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Dr Salt is totally Gendo Ikari....
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 00:08 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 09:46 |
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Someone on twitter pointed out the word Thomasson being used, which seems to be a major theme of the show: https://twitter.com/vestenet/status/786824285323010049 http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thomassons/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson#The_Pure_type Thomassons being vestigial elements left over as cities reinvent themselves. This imagery seems to appear a lot in the show - for example, the useless glasses Cocona wears and the concrete pipe in the first episode. It's probably my pseudo-OCD talking, but it feels easy to connect this to Dennou Coil, which the director worked on previously. That show was also concerned with the idea of obselete, forgotten spaces underlying ordinary reality, and obselete entities in terms of the Illegals.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 13:56 |
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Space Flower posted:Dennou Coil with yuri... oh wait. Well, I think it's important to note that it's something she wears. It's not just a keepsake she carries with her, but something that specifically does nothing.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 14:08 |
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lets hang out posted:I thought she said that just to dissuade Papika from risking her life for them. I'd say the same thing. She doesn't wear them in the OP to read at night, e.g. http://randomc.net/image/Flip%20Flappers/Flip%20Flappers%20-%20OP%20-%20Large%2002.jpg But I think generally if you have a character making a statement like that, you kinda need to make it drat clear it's a lie immediately if you didn't intend it to be taken as the truth.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 16:29 |
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Mokinokaro posted:And the fact they captured Papika at the end of episode 1 yet seemed to have let her go for whatever reason. I'm gonna guess Salt's group did that.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 21:50 |
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It's also interesting to see that fear actually exists for Papika but what specifically makes her afraid is well, this sort of thing. Cocona's role is like her's in the credit sequence. Someone was talking about how PI might react to the mentality of the person entering it, but in this instance it's Yayaka, no?
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2016 18:14 |
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site posted:It couldn't have been totally on yayaka though since she recognized the loop but couldn't do anything about it until cocona broke the cycle. It was focused on cocona at least to a significant enough degree that she had to play a role in doing something. I kinda actually disagree. Like if PI is set up to essentially defend the Amorphous from whoever first gets there, then it makes a lot of sense why the Flip Flappers have been having such trouble all this time, while the ... erm, Flap Flippers have been able to waltz in second and take the Amorphous. You've got the hidden door that Papika can detect by smell, and the long tower climb under a timer that Henshin mode flight can bypass. This PI wasn't designed to stop the Flip Flappers.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2016 21:12 |
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I think stuff like the shading of her face also suggest she was controlled, too.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2016 23:49 |
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Oh gently caress me! https://twitter.com/B0bduh/status/797099065775419392
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 22:43 |
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The Sakuga Blog (https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2016/11/12/flip-flappers-episode-6/) pointed out that this episode was storyboarded by the series director of Mob Psycho 100...
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# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 21:12 |
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You're so wrong.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2016 01:42 |
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Speaking of Eva as gently caress... I guess we just got some solid hints as to who the robot's brain belonged to, and their connection with Hidaka? I guess it's not a surprise that (for good and for ill) this was the most indulgent episode yet. Fangz fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Nov 24, 2016 |
# ¿ Nov 24, 2016 14:47 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Ah, figured out what this PI world meant - just as the Class S episode was our look inside Yayaka's head, this one was Dr. Hidaka's time to shine. We already had some evidence that Bu-chan was some sort of remote avatar for him, and guess who fell through the portal first? Obviously, Cocona was filtering it through her memories of Iro, but I think that Hidaka being the main influence is a reasonable guess. That does tell us his motive in all this - he's an artist, and signed on with Salt for the aesthetic value of what he's trying to do. People have said this elsewhere as well but I don't really think so. Like I said earlier, I think this really means that Bu-chan is/was someone connected to Hidaka. This PI is really about losing one's humanity/being stuffed into a robot to save someone precious to you, and what one is willing to lose or not when one survives. What we see as Pops is a diminished representation of who Bu-chan was, and what we see outside of PI is both evidence that this person built the Flip Flapper base, and that Hidaka built themselves on their image. But the core fixation of this PI, the birds assaulting this city-sized brain that is a symbol of their intellect... That's someone else's.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2016 02:17 |
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Yeah, this episode was great. Sort of chilling showing the twins' manipulative side, though.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2016 19:56 |
