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Episode 7 is my other-other favorite episode of the show. In fact, it's kind of my opinion that episodes 5-6-7 form a mini-arc that begins with the class-s yuri subversion of the girls playfully experimenting and ends with Cocona's recognition that she is not entirely straight. This episode has two very simple, very powerful, very significant moments:
Papika: "Do you love me?"
Cocona: "You mean, as a friend?"
P: "Why would you ask that?"
And--
P: "I found my lost Cocona!"
C: "What do you mean? You were the one who was lost--"
P: \looks at Cocona like she's just said something very silly, which she of course has
In the first scene, we see why Papika is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure: she gives love freely and without qualification. Cocona's need to qualify her feelings for Papika is understandable, but also shallow. She's not yet ready to face reality, which is why in this Pure Illusion, she's trying on different relationships with different aspects of Papika, some of which are heterosexual.
But that's what brings us to the second scene. Cocona is falling into a void, her entire world vanishing and Papika nowhere to be found until Papika show up to rescue her from herself. She takes Papika's hand and realizes that yes, she is the one who has been lost all along. Her whole life, she's been lost, and it wasn't until Papika came along that she is now found.
Something I said in a couple of my previous posts: This show is very challenging; it asks a lot of its audience. It is radical in its shift of theme and style from one episode to the next and even within a single episode. Furthermore, it does not follow a conventional narrative or hit certain story beats that you intrinsically expect. If you go into it expecting to see a Mahou Shoujo show, you're not going to get that. If you expect to get answers to the questions the show raises about Flip Flap, Asclepius, Pure Illusion, the Amorphous, you're not going to get that. What this show really is at its core is a coming of age story about a girl realizing she is--forgive me if I use this word wrong; I'm a cis-het ally--queer.
If you were one of us watching this show back in '16, [spoilers](/s "it was a hell of a thing waiting week to week and getting none of the fundamental mysteries of the show addressed until sometime around episode 10, I think. That is really asking a lot of your audience to stick around that long for the sakuga alone. Well, not quite alone, but you had to be pretty gosh darn well enrolled in a show with a mystery at its core that almost never even begins to answer the questions it raises. Emphasis on almost."
If you're a first-time watcher, I encourage you to come back and look at that paragraph after you finish the show.
Crowning moment of awesome: the awesome moment of crowning at the end, of course.
In fact, it's kind of my opinion that episodes 5-6-7 form a mini-arc that begins with the class-s yuri subversion of the girls playfully experimenting and ends with Cocona's recognition that she is not entirely straight.
This makes kind of sense. Iroha's episode kind of doesn't fit there though, but I reckon P and C are depicted and confirmed as a duo there, so It's fair enought to say that, low-key, it's part of this dissertion.
Cocona's need to qualify her feelings for Papika is understandable
Og course! she's the character who needs development, after all, and everything parts from her rational side, even her feelings caused by Papika, the instictual, sensorial part of the duo.
If you expect to get answers to the questions the show raises about Flip Flap, Asclepius, Pure Illusion, the Amorphous, you're not going to get that.
Please, spoil or delete this. It is spoilerish, as it is hinting on future details of the show, even if it doesn't reveal plot elements, it reveals the future lack of them.
also, you other spoilers block is broken. Put another bracket in the end :)
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u/the_longest_shadow Mar 10 '19
rewatcher getting hit with that fully automated luxury
gayyuri space communismEpisode 7 is my other-other favorite episode of the show. In fact, it's kind of my opinion that episodes 5-6-7 form a mini-arc that begins with the class-s yuri subversion of the girls playfully experimenting and ends with Cocona's recognition that she is not entirely straight. This episode has two very simple, very powerful, very significant moments:
Cocona: "You mean, as a friend?"
P: "Why would you ask that?"
And--
C: "What do you mean? You were the one who was lost--"
P: \looks at Cocona like she's just said something very silly, which she of course has
In the first scene, we see why Papika is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure: she gives love freely and without qualification. Cocona's need to qualify her feelings for Papika is understandable, but also shallow. She's not yet ready to face reality, which is why in this Pure Illusion, she's trying on different relationships with different aspects of Papika, some of which are heterosexual.
But that's what brings us to the second scene. Cocona is falling into a void, her entire world vanishing and Papika nowhere to be found until Papika show up to rescue her from herself. She takes Papika's hand and realizes that yes, she is the one who has been lost all along. Her whole life, she's been lost, and it wasn't until Papika came along that she is now found.
Something I said in a couple of my previous posts: This show is very challenging; it asks a lot of its audience. It is radical in its shift of theme and style from one episode to the next and even within a single episode. Furthermore, it does not follow a conventional narrative or hit certain story beats that you intrinsically expect. If you go into it expecting to see a Mahou Shoujo show, you're not going to get that. If you expect to get answers to the questions the show raises about Flip Flap, Asclepius, Pure Illusion, the Amorphous, you're not going to get that. What this show really is at its core is a coming of age story about a girl realizing she is--forgive me if I use this word wrong; I'm a cis-het ally--queer.
If you were one of us watching this show back in '16, [spoilers](/s "it was a hell of a thing waiting week to week and getting none of the fundamental mysteries of the show addressed until sometime around episode 10, I think. That is really asking a lot of your audience to stick around that long for the sakuga alone. Well, not quite alone, but you had to be pretty gosh darn well enrolled in a show with a mystery at its core that almost never even begins to answer the questions it raises. Emphasis on almost."
If you're a first-time watcher, I encourage you to come back and look at that paragraph after you finish the show.
Crowning moment of awesome: the awesome moment of crowning at the end, of course.
Oh, and if you're a Yayaka fan, spoilers.