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March 9th, 2012:

Persona 4 Episode 22

Mar 9th, 2012
by marthaurion.
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This week’s episode starts off with everyone arriving at Heaven, Nanako’s dungeon. Namatame reveals that he has been trying to “save” people, and draws Shadows to attack. He takes control of Yu and forces him to attack everyone else, but Yu is able to break the control mechanism and save Nanako. Namatame then controls everyone else, but Yu is able to free them all and defeat finish him off.

Namatame is arrested and Nanako is hospitalized afterwards, but she soon recovers. Strangely, though, there’s a heavy fog in Inaba following the incident, similar to the fog in the TV World. Nonetheless, things seem to be doing okay, but then Nanako’s condition suddenly worsens and she dies.

NANAKO!!!!!! Yeah…I actually have no idea what’s up with that. All I can do is wait for next week for some sort of explanation. The battle at the start of the episode plays into that scene from earlier where everyone looked at Yu with a sort of fear when he summoned his many Persona. Their fear is kinda justified when he’s turned against them. Stupid controlling business…made that battle more annoying than it should have been. Still, the battle was cool as usual.

With that little conversation with Naoto, I guess Yu has revisited every main character. I would have hoped for a bit more, but I understand with the pacing. The ending is becoming a bit murky for me. I’m not sure how faithful they’re trying to make it to the game. I really don’t want them to skip the true ending. Especially since something happened in this episode that is linked to it (I won’t give it away because spoilers are lame).

Black Rock Shooter Episode 6

Mar 9th, 2012
by marthaurion.
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In the aftermath of last week’s episode, Black Rock Shooter gains a different appearance and faces off against Black Gold Saw. In the real world, Mato remains unconscious, so Yuu takes her to Saya. Saya tries to talk with Mato in the other world, telling her about her own past. Apparently, Saya befriended the original Yuu, who tells her about the other world.

Saya doubts Yuu when her house is burned down, and then Yuu starts to avoid her. When she finds Yuu again, Yuu tells her about Black Gold Saw. Back in the alternate world, Black Gold Saw is saved from Black Rock Shooter by who I assume is Yuu’s other self, who seems to have forgiven Saya.

Now that’s an interesting twist. Saya is actually working to help everyone, it seems. I feel like I should have seen it coming, but for some reason, I didn’t. I’m not completely sure what to expect next. It seems like Mato will try to fight against the idea of the other world, but that forces the grief of the real world on the girls who would normally have alternate forms. I feel like that could be taken as a good or evil act, depending on how you look at it. I’m curious to see how they approach it. Alternatively, the series could just end with Black Rock Shooter returning to normal. That seems even less likely, though, because I would think that Black Rock Shooter will go back to normal next week judging by the pacing. Maybe it’s the nature of the other world or the translation, but I just feel like I’m not grasping everything. Maybe it just means I need to play the game. Hopefully, things will all make sense in the end.