Andy00
11-05-03, 02:52 AM
Amusing note, my fansub has this listed as "Purity" Even watching that, I knew they got it wrong.
This is a very good "newbie" episode. Also, I'd like to note that the translators have me VERY impressed. They got both difficult concepts and risque ones nailed this ep, so I'm very excited to see how they handle certain OTHER events in later eps. :coughcough:
Episode starts off with a trip to the Twilight Zone, as Tsukasa and the Pale Girl (seen floating and sleeping in all previous eps) running through the woods and laughing together. Then Pale Sleeping Girl disappears and reappears in a tree above Tsukasa, dives down, and stabs him. We get a look at her rather evil unsleeping girl-esque face. (With a sigil on her forehead that looks like a C, it's not Subaru's, which is like a squiggle.) Tsukasa "wakes up" in his secret area and see's Maha, dancing with a rose behind an open doorway in the middle of the clearing, who bows, and the door closes on it's own.
Thank you, David Lynch.
Mimiru and Bear are discussing forming a party, Tsukasa's been invited too, but he's delayed. Bear says he picked this mission because there isn't much fighting. He wonders if Tsukasa wouldn't want to come because he's there, and Mimiru says Tsukasa isn't like that.
Tsukasa appears, and running towards them, trips, but gets up and runs again. Mr. Agility he isn't.
At this point, I got a Tornado Warning, so I'm going to have to relay on my fansub to fill in a 5 minute blank. If anything was translated differently, please let me know.
Tsukasa mentions he can't tell time well in The World. Bear says they should get along, and Tsukasa says that all Mimiru asked was that he be there, so that's all he'll do.
They're in a forest now, The three of them talk to a jester-like NPC, who asks if Mimiru is the leader of their party. At Bear's prompting, she says yes. The party mission is a knowledge one, (Mimiru: We don't have much of that. Bear: With wisdom (creativity? cunning?) can take knowledge's place)
In the forest dungeon, there are 3 statues, which ask riddles. Answer the riddles. You can only try once.
Elsewhere, B.T. is telling Sora about Tsukasa's location and activities, apparently in return for his services. B.T. warns him Sora that intimidating Tsukasa may endanger finding out about the Key of the Twilight, but Sora is more interested in having fun.
Tornado warning over, I can go back to the dub now.
They meet a party of girls who say the riddles are very difficult, and that they couldn't answer them. Dub makes a pun of the riddles "hacking them off." Hyuck, hyuck.
First question involved the stones on the walls of the New Jerusulem in the Book of Revelations (the Bible) Bear picks the answer immediately, noting that Revelations is the origins of the notion of Birthstones. Mimiru is impressed he happened to know what the Second Birthstone is, and Bear tells her he has an on-line encyclopedia. Cunning over wisdom. They receive a prize, an Amethyst (which was the answer)
Mimiru asks if he's a college professor, and Bear tells her nope and that she's guessed 2 times now, and she only gets one more.
They're looking for the second statue in the forest. Bear mentions that he's mapping by paper, which they used to do "a while back" Mimiru says that's before she was born. I'm flashing back to doing this for Wizardry, Bard's Tale, and MadMaze (Prodigy Online) Geez, now _I_ feel old.
Dub/Sub note. Mimiru makes a joke about this happening before running water and indoor plumbing. Originally, she asked if Tokyo was still called Edo back then. Not bad.
Tsukasa figures out that they've been going in circles (so much for Bear's map) and finds the next Statue Shrine.
Second question, I optimistically figured that it was the fansub that lead to me not understanding it. Nope. Hearing it in English makes me pity my small brain. Something about numbers, and heaven and earth, and calculator/pager number format. The answer is "Egg." They get a little egg here.
Sora's at the start of the the forest the Party are in. He's looking for Tsukasa. Series is cute by making Mimiru look around startled (apparently at Sora) but is really just being exasperated that Bear is out of paper again. Geez, Bear, don't you have the ALTIMIT equivilent of Microsoft Office?
Mimiru asks Tsukasa about his family, like his father, and we get a lovely flashback of his father screaming with a clenched fist at a little version of him. He's apparently doing homework, and can do nothing but smile/grimace. (Good grief.)
Impressiveness time! Mimiru starts complaining about her dad, who she thinks is a pervert. One time she visited his company without her knowing, and listened to her dad ask everyone who had the best "technique." One guy had the best "tecnique, but it took too long." Implication here is sexual. Bear corrects her, noting her dad works with semiconductors, and he's probably talking about etching techniques.
