FIRST TIMER

i just saw the reminder for this rewatch today, i didn’t even know it was going on! but now i’m here again to participate in another rewatch. i’ve been slacking on everything lately (including seasonals) so i figured it was time to watch something again.

her punishment was being strung up what now? really the only thing i’ve heard besides the show’s good reputation + the fact it won the worldbuilding contest a few days ago is that there are a lot of…questionable moments in the series. hopefully they’ll be sparse enough so that i can still enjoy it.

riko found a whole dead body and was only a little bit surprised…must not have been a very pleasant childhood for that to be the reaction.

the creature that attacked the two of them was really interesting in design but also really icky, like a flying worm 🤢 don’t know how riko survived that fall though. luckily she was saved by a literal aim bot!

i understand riko is pretty happy go lucky and simple but i found it funny how she was so amused and thrilled by finding the aim bot instead of wondering how nat, who was bleeding from the head, was doing.

the opening credits sequence really did a nice job establishing the setting, the OST was really good as well. the characters can be drawn kind of inconsistently but the backgrounds are always nice.

has there ever been an orphanage in media where it isn’t ran by someone who seems to hate kids (besides the promised neverland but that one kinda doesn’t count as well)? the kid that dropped the book looked really small, is he really reading books at that age?

the orphanage meeting mentioned something along the lines of working hard not to “shame your parents who fell so nobly,” so these kids are all orphaned because their parents died in the abyss? and now they’re all training to work in the abyss as well? riko seems eager to explore, but personally i’d want to stay far away from the abyss if my folks died down there…the ending of the episode said that the abyss was discovered on that island, and that there’s a world beyond that island, i’d simply just move away…but i suppose these kids don’t have any money to do that. at the very least i’d work in the town in a non-mining related job.

so aim bot isn’t affected by fire and is revived by electricity, but he seems like he used to be human at least. he doesn’t remember the abyss either, my man used his ult to save riko and got his whole memory wiped! those arms were very convenient as well.

neither the director or the leader smiled at all, but i don’t think the leader is that bad. he just has to put up with riko’s BS, i’m sure everyone would have no patience with that. but who knows, he could be the terrible one and the director just has RBF. i’ll reserve judgement for later.

the last shot leading all the way down into the abyss was really nice, and i think i’ve seen that clip of the sun rising over the mountains on this sub before.

1. riko is a bit too narrative (talkative? idk if that’s the right word, i mean like she speaks out what’s obviously happening too much, like she’s narrating) but i thought she was still endearing, i can’t form an opinion on aim bot yet

2. the setting was really nice

3. figuring out how not to be broke 🥲