GOOSHER 100 VID from RYSSA VIONUS - Occultic;Nine 1x12 - Way To Go, Yuta!
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With just a little help from dad, Yuta took care of business! What a great ending to a fantastic story!
I WATCH OCCULTIC;NINE AT CRUNCHY: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY75279J6/occulticnine
Comments
I agree that the ending felt rushed, but I gotta say, not unsatisfying. This show was VERY different and kept me on edge and my interest piqued throughout. A really good time!... And thanks for the extra details. They help to give a nice wrap up to everything.
Spaz Boys Comedy
2024-09-13 10:25:19 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure the very first thing I ever told you about this show was that it was super rushed, but it DOES get an ending. I have to admit, this ending was even more abrupt than I remembered it. ^^' I think they absolutely should have skipped the ending song on this episode (as is pretty commonplace for final episodes) and gave us that extra minute for SOME kind of stronger explanation... But I'm also at peace with where this leaves us. It took Yuta so long to find his own strength. In a way, his sacrifice feels... right. You know? He let his friends do so much of the work leading up to this... I'm not saying he necessarily deserves to die as a punishment for it. There's just something satisfying about it to me in a literary 'actions have consequences' kind of way. But at the same time, I feel like this is almost vindication for him too. Getting to sacrifice himself for a cause. He talked about not being special throughout so much of this anime... but clearly he WANTED to be... I find I struggle to sum up my thoughts on this ending. But for the time they had, I think it's a pretty good ending.
RyssaVionus
2024-09-12 22:31:28 +0000 UTCLast comment was getting long so... some more insights from the light novels: Shun was one of my favorite characters anyway, but it was interesting to hear about him through Asuna's eyes. She talks a bit about how in America, he was so well-respected... He had a pretty great reputation with the FBI. Here in Japan, none of his coworkers really take him seriously. (But clearly he's still working for the FBI, and it's never really made clear exactly where his loyalties lie/how undercover he is here-- and for what purpose so... There's also a line from Shun himself about how he worked hard to be seen here as "the department punching bag." The kind of younger coworker no one really takes seriously. It's such an interesting dynamic, and I would have loved to see where they went with it... but unfortunately, the light novels went on an indefinite hiatus after volume three. I believe they worked with the original creator to make the anime, but the light novel story actually ends even earlier-- around the end of episode 8-- where Miyuu gets the text from Chi's phone, leading to her run-in with the creepy white-haired boy. Ririka was also left pretty much a mystery to me, unfortunately. I'll admit that I'm not entirely sure what was going on there at the end, with her body disappearing from the morgue and all... what exactly her grand plans were... Her first chapter includes a really interesting line though: "It had been almost a year since they'd told me my mind was broken. I had nothing to prove that what I was seeing was actually real at all." So it sounds to me like she went to a psychiatrist or something about her prophetic dreams and was basically told she was just crazy. ...Which in turn kind of MADE her crazy. She no longer trusts her own interpretation of reality, leading to the incredibly flippant character we know in the anime. Nothing seems to matter, her actions aren't of any consequence to her because she can't trust that anything she's seeing is even real.
RyssaVionus
2024-09-12 22:20:20 +0000 UTCTo be honest, I thought I'd have a lot more I'd be able to explain by the time you got to the final episode. ^^' I told you at one point that there is a visual novel type game for Occultic;Nine... that I'd intended to play but which has apparently never been licensed in English. I thought I'd at least be able to find a fan translation somewhere but no such luck... I did, however, read the light novel series this show is based on. They're actually surprisingly well-written. (My experience with light novels otherwise hasn't really impressed me.) But more importantly, they're all written in first-person, rotating from character to character. And I felt like that gave me a better understanding of each of the characters. . For one, you learn a lot more about Asuna. She has quite the backstory. We know that she used to work for the FBI and that her psychometry puts a lot of strain on her body. She met Shun on some case they worked together, and he helped her to control her abilities a bit. But she still had a heart attack, leading to her leaving the FBI and returning to Japan. Her mom has Alzheimer's. Which, on a literary note is just a really nice contrast, considering her ability has to do with memories. But it's also a plot point. When Shun died, the FBI basically blackmailed her into coming back to work for them. Asuna needs a heart transplant if she's going to live more than another year or two, and her mother's care is expensive. It was basically a 'do this job for us and we'll pull the strings to get all your medical woes taken care of' kind of deal.
RyssaVionus
2024-09-12 22:10:57 +0000 UTC