NICE! VERY NICE! Originally, this was a joke about the word "Ecchi." Her confusing it with the term "ectching" this required a knowledge of both Japanese and English. Series very nicely sidestepped that while kept the original meaning.
3rd Question is rather obscure with names I can't think of off the top of my head, but involved a girl cheating on her husband, who is the director? Bear and Tsukasa know the answer, and Bear is impressed that Tsukasa knows. Tsukasa goes to get the prize, and seemingly gets his hand eaten. Nope! He's playing a gag. Cute, Tsukasa. It's a Shirley McLane movie reference, specifically the movie "The Apartment." Billy Bartley? (I'm bad with names) was the director. The prize is an eggstand.
Then the conversation turns to Tsukasa's mother, who watched such movies with Tsukasa as a kid. He starts to get very bitter and "tired" eyed, noting that adults are selfish, and don't care about those younger. (Sora is hidden and eavesdropping here, and is very sympathetic/understanding)
Tsukasa's mom is dead. (So his mom is dead and his father is abusive. Man, if this series was more in the future, he'd make great mech pilot material.)
Mimiru tells Tsukasa that everyone is selfish, and even kids are too. It's part of interacting with people. She puts the egg in the eggstand, and it turns into a monster. Much to the surprise of Mimiru, who complains to Bear that he said there wouldn't be any fighting. Bear fights the monster, and they seem evenly matched.
Tsukasa at first decides to sit this out, to Mimiru's fury. They formed a Party, which means there's a commitment to helping each other. So Tsukasa summons his Guardian to deal with the monster, but Mimiru tells him that that is cheating too, that he'd just be a monster like the creature if he did it that way. They are a team. Not selfish.
She then throws the Amethyst (from the first riddle) at the monster, and it turns into 3 Medallions. While all 3 of them hold their Medallions, Tsukasa looks at Bear and Mimiru who are smiling at him and is awed.
Later, he's looking at The Sleeping Girl, and wondering. He's put the medallion he got from the mission on her.
Cue the Real World (in living grey monotone!) particularly the hospital. A man (Tsukasa's father) is talking to a doctor, saying he want's the patient taken off life support. This is in silent movie type subtitle format. We then see someone in life support (Tsukasa) hooked up in a hospital bed. Last scene of the ep is the heartbeat monitor steadily going. (But for how long?)
This is a very good "newbie" episode. Also, I'd like to note that the translators have me VERY impressed. They got both difficult concepts and risque ones nailed this ep, so I'm very excited to see how they handle certain OTHER events in later eps. :coughcough:
Episode starts off with a trip to the Twilight Zone, as Tsukasa and the Pale Girl (seen floating and sleeping in all previous eps) running through the woods and laughing together. Then Pale Sleeping Girl disappears and reappears in a tree above Tsukasa, dives down, and stabs him. We get a look at her rather evil unsleeping girl-esque face. (With a sigil on her forehead that looks like a C, it's not Subaru's, which is like a squiggle.) Tsukasa "wakes up" in his secret area and see's Maha, dancing with a rose behind an open doorway in the middle of the clearing, who bows, and the door closes on it's own.
Thank you, David Lynch.
Mimiru and Bear are discussing forming a party, Tsukasa's been invited too, but he's delayed. Bear says he picked this mission because there isn't much fighting. He wonders if Tsukasa wouldn't want to come because he's there, and Mimiru says Tsukasa isn't like that.
Tsukasa appears, and running towards them, trips, but gets up and runs again. Mr. Agility he isn't.
At this point, I got a Tornado Warning, so I'm going to have to relay on my fansub to fill in a 5 minute blank. If anything was translated differently, please let me know.
Tsukasa mentions he can't tell time well in The World. Bear says they should get along, and Tsukasa says that all Mimiru asked was that he be there, so that's all he'll do.
They're in a forest now, The three of them talk to a jester-like NPC, who asks if Mimiru is the leader of their party. At Bear's prompting, she says yes. The party mission is a knowledge one, (Mimiru: We don't have much of that. Bear: With wisdom (creativity? cunning?) can take knowledge's place)
In the forest dungeon, there are 3 statues, which ask riddles. Answer the riddles. You can only try once.
Elsewhere, B.T. is telling Sora about Tsukasa's location and activities, apparently in return for his services. B.T. warns him Sora that intimidating Tsukasa may endanger finding out about the Key of the Twilight, but Sora is more interested in having fun.
Tornado warning over, I can go back to the dub now.
