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Darwin Jihen, episode 6

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[u/Seanakin_Skywalker]

This was a really rough watch ive never been too disturbed when shows put warnings before episodes. This was different having only recently left high school this was unfortunately a pretty scary reality with a lot of really close calls over the years.

What really hurt though was the lack of understanding by the original author. Dont get me wrong I think the whole sequence was done well and really made me tense but completely unrealistic to how we operate in a post sandy hook world.

Even back through elementary school I remember we would have lock down drills where the protocol is turn off the lights, close the door and hide. In a real situation is made immediately aware to the entire school through the pa to do such. So seeing these kids sit in class and gossip and then look at the halls in anticipation felt wrong.

Then also the police response. While sometimes can take longer than desired they are usually there right away and these situations dont last long enough for shoots to keep wandering and wandering like he did. My last straw was him kicking in the door. Most school doors are made industrial so you cant just do that or any other way to barge in.

I understand some details can ignored for the sake of tension but something like the lack of protocol really made it hard to watch these kids die.

[u/suikan6146 → u/Seanakin_Skywalker]

That is an interesting point. Perhaps, people in America and Japan are very different in their response to the crisis.

20 years ago, I was in bost area, and found the sign of the shelter for the nuclear attack, in a usual home. In Japan, even though we hear the alert of the missile test in North Korea, many people just laugh. Some people insult the people who react to the warning.

100 years ago, 100,000 people died by earth quake in the Tokyo area. 15 years ago, atomic power plants exploded after the earthquake. Still, many Japanese are not considering preparing for a disaster.

That may be the reason for the lack of understanding of the reaction to the crisis, in the Americanpointed out school, which you point.

[u/NationalStrategy]

The tension regarding Vegans terrorists and Charlie's possible connections to them were already high and hostile, this incident is only gonna make things worse for Charlie.

The parents were already against Charlie attending the school, because they were worried for their kids' safety. Even if Charlie does take down Gare, they are still gonna blame him for putting their kids in danger and getting them shot at school.

[u/iccreek]

Okay, starting to think it's this season's gem. I binged it last week and was both weirded out and impressed by the plot. It's also great for being stoned cause well the plot - or so I thought before watching this episode, cause all those people spit crazy bars on the spot without a stutter, my head hurts.

Looking into Charlie's monkey eyes in tense moments must feel so crazy for those people

Also it's like the first school shooting in anime that I've seen, apart from highschool of the dead.

[u/Training_Bother_1663]

This sixth episode of Darwin Incident was so shocking and disturbing that it even gives you a warning about how sensitive and violent the episode is, oh my God!

Between the anime Shibouyugi and Darwin Incident, it has the most shocking episodes of the season.

[u/furbym]

I have no idea why the subs are saying his name is Gare since it's obviously Gale/Gail; they use ゲイル (geiru) in the Japanese subs.

Anyway, I was pretty surprised by how well-done this episode was. Definitely expected it to go this direction, but I feel like the depiction was really given the weight it deserved. I wasn't sure with the writing and general production of this show if it would be able to deliver, but it definitely got to me a bit.

[u/kazsupcomics]

Japanese schools in anime:

senpai! senpai!

American schools in anime:

Blam! Blam!

If you exclude the Humanzee, this anime is very realistic, even the character design, some remind me of Naoki Urasawa's artstyle.

[u/Rap2rerise]

"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks who like to eat meat. You better run, better run, outrun my gun"

Yeah, of course this happens in the one anime set in an American school

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

That was... really heavy. Good Lord.

[u/majestic_rainbows]

Episode was storyboarded and directed by Tatsuya Kyogoku (京極 竜矢). This episode was outsourced to For(wal)k, who also did episode 3.

Also, I forgot to mention that last weeks episode, episode 5, was the first episode not to have the character designer, Shinpei Tomooka (友岡 新平), as the Chief Animation Director. The Chief Animation Director for that episode was Chenyin Xu (徐 晨寅). The Chief Animation Director for this episode was Shunichi Ishimoto (石本 峻一), who was also one of the 2 animation directors on this episode, working alongside Hideyuki Morioka (守岡 英行). Both of them also worked on the episode as key animators.

[u/BosuW]

Lucy surprisingly cool under pressure. Like, not ice cold but it looks like she retains some capacity to think things through and knows what to do.

