'Bichi' in Japanese is often translated as "Bitch" but in Japanese contexts it implies promiscuity, Probably more accurate to localized it as "slut." With all the negative connotations that go with it.
This is one of my favorite episode from this series, what really gets me is the relationship between the Princess and the Head Lady-in-waiting. Even with the exchange of the letters taking the bulk of the episodes runtime, the author and the studio manages to convey the deep bond of the two with the dialogue, expression and the unspoken aspects. I do not fully grasp the full depth of what it means to be royalty, but one thing history has taught me is that Royalty should never bend the knee to someone who are below them because the act alone is relinquishing the power and authority figuratively. But the princess choose to show her respect and love to Alberta. Unno why man this part always gets to me
"They're just sending them to the bottom like this in a bundle!" They're personally escorting an armoured container 13000 meters below the surface down to the bottom of the Fifth Layer to make sure every volunteer arrives unharmed. "HOW IS THIS GUY SO HAPPY?!" Because he's learning. "Her humanity was still there. Frozen; stuck." And that's exactly why "Hollow" is a really crappy localization. "That's insane. But, I mean, insanely reassuring." I agree, it's really nice to have confirmation that, yes, Mitty is no longer suffering inside her deformed body. Wow, you just _entirely skipped the bath scene._ The anime version already censors that scene so much that Riko's single biggest piece of character development is entirely cut out and you still won't show even your own reaction to it without video?
"Hollow" is another botched localization. The actual term in the series is Narehate. It's a contraction of the phrase "Nare no Hate" (literally "End of Becoming"), which means something like "what remains after a lot of changes". The word hollow is basically the exact opposite of what a Narehate is because, instead of being empty inside, the outside becomes twisted and warped. The way around losing your humanity in the Sixth Layer is simple: don't ever go upwards. Easier said than done, though.
Here we are. One of the best episodes of TV ever made. Poison and the Curse. "Do we have to watch this?!" Yes. Don't turn away. Reg has to see all of this and he can't turn away; what if you were in his place? The first time you watch this episode, you feel Riko's suffering. Watching it after the first time, you feel Reg's suffering and realize this was even harder on him than it was on Riko. "Basic CPR worked." She stopped breathing because she was choking on her own blood. Remember, it wasn't _just_ the tamaugachi's venom, it was also the Curse of the Fourth Layer at the same time. What Nanachi had Reg do was clear Riko's airway of the blockage.
"It just keeps going and going and going..." Yep. 4 kilometers of sheer cliff. "So she doesn't get everything in this dream." Nope. I think it's her subconscious fighting against the hallucination by using Reg as an anchor to reality.
"because it got really dark real fast." Oh, you don't know what dark is yet. "Still scary, regardless!" Oh, absolutely. Ozen is both terrifying and a huge sadistic jerk that delights in making people uncomfortable with brutal honesty. That doesn't mean she's an enemy, though; that's just who she is as a person.
Why exactly did you cut out Reg asking "Are you a girl?", Reg and Marulk bonding, and Riko exiting the bath? Do you just not want to acknowledge Marulk is a boy? If that's the case I'm surprised you didn't edit out every time Marulk refers to himself as "boku".
This is the point it really starts to let you know "we were not joking or exaggerating" about all the things that were warned about the Abyss up to this point. Every delver dies down here eventually, one way or another. Firing the Incinerator here was an absolutely gorgeous two-page spread in the manga. It looks great in the anime as well, but it can't really do the original justice. "how much energy you need for it" When they charged Reg up at the beginning of the series, it wasn't just the orphanage that lost power, it turns out it was the _entire district._ The "eggs" are relics called Sun Spheres. They light up. In the manga, Riko had one from the very start (one of the things she stole for herself instead of handing in) but since they cut that out from the anime they had to add her finding one here to establish she has it.
"That's all he cares about." Yeah. Curiosity is a huge theme; everyone needs to have a screw loose because that's how you do well in an insane environment like the Abyss. The "diving illness" isn't a thing, by the way; that's a line the localization changed for no reason. Habolg says the vaccine is for a disease called Tachikiri Fever.
"Was that him?!" No, you had it right previously. That drawing has differences from Reg, but it's very similar. It's not him, but it's _like_ him. "It's a plush toy!" They cut this from the anime, but when Reg and Nat go to get their haul appraised, the guy at the counter says it's called a Princess Bosom or boob stone. Because it feels like boobs. They're useless, but slightly rare. "He wants to, like, confess or something, right?" That's it exactly. Nat is literally helping the girl he likes take her own life. That's why he was so strongly against it even though, as Shiggy said, she'd probably go anyway even without their help.
"you can't go to the Sixth Layer, right?!" Right. Not if you ever want to come back, anyway. When someone does, it's called their Last Dive. "Their punishment system is not right." I ask again: would you rather they be savagely beaten instead of embarrassed? "They're like heroes in this world." Yep, in the Greek sense, anyway. They're incredible people who do incredible things. "what is this netherworld?" The Abyss is often referred to poetically as "naraku", a Japanese word for hell derived from the Sanskrit word "Naraka", the multi-layered Buddhist hells (one of the main inspirations for the Abyss, according to the mangaka). The localization decided to use "netherworld" for some reason.
Wow, right off the bat you're already yelling and saying the characters are 4 years old like a tourist who's never seen animation before. Not a great first impression. "Is that like a dog whistle except for weird creatures?!" No, it's a regular whistle. "If the teachers are like 13 or 14" Leader is in his early 20s. Riko is 12. "Get me outta this orphanage!" What, you'd rather be in an orphanage where they savagely beat you for misbehaving instead of embarrassing you? "So these kids do have parents!" You thought they spontaneously manifested from nothing? Okay, you actually laughed when Reg checked his pants. You may be cut out for this after all. "And they didn't learn anything in 1900 years?!" They've learned plenty. But there's more. "But why do they have little kids doing it?" It takes money to look after children and the delvers' guild always needs new apprentices. "Why aren't the adults doing it?" They are. It's not _just_ kids, they're being trained at the very top. "seems like you have to be under 10 years old" If I recall right, 10 is approximately the _minimum_ age they'll consider certifying as a Red Whistle.
The first time I saw this it was on VHS at Blockbuster. My first Anime. Such a great show, I'll check out the reactions. Seriously if you haven't seen this before it's still the most fun anime I've ever seen.
5:10 so the Old Guard are about level 18 each. The Workers (excluding old guy) are 20 to 22 at most. The old guy is around 24 to 26 but because of age is around 23/24 in power
