpose of being utopia. While Lux reflects humanity's vice, violence, greed for power and the control by the Class; the surface world doesn't even bother to fight on to live, slowly regressing into nothing as they find no reason to live in a perfect world. Texhnolyze does it extremely well in luring viewers to feel that dystopia is purely hopeless, only for them to shock viewers with the true utopia, the antithesis juxtaposing with Lux side-by-side, separated only by a rail (which is a theme in this anime throughout its 19-episode course). After all, the creation of Lux, as shown in the film in this episode, was created when the Class rounded up people who were thought to be imperfect or impure of thought, killing many and forcing the rest into the underground city. In turn, only people deemed as 'pure' remained in the surface world, but because vice is non-existent, conflict is non-existent, humans lose their raison d'être and live on like mindless beings with no purpose in life All spot on interpretations here. Relating back to Tien post; I feel this takes us back to Yoshii whereas instead of letting himself fade away Above Ground like the rest, he releases his spiraling mental state on Lux and decides to have a little fun toying with The City at the cost of many. This episode reminded me of another element that this show has been strong at which is it's music; The jazz within the intro was lovely. Before EP.15, this show was a soft 7. After EP.15, this show has picked itself up to a very strong 8 edging on 9. Really good stuff and hope to see it continue it's momentum to the end. |
| Fantastic backgrounds as well as storyboarding and direction on this episode, looked straight out of some surrealist paintings. The girl was probably a manifestation of Eriko in her childhood (I'm not sure but it seemed like nobody saw her except Eriko herself) |
| Weird, this isn't really what I was expecting. How could Yoshi come from a place like this and decide on his own free will to enter the city? It doesn't make sense to me. Is life really this empty and meaningless? |
CrackMay 18, 2022 6:44 PM
| cool to see the substantial difference between both worlds, how can that girl looking robot teleport? interesting montage near the end, stuff to look into ig |
| good opinions on anything, block = I own you |
| Whoa we get some COLOUR.... and yet while everything seems so perfect, it's also eerie, and dead. |
NYANPASU whiskey tango foxtrot |
| It was such a shock to see sunlight after 18 episodes of artificial days and nights. I can see why Yoshii was disappointed with this place, but that didn't mean he has to go apeshit crazy and get Lukuss's people to kill each other for his amusement. He could and experience the struggle of the working class for example. |
| The track that starts playing around six minutes into this is captivating. Most of the episode is extremely abstract, but I doubt it'll be particularly relevant to the remaining episodes. |
ｲ乇刀乇乃尺ﾑ乇 ╔⏤═⏤╝ ☽ Shaded Horizon ☾ |
| every time I watch this show I'm always full of anticipation for this episode and it always deliver. it comes out of nowhere and completely changes the game. scrap Lain, this is Konaka's greatest script |
| So....up is heaven down is hell ? Hard to choose for sure....a boring life or a life of ups and downs (mostly down)... |
| Very interesting episode. The strangest so far. I really liked the liminal mood of it. |
| This place was really 'dead' and creepy wth.. |
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