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 quote:After the disastrous launch of an experimental 7G cellular network warps reality itself, Japan is left devastated with civilization collapsing and being reduced to scattered, isolated settlements. In addition, the 7G Incident has created strange phenomena and affected the surviving population in various ways, such as transforming the residents of Agano into intelligent animals once they reach the age of 21. Two years after the 7G Incident, young student and Agano resident Shizuru Chikura comes across evidence that her missing friend and classmate Yoka Nakatomi is actually alive and well in Ikebukuro. With the warped landscape too dangerous to travel on foot, Shizuru and her friends commandeer an abandoned passenger train with the intent to follow the rail line to Ikebukuro and reunite with Yoka. First announced in commemoration of Railway Day 2022 and the 150th anniversary of Japan's first railway, Train to the End of the World is...unique, so to speak. An original production helmed by EMT Squared, the first episode alone is a bizarre amalgamation of drama, mystery, slice-of-life, and post-apoc culminating in the start of what looks to be a strange, abstract journey with four bickering but close friends and a dog at the controls of this doomsday train barreling into the unknown. PV 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbFYZGG2f0M PV 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSq3R-k6WZY PV 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1HMeFxJoM Big Leg posted:still thinking about their different run animations (especially akira's at the end) while shizuru is monologuing about all the horrible stuff that happened symbolic fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Mizushima taking his GUP Energy and putting in just enough Lost Village to make it different shouldn't work but man was that first episode great
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Apr 4, 2024 06:34
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7G sure was a technology that would change the world.
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Finally watched the first ep. Sure is a lot to take in. It's intriguing enough that this may be part of my weekly rotation of stuff to watch.
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i appreciate this thread title
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Southern Cassowary posted:i appreciate this thread title 
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Apr 5, 2024 02:44
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Apr 5, 2024 20:07
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Apr 8, 2024 16:34
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it's cool that they made the rest of the show so good even though they could have made it 13 straight episodes of reimi and akira teasing each other and it still might have ended up anime of the season. https://i.imgur.com/aXmOv42.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/hVlkB4Z.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/SSshh61.mp4
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Apr 8, 2024 21:18
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the silence in the opening flashback is just brutal. i think it's my favorite part of the entire episode even though it's like 5 seconds long
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Apr 8, 2024 21:43
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Yeah, that lady at the end isn't at all suspicious. shrooms...
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show is delivering exactly what i wanted with the second ep: the sense of intrigue/mystery, out-there side characters popping up, and a long journey ahead through the unknown. i freakin love trainsBig Leg posted:it's cool that they made the rest of the show so good even though they could have made it 13 straight episodes of reimi and akira teasing each other and it still might have ended up anime of the season. i think one of the strongest aspects of the show is the group's dynamic yeah, there's no real flashbacks or individual scenes that define their characters but you still get a real sense of who they are just based off how they bounce off one another after getting thrown right into the middle of them, in a very natural-feeling way to boot. it's really well-done
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Apr 9, 2024 05:11
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agreeing with everyone that i like how natural the character interaction is. show is killing it on vibes. also want to point out the soundtrack - the motif they use to evoke trains and a sense of strangeness in the world and having the violins interplay with the synthesizers works really well. think this show is my musical highlight of the year for anime so far.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:15
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Started this tonight with some friends and we are totally on board given the seeming accuracy of the map symbols, I wonder if the shapes matter as well? Square > Major destination, Diamond > Moderate, Circle > Quick visit? The zombie looking one is a circle after all and I doubt they stay there long
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Apr 9, 2024 06:30
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That intro scene was akward as all heck and told me a lot about Yoka Also lamo Duck boat on the River is an amazing comedic touch. Mizushima is in his element here
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SatoshiMiwa posted:That intro scene was akward as all heck and told me a lot about Yoka the duck boat squeaky paddling noises are so funny. also it's cool how both of those scenes you mentioned make use of awkward silence for very different purposes
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Dexanth posted:Started this tonight with some friends and we are totally on board does anyone know (or, more likely, wanna look up) how many stops are on the line from agano to ikebukuro? i thought squares might be stations and the others might be events that happen while the train is in motion or something.
