{"id":90026,"date":"2024-02-10T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=39074"},"modified":"2024-02-10T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:57:46","slug":"yuki-yuna-is-a-hero-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/yuki-yuna-is-a-hero-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Yuna is a Hero \u2013 Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I\u2019m hearing the rumble of storm clouds on the horizon, as the peaceful days of the Hero Club\u2019s summer vacation are swiftly coming to an end. In spite of having defeated the twelve vertexes and sustained a variety of lingering injuries in the process, Yuna and her friends are being called to battle once more, facing both an uncertain threat and an increasingly suspicious alleged benefactor. Though their tour of duty was explicitly framed as a clear and finite quest, it seems a hero\u2019s duties are never truly ended – or at least, that our Taisha is far less certain of this venture\u2019s scope than Fuu and the others expected.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is all great fun for me, of course, as wandering into uncertain structural territory means Yuki Yuna\u2019s <\/span>thematic<\/span><\/i> intent is now certain to reveal itself. For the first half of this season, Yuki Yuna presented a reasonably executed but generally familiar narrative, focusing on the magical girl genre\u2019s common themes of finding community and developing self-confidence through adolescence. However, the show was always seasoned with an uncommon dash of fatalism – a quiet implication that its heroes were less \u201cdestined warriors\u201d than \u201cconscripted soldiers,\u201d forced into mortal peril yet considered expendable by their distant overseers. Fuu\u2019s bargain to protect her family, Karin\u2019s maniacal focus on combat, Tougou\u2019s fear of being called a \u201ctraitor\u201d – all of these lingering peculiarities seem to at last be resolving themselves, and I\u2019m eager to see where the show ultimately lands. Let\u2019s get to it!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Episode 8<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cSome vertexes survived, so now we\u2019re in overtime. That\u2019s the gist of it.\u201d Fuu already doing her best to soften the ambiguous orders of the Taisha, treating the clearly open-ended directive to fight more vertexes as a presumably finite \u201covertime,\u201d rather than an implication their battle may never end<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe won against an all-out attack, so what\u2019s it matter if one or two survived?\u201d And Karin, who\u2019s always had the most faith in their project, is quick to echo Fuu\u2019s words<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuu\u2019s eyepatch is definitely adding some impact to her gallant leaderly statements<\/span><\/p>\n

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In spite of their preparation, their second term begins without incident<\/span><\/p>\n

Yuna\u2019s new familiar Kasha is sadly not quite as delightfully round as Gyuuki, but still pretty adorable<\/span><\/p>\n

The familiars are such a goofy afterthought in this show. Madoka reframed the familiar as a villain, but Yuki Yuna doesn’t seem interested in similarly interrogating their function – they just sort of exist, because such things exist in magical girl shows<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBlessings of the Gods\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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And now Tougou\u2019s up to four dang familiars, all of them trained to swiftly follow their master\u2019s commands<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s just a goddamn Pokemon school in here at this point<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, everyone but me got a new fairy.\u201d Given Karin\u2019s also the only one who didn\u2019t activate her bloom form, it seems safe to assume bloom forms come with their own fairies. So are the fairies actually some portion of these characters\u2019 souls or vitality, externalized in order to be used as a weapon? That would also put their injuries in a new context – they essentially sacrificed parts of their bodily functionality in order to become better soldiers, and those sacrifices were turned into fairies. Alright, we\u2019ve found our characteristically bleak way to contextualize familiars in the world of Yuki Yuna<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cEven Zhuge Liang lost some battles.\u201d That\u2019s it, I\u2019m reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This shit just comes up too much in anime, it\u2019s as essential as Journey to the West<\/span><\/p>\n

Just then, the enemy strikes! Quite nice to return to the kaleidoscopic colors and surrealist root systems of this show\u2019s battle arena<\/span><\/p>\n

Only one enemy is approaching. \u201cOnce this enemy is defeated, overtime is over\u201d says Fuu, though she has no way of knowing that. Still, the leader has to project confidence<\/span><\/p>\n

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Love the groups\u2019 pre-battle huddle. There\u2019s something very human about them seeking battle rituals to pump themselves up, but only being able to draw on ideas like a team huddle before a soccer game. It\u2019s a beat that naturally emphasizes the disconnect between their adult duties and their young identities<\/span><\/p>\n

The vertex approaching looks just like the speedy one Itsuki defeated previously, to which the girls wonder \u201cmaybe they come in pairs, like twins.\u201d So do the vertexes echo the girls who are fighting them? That feels a bit too much like Madoka to be plausible<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow that it\u2019s actually here, they\u2019re afraid. They worried about incurring more physical problems.\u201d It was all a fun adventure when their hero duties didn\u2019t have any impact on their mundane lives. Now that every battle leaves scars, it\u2019s much harder to wholeheartedly commit to combat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Karin preps herself to take the lead, but Yuna once again proves her merit as a leader, saying \u201clet\u2019s get it over and done with so we can talk about the Cultural Festival skit!\u201d Don\u2019t think of this as a potentially crippling fight, just think of it as a chore we gotta complete to get back to our mundane lives. She is very good at mitigating the horror of their duties<\/span><\/p>\n

