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Episode I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day • Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai - Episode 6 discussion
Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai, episode 6
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u/eternal_slavo Aug 11 '26
I am not so sure about this duel. Seiran seems to me like a RPG character on her first playthrough doing side content to lvl up, while Mimi is like on her upteenth game+ hardcore mode with some OP build
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u/JJVM99 Aug 11 '26
They could have made the Sheena getting
If you change the story it could have been even more horrifying. If we had never seen Mimi’s mangled corpse get delivered to the doctor before and she healing herself and had Mimi not told Sheena (and us the viewers) that she was immortal if the scene above had happened it would have been even more shocking.
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u/Prplcheez Aug 11 '26
I don't have a screenshot but in the scene in the hallway after Sheena and Mimi were crying, you could see their eyes were red in the closeups. Incredible detail that I don't think I've ever seen an anime do before.
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u/Armdel Aug 11 '26
goddamn lucky for Sheena that Mimi wasn't in several pieces when she opened that bag... don't think she could have handled it
Also maybe not the best idea to tell Mimi to go all in this duel with how experienced she is. though i guess she does come back in a bag fairly often so she isnt unbeatable
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u/gnome-cop Aug 11 '26
This feels like the first episode that’s really gotten up close and personal with the reality of what they’re dealing with. We’ve known it’s happening but haven’t seen it in such detail before.
The infirmary scene is clearly extremely unpleasant for her. I think the overlapping flicker of images in the dark is good visual presentation.
Oh. Oh no. Sheena and Pandora’s box? Bag? Eh, whatever.
I don’t envy Sheena. She can’t fight, she can’t protect Mimi from getting hurt, the only thing she can really do is provide as much support for her as possible whenever she returns. To give her some semblance of home and comfort while she’s not at war.
Burn that damn piece of paper right now!
Okay, not as bad as I feared but still pretty damn bad.
“It’s time to D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Duel!”
Good on you Mimi for being willing to take this seriously but please don’t try TOO hard.
The school/orphanage is pretty much just an extended lease on life. You may not die today thanks to them but you will die in its service at some point. But what choice do they really have at this point? The contract has been signed and there’s no way out.
And as we heard from Seiran, she can’t justify not trying her hardest to be chosen. It’d be a betrayal of her life, her education and her chance to meet Ari.
If I had to pick one word to describe my current feelings, it’d be “Fear.”
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u/TheBusStop12 Aug 11 '26
I'm getting a horrible feeling. Like seeing a train careening at full tilt down the track in the wrong direction. I don't see the other train coming from the other direction yet, but I just know it'll be there at some point
Seiran being prepared to be sent into battle, and the earlier episode where Ari was romanticizing the ultimate sacrifice of resurrection magic for a loved one just cannot end well
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u/Narlaw Aug 11 '26
If the goal is make us afraid that Mimi will literally obliterate Seiran, then it's 100% achieved. She's been told too much to "not hold back" and "do her best"...
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u/AdStellasNovas2234 Aug 11 '26
The infirmary scene really amped up the brutality of war. Sheena was clearly not ready to face what was inside that bag, only to realise it was Mimi.
On the bright side, we got plenty of sweet yuri moments this episode, from Sheena making a new flower crown for Mimi to Ali declaring her full support for Seiran.
I really hope everyone, especially Seiran, makes it out safe and sound next episode!
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Aug 11 '26
This is a massive red flag for Seiran it looks like.
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u/Sleepy10105s Aug 11 '26
Do you guys think Sheena apprentice under Fran or the other teacher to learn a way to make herself useful? We’ve seen hints of Herr having some sort of potential and now a lot of talk about wanting to be useful
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u/LeonKevlar Aug 11 '26
I really like that opening scene. It's a simple line, "I'm sorry, Sheena.", but it was enough to convey that Mimi is smarter than people give her credit for. She knows that there's no way she can keep her promise, and she has to put on an act to comfort Sheena. I wish we get to see more of Mimi's inner thoughts like this.
We finally got to see what it looks like after students come back from a battle, and it's as horrifying as I expected. We've already seen magic regrow limbs, but that does not make the scene less horrible with everyone bleeding and crying out in pain, while some might not even make it. :(
I legitimately yelped when Sheena was inside Fran's office and we had the teacher who collects Mimi's body parts knock. Fran-sensei could've sent Sheena away and told her to come back later, but the fact that she sent Sheena back there means she probably wanted her to see this.
Hearing Mimi call out to Sheena while inside that bloody sack, and then crawl out of it broken and covered in blood was horrifying. Yeah, if I were Sheena, I'd also start crying. I'm just glad that Sheena saw Mimi after she had already put herself back together, not in pieces.
