Penguindrum - A Simple But Brutal Story

stream of conscious literature one of the most complex anime styles to watch with these tags that don't belong to it penguin drum actually tells a very simple but brutal story in literary terms the young birds imprisoned in a cage called destiny depend on each other by sharing their love expressing it in a more familial sociological paper style format it's more like on whether children within an offender's family should bear the responsibility of their parent and the harm of cold violence towards children within families and to sum it up in japanese light novel terms it's pretty much recently my sister is unusual the reason there are complaints of obscurity is that iguhara kunihiko used a lot of cryptic symbols and memories during the animation process to keep the viewers confused about which events happened in which time period as long as these timelines are organized we can actually get the answers we want the first is the common subway scene whenever there is a recollection of something the sound of the subway can be heard combine that with that recurring number 95 and you get the tokyo subway sauron attack on march 20th 1995. it was an incident in which a cult used chemical weapons in an indiscriminate attack on the tokyo subway during rush hour killing 14 people and injuring more than 1 000 that event is the beginning of events in the anime the intersection of the fates of all characters within this cult which is a terrorist organization it's founded and headed by a man with the name of watase satoshi whose purpose is to transform the world through a revolution in order to resist fate since most of the original members came from an environmental expedition to antarctica the group's name naturally became penguin force on the day the plan started satoshi met an unexpected enemy a ten-year-old girl named oginome momoka she has a diary that records future events and can change fate every time she changes the world she has to pay with a part of her body as the price the two have both supernatural powers and different views on the world satoshi hurts others in order to resist fate while conversely mamoka saves others in order to resist fate and the two die together with their own ideals through ceiling power mamoka was changed into two penguin hats and satoshi was split into two black rabbits to hide behind reality as a result of the fighting the terrorist attack resulted in only half of the original casualties the remaining members of the group continued to carry out covert criminal activities even after the loss of leadership often relocating meeting places and the children of the group members are also constantly moving without understanding what their parents are doing the two male protagonists kanba and shoma are imprisoned in a cage of fate set by their parents unilaterally while they accompany each other to make themselves feel not so lonely one day at a meeting shoma sees a girl younger than him her name is himari a frail child abandoned by her parents in this world children that are not loved are sent to the child broiler where their thinking and dignity will be shattered turning into invisible children in order to save her shoma shares his fruit of destiny and makes amari part of his family the second meeting point happened when kamba's parents died unexpectedly the takakura family adopted him shoma had an older brother and the two were born on the same date as fate had laid out in the book of genesis adam and eve disobeyed the command of the apparent god eating the forbidden fruit they became ashamed and began to cover their bodies with leaves in penguin drum this behavior is defined as love in a broad sense sharing the fruit means giving one's own love to the other in addition this apple has a third meaning life victims of wars where sauron gas had been involved or the 1995 sauron attack have described the gas as having an apple-like scent throughout the entire anime the apple has been connecting the most important themes of fate love and life three unrelated siblings unaware of the fact that the family is standing on the bodies of countless victims are linked together and they start to play house but soon the parent's guilt was revealed and the takakura couple fled leaving behind three children who were condemned by the entire society hamari's dream of becoming an idol was shattered kamba lost his parents again and shoma was the one who was hurt the most the other two siblings experienced similar pain and he was the only one who had a relatively good childhood that is why he could share his face with others so easily and this kind of tenderness makes hamari the object of criticism even though he didn't do anything he felt guilty on behalf of everyone the three of them silently waited for the limelight to subside and continued to live with each other the first episode of the anime did not officially begin until the two older brothers went to high school on the surface the family lived a colorful life the two elder brothers took on the responsibility of the parents to take care of their younger sister the bed picked up from a trash pile was decorated into a princess's bed and the whole house was painted up as it became straight out of a fairy tale behind this beauty however the two older brothers are under unimaginable pressure himalay's condition is incurable they go to great lengths so that their sister can have a good life for the rest of the time the disappearance of their parents the hatred of society and now the countdown to the life of their own sister had made the two brothers full of unwillingness toward the word fate the content of the anime's first episode which is the most simple and easy to understand is basically synchronized with the content of the ninth episode which is considered the most difficult to understand but it's just a different perspective in the first episode through the eyes of the two brothers they took amari to her favorite aquarium to see penguins when she fell ill and died then the atmosphere starts to get weird and the penguin hat bought from the aquarium suddenly comes back to life with hamari ordering the two brothers to find something called the penguin drum to prolong hamari's life an inexplicable penguin-shaped creature the possessed amari did a revolutionary girl uttana style striptease and took out a shining red thing from kanba's body at the end of the episode kanba kisses hamari in her sleep now turning over to episode 9 to get himari's perspective she was attracted by penguin in the aquarium and followed it into the elevator which descended to the underground's 61st floor it was like a new world in that place with a blue sky plus white clouds and a huge library built on a grassland himaru was not shocked at all and wanted to borrow a book called superfrog saves tokyo after taking out a few books from nowhere to return them in order to find this book himari continued to go deep into a corner of the library that few people had visited there she met saitoshi the administrator of the library and asked him to help her find the book that belonged to her each book records himari's past and when all three books are found satoshi takes out a penguin hat putting it on her claiming that hamari is the bride of destiny when their lips were close to each other about to kiss