This blazing inferno of a house we open up on tells me that this is going to be a super happy episode. Wait a second, that’s not a house, it’s a freaking labyrinth. Her sister shows her the right door to escape and she walks forward and out of the fire. As the sister most likely dies in the fire she says. “I’m sure you’ll find people to watch over you.” and we cut to the opening credits.
I feel like this would be a lot sadder with some more set up. I mean I get that it’s only a snip note of Kido’s past, maybe we’ll get more of it or maybe it’s just one of those things I’ll have to get a better grasp on through the PV’s once the series is done airing.
Oh yeah! Heat Haze Daze is back as the opening, and just after the full version of the song came out. I’ve missed this song, I really do have a unhealthy obsession with it.
Shintaro is at the hospital with Seto as everyone else comes in, he tells the story of what happened in the other episode but his entire memory of the event is scrambled. What is this kids name anyway, will someone say it? I seriously have no idea what it is!
This kid seems to remember the same thing Shintaro does. However, what does Ayano have to do with this? The kid collapsed, Kido seems to know what Shintaro saw. What is this kid? He’s brought to where the gang is, apparently this guy is awakening to his powers.
WHAT’S HIS NAME!?
Momo talks about worst case scenario’s of what this kids powers could be, scaring Kido half to death. Shintaro really wants to know what happened, so he stuck around despite wanting to run away. It seems like the group is growing nicely. They try to call Kano and can’t seem to reach him.
Seto runs off to look for him, huh, this episode is oddly calm for the opening that it had. I was expecting myself to burst out crying by this time in the episode. Oh look, now we’re getting into the depressing part. Talking about how Ayano’s father adopted all three of them{Kido,Seto and Kano} from the same orphanage.
Oh man! we’re going to get the powers explained to us now. This should be good.
It seems connected to what Shintaro saw today. The snake, each of them saw it when they were young. This stained glass effect is so amazingly pretty, some people might call it lazy since it’s sort of a gloss over of the happenings illustrated by these glass paintings but I found this to be strikingly beautiful.
For Kano it was when Kano and his Mom were attacked by burglars. Seto was when his dog nearly drowned, Kido it was her sister. Momo it was when she almost drowned at the beach. It seems like people who are about to die are swallowed up by the void and bring back some sort of power.
He finds out about Ene as well, thank goodness she wasn’t around to hear him call her some kind of obnoxious virus. Momo almost tells the beans spill about Takane.
Hibiya! OMG, AT LAST. THEY SAID HIS NAME! Now I know it. It seems like Hiyori was sucked up in the void and we can’t know if she can get out. Hibiya runs out trying to get to Hiyori. Momo and Kido run off after him.
Oh dear, I think Shintaro is about to come across something he isn’t supposed to. Oh god, he’s about to stumble upon a family portrait, Oh man….he saw the picture of Ayano! his eyes go red. I wonder what his powers are.
The credits read a lot like a PV, I’m trying to understand what’s going on in it. Ayano and Shintaro, the song itself if i read the lyrics makes me want to break down into tears. I think, Ayano might of killed herself due to Shintaro or Perhaps it wasn’t a suicide at all. If he has the power that means he almost died. Did she get sucked into the void to save him? I’m struck a little cold…next episode please?
act 9: Ayano’s theory of happiness.
I was really excited for this episode, Lost Time Memory is one of my favourie songs in the series. 😀 What’s interesting about the song sequence at the end is that it uses pictures from the novel and manga, and clips from the PVs. There’s actually a good reason for this. 😀
I was also really excited to see Kido’s sis, it’s actually the first time in the whole project that she’s appeared instead of just mentioned.
Oh man, Ayano’s Theory of Happiness was one of two songs in the series that actually made me cry. It even made the creator of the series cry when he was composing it. I’m pretty sure the next episode is going to be equal parts adorable and depressing… ;w;
“I think, Ayano might of killed herself due to Shintaro or Perhaps it wasn’t a suicide at all. If he has the power that means he almost died. Did she get sucked into the void to save him?” That’s my theory too, I’ve read what’s been translated of the manga and poked around on tvtropes but haven’t actually found a reason for any of it. Plus, whenever someone is sucked into the void there’s another person there as well (Kano and his mom, Seto and his dog, Kido and his sister, Momo and her mother, technically Takane and Haruka together, Hibiya and Hiyori, although Konoha might’ve been sucked in too) and it would make sense if Shintaro had been there.
nah, ayano killed herself because she found out that her father kenjirou was conducting experiments on her friends, haruka and takane in order to open the heat haze days to save his wife ayaka. knowing this, ayano commited suicide at 15 august to enter the heat haze days and to obtain an eye power herself in order to stop her father’s intentions, which only makes her father obsessed even more to save ayaka and ayano herself thus made kenjirou killed haruka and takane to do that. as for why there are 2 peoples is not because they need to be pairs to enter the heat haze days, but actually is a total coincidence. because the real reason anybody can enter the heat haze days is if they died in 15 august. but because 2 people entered the heat haze days, it means that one can return and one will be stuck there or if he/she can return too if he/she is lucky, the one who managed to return will obtain an eye power as well the 2nd person if he/she did manage to return to the real world, but if he/she got stuck then he will keep repeating an event that has some kind of relation with the events of their deaths. but ayano’s case was different as she died not in a pair but alone thus making her unable to return to the real world even though she obtained an eye power. as for shintaro, he never had actually entered the heat haze days before and even if he did, he probably wouldn’t remember but as seen in the anime, it seems that he have actually entered the heat haze days and obtain his eye power, even meeting ayano there. well if you want to know more about shintaro and how did he enter the heat haze days you should watch the lost time memory PV :)))