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It seems strongly suggested that Yayaka is an orphan who has internalized the sense that her value and her place in the world is innately connected to her role in the organisation.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 14:36 |
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Wow, plot. Bu-chan is going to turn out to be Cocona's dad, isn't he? That seems like the most fairy tale way for this to go. Or maybe it'd be Uexkull! Fangz fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Dec 8, 2016 |
# ¿ Dec 8, 2016 15:12 |
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I mean if it is Salt then his Gendo Ikari impression is complete. Get in the Thomasson Cocona.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2016 15:56 |
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It's ironic that of all the different Papikas we saw in that one episode, the only one we didn't see is the true (?) one.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 11:53 |
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I do think that the justification given to it in the narrative doesn't negate that the portrayal is annoying to some people, and it kinda makes me have to qualify my recommendation of the series to other people when I wish I didn't have to.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2016 15:43 |
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Oh there's two more episodes of this? Also, Emily Rand's articles on this are pretty good. Particularly the recent one on the language of flowers and symbolism in the show. https://formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/pieces-of-yayaka-flower-language-in-flip-flappers/ quote:The common meaning of the white clover flower is similar to the clover itself — luck and fortune. It also means “think of me” or the promise of a life of leisure. Fangz fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Dec 15, 2016 |
# ¿ Dec 15, 2016 17:18 |
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Well my read is that Nyunyu's role in the story is just to represent Yayaka's sense of inadequacy. Now that she seems to have gotten over that, she can be pretty much sidelined.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2016 20:02 |
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https://twitter.com/bisexualrobot/status/809639047794565124 Nice.
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 20:33 |
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Hang in there, Flip Flappers animators https://twitter.com/binobinobi/status/812816500201385984
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2016 20:51 |
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Nice finale. Enjoy the instant noodles, FF animators... https://twitter.com/binobinobi/status/814135201865428992
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 23:46 |
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Pavlov is pretty bad at watching anime
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 00:06 |
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Yeah, that's exactly right. Look at the recurring imagery of the vertical striped prison bars that dogged Cocona in most of her normal life scenes, and then in the final arc appeared within PI itself. In this episode they are exorcised. So in the visual language of the show, Cocona has escaped, both in and out of PI.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 00:22 |
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:I've got a dozen small questions/nitpicks about this episode, but I'll just stick with one: what's up with the scene of Papika in tree prison. Is this something that actually happened in the past, or am I supposed to read it as a figurative expression of their relationship? If it's the former, then I'm completely lost on the timeline. I think it's sort of deliberately ambiguous. I personally go with 'something in between'. I mean their feelings are in sync for Flip Flapping so we know they are similar in how they are feeling, so I think that scene is a blending of what happened in the past, and what's happening in the present (Cocona captured in the wooden barred prison). Pavlov posted:Can be! She rejects that reality because she can't find her love. It's pretty simple.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 01:30 |
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Yeah, Emily Rand mentioned that a while back in her articles analysing the show. https://formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com/category/editorialsessays/flip-flappers/ See also that the flower associated with Mimi has the meaning of 'revenge for broken promises'.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 16:20 |
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There's an interview with the director up: http://pastebin.com/raw/nr2UqrWw In japanese, so here's a google translate: quote:"" I do not know what is interesting but I will see it is the best compliment "
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 04:31 |
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As the interview suggests, tanu's twitter is a great place to go for awesome concept art of this show. e.g. https://twitter.com/tanu_nisesabori/status/811899505784197120
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 01:47 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 09:46 |
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Huh, so apparently to finish this show on time, the director drew about 2/3rds (250 cuts) of the final episode personally, in the space of about a week. This show is somehow crazier than Shirobako. Fangz fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jan 9, 2017 |
# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 10:52 |