Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5057

Really glad that at least Satoru stayed alive with Saki. Would've been sad otherwise. I really wish we got more information on Maria and Mamarou though. It's likely they got killed and their child was taken from them, but, I want to know how? Was it some ambush? We also never got some information about the false minoshiro and how Squealer managed to catch it! All important information that the anime didn't mention.

However, what I will say is this, I KNEW IT! lol. I had a feeling that the queerats were related to humans even since the foreign invaders from episode 4 were said to look similar to humans. It was interesting to hear that they oppressed the hunters and commoners that couldn't use PK by changing their genes so that they can still continue running their own society with attack inhibition and death feedback while making sure they have control over the other humans.

Pretty sad though. Despite being sad about Squealer handled the whole situation, I honestly can't blame him for it. It's like Kimimaru said, we have to consider the survival of the colony especially when you consider that current society can easily have a change in heart and wipe out a whole colony in the blink of an eye. Squealer was pretty much a genius when it came to organizing this war. Traps, surrounds, confusion, fear, even using a cantus user that has no death feedback to humans. It was also great to see Shun guide Saki and that they remember him. I'll probably write more in a blog to sum up all my posts and more later on but a bit for now.

I assume that's Kaori and Sayoko (the child)

I'm still not sure how people can wonder what happened to maria and mamarou.
You saw their bones. They DNA tested the bones and it matched maria and mamoru iirc. what do you think happened? They're dead. The queer rats took care of them and then killed them after maria gave birth, it was fairly obvious imoimo when you consider that both maria and mamoru thought they could trust queer rats..

I'm still not sure how people can wonder what happened to maria and mamarou.
You saw their bones. They DNA tested the bones and it matched maria and mamoru iirc. what do you think happened? They're dead. The queer rats took care of them and then killed them after maria gave birth, it was fairly obvious imoimo when you consider that both maria and mamoru thought they could trust queer rats..

No, that's Kaori(The child).

It was partly what BigFan said, I thought that Tomiko was covering for Saki. The other thing is: DNA tests aren't king. They just confirmed human bones. Could have been human bones from a grave or something. And we also don't know how advanced their techniques are. DNA tests are pretty tricky and has a lot to do with comparing/aligning against known sequences. Sequencing itself is very costly by todays standards so I didn't expect them to do that at all, esepcially for such a small incident. If they did, their techniques must be way and heads above everything we can imagine today... They didn't specify it (and they don't have to imho) but you shouldn't be so fast with saying that you don't know how people can wonder: Peoples thoughts are first and foremost lead by what they know and in this case it's information from the real world.

Yeah, there are still a lot of questions that are left unanswered. I think the source material gives a bit more detail on what happened with Maria and Mamarou but didn't explicitly give much from what I hear. The treatment of the Queerats is rather reprehensible. Squealer's revelation really transformed him and I can't really blame him for what he did. The guy really was clever and reminded me of Hitler in some ways (though I don't think his vision of the world was quite as negative as Hitler's). In the end I think his arrogant and self-absorbed nature ultimately led to his failure in Tokyo. If he had taken more precautions he would have likely never lost in the end. I thought the town's punishment of him was way overboard, the guy did an awful thing but their punishment is also awful. Glad he was freed eventually. It seems like it took some time for Saki to truly forgive him even though she understood his plight. Many of the townspeople never forgave him; never even tried to understand his position. I feel like the town is a great example of the possible dangers of living in ignorance.

You know that they have technology advanced enough to splice and mix DNA to the point where they could change human biology entirely but you have doubts if they can DNA test properly? The series clearly showed us technology far more advanced than our own.
The show gave you the answer, but if you intentionally tried to believe that the show was trying to trick you i don't know what to say.

The way they treated the queerats and Squealer's punishment make a lot of sense in the context of them not considered to be human. I mean they begin laughing uncontrollably in the trial when Squealer tries to reveal the truth. Considering that they had been threating the queerats like trash for centuries it would require a big political effort to change the culture to view them as anything near of equal beings.

The way they treated the queerats and Squealer's punishment make a lot of sense in the context of them not considered to be human. I mean they begin laughing uncontrollably in the trial when Squealer tries to reveal the truth. Considering that they had been threating the queerats like trash for centuries it would require a big political effort to change the culture to view them as anything near of equal beings.