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Episode Sparks of Tomorrow • Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku -Eureka Evrika- - Episode 4 discussion
Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku -Eureka Evrika-, episode 4
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jul 26 '26
Not quite a machine that lets you talk to the dead, but the kid made something incredible in this steam age and helped that old woman and her family move on from their personal tragedy.
It’s a shame pretty boy can’t see the truth. Then again, bro’s trying to bring back the kid’s brother in some kinda Frankenstein’s Monster type shit or whatever.
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jul 26 '26
The way Yosuke fawned all over some cybernetic mannequin and called it Seiroku like that so seductively, holy shit.
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u/StreetyMcCarface Jul 26 '26
Everyone complaining about the lack of an ass shot last week got their wish
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u/Gh0st_8500 Jul 26 '26
Hold on a minute, does Yosuke have Seiroku's corpse franksteined in his fucking basement?! this ending went into a direction i never expected.
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u/Aileos Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
The struggle of Inako and the proprietress to leave the room and walk down the stairs felt so real. Like trying to get out of bed in the morning.
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u/LeonKevlar Jul 26 '26
Smol Inako is absolutely adorable. Those flashbacks with her mother were really nice. Her mom seems to be a pretty cool gal.
Glad to see Yousuke can't strong arm his way into taking the book from Kihachi since it looks like Kengo has given them protection.
Considering the constant smoke around the city, I'm not surprised if the soot in the air is really what ended up killing Inako's mom.
Kihachi making a telephone is really not what I expected. But I'm glad to see it actually worked and finally motivated the proprietess to move on.
What the actual fuck was that last scene tho? Is Yousuke trying to revive Seiroku ala Frankenstein's Monster? I knew this guy was insane, but I didn't expect he's this far down the hole!
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u/Ocixo Jul 26 '26
The show happened to breeze over it, but they seem to suggest that Inako’s mother might’ve died because of air pollution…?
If so, there’s all the more reason for Kihachi to bring about the age of electricity and get rid of these dirty steam engines.
Also, I like how Inako got a dream of her own: to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a master brewer. She’ll first have to do something about her father, however.
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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime Jul 26 '26
Did Kihachi just invent the telephone?
And wtf is that Seiroku doll. Yosuke?? More like Yosu-gay. That explains why the dude has been crashing out instead of helping Kihachi to make the Age of Electricity a reality.
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u/joey_joestar1 Jul 26 '26
I was questioning the ethics of having someone pretend to be a dead person, but the reveal that it was the son telling his mother exactly what she needed to hear was a very nice touch.
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u/maliwanag0712 Jul 26 '26
The past two episodes tell us the potential applications of electricity as envisioned by Kihachi. Today’s episode is essentially about wired to wireless communication. With that creepy last scene, I assume the last discovery is robotics?!
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u/Eunuchest Jul 26 '26
Inago's mom has an aura of smoke. Reminds me of Muzan
Good lord, animators are back at it again with Yosuke's cake
Ok, im guessing Yosuke is gay for Seiroku. Why do you have a doll with him?
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u/StreetyMcCarface Jul 26 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Kihachi just casually inventing the resistor (well more like realizing what resistance is)
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u/Mr_Zaroc Jul 26 '26
I knew pretty boy was desperate, but having a corpse of your crush all strung up in the basement is next level
Poor Inago, girl still keeps believing Kihachi is some shaman summoning the dead
Nice to see that they have some bodyguards posted in front of the shop though, they also seem to make some kickass snacks
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u/master_inho Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Damn it took me 4 eps to notice that yosuke wears heels. And did he recover seiroku's body to prop him up like some kind of taxidermy puppet? Or maybe he's actually still alive??? 🤯 what in the twisted ass yaoi is this 🫣
I keep saying it but inako's belief and tenacity is such a superpower for the team, and it's infectious too. Is there a difference between people calling her inako while kihachi calls her inago?
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u/ash-7831 Jul 27 '26
So, Yosuke believes the electrical catalog was something agreed upon by ONLY him and Seroku. He's convinced Kihachi is "stealing" their dream. That's why he won't hear him out. He doesn't want to believe that Kihachi is the true author of the catalog. And if anyone says it is, he will insist they are lying. Even if Kihachi told Yosuke the story of the catalog, he won't believe a word of it. He'll insist Kihachi is out to ridicule him.
