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A man and a woman who don't know each other wake up in Quindecim, and it's game on right from the get go. The woman is Misaki, a reality TV show star (her reality series features her huge family, 5 children, which is hilarious given the American standard for a show like that has more than 19 kids). She's convinced Quindecim is a hidden camera show (which is weird - wouldn't a seasoned TV vet like her recognize right away that the usual production hallmarks of a show like that - the 'tells' that let the star know what's up - are nowhere to be found?) and starts instructing her befuddled partner, the reserved, depressed
Figures and dakimakura, and Misaki literally throws children's toys and occasionally family members at him in return. As the game is played, Decim introduces a new element - a device that helps him forcibly yank out the darkest facets of these two doomed souls, a trick Onna cannot abide - but the results can't be argued with. We learn the horrible truth behind Misaki and
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Diving right back in to the dark center of the human soul, another right turn after last week's bittersweet love story. The theme this time around is family, and more specifically, how you treat the people who love you. Misaki is a truly tragic figure; a lifetime of abuse has twisted her into an abusive person, a perpetual cycle of violence and insatiable anger that may be all too familiar to some.
, a child of divorce, wallowing in self-pity and staying inside a cocoon of depression, was never able to accept his stepmother's love in spite of her best efforts. His malaise led him down the road to suicide. It's a fascinating case study of two people whose dysfunctional family relationships led them to distinctly different but similarly sad ends, and Quindecim judges them accordingly.
Is, first and foremost, interested in one thing: empathy. Empathy for your fellow man and the chaos of existence that makes us who we are. It's a nuanced take on the subject;
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Isn't suggesting that the horrible things you do in life are ultimately forgivable on a cosmic level, but it is chiefly interested in
You managed to get to that point. The show wants to explore how these people wound up here, and it wants us, the audience, to look at these broken souls and understand
. Sympathizing with Misaki, an abusive, self-absorbed person who is shown explicitly using her family for personal gain is really difficult, but
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Before we ever even get to the stuff she's going to be judged for, and as we watch the doors on her elevator to the void close, we have to ask ourselves: did she deserve that? She was a victim who became a victimizer; surely the all-knowing jury in the afterlife would understand her circumstances. There might've been some hope for her, but her life was cut short before she was ever given the chance to make it right. Understanding her pain and realizing what that pain turned her into might not save her from the void, but it makes us better people - less harshly judgmental - to know that and accept it.
It should be mentioned that the production values in this episode seemed back to the standard set by the first one - sharp, beautifully crisp animation, character design and shot selection is aided by an fantastic score. Some of the cues here reminded me a little of Trent Reznor's work for David Fincher. As a result of these elements working in perfect harmony, there are atmospheric moments in this one that really shine; I hope the show can keep it up.
Onna's rejection of Decim's little device that helps judgment gives us even further clues as to where this show might be going - the fairness of this system is entirely suspect, and I think in the coming episodes that is, chiefly, where this show is going to tread thematically. We've identified the thingThe newest pair to enter Quindecim is quite the contrast – one, Misaki, is a TV personality who became famous due to being a single mother with lots of children, and the other, Yousuke, is an otaku. It isn’t unusual that they’re drastically different, though – they’ve never met before. Misaki immediately interprets the suspicious bar as the setup for a TV show with hidden cameras and decides to make the most of it, although requests Yousuke’s cooperation to make things as interesting as possible for the viewers. The game the two are given is an arcade fighting game featuring caricatures of themselves. However, they eventually find out that if they get KO’d a part of their memory will return…and it turns out they’re both very unhappy people.
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During the course of a game that Yousuke clearly has an advantage in, Misaki becomes more and more desperate to win. But, like always, it’s not the outcome of the game so much as how one plays it…
No seriously I really want to know if this entire game had to be programmed on the fly by some nerd in Quindecim.
Cruel side returns with a vengeance. To be honest, this episode was actually difficult to watch in places for a wide variety of reasons, and was definitely the most depressing so far. Although it did answer something I was wondering since the beginning – whether two people, in completely different locations and from entirely different causes just happen to die at the same time by chance, would qualify as a ‘pair’ for Quindecim. (The answer: Absolutely.)
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I found Misaki to be a very tragic character, and I’m honestly disappointed at some of the reaction I’ve seen to her online. A victim of domestic abuse from not one but
Awful men that deceived her and left her with their children, it’s obviously going to take a toll on her psyche to go on as a single mother of five. I’m not saying she’s an admirable person by any means given some of the things she does in this episode, but she’s literally an abuse victim driven to breaking point. The scenes in which she remembers being abused are confronting, her apparent neglect of her children is confronting (although she does, simultaneously, care for them), and her complete and utter breakdown by the episode’s end is even more confronting still. I’m glad, for one, that the episode
Wasn’t vilifying or victim-blaming her, but that doesn’t make it any more easy to stomach. As for our other case, Yousuke also seems to have been abused by his mother – albeit to a lesser extent, but I found it difficult to sympathize with him when his father’s new wife’s attempts to genuinely reach out to him went ignored. However, I think it was also a rather realistic depiction of depression, and that’s something I can applaud. Basically, both these characters are difficult and emotional messes and
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One can only hope they manage to find some peace after all this. Their final realizations about how much these family members truly meant to them was very hard-hitting. Not just for the viewers, but for Kurokami, who seemed so used to everything in the relatively pleasant last episode. She even confronts Decim about the fact that Quindecim seems to be
There were some other firsts in this episode besides the unrelated deaths – it was the first time one of the deaths was a suicide, and the first murder. (As for the murder, I can’t help but be curious what on earth happened to the woman who snapped and strangled Misaki back in Real Life, but I doubt we’ll ever find out.) It also showed that the creepy threads that seem to act to restrain those who become violent (like in the first episode) can actually be broken free from, but at what cost, it’s unclear.
The reason for the judgement this time was a little clearer than in the first episode – Misaki losing her mind and attacking Yousuke probably didn’t help her any. Yet, it seems cruel that she was sent to the void after how much she pleaded to be able to see her children again – which reincarnation would have granted her. Anyway, it’s difficult to rate this episode because while I can’t say it was
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