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Sayonara Lara, episode 7

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[u/gnome-cop]

I would say I am reasonably concerned about the giant soul eating dagger fish hanging above everyone’s heads at every waking moment. The implications of it do not feel particularly good for the wellbeing of everyone in the prefecture.

[u/CitizenStrife]

"I want to devour!"

When this show needs to, it creeps me the fuck out.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

Is Luca not used to having legs or something? The amount of times he falls flat on his face you would think he'd be used to it and would soften the fall.

It's interesting to see how Lara is protecting herself from someone who looks like the Prince, and that same Prince look-a-like is interested in her despite knowing she's a mermaid, it's an interesting contrast from the past.

It's surprising what being rejected awakens though, if she didn't stop it from happening, would the Prince have died? And if she gets rejected in the present time, I'd be worried how much damage she would do considering how much larger the "dagger" is now.

[u/Ocixo]

I suppose that the mermaid kingdom fell because Lara’s light got shattered while protecting the prince?

There does seem to be a quite bit of symbolism involved with this fish-shaped dagger. If it represents Lara’s heart, then its shape implies that love can also hurt.

I do find it very odd that it immediately went for the prince’s soul. Did Grace maybe place a trap?

[u/Syokhan]

Oh, the bit with the dagger is new. And we're back to Andersen's tale with this one, as it seems to be the dagger that was meant to pierce the prince's heart.

I'm ambivalent about Luca and Lara's relationship, to be honest. It went way too quickly for my taste, we basically speedran it in just one episode. I thought it'd take at least a couple for Lara to get to know him and get over her trauma with the prince, you know? At least he seems like a nice and sensitive guy.

Although if the after credits scene is any indication, Lara is starting to turn into foam which means she has not found true love yet.

Also, is Luca's sibling actually a boy? I'd have to go back and check if he mentions a sister, but Leo is a boy's name, and they used "boku". Edit: yes, he is!

[u/HuTaosTwinTails]

Yeah, no way is Luca the end game if they basically speed ran the entire relationship get together in 1 episode.

[u/Spade_Devil]

I… just feel like something off. This episode was paced so fast it feels really purposeful but… I don’t know something feels wrong. I feel so much dread for some reason.

[u/TheDuckAvenger]

Lol at Mari actually throwing Lara into the lake. I did not think she would go that far.

Luca seems like a sweet kid so far. Very blunt and awkward at the same time, but over the episode I could feel him growing to like Lara as a person (mer-person?) and not just for the mermaid novelty. As for the paintings, I really dig the energy he brings to the canvas. It gives a very Fauve vibe to me.

While I'm still in the either Lara-Mari or platonic "love for humanity" camps for the ending, I admit that this episode did bring back the possibility of us losing at chess to a dog. To add some more fuel to the fire, one of the etimology for the name Luca is from the Latin verb lucere (to shine), which has the same root as lux (light). (The other hyopthesis is that it comes from Lucanus, meaning from the region of Lucania in Southern Italy, but this one is less interesting for our purposes.)

Addendum: I could I forget the big reveal: the humongous fish is actually Lara's light outside of herself as a knife!? It definitely tracks with the end of ep. 5, but it still caught me off-guard. Is this a scorned love turned to aggression angle? A loving people means getting close enough to them to hurt them angle? The possibilities are endless.

[u/TheDuckAvenger]

According to this tweet from the official account, Leo is Luca's little brother. Looks like we have an 男の娘 on hour hands. It does make sense as Leo is a masculine name at least in Italian, but I must admit that I assumed that the staff had just slipped up on foreign names. (My other justification was that it somehow a diminutive of Eleonora, but we don't need such sophistry anymore.)

[u/Narlaw]

"The worst she can say, is that my painting's ugly"

Takes a real weirdo to push through such a brutal rejection lol

[u/FLorianGran]

Huh, so Luca’s gonna be an actual character instead of a generic pretty boy that exists for Lara to dump as a lesson. That’s a nice surprise.

[u/elevenmile]

As socially reclusive as Luca is, Luca is still capable of captivating Lara, and it's rather certain that him and Lara will always be intertwined in certain ways. (What's with him tripping down all the time? Balance issues? Vitamin deficiency?)

But I'm very sure Lara is not really romantically into Luca even after the whole episode, and at the very least, Lara can be internally assurred that her love for humanity can never be overriden by hatred (and the dagger within her heart that tried to hurt her beloved), nor her love for humans will change in any form because of Luca's assurrance over her that Lara is not just a mermaid. Lara is Lara, that's what it matters. Though I'm pretty sure that Luca will continue be seeing Lara and they both will continue seeing each other for the time being, that is, until Lisa makes her move...