it was stopped finally it connected to the timeline of the first episode where hamari was resurrected in the hospital the content of this episode requires a little understanding of japanese literature to put it bluntly between seeing the penguin and reaching the elevator himari had already used up the apple of life that her two brothers had given her her body falls to the ground then her spirit follows the penguin to the back side of the world where satoshi as well as mamoka lived a library standing at the intersection of life and death to record the human past himari had come to this place more than once because of her physical weakness there were many people who stayed here and they all had to return their books before the day of the incident on march 20th whether it's superfrog saves tokyo or parts of the library's other collections they were all created by murakami haruki super frog saves tokyo is placed here with the intention of pointing out the last two themes of penguin drum recognition and sacrifice superfrog shows trust in the protagonist of the story the two work together to prevent disaster and the story ends with super frog's sacrifice to save tokyo the disaster here is not the sauron attack but another event that happened in 1995 the great hanshin earthquake in the story the city is saved but not in reality reflecting the three books that hamari borrowed super frog saves htrio the idol group that hamar used to be in super fox saves takakura himari and superfrog saves tea video the characters who play superfrog in these books are friends and family of himari with her being the object of their protection everyone expects superfrog to save the city when disaster strikes in real life but this is always only in fantasy stories and the same is true for hawari on the other hand satoshi and mamoka who were sealed in this library are still continuing the follow-up of the confrontation 16 years ago as they exchanged views on the world but could not reach an agreement so they made a bet to see if the penguin drum exists in the world at the center of the bets are the children of the takakura family satoshi began to influence the real world to use the penguin force remnant plan to continue terrorist attacks and mamoka asked him to give the penguin hat to the children with a tragic fate to give them a chance to break their fate as the only one who can stand on the same level as himself satoshi yearns to possess half of mamoka's sole power and is stopped by himari with her own consciousness before kissing him at the end of the ninth episode she relied on the power of momoka to be reborn although the disease was miraculously cured it was only temporary and the only permanent solution was to find the penguin drum as an emergency measure mamoka took half of the apples from kanba to prolong her life the apple represents both life and love when shoma shared it with himari it made her think that he was her destiny when kamba first came to the family himari was the first to accept him these three siblings are not just siblings they have also developed a three-cornered relationship fortunately this work does not pay much attention to this point otherwise it would be too dramatic this kind of love is in a broad sense not only including the love of lovers family and friendship but simply wanting to be with someone kissing is also just a common expression of love it doesn't matter what kind of love it is hide your true feelings stay with the status quo and indulge yourself in playing house with so much of the content being flashbacks the story's timeline has only just reached the second episode more than half of this anime takes place in the past coming to the second episode kamba and shoma have found their target the character most likely carrying the penguin drum oginome ringo whose name translates directly to english as apple she was born on march 20th the day her sister oginome mamoka disappeared mysteriously in a terrorist attack ringo's mother's twisted nostalgia for mamoka led her to begin treating ringo as mamoka ringo also accepts her destiny and believes that she was born as a replacement for her sister in her eyes her home is a joyful aquarium and her parents are cute mascots there is an oppressive feeling on this seemingly calm surface the room is surrounded by water the mascots are constantly arguing whether they should forget the past to move forward into the future the evil eels steal one of the mascots from her and the family is shattered this kind of anxiety forced the wrinkle to have an unrealistic idea when she was a child she couldn't just be a substitute for her sister but she wanted to be a sister herself she found the notebook that recorded momoka's future and believed that as long as she followed the contents of the notebook the happy family of the past would come back the initial target was a man named tabuki keju the man of destiny in mamoca's diary as well as being the teacher of kanba and shoma in a double stalking like a teasing of destiny kamba and shoma follow ringo to find the penguin drum while ringo follows tabuki keju to realize what's on the note the first half of the anime's plot is basically about the brothers making a deal with wrinkle to help her follow her teacher while preventing his girlfriend tokikago yuri from getting in the way a typical romantic comedy it may be a little more extreme than other romantic dramas of the same type even so her plan failed at the last minute self-awareness and innate sense of purpose clashed with her falling in love with shoma it sounds like this kind of emotional change is very sudden but if you think about it carefully you will find that this kind of change is completely reasonable both of them have a natural sense of guilt towards the rest of the family and have been very careful to maintain their little family the time when the two mets was when the families of both parties were broken amidst facing a crisis and a sense of anxiety as well as powerlessness filled the heart at this time they just so happened to meet the same person as themselves both parties could interact in an unconstrained state in the conversation with shoma she could finally stop pretending to be the good child mamoka the mutual coral and company are evident that there is no gap between the two but everything that was built up before learning that ringo's sister was the victim of an incident caused by his parents melted away although ringo didn't have any memory of her sister and didn't blame him shoma felt guilty again no matter what he did he couldn't make up for the hurt he caused to others just the character relationship chain that appears now is complex enough and this is the case when only half of the characters have appeared compared with the relationship between the characters who will appear in the next video you will feel that the four cornered love between these four people is a very normal and healthy relationship the essence of this work is that it expresses the causes of the seemingly abnormal personalities of each character but the seemingly absurd and funny hint are behind the most fundamental contradiction in the family the penguin drum is the key to solving this contradiction [Music] you

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Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 25 2022