>The previous episodes were just wacky adventures in strange settings with the objective being to beat the boss and grab the amorphous.
I can't believe anyone could think this was actually the case. Like how dumb do you have to be? Not even during airing did anyone think this.
Nigga you and I both know the early episodes (1-5) did not have any relation to Mimi at all. Each one had to do with building friendship and trust, along with a few other things. You also got smacked with some feels in episode 7.
The whole Mimi protecting Coconut didn't come into effect until the last few episodes. Heck, no one even fully explained what the amorphous did until then.
What are the monsters in ep 1 and what are the monsters in ep 13? Found any resemblance?
>MAO sign
Can I have that?
>being this fucking retarded
Why are you even in this thread if you clearly didn't understand basic themes or imagery? What made you come in here just to tell everyone how dumb you were?
>implying you could make that connection at all by watching the show while it was airing
You'd realize it once you got to 13, but if you went into the show blind, all you'd get out of it is Papicunt and Cockna going on adventures in themed lands to get the shiny rocks, with some tension about friendship between them. The later episodes DO bring in a plot, but they do so far too late. Episode 6 shows the concept of fucking up people's brains (which is later shown with Salt's dad), much like the monsters in 1 and 13. The issue is none of this is brought up in a fashion that is gradual. It's just "oh so THAT'S what that was" when you get to it.
By all means, explain it to me then. I'm all ears.
Thematic and symbolic relevance. Saying that the exploration and experimentation with Pure Illusion, or the development of the Cocona/Papika relationship are all irrelevant to the plot seems kind of dumb, no offense.
It's like saying most of Eva was irrelevant because it had no relation to Seele and Instrumentality. You're missing the point, as well as the fact that the final climax couldn't happen the way it does without the characters having gone through what they've gone through in the earlier episodes, nor without the viewers understanding the story's world thanks to those same episodes.
So your issue is that when a new concept is introduced (like the deeper layer of PI in the Iro episode), the show doesn't outright tell you what that concept is going to be used for in the long run or grand scheme of things?
There were too many signs to not notice. But it's alright if you missed it.
The early episodes were ripe for all kinds of deconstruction: what are the rocks, what are pure illusions, what are the girl/woman in the boat, etc and they prepared visual answers to all of that so it's not just random guesses.
That's wondering why/how a thing exists, not deconstruction. Pure Illusion for example wasn't even explained until far later on, with hints of it being tied to reality in Episode 6, along with its proper explanation in Episode 10-13.
Stop trying to make a puddle look deep.