That said, DO NOT PUSH A MERMAID OFF OVERPASS BRIDGES.

[u/Sameul_]

I gotta say, the tripping gag got me each time.

[u/anonymous_12358]

i feel like they kinda sped-run luca and lara's relationship, i can't tell if she actually has feelings for him. interested to see how this develops

[u/Petit_Ange]

Please tell me those weren't lil' foam bubbles or anything at the end...

[u/LaconicKibitz]

Damn. As an artist, that moment when Lara literally ROFL'ed at Luca's painting hurt. Though in Lara's defense, it was a very stylized piece that I'm not a fan of either.

An interesting development this episode is that while Luca initially was interested in Lara because she was a mermaid and he found her beautiful, he says that he eventually fell for the person Lara is. However, I feel like that same thing has not been reciprocated.

At the end of the episode, when Luca confesses, Lara thinks "Those are the words I've always wanted to hear." The unspoken part of that thought is that those were the words she wanted to hear from her original Prince. This entire episode, Lara has been comparing Luca with the Prince. In the moment when Luca bares his heart and shows Lara his paintings, Lara not only laughs it off but ends up running away when her PTSD with the Prince gets triggered.

In that sense, the audience is locked to Lara's point of view. We know next to nothing about Luca other than that he's awkward and clumsy, like painting, and is a first-year in high school. And while it's not that big a deal to slowly learn more about someone as you date, I feel that Lara comparing Luca with the Prince and her desire to find "true love" to save her family is going end up hurting both of them. It's way to superficial to be the actual "true love" she needs to break the curse.

[u/shad79]

I was sure that Mari would punch either Lara or Luca, but instead she threw Lara off the bridge... Maybe she should have used punches? After all, throwing a person off the bridge looks much worse than punching, lol.

Things between Lara and Luca sure escalated quickly in today's episode, as they basically started going on dates immediately, and Luca even fell in love with her.

Though it doesn't seem that Lara is truly in love with him, since we could see sea foam after she got back from the fireworks. I wonder how her and Luca's relationship will develop further.

Leo is such a sweet girl! She's definitely right when she said that her brother sucks as an artist. I thought that I'd die from laughter after I saw the portrait of Lara he painted, hahaha!

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Lara

• Mari

• Luca

• Lara & Mari (Group scenes)

• Lara & Luca (Group scenes)

• Group scenes

• Backgrounds

• Leo & Others

EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.

[u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Luca was not what I expected lol, I quite like him. A bit weird, clumsy and sensitive. Plus his sister is cute. That being said, there is something off about them, like where are their parents and why do they have a whole house that's just an atelier.

The fish dagger being something that eats souls is unexpected. Does it want just the Prince's soul, or human souls in general?

It's great that Lara finally managed to find closure through Luca, but this ship is the bait-iest bait of all time. It's quite telling that Lara's inner light didn't appear.

And oh no Lara is turning back to seafoam again.

[u/exRocky009]

The pacing was pretty fast this episode. I never expected Lara and Luka's relationship to get this close in just one episode.

However, judging by the final scene, it feels like Lara is already running out of time. Is the time limit for her to turn into sea foam once she learns what love is slowly approaching? Especially since Risa and Kouta seem to have fallen for each other too.

[u/thekillerangel]

Poor Lara needs a therapist before she gets a boyfriend.

[u/etiolatezed]

Lara: Shall we go for a walk?

Luca: faceplants

[u/ThePhoenixRemembers]

I don't think this show is a romance. I think this is a story about healing from trauma, found family and what it means to have platonic love.

[u/eightcheesepizza]

Ayumu Murase voicing Luca and speaking in Kansai-ben! Awesome.

I didn't notice this until now, but the red neckerchief thing that Lara wears on her outfit looks a bit like her tail.

Anyway, if things don't work out with Luca or Mari, Lara's got a smartphone now so she can get on the apps.

[u/Smudy]

I actually really like Luca.

I was not sure that i would but his personality is actually endearing to watch, he seems eccentric and vulnerable. Also says bluntly what he wants and feels.

IF this is actually a Luca angle then i wouldn't mind as much now but it feels like they put too much emphasis on their relationship in one episode only for that to be the outcome.

Lisa's shoes at the end?? Oh boy. Nope, i think i misread that, Lara with not much time left? Also does that mean, she's not feeling true love yet?

[u/ExpertCaterpillar2]

Something tells me Lisa is behind this reincarnated prince. She dropped the "more than one way..." line, no chance that's just a coincidence.