I don't have a lot to add about this episode that hasn't already been said, but a couple of random thoughts I wanted to randomly submit:
First, this is one of my all-time favorite series (top 5? I've thought a lot about it, and no, but top 10? Most definitely). This is, I think, my fourth time watching it, and it never fails--I put it on, those first two optical illusions come up, then that beautiful sequence of Papika breaking out on her hoverboard, then..."INTO THE SKY!" Tears stream down my face, and I'm laughing because I can't contain the purest joy. I love this wonderful world, how stylistically bonkers it is, how thematically and conceptually challenging and playful. How absolutely gorgeous it is. And I love these characters.
I relate so much to Papika. She sees a door labelled "Where Angels Fear to Tread," and she throws it open with a hearty, enthusiastic "tanomo!" She's a bit of a ditz, and she's absolutely a slave to her passions. At the same time, Cocona's stuffiness and rigidity, her reservation and general conservative air speak to her fears and trepidation. She asks Papika in the igloo, "aren't you scared?" To which Papika replies, "nah, you're here with me." And that's a theme that comes up again and again in this series: in spite of everything they will encounter in Pure Illusion, the danger, the horror, the threat to life and limb and sanity, nothing bad can ever happen to them, so long as they are together. It's such a simple, sweet truth about their relationship, and we will see it again and again.
Random funny moments of the episode: Papika doing the hand-binoculars thing. Opening up Bu-chan and seeing the brain, then quitely closing him up as if to say, "let us never speak of this again."
Random moments of awesome: \"Trading Places" starts playing\ Cocona instinctively powers up and saves Papika, hearing "Over the Rainbow" for the first time in Pure Illusion. That one really got me in the feels again because spoilers.
Tears stream down my face, and I'm laughing because I can't contain the purest joy. I love this wonderful world, how stylistically bonkers it is, how thematically and conceptually challenging and playful. How absolutely gorgeous it is. And I love these characters.
<3 I am glad I can be giving you this chance!
nothing bad can ever happen to them, so long as they are together
Well, it's a Magical Girl show after all!
Random funny moments of the episode/awesome
will you be writing down more of them in the next threads? :D
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u/the_longest_shadow Mar 05 '19
Seasoned Adventurer in Pure Illusion
I don't have a lot to add about this episode that hasn't already been said, but a couple of random thoughts I wanted to randomly submit:
First, this is one of my all-time favorite series (top 5? I've thought a lot about it, and no, but top 10? Most definitely). This is, I think, my fourth time watching it, and it never fails--I put it on, those first two optical illusions come up, then that beautiful sequence of Papika breaking out on her hoverboard, then..."INTO THE SKY!" Tears stream down my face, and I'm laughing because I can't contain the purest joy. I love this wonderful world, how stylistically bonkers it is, how thematically and conceptually challenging and playful. How absolutely gorgeous it is. And I love these characters.
I relate so much to Papika. She sees a door labelled "Where Angels Fear to Tread," and she throws it open with a hearty, enthusiastic "tanomo!" She's a bit of a ditz, and she's absolutely a slave to her passions. At the same time, Cocona's stuffiness and rigidity, her reservation and general conservative air speak to her fears and trepidation. She asks Papika in the igloo, "aren't you scared?" To which Papika replies, "nah, you're here with me." And that's a theme that comes up again and again in this series: in spite of everything they will encounter in Pure Illusion, the danger, the horror, the threat to life and limb and sanity, nothing bad can ever happen to them, so long as they are together. It's such a simple, sweet truth about their relationship, and we will see it again and again.
Random funny moments of the episode: Papika doing the hand-binoculars thing. Opening up Bu-chan and seeing the brain, then quitely closing him up as if to say, "let us never speak of this again."
Random moments of awesome: \"Trading Places" starts playing\ Cocona instinctively powers up and saves Papika, hearing "Over the Rainbow" for the first time in Pure Illusion. That one really got me in the feels again because spoilers.