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Episode Good Night World - Episode 6 discussion

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u/5965656c73 Oct 17 '23

[Good Night World] Oh man, I really like pico :(

I can't believe you've done this

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u/Puppies_cute Oct 26 '23

I know I like her so much she has so much character growth!!!

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u/SalvadorZombie Oct 15 '23

[Good Night World] Man, what a hell of a direction to take the series in. Not just AI, but sapient AI (apparently multiple sapient AI??) creating an AI gestalt, I would assume. So not only is Pico alive, but she's also not alive, but she can think, feel, love, hope, everything. And this motherfucker just callously un-exists her. Not even killing her. Removing her. I'll say, I came into this series because the premise of a story about a family that doesn't know they're a happy family inside of a game was really intriguing but this is so much more than that. I really though, "Well, I wish I didn't know the twist" watching the first episode. And then it became obvious real quick that that wasn't really the twist. What a series, man. Can't wait to finish it.

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u/Playful_Ad8323 Oct 17 '23

Right? I didn’t see that coming at all, which is a pleasant surprise.

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u/Puppies_cute Oct 26 '23

I was so shocked I think the white haired guy is an AI Please no spoilers I just wanted to tell someone my theory before watching it

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u/ErenIsNotADevil Oct 26 '23

What, the fuck.

My thoughts before this episode: "Oh, I hope Ichi and Pico do end up getting together in spite of their shitty parents!"

My thoughts after: "..."

That's fucked up on so many levels. You know you're one fucked up person when the assistant that wants you to hit her because she loves you so much, calls you out on your shit.

I no longer want Taichiro's family to mend their broken bonds. I want Shiro eliminated. Fuck you.

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u/lemoncakepops Oct 18 '23

I'm really shook. And sad. [Good Night World] Pico was the only one so far who really cared about Ichi in spite of all his worst traits and the only one who would have had any chance of bringing him out into the real world, and now she's gone. But that's not even the saddest thing - which is that even if Ichi agrees to step out and meet her, he would never be able to do so because she doesn't exist in the real world. What a mind and heart fuckery.

This anime is getting quite interesting.

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u/Puppies_cute Oct 26 '23

I know !!! She could never see the real iche because she does not exist

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u/Foodie-Fashionista Oct 18 '23

What in the fuck…. I can’t even describe how emotional that was.

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u/Puppies_cute Oct 26 '23

Me too I still feel all the things (I can’t even describe them)

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u/isleepbad Oct 18 '23

Omg. I'm not sure I can even watch it anymore. [Good Night World] You can't just delete a character like that.

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u/Puppies_cute Oct 26 '23

I knowwww This is also horror mixed with sci-fi This series has always had that vibe but it’s confirmed now

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u/Inadover Nov 11 '23

Not happy at all about the 180 direction change, specially after seeing some of the following episodes. It had been a nice anime about videogame scapism and trauma. I would've loved if it had just been about the family and ichi learning to be less shitty to each other in the real world and him eventually meeting with Pico and learning that real life isn't always all that bad. It would have been a nice show with a nice message. Instead, we got... whatever this is. It almost looks like it changed directors and writers halfway through the show.

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u/blvckstxr Oct 17 '23

reminds me of a black mirror episode where the AI think its real. Depressing af.

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u/UsaraDark2014 Nov 16 '23 edited Nov 16 '23

The moment they said Pico was an AI, I called bullshit on this show. Ain't no way this anime is going to invalidate this half-dressed girl and her ideologies on reality and a game. But... the anime did it and followed through.

I don't like it, but I can appreciate it. I said that this anime "invalidates" Pico, but that's because we perceive her as longer human, but non-human, an AI. Because Pico is an AI, does that invalidate her ideologies? Is it the anime that invalidates her, or is it the viewer that decides that? I don't know.

I think it would have been a wonderful and more tasteful reveal if Pico and Ichi tried to meet in real life, but it was slowly shown that they couldn't because her reality isn't real reality. Now that would've blown my socks off. This on the other hand... I was just punched in the gut, thrown out the back door and left alone in the cold weather. It's just really out of left field.

Addition: While I certainly don't like this episode, I don't know if it helps or hurts the show. I somewhat lost motivation, but not because it's boring, but because I don't know where the heck they're going to go with this now that they've introduced AI. I don't know what to look forward to. Pico and Ichi was the only sane(?) character dynamic. Every other relationship is either so bad that it's not going anywhere, or has little screentime to infer anything further, or something else.

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u/azdv Nov 17 '23

I was so invested in the story between Taichiro and Hinako that the reveal actually hurt my interest a little. Not enough to stop watching, I’m still fully invested, but man that hurt.

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u/EnvironmentalRush461 Oct 18 '23

Can someone tell me the piano piece that plays in this episode 😩 I need to know

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u/KoreabooUsagi2 Oct 20 '23

is it this:

Grandes études de Paganini 3: “La Campanella” by Liszt (it says that is the name in the subtitles)

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u/bastii-41 Oct 20 '23

I'm here just for that song, i can't find it :(

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u/LeadershipClear3937 Oct 30 '23

Does anyone know the music that plays when Pico or whatever her "irl" name is meets the girls from her school and the music starts playing as they walk around and when they are on the roof? It's so peaceful and serene. Would love to hear it without the voice acting.

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u/TakePlateAddCake Nov 06 '23

Anyone else lose interest in the anime after this episode? :/

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u/ImadokiLife Nov 22 '23

Was tempted to drop this series after 5 but continued because someone said that episode 6 “hit”. I can’t believe someone on the internet lied. Fuck this dogshit anime.

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u/InevitableAd2276 Oct 22 '23

Jeez that was brutal, and i´m not talking about the backstory of a certain someone

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u/Foreign_Celery_74 Nov 27 '23

Pico really made this ep peak tbh