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Came across this explanation for Mawaru Penguindrum's story.

A purposeless Shouma saved Himari and gave her a family, thus shared his apple with her; Himari was henceforth given a purpose, but keep in mind that Shouma received nothing in turn. Then Kanba gets accepted into the family and Himari gives him the bandaid to keep the pain away, thus Kanba decides he'll do anything for her; here Himari was unknowingly sharing her apple with Kanba, because she gave him a purpose. Kanba was able to actually receive the apple because he wasn't completely empty and devoid of purpose like Shouma himself was, as Kanba already had precious people he wanted to protect (Masako and Mario, his words on the cage are a reference to them) as such his "box" was able to connect to the outside world, if only for a moment and the apple reaches him. And when he shares it with Shouma, Shouma's purpose becomes precisely that: Himari no Tame Ni + Kanba = Takakura Family's wellbeing.

That's the reason why Shouma is so single-minded about keeping the family united; because thats' what gave meaning to his existence, as such was what he inherited that day Kanba shared his apple with him. He, however, still remains kind of empty and from that comes his apparent uncapability to love, but Ringo comes around to change all that. When Ringo (whose name speaks for itself) comes around, she effectively becomes an apple for Shouma, a "whole" one all to himself, and she fulfills the part of Shouma that had remained closed-off to the world. He isn't able to accept it however until he lets his barriers down. The key difference here is that Ringo's metaphorical apple didn't give him a purpose, as he already had one, but gave him the will to break the chains of fate and be assertive, which is what he lacked.

Yuri and Tabuki talking about needing to be loved, and that is the apple. Being loved gives life meaning. Without this they would just 'become invisible', they would be unneeded and might aswell not exist, equivalent to death. This explains why Kanba broke apart and a flash fo the Child broiler was shown, he gave up his whole purpose (his half and the half Shouma gave back) and became invisible, he died. Whereas Shouma had an apple to himself, which he sacrificed in place of Ringo causing him to die in the flames.

Himari was the lamb chosen to die by the curse. This is why such lengths were needed to save her.

The cages represent their lives and social interacting, they are what Sanetoshi was talking about: "the box calles 'self'", the walls between people. Kanba and Shouma were 'unwanted children' and were starved of love, until Kanba received some from Himari. This was shared with Shouma creating their family. This shared love giving both of them life was eventually put back together to give life back to Himari who had died. (It may be a little hard to wrap your head around the apples, Penguindrums being both a metaphor for love/purpose and an actual thing giving life.) They were never released from their cages, they just shared between them and were not starved. Sanetoshi never found love or a purpose, and no one reached out to him