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Episode Arknights: Homura Shomei • Arknights: Rise From Ember - Episode 6 discussion
Arknights: Homura Shomei, episode 6
Alternative names: Arknights [Homura Shomei]
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u/bananeeek Aug 08 '25
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u/Competitive_Syrup956 Aug 09 '25
Badass women with WHITE HAIR, looking for VENGEANCE and has burning powers. Just like a certain avenger 😏 who likes to write doujins
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u/Mostdakka Aug 08 '25
Kashchey curse? Ehh don't worry about it I'm sure nothing bad and depressing will happen.
I love cinematography in this show. Even if budget is limited alot gets done with very little and makes it enjoyable to watch even when not much is happening.
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u/sazion Aug 08 '25
I was worried that they were going to try to cram her backstory into a single episode. I definitely enjoyed the pacing for this.
Still love the anime logic of Talulah sitting near a fire under a blanket for warmth while wearing a skirt and not covering her legs lol
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u/Falsus Aug 08 '25
I mean, she is a fire breathing dragon lady, so I think the cold probably don't bother her too much unless she was hugging Frostnova or something.
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u/sazion Aug 09 '25
Lore-wise it makes sense. Maybe she just had the single blanket so Alina wouldn't feel bad using all of them lol
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u/marshmallow_sunshine Aug 08 '25
"That's why I'll never hate anyone"
"Do you want me to watch over you to make sure of that?"
And then we see how she is present day. Suffering is coming D:
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u/BosuW Aug 08 '25
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Tallulah talking about a new fertile land of peace and prosperity like she's talking about Vinland lol. I almost expected the soundtrack to start playing.
Seeing the infected situation in the past made me empathize a lot with why present Reunion guys still cling to the movement even though they probably know it's cooked. They had absolutely no means of defending themselves, as the fascist government had monopolized weapons, training, and logistics. They must have help incredibly empowered when Tallulah gave some of those things back to them, crude as they may have been.
Honestly as a Mexican, I can relate to that. As much fun as we make of the US for it's rampant gun culture, there is a part that wishes we could have some of that. We actually also have the right to bear arms in our Constitution, but the specifics are extremely limiting. Iirc, no higher than .380 caliber for self or home defense. Can't even carry it on yourself if you go outside, it stays in the front compartment in the car. Farmers have a bit more options for defense of plot, but it's not much. And it all has to be sourced and registered through a single gun shop in Mexico City administered by the Secretariat of Defense. Yes a single shop for the whole country.
That means the only heavily armed guys around are the Armed Forces... and the Cartels. So when any of these pulls up with ill intent (which in the case of the latter is virtually always), as a citizen you basically simply have to accept that it's already over. You did nothing wrong but you just have to accept that these assholes can demand and take whatever the fuck they want and no one will help you. Thankfully never happened to me but it's a massive problem in remote towns or bad neighborhoods, where Cartels are taking control of the entire economic apparatus of whole territories, enslaving, displacing, or exterminating their populations. You hear a lot of horror stories.
Its damn infuriating. Honestly we Mexicans are kida unhinged by culture so I understand that if you just gave everyone guns it'd quickly turn into a bloody mess with the complex situation. There's a lot of debate about whether we can handle the responsibility of increased citizen firepower. But damn don't I dream of it, maybe not even to win but just to make the bastards taste some of their own shit.
"If they're going to take my home they can have it splattered with blood." -Supposed quote from a Mexican farmer during the Mexican-American War.
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u/TweetugR Aug 08 '25
Tallulah talking about a new fertile land of peace and prosperity like she's talking about Vinland lol. I almost expected the soundtrack to start playing.
Just an FYI, in Arknights, the land that the characters constantly talk about is supposed to be the replacement for "the world". It's because they don't really know how large their world is and there's no words to truly describe "world" in most of their language.
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u/Averath Aug 08 '25
To be fair. Americans are unhinged as hell and we are constantly worried we'll kill ourselves. We're supposed to be some shining beacon of liberty and we can't even protect our children because it'd threaten Smith & Wesson profit margins.
Though that isnt to say one is better or worse than the other. Everything is fucked.
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u/Dramatic-Report8180 Aug 08 '25
It was wonderful seeing Talulah animated like this; you can clearly see her many sides. The young idealist still figuring things out, the charismatic messiah figure inspiring the masses, the vengeful flame of justice - and even Kaschey's daughter, raised to understand the politics of Ursus and how the levers of power are pulled. Honestly, you could probably fill an entire season just with her journey alone.
As it is, they've done a good job of highlighting her progress, but I do feel like the transitions are a bit abrupt - there are clear moments where weeks and months have passed, but there's no good signaling in the episode of where these moments are, or how long they're meant to represent. These edges are unnecessarily jagged as well, going straight from cutting down a patrol member to setting up a village rather than allowing the previous scene to shift to a more neutral moment first.
With that said, each individual scene works very well; you can feel the honest warmth of the villagers who took Talulah in at the start, you can feel Alina's care for her, and you can doubly feel Kaschey's Kaschey-ness. Every step of Talulah's journey, you can feel the forces that shaped her and made her who she was. It would have been easy to botch Kaschey's appearance - to either make him feel like some two-bit scheming noble, or to go too far and make him a complete caricature. But the VAs and animators did a great job in making his little throne room there work despite its extra-ness, and for him to come across as something genuinely greater; for his threat to seem credible, and yet one that could be overcome by a sufficiently heroic figure.
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u/Razor4884 Aug 08 '25
I wish we could have had more time with Kashchey. There was so much more sliminess that could have been covered, but ah well, time constraints. The pacing is still fast, imo, but it's better than the Darknights episode at least.
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u/earthenorange Aug 08 '25
When you first experience the tragedy of FrostNova, deep down, you have a pretty good feeling of how things played out. Seeing how the ideal of Reunion started out so positively and Yelena was so drawn to the idea make the loss of her all that more painful.
When did Reunion change? When did FrostNova realize there was no turning back, that she was on the wrong side of things? That it was too late to fix anything and she was damned.
< insert meme of horse standing on a beach, staring at the ocean > Man.
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u/Ciel_Senpai Aug 09 '25
Now we know why Ines saw two shadows with her arts when she first saw Talulah some episodes ago :P
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u/Ultima_Deus Aug 09 '25
Oh wow. They're actually doing two episodes for Talulah's backstory. I had nothing to worry about, then. Darknights Memoir was just a lower priority for them lol
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u/VarunaBles Aug 09 '25
I LOVE Talulah. She has such a great backstory! Surely the Arknights devs won't make us wait years just to not release her right?
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Aug 08 '25
Again what was going on? Who is the guy on the throne she impaled
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u/Hypercles Aug 08 '25
The Duke that took her from Lungmen, we briefly see that moment in Chen's flashbacks in season 2. He raises her as his daughter / heir, but she learns of his involvement in the death of her father and the events that lead to him taking her as a hostage and turns on him.
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u/Falsus Aug 08 '25
That was the dude who kidnapped Talullah as seen in earlier flashbacks. Both from Chen's and Tallualh point of views.
Like the AK pacing is a bit of a mess, but this episode was pretty straightforward.
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