[ okay, well. mephisto grabs a celebratory random shot on his way back to the audience from his SWEET WIN, which happens to be... muistojakaa.
after both saving and ruining kuranosuke's life in one fell swoop and throwing back his shot, he soon finds himself staring wistfully off into the middle distance and ignoring all the failures happening in front of him.
after a full minute of this, he finally speaks up, addressing whoever may be within hearing range. ]
Hey... Did any of you ever see Magisches Mädchen Magical Motoko? It was a revolutionary deconstruction of the magical girl genre that juxtaposed moe style with dark themes that caught its viewers off guard with a surprise death in the third episode and just spiraled into despair from there.
[ he takes out his handkerchief and clutches it in his hand in case any tears start coming... ]
I can never forget how it felt the first time I watched episode 10, which revealed the tragic backstory of the dark and brooding magical girl who up until then had seemed to border on being an antagonist. It turned out that she'd secretly been going through an endless series of timelines trying to save her beloved protagonist from the horrible fate that always seemed to await her, and had been forced to harden her heart to withstand it...
[ sighs. ]
Other shows have tried to do similar things since then, but nothing will ever hit as hard as the original.
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after both saving and ruining kuranosuke's life in one fell swoop and throwing back his shot, he soon finds himself staring wistfully off into the middle distance and ignoring all the failures happening in front of him.
after a full minute of this, he finally speaks up, addressing whoever may be within hearing range. ]
Hey... Did any of you ever see Magisches Mädchen Magical Motoko? It was a revolutionary deconstruction of the magical girl genre that juxtaposed moe style with dark themes that caught its viewers off guard with a surprise death in the third episode and just spiraled into despair from there.
[ he takes out his handkerchief and clutches it in his hand in case any tears start coming... ]
I can never forget how it felt the first time I watched episode 10, which revealed the tragic backstory of the dark and brooding magical girl who up until then had seemed to border on being an antagonist. It turned out that she'd secretly been going through an endless series of timelines trying to save her beloved protagonist from the horrible fate that always seemed to await her, and had been forced to harden her heart to withstand it...
[ sighs. ]
Other shows have tried to do similar things since then, but nothing will ever hit as hard as the original.