THE REAL TWIST
Holy Shit! Who would have expected such a twist! I'll get to that part but before that, this episode opens with Nonaginta (Nona) welcoming Onna and introducing her to Decim. Then, we are shown a recap of the events which took place in last episode from Nonaginta and Onna's point of view as they observed the entire bizarre series of events from behind the scenes. This episode also gives us a little hindsight about most of the mysteries surrounding this bar. It is revealed that Decim (and others?) pass the judgement on wether who'll go to haven (reincarnation) and Hell (void) based on the player's memories and the extent of humanity they display during the game, so basically Decim, Nonaginta etc are arbiters who receive the memories in a complied form and judge the guests as they play the game with life at stake. |
| The truth |
The dead bodies which were hanging in the first episode are actually dummies or mannequins present only to scare the participants so that they'll play the game in fear and life on the line. The participants are not aware that they're dead because the shock of dying makes everyone forget that they are even dead, sounds oddly satisfying. By some of the comments made by Nonaginta, it seems that Decim and others are not really humans. Anyway moving on, as Onna and Nonaginta observe the game from the balcony, this is where the real twist starts to set in. After the game is finished and Decim makes his decision, the ladies meet him. Onna discusses her point of view about the whole incident. She comes to the conclusion that the wife, Machiko was play acting in the end to reduce the burden of her husband, Takashi of the fact that he killed his unborn child, even if it means to harm her character. WTF? Just when I thought that the previous episode had enough twist, we are left with the biggest of them all! Machiko did that whole act to lessen Takashi's grief and lied about the child not being his cause of her fondness for her love, Takashi. A big hats off to whoever came up with all this, brilliant.
Decim seemed to accept Onna's point of view and so did Nonaginta but she later said that Takashi couldn't trust others and such person will never find happiness in his life so though Onna's theory seems proper it's still not sure as to who was really right. Onna will be Decim's assistant from now on so it's gona be really interesting to see how they both come to conclusions from their point of view in future episodes. On a side note, when Onna and Nonaginta were travelling by train at the start, there were many other bartenders plus, Nonaginta said 15th floor specifically so does that mean there are other such bars? really interesting set-up. As usual the animation was superb and overall a superb episode, looks like we'll have new guests next week. Thank you for reading this anime review, have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Thoughts? let me know in the comments below.
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