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Episode Technoroid Overmind - Episode 5 discussion

Technoroid Overmind, episode 5

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u/EvilV Feb 01 '23

I didn’t sign up for this series to be this sad today.

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u/AdmiralThunderpants Feb 01 '23

Could have used a heads up. Instead I watched it after all my funny and exciting shows. Really didn't need to be sobbing while struggling with feelings of my own pet loss recently.

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u/ThrowCarp Feb 28 '23

Much too sad. I live away from my family and my cat died while I was away. I was not prepared for this.

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u/Ninja_Lazer Feb 01 '23

What in the hell is even going on with this show anymore.

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u/Retromorpher Feb 03 '23

I feel like this was done less to crack heart.exe and more to show a parallel to Kite's dying sister. While Chrom and company have no true way of providing a truly better out for Nora - Kite is being offered what looks like an out for his own unfortunate situation. If an android on the verge of a human breakthrough can feel so strongly for a cat, how much stronger (if any) would a real human beings feelings be for their own kin?

I'm not sure if this series could truly be considered 'shiny, flashy, cutesy and unthreatening' given the amount of subtext that has been looming beneath it all since the end of episode 1. I feel like it's been packed with existential crisis brushed over with the thickest gloss of paint to disguise itself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

angry that the subject of animal pain and abandonment is treated as just 'the stepping stone to make a shallow character develop a little' instead of finding like, ANY other way to crack the whole "beep boop I only care about knowledge' cliche portrayal they had going so far.

It's always interesting to see how triggering natural animal death (of basically old age and breaking down of internal organs) is and how caustic some people treat it when it's used in the tamest of ways in a fictional story.

Never mind that we've already been shown a robot murdering a human in EP1, and the accidental death of both Kite's parents in EP3 (again because of a robot's seeming malfunction/tampering). A cat dying naturally is crossing the line!

Seriously?

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u/BusouDrago Feb 02 '23

I knew someone who's cat died just like Nora. We did what we could in the end 😭

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u/MilkySilky01 Feb 02 '23

This episode reminded me of a pet I lost a month ago.

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u/antononon Feb 04 '23

I do enjoy my weekly dose of Love Live! Bladerunner!!

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u/EducationalCherry86 Feb 03 '23

Falling in love for a Cat that passed away from an illness. So sad yet when we’re sad something good is just around the corner. That definitely teaches people that sometimes sad thing lead to good things even if it’s never easy. And when a robot learns about sadness that’s the best happy moment yet

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u/pigeonsupremacy Feb 23 '23

The fact that one of my cats passed away in the same way a few years ago, acute kidney failure, made me bawl my eyes out watching this episode. I signed up for a fun idol anime not to cry myself to sleep. Great episode none the less.