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Agano Higashi-Agano Musashi-Yokote Koma (entering the unbroken urban zone around Tokyo) Higashi-Hanno Hanno (end of line for Seibu-Chichibu line) (change driving direction and switch onto Seibu-Ikebukuro line) Motokaji Bushi Irumashi Inariyamakoen Musashi-Fujisawa Sayamagaoka Kotesashi Nishi-Tokorozawa Tokorozawa Akitsu Kiyose Higashi-Kurume Hibarigaoka Hōya Ōizumi-gakuen Shakujii-kōen Nerimatakanodai Fujimidai Nakamurabashi Nerima Sakuradai Ekoda Higashi-Nagasaki Shiinamachi Ikebukuro nielsm fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Dexanth posted:Started this tonight with some friends and we are totally on board My thought is more squares are people, diamonds are yokai/cryptids, and circles are wild monsters/spooky phenomena. Caphi fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 22:04
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If you include the line change, same number of stations as symbols. but then what's the broken bit before the end stop on the map? Curiouser and curiouser
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It's because Ikebukuro is hosed up but they're not going to find out how until several stations/episodes down, probably.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Mizushima taking his GUP Energy and putting in just enough Lost Village to make it different shouldn't work but man was that first episode great so now i know why this comparison was made but more than anything this reads like humanity has declined rather than any of the director's own works
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Humanity Has Declined by way of Tsuritama
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ep 3 went exactly the way i anticipated it going based on the ending of last ep but that didn't make it any less harrowing. that ending hook caught me by surprise too. didn't expect any of them to start turning into animals since i thought it was only after 21 years and 3 months it happened? unless i'm misinterpreting what's happening to Akira
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symbolic posted:ep 3 went exactly the way i anticipated it going based on the ending of last ep but that didn't make it any less harrowing. that ending hook caught me by surprise too. didn't expect any of them to start turning into animals since i thought it was only after 21 years and 3 months it happened? unless i'm misinterpreting what's happening to Akira I didn't think of that interpretation. I assumed it was a mushroom growing on her butt just to poo poo on her a bit more on this ep. Just absolutely no respect for her.
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Xelkelvos posted:I didn't think of that interpretation. I assumed it was a mushroom growing on her butt just to poo poo on her a bit more on this ep. Just absolutely no respect for her. that's probably more likely the case yeah but i wouldn't doubt this series throwing a curveball
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I think it's more likely to be a tail, given that she wasn't willing to get in the sauna in front of the others. As for the age countdown, I think there's something fucky with time dilation here. That amount of bitter melon overnight ain't natural.
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Squidster posted:I think it's more likely to be a tail, given that she wasn't willing to get in the sauna in front of the others. As for the age countdown, I think there's something fucky with time dilation here. That amount of bitter melon overnight ain't natural. Nor are people turning into animals or mushrooms growing on peoples' heads though
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Mushroom episode sure was a lot including the mushrooms dying and even a mushroom itano circus Anyway Mizushima said the weird stuff is coming next episode on so get on board
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The...weird stuff?
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ga tan go ton ga tan go ton shoo shoo train....
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Brutal Garcon posted:ga tan go ton ga tan go ton shoo shoo train....
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hearing rumblings that there's gonna be a hiatus after ep 4. it's so over
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don't say that, it's the only show I am watching this season 
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the director tweeted earlier today that episode 5 is finished. two weeks buffer is tight but i dont think its unusual for seasonals?
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Tales of Woe posted:the director tweeted earlier today that episode 5 is finished. two weeks buffer is tight but i dont think its unusual for seasonals? i thought he tweeted that it wasn't done e: regardless im choosing to believe it's only rumors, just thought posting a heads-up would be worthwhile
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fwiw https://twitter.com/tsuki_akari/status/1780173018477789667 'episode 5 is complete. airs in 13 days.'
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Apraxin posted:fwiw oh sweet ty
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symbolic posted:ep 3 went exactly the way i anticipated it going based on the ending of last ep but that didn't make it any less harrowing it owns that the biggest twist is actually how the peaceful short life cult leader is also a bitter, angry rear end in a top hat https://i.imgur.com/wZmlg0O.mp4
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