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EP. REVIEW: Flip Flappers

I think I was wrong last time about evil-Mimi and good-Mimi representing Pure Illusion and the real world, respectively.

Salt? He can piss off, for all I care. Rapists need not apply.

I only wish experimental shows like this weren't so unpopular that we only get one when some anime producer has a pile of spare money lying around.

Oh, the creators gave the answer of why Papika was deaged! Apparently, she ended up in the "limbo" area between Pure Illusion and the real world, where time is fluid. Staying there made her younger mentally and physically.

I could write a literal novel-length post about the societal issues hinted at by our preference for easily-digested entertainment that doesn't even cover new ground 90% of the time, but that's probably enough blithering from me on the subject.

...not everyone watches shows to be mentally challenged. I am an engineering student, I get enough mental exercise there. Get off your high horse.

I was really interested in how after Cocona goes back to the 'real' world, everything is mundane; all the dream-like aspects of her ordinary world have changed: Bu is a backhoe, uexkull is a normal rabbit, the uniforms are more drab, etc. and she's closed off from Pure Illusion. I thought that it was trying to say that growing up results in you losing your sense of wonder and imagination.

But then that ended up not being the 'real' world after all, and Papika rescues Cocona to her more familiar reality, and it turns out that 'realistic' place was another Pure Illusion all along.

Initially I was annoyed at that, since I tend not to like bait-and-switch tactics in fiction, but upon reflection, I think it's really interesting. I think what it's ultimately saying is that there is no place that is not real, there are just different locations in the multiverse, and those with the right frame of mind can traverse them. Like Cocona actually did seem to go 'out' of the pure illusion with Mimi and into the 'realistic' one. And that means the realistic place was just as real as anywhere else, including all the fantastical-seeming Pure Illusions we've seen so far. and Cocona's state of mind at the time took her to somewhere that was very remote, far from where whatever powers travel in Pure Illusion can easily reach. But such a place is still just another location in the multiverse, only one that we happen to be more familiar with, and with Papika's help, she's able to go home for real.

Just watched this show. So far my pick for best show of 2016. Yuri on Ice was ok but too mundane for my tastes while Re-Zero was entertaining but still quite shallow and pretty inconsistent in its narrative. This show was really good stuff and reminded me of anime at its best: visually audacious, a bit complex and confusing, full of symbolism and adds several dimensions of possible interpreting.

I still didn't understand one thing: the cult and the lab where salt worked and where Mimi and pure illusion were "discovered" were separate locations or own evolved into the other? I mean I got that impression at some points but I guess I didn't pay attention to that. Did Salt die or it was left up to interpretation?

This is the answer to the incompatibility between the worlds of childhood and adulthood, as adolescence fades and our many sparkling and raging facets crystallize into the person we must live with alongside others in an imperfect universe. When you discover yourself and commit to who you truly are, you can finally connect with others honestly, and the people you connect with in honest love will make the world feel more perfect and pure than it was before. True, honest, courageous love makes the drab reality we must live in a place of wonder and magic again, through the dreams we share with the right person for us.

The lab became the cult after Salt's father has his mind messed with by Mimi and Papika. Salt didn't die, he got back just in time.