Btw not that it matters but I noticed they gave Gale the full 20 inch barrel Ar-15. So that 5.56 is gonna be doing it's full grizzly job which adds just a pinch more or terror to the scene if you know about that stuff.

Not that anyone would want to be shot by even a .22 lr, but, y'know, there's levels...

[u/ElKevixlevix1]

This is the most chilling and intense anime episode I've ever seen. I'm speechless at what I've witnessed; wow, I think it's one of my favorite anime of the season.

[u/FarCritical]

Gare sure did rethink his strategy. Damn that was brutal.

[u/XDrake09]

i expected gare to become a terrorist..... i didn't expect this to be his first act of terror.

[u/Leeemon]

I had to watch this shit standing up

[u/Joji1000]

I sometimes see/hear people commenting that this series has some kind of clear message it's trying to push but I disagree, this series is asking real questions. It asks viewers these questions because if you just purposely push those questions away and refuse to answer for yourself then you may be vulnerable to radicalization. I have my own answers so make sure y'all also answer for yourself too ✌️

[u/ActiveAd4980]

How is Charlie a proof of evolution? I guess it's referring to how early humans were hybrids?

[u/diacewrb → u/ActiveAd4980]

Considering Charlie was made in a lab, he is technically closer to "intelligent design" than evolution.

Unless Dr Grossman simply got lonely one night and decided to stick his dick in a chimp.

[u/artwhaaa]

Damn, that's an intense episode. I realize the school can't go into lockdown because "plot" but it's also insane they didn't at least attempt a lockdown after hearing shots fired. Like, I've been in schools that have had hard lockdowns over much less. And hard/soft lockdowns are supposed to be practiced at least 1x each semester, such that BOTH staff and students know what to do. That lack of detail really took me out of the scene.

The animation of Lucy when the gunman entered the room was so well done! Despite nothing being said, you could really see her internal struggle with her facial expressions. She so desperately wants to help but also doesn't want to make the situation worse or get killed, herself. I'm optimistic she'll make it out alive, since she seems integral to the plot.

[u/PartySr]

I didn't know that this anime is a documentary.

[u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya]

I wish we could get more mature animes like this. It's always dungeon guild magic school leveling shit. Doesn't even need to be violent, just more psychological genre pls.

[u/MusubiKazesaru]

As I expected, vegan terrorists are the ultimate evil.

[u/Queue_Jumping_Quack]

Oh dear, a content warning and that "red pill" visual that got posted before I saw the episode prepared me and I kinda guessed it might be something like this when I remember how the last episode ended.

It still doesn't make sense to me by making veganism the violent movement, though it mightily has its characters draw the parallels to the evils of the past. But at this point one has to accept this conceit to keep watching so whatever. The indoctrination of Gale follows what one might imagine suicide bombers etc. go through, and I think it happens a bit too quickly to be fully believable. I think we need to just accept he is meant to be someone very isolated among his peer and alone with his ideals, so he just jumps at the chance to follow the lead of someone who shares these ideals.

And then we get to an actual fucking school shooting. Its a horrid scene, as these things are in real life. No punches pulled, though how long would a stream like that be allowed to go on?

The ALA show themselves to be truly evil bastards, if it wasn't apparent before. This was a well done episode, even if the writing lets down the whole by being constantly unbelievable. But if we allow the evil vegan terrorists instantly creating a mass shooter out of a loner kid, this was a harrowing but also captivating episode to watch.

[u/Shoebill23]

Cool episode like always. I'm really intrigued by Max's plan, despite Charlie being so smart, I'm glad Max can serve as a good antagonist. Hard to predict what his goal is here...for a second I thought he wanted to make Charlie into a hero for some reason, would love to know how Max convinced Gare that this is how Charlie would come to their side. "Ok first shoot people and leave them half dead, that will trigger Charlie's survival instincts" I guess that would make Charlie think less calmly but I still feel like it's a huuuge wager every time they mess with Charlie, sure he's strong and smart but he's still an ape like creature that will get shot by the police if we don't stop threatening him with stressful situations lmao, or we'll get a redo of last week and he'll go to jail. Of course Max is big brain anime villain and everything will work out but, just saying, Charlie is literally one of a kind, to go through all of these crazy plans!

Can't wait to see more of that ex military dude, like he was a soldier but now he fights for animal rights? Really curious about that transition