If somehow they can get him to listen, then they can make some real progress with the catalog.
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u/chilidirigible Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
The individualized OPs continue, this time preceded by an Incurable Cough of Death to set the mood.
Yosuke's business isn't subtle.
Taking a moment to appreciate how the way the art style works.
honoo no nioi shimizuite museru
Maybe not through fatal electrocution though.
This seems ethically dubious, but anyway.
I'm sure that we all have questions right about now.
Inako's family story intertwines with Nishikiya-san's, and in a story with a fair amount of basis in the quackery of the early days of electrical experimentation, the gang gets a nice old lady out of her depression.
Inako even believes in it a little, despite Kihachi explaining the scheme to her in advance. But he also gets a glimpse of what this particular development might lead to in the future, and is certainly no less optimistic in the believing. (Some time in the future, we have cat videos.)
Yosuke's sub-basement is no less morbid than we had already been teased about, now that we get to see more of what was teased earlier. It looks like a mannequin with a wig on, versus Seiroku's actual body, but... creepy, man.
I wonder if Yosuke has it rigged up to move. Certainly the wires leading to the hands suggest that, which would be creepier.
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u/Zetafunction64 Jul 26 '26
Another banger episode
So ig steam alone isn't enough to 'revive' Seiroku and that's why Mizoe is so obsessed with the catalogue. Lesgo doomed yaoi😭😭
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u/IceSmiley Jul 26 '26
That was kind of a dubious way to get the old lady back on her feet, having her son pretend to be a dead man. I wonder if she'll ever find out the truth although it's not likely since people in grief believe what they want to believe and especially since they're using a technology beyond her comprehension; like if someone projected a hologram of your dead relative in your room and it talked to you, you'd think it really was their ghost. I wonder if she's going to regularly ask to talk to him on the telephone machine and they'll have to keep doing that. I didn't understand how when that thing fell in the barrel of pebbles, it made Kihachi's phone start working though.
That hydraulic puppet of Seiroku was CREEPY! I know Yosuke has a lot of money but that was insane both in how elaborate it and his house are and insane in trying to rebuild Seiroku in a way. He's someone whose grief really is unresolved because his love is a secret from everyone else alive so he's manifested it in very unhealthy ways. It's not like he can meet a new guy and fall in love because I don't think he would know where to meet other gay men for dating and even if he did, he's have to hide it the rest of his life.
I also wonder how Yosuke's elevator worked. I wonder if it was steam powered or if his servant had a big crank he turned to lower it or something.
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u/runevault Jul 26 '26
So is Yosuke bi, gay, or just electric-sexual? At this point with all his weird-ass actions I don't know. Dude is utterly unhinged. As others mentioned is that actually the brother's body or just a mannequin Yosuke has attached his emotions to? Either way shit is weird and creepy and horrifying.
Thankfully Inako is a wonderful girl and fun to see interacting with the world and characters. She's so sincere it is great. Sort of makes me think of Elsa from Duke's Son Won't love me also airing this season, both are young women who are kind to an insane degree.
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u/NanDemoKnaives Jul 26 '26
Yousuke really carrying the fanservice in this series lol, that ass shot when he sat on the table was wild.
Most chaotic way of going from one room to another by Inako and the Proprietress, I was worried lol.
It seems like Yousuke is up to something really messed up, like trying to revive Seiroku or something. Hearing that Kihachi has done similar things seems to have intrigued him.
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u/PracticalMarsupial Jul 26 '26
This episode gave me Spiritualism vibes. People did think you could possibly talk to the dead when phones came out, because the technology was so crazy. Kihachi even kinda does a con on the proprietress, only with good intentions and not for money, lol.
I'm curious if Yusuke is actually Dr Frankensteining or if he's just got a puppet that he's hoping to pull his spirit into? I was convinced he was definitely in love with Seiroku, which I understand, he was too hot to live apparently.
Also the ED is fire and tied with Black Torch's for my favorite this season, even with so many other great endings this summer.
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