They meet a party of girls who say the riddles are very difficult, and that they couldn't answer them. Dub makes a pun of the riddles "hacking them off." Hyuck, hyuck.
First question involved the stones on the walls of the New Jerusulem in the Book of Revelations (the Bible) Bear picks the answer immediately, noting that Revelations is the origins of the notion of Birthstones. Mimiru is impressed he happened to know what the Second Birthstone is, and Bear tells her he has an on-line encyclopedia. Cunning over wisdom. They receive a prize, an Amethyst (which was the answer)
Mimiru asks if he's a college professor, and Bear tells her nope and that she's guessed 2 times now, and she only gets one more.
They're looking for the second statue in the forest. Bear mentions that he's mapping by paper, which they used to do "a while back" Mimiru says that's before she was born. I'm flashing back to doing this for Wizardry, Bard's Tale, and MadMaze (Prodigy Online) Geez, now _I_ feel old.
Dub/Sub note. Mimiru makes a joke about this happening before running water and indoor plumbing. Originally, she asked if Tokyo was still called Edo back then. Not bad.
Tsukasa figures out that they've been going in circles (so much for Bear's map) and finds the next Statue Shrine.
Second question, I optimistically figured that it was the fansub that lead to me not understanding it. Nope. Hearing it in English makes me pity my small brain. Something about numbers, and heaven and earth, and calculator/pager number format. The answer is "Egg." They get a little egg here.
Sora's at the start of the the forest the Party are in. He's looking for Tsukasa. Series is cute by making Mimiru look around startled (apparently at Sora) but is really just being exasperated that Bear is out of paper again. Geez, Bear, don't you have the ALTIMIT equivilent of Microsoft Office?
Mimiru asks Tsukasa about his family, like his father, and we get a lovely flashback of his father screaming with a clenched fist at a little version of him. He's apparently doing homework, and can do nothing but smile/grimace. (Good grief.)
Impressiveness time! Mimiru starts complaining about her dad, who she thinks is a pervert. One time she visited his company without her knowing, and listened to her dad ask everyone who had the best "technique." One guy had the best "tecnique, but it took too long." Implication here is sexual. Bear corrects her, noting her dad works with semiconductors, and he's probably talking about etching techniques.
NICE! VERY NICE! Originally, this was a joke about the word "Ecchi." Her confusing it with the term "ectching" this required a knowledge of both Japanese and English. Series very nicely sidestepped that while kept the original meaning.
3rd Question is rather obscure with names I can't think of off the top of my head, but involved a girl cheating on her husband, who is the director? Bear and Tsukasa know the answer, and Bear is impressed that Tsukasa knows. Tsukasa goes to get the prize, and seemingly gets his hand eaten. Nope! He's playing a gag. Cute, Tsukasa. It's a Shirley McLane movie reference, specifically the movie "The Apartment." Billy Bartley? (I'm bad with names) was the director. The prize is an eggstand.
Then the conversation turns to Tsukasa's mother, who watched such movies with Tsukasa as a kid. He starts to get very bitter and "tired" eyed, noting that adults are selfish, and don't care about those younger. (Sora is hidden and eavesdropping here, and is very sympathetic/understanding)
Tsukasa's mom is dead. (So his mom is dead and his father is abusive. Man, if this series was more in the future, he'd make great mech pilot material.)
Mimiru tells Tsukasa that everyone is selfish, and even kids are too. It's part of interacting with people. She puts the egg in the eggstand, and it turns into a monster. Much to the surprise of Mimiru, who complains to Bear that he said there wouldn't be any fighting. Bear fights the monster, and they seem evenly matched.
Tsukasa at first decides to sit this out, to Mimiru's fury. They formed a Party, which means there's a commitment to helping each other. So Tsukasa summons his Guardian to deal with the monster, but Mimiru tells him that that is cheating too, that he'd just be a monster like the creature if he did it that way. They are a team. Not selfish.
She then throws the Amethyst (from the first riddle) at the monster, and it turns into 3 Medallions. While all 3 of them hold their Medallions, Tsukasa looks at Bear and Mimiru who are smiling at him and is awed.
Later, he's looking at The Sleeping Girl, and wondering. He's put the medallion he got from the mission on her.
Cue the Real World (in living grey monotone!) particularly the hospital. A man (Tsukasa's father) is talking to a doctor, saying he want's the patient taken off life support. This is in silent movie type subtitle format. We then see someone in life support (Tsukasa) hooked up in a hospital bed. Last scene of the ep is the heartbeat monitor steadily going. (But for how long?)