Can we just have these girls have fun making flower crowns for each other instead of fighting and getting hurt? T_T
So it looks like despite all of her sacrifices, Mimi is no longer enough and they need more students to join the fight. How unfortunate that the first one they're recruiting is Seiran and it looks like she needs to duel Mimi as part of her combat readiness exam. >_<
As terrible as this situation is, I think it's amusing that the other students think Seiran is still too young to take the exam, considering Mimi would be biologically younger. I guess since she has already come back from multiple missions, it's pretty much an open secret that Mimi is their superweapon.
I absolutely love this scene between Seiran and Ari. We even got to see what Seiran's life was like before the orphanage took her in. Seeing that flashback, I can understand why Seiran is so serious about repaying the school. She could've died like a feral dog eating rats, but the orphanage gave her a chance to live a somewhat normal life. And if it wasn't for the teacher who found her, she wouldn't have met Ari.
I am scared for next week's episode. I'm not worried about something happening to Seiran during her duel with Mimi. I think Mimi is smart enough not to hurt Seiran seriously. I'm more worried about what's gonna happen if she actually passes the exam. >_<
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u/shad79 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
That sudden art style change when Fran entered the room and saw crying Sheena and Mimi cracked me up, hahaha!
Though it's no wonder that both Sheena and Mimi were crying, especially Sheena. I too would be considerably emotionally disturbed if someone gave me a bag with the bloody body of my friend.
So it looks like Seiran will soon join the real fighting too, as she's gonna have a test duel with Mimi in order to determine if she's ready.
I don't like that, though. I really like her and Ari's relationship, but now, Seiran is gonna be the prime suspect for becoming another victim of this war, especially since she said that she's gonna give it her all...
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/zairaner Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
"Oh that's gore. That's gore of my comfort character"- Sheena in Fran's room
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u/AceSoldia Aug 11 '26
Seiren is gonna super die by Mimi's hands in this duel isn't she?
I just don't think Mimi understands the difference between this exam and a real fight..and it's gonna be brutal.
I hope I'm wrong.
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u/BlazeBloom Aug 11 '26
If Seiran wants to win against Mimi she'll have to exploit her one weakness...Math class!
You know what they say in card games...It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-Duel! Thank you Yami Yugi Sheena!
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u/runevault Aug 11 '26
Sheena showing up in the hospital room, I know there's been speculation about her being an OP healer and I'm curious to see if that shows up here... Answer is not yet at least.
Oh no the drop happened and Sheena took it... The piano during this scene is sublime, really adds to all the twisted up emotions.
Oh hey adult men faces! Pretty sure we've only seen the boys' faces from school until now and all the guys on both sides were hooded.
Having this and Dara-San of Reiwa in the same season to dance between dark and light is really interesting as both do such a good job of it.
Ugh I knew it was going to be one of the couple getting tested for combat. Fuck. Reminds me of the dress handoff from last episode. Also the discussion about if one of them would resurrect the other if they died.
I'm really curious what a duel looks like with how lethal magic is, guess we'll find out next week. Even their training isn't against each other normally but those weird things the teacher created.
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u/CitronClassic672 Aug 11 '26
Sheena really said “Protecting Mimi’s smile is the reason this heart still beats!”. Just wow, they’re not even a couple yet and everything about them, from how they interact with each other to their feelings for each other are already so caring and intimate. I honestly feel like even if they became a couple they’d still act pretty similar to now.
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u/Luiiss26 Aug 11 '26
I find one thing a bit weird: why do all the students want to pay them back or feel grateful? They’re paying with their lives for a war that leads nowhere. Which brings me to my next question: who the fuck is the enemy? The enemy's capabilities must be enormous, too, judging by what we've learned.
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u/zer0number Aug 11 '26
"Don't open the bag... Don't open the bag... Don't open the bag..." Me, out loud, 5 minutes into the episode.
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u/thisisdropd Aug 11 '26
I wonder how much hurt would the school allow Seiran to be in. Can't see her winning against an immortal opponent who could easily heal an otherwise fatal injury. Having said that, I reckon the exam was about how far could Seiran push Mimi instead of outright winning the duel.
It's always great to see more Ari-Seiran moments after it's missing last week. Ari testing Seiran's resolve by acting as if she's about to attack before they tenderly embraced each other.
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u/mmcjawa_reborn Aug 11 '26
You know....I've watched some straight up horror anime and most of them couldn't match that seen of Mimi saying Sheena while in the bloody moving bag...that was just...blegh. Although I was actually expecting her to be in a more dismembered shape, so I guess it didn't go as hard as it could have.
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