The fight actually goes remarkably smoothly, and the group swiftly move on to the sealing ritual<\/span><\/p>\n

But the creature turns out to actually be full of cores, somehow. And Fuu unsurprisingly takes this duty on herself, feeling she cannot ask anything more of her subordinates<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, Karin is quick to volunteer herself instead. In addition to her always having been the one most invested in these battles, she\u2019s also suffering under the survivor\u2019s guilt of being the only one who didn\u2019t bloom, and thus the only one with no lingering injuries<\/span><\/p>\n

And while the two of them are arguing about who gets to sacrifice themselves, Yuna just does the damn thing herself. A fine articulation of how all three of them essentially sub in as leaders depending on the circumstances – and also the merits of Yuna\u2019s \u201ckick first, ask questions later\u201d approach<\/span><\/p>\n

They achieve victory, but Yuna\u2019s blooming insignia appears to be filling up – and when they return to reality, both Yuna and Tougou have disappeared<\/span><\/p>\n

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Instead, the two of them appear far away at the destroyed bridge, beside a bedridden girl who refers to Yuna as \u201cWasshi.\u201d So presumably this is a former hero, who\u2019s fought so often that this is all that\u2019s left of them<\/span><\/p>\n

The perspective emphasizes how much these battles have taken from her – she seems to be missing both legs and one of her arms<\/span><\/p>\n

Her name is Nogi Sonoko, and she is indeed a former hero<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlong with my two friends, I used to be really into it.\u201d So she\u2019s actually the \u201clucky\u201d one, while her friends were consumed entirely<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI used to be pretty strong.\u201d The matter-of-fact way she\u2019s describing her journey makes it all the more devastating<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you think happens to a flower after it blooms?\u201d Yep<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a hidden process called abscission that follows blooming.\u201d The natural departure of leaves and ripe fruit after blooming. And though she calls this a \u201chidden process,\u201d the fact that multiple generations of heroes have gone through this process means it\u2019s already clearly been documented – meaning the Taisha was lying to our heroes when they stated they didn\u2019t know the reason for their injuries, and assumed they would dissipate over time<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn exchange, heroes can never die.\u201d Right, they only live forever in bodies that can no longer support them<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the state all my fighting has left me in. It\u2019s lucky that staring off into the distance is something I\u2019ve always enjoyed.\u201d Jeez, what a crushing takeaway! Again, Nogi\u2019s smiling acceptance of this cruel sentence makes it all the more painful – she really was a gallant hero, so much so that she\u2019s not even willing to condemn the Taisha for destroying her life<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn any age, innocent girls have always been sacrificed to the gods.\u201d So this Taisha and vertex system is just a continuation of the old rituals, human sacrifice with extra steps. And as always, it is young women who are asked to bear the weight of their society\u2019s sins<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn exchange for the power we\u2019re given, parts of our bodies go to the Divine Tree as offerings.\u201d Yep, just as expected. So is fighting the vertexes even necessary, or are they just framed as attackers to encourage heroes to sacrifice themselves in defense?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yuna protests that at least they won\u2019t have to fight and lose anything more, and Nogi isn\u2019t willing to contradict her<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m kind of like a god now.\u201d The Taisha\u2019s foot soldiers are faceless men in the formal dress of priests, aesthetically emphasizing the ancient continuity of this system of sacrifice<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the Taisha keeps the truth of this system hidden as an act of kindness. But\u2026 even so, I wish they had told me.\u201d Even now she can\u2019t condemn this system. I imagine this is all coming as a particular shock to Tougou, who saw this hero system as an extension of her beloved Japan<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019d known, I would have spent even more time with my friends.\u201d How dare you go for the throat like this, Yuki Yuna<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat ribbon looks very nice on you.\u201d So is Tougou actually Nogi\u2019s old friend Wasshi, and both her paralysis and amnesia are symptoms of a previous bloom?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And Done<\/b><\/p>\n

Whoof, what a brutal episode! Well, the hammer finally fell, and it turns out the situation is even more dire than I anticipated. Not only was the Taisha explicitly lying to our heroes, it\u2019s now not even certain if our heroes were actually accomplishing anything with their battles against the vertexes. What is most important is that Yuna and her companions suffer – that they struggle and bargain and ultimately bloom, sacrificing their bodies to perpetuate a system that only sees them as fuel to be consumed. Just as I\u2019d hoped, this episode\u2019s revelations have reoriented Yuki Yuna\u2019s conflict entirely, shifting an initially mechanical conflict into a condemnation of how societies exploit youthful passion and patriotism for entirely self-serving ends. I was expecting that thematic recalibration, but wasn\u2019t ready for just how painful Nogi\u2019s appearance and explanation would be. You gotta topple this system for her as well, Yuna!<\/span><\/p>\n

This\u00a0article\u00a0was\u00a0mad<\/a><\/em>e possible by reader support<\/a>. Thank you all for\u00a0all that you do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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