Sora no Woto episode 6 metablogged

They explain an awful lot without dir­ectly telling the audi­ence and I quite like that aspect since it’s rather fun to put together the pieces.

THAT Anime Blog

Which is pretty much what I spend every epis­ode doing. In fact, it’s what I spend my time in these posts doing.

What was also great was see­ing how the two par­al­lel stor­ies that came together by the end, emphas­iz­ing the themes of coin­cid­ence and fate, kind of like what Dur­arara has been doing lately.

Ran­dom Curiosity

It’s a very simple and yet very effect­ive way of telling a story and I’m sur­prised it hap­pens so little. There’s some­thing great about a show let­ting you work the pieces out for your­self and there’s that grand moment of real­isa­tion when a later scene explains an earlier one. Some­times it can just be some­thing as simple as a wine bottle in the last epis­ode that makes me feel smart for spot­ting the rel­ev­ance. Where this can fall apart is when a show tries fore­shad­ow­ing and makes it’s so thinly veiled that it just looks stu­pid when they try to do grand reveal later on and you think ‘well that was obvi­ous’. Sora no Woto has this fore­shad­ow­ing thing down to a tee. Not obvi­ous enough to spot straight away but easy enough so you can con­nect the dots once they do appear.

This epis­ode showed us that the mil­it­ary is in quite bad shape because it can’t pay its sol­diers on time or with real cash. In the mil­it­ary we had a rule called the three M’s when it came to tak­ing care of the sol­diers (meals, mail, and money), mean­ing that the mor­ale of the sol­diers depended on the sol­diers receiv­ing those three things.

Crys­tal Tokyo Anime Blog

I must admit I am just as gull­ible as Kanata is. It never once entered my mind that these girls wouldn’t get payed and when they star­ted going on about their illegal drink trade I thought that the show had sud­denly taken a turn for darker ter­rit­ory. That means when this scene showed up, I genu­inely thought it was real.

Among all the fake out scenes there was one thing for sure, that they all stick like fam­ily in good and bad times . We learn that what they are doing could send them to jail if the army were to find out. Kudos to Ficilia in her role as a god­mother and the rest for play­ing their parts like pros.

Just as Planned

Truth be told, I sus­pect this is just a vehicle for us to see all of the girls (except Kanata) dressed as gang­sters, but to be frank I can’t really com­plain about that see­ing as it actu­ally looked rather awesome.

Han­ners Anime Blog

Thanks to the glor­ies of twit­ter, I had seen a bunch of people make Mafia ref­er­ences to Sora no Woto and I had thought they had got­ten the wrong show or some­thing but yikes, I got quite a shock at them sud­denly all act­ing badass. Thank­fully it wasn’t real, and if it was it would’ve been an awfully stu­pid with a total lack of fore­shad­ow­ing, but as Han­ners said, I can’t deny that it was pretty darn cool while it lasted.

The ‘invis­ible reaper’ I think is radi­ation pois­on­ing. I did some research on the bomb­ings in Japan, and found out a com­mon prob­lem was even if people sur­vived the bomb, they could sud­denly become sick with radi­ation pois­on­ing and die. This was a pos­sib­il­ity even up to years after the bomb went off, and there is no cure. They either sur­vived or didn’t. If so, that def­in­itely con­firms that there was nuc­lear war­fare that des­troyed the world.

Black and Blue Socks

I am not sure if the “invis­ible reaper” is neces­sar­ily a bio­lo­gical, chem­ical, or radi­olo­gical weapon since the kid sur­vived instead of her mom, I would have expec­ted the oppos­ite since chil­dren are more sus­cept­ible to bio­lo­gical and chem­ical agents. Since there was a period of hyper advanced weapons of war it might have been a sur­prise attack by cloaked units but I am thor­oughly intrigued as to what invis­ible weapon wiped out Vingt.

THAT Anime Blog

So, this invis­ible reaper eh? I’m def­in­itely on the side of a cloaked attack. As I said at the start of this post, Sora no Woto would give us fore­shad­ow­ing to any later event and there has yet to be a single men­tion of nuc­lear weaponry. When an apo­ca­lypse is referred to along­side war, people are quick to place the blame on nuc­lear weaponry but man­kind are more than cap­able of des­troy­ing the world without the use of the big bomb, espe­cially given the level of soph­ist­ic­a­tion of their tech­no­logy. Cloak­ing has been men­tioned, albeit very briefly in the tank, so that seems like a more likely option. If it is cloak­ing though, that means armies nowadays have access to cloak­ing devices, since that kids par­ents must not have died that long ago, so the idea of cloaked units attack­ing our divi­sion is quite the scary one. In fact, the idea of any­one attack­ing our pla­toon with any sort of advanced weaponry fills me with fear. Even with their fanci­ful per­form­ance as gang­sters, I can’t ima­gine how they’d react in a real battle situ­ation. Remem­ber, these girls are the abso­lute worst the army have and that’s why they’re so far away from the action.

But the main reason why I’m pet­ri­fied of an attack? Because I’ve grown attached to these girls…