[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

I don't know. A escapism-ridden character with a cynical and cruel mindset kinda hit close to home for me. Tho, it's probably just from personal experience with knowing someone who kinda suffered from a similar experience with Akane. The end of the anime and the implications of the music video adds to it too.

I definitely get what they might've been trying to go for, but I just don't feel it was executed very well.

Not gonna get into it quite yet, but let's just say I too have personal experience with someone of whom this show is trying to represent.

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Originally Posted by Jello

I guess the feel I always got from this episode was everything starting to actually come down on Akane. Trying to stay spoiler free, but seeing the Gridman alliance just yeet from the dream world really hurts her for reasons that will become clear by the end of the show. It's not really "you should feel bad for her" but instead "this is what you deserve"

Also fun fact, I missed this episode the first time and had to come back and watch it later.

I'd totally be down for that if it weren't for the Gridman Alliance's' constant insistence on trying to save her and feeling sorry for her. Add to that that the anime itself frames her situation as tragic(which, granted, it technically is) and it's something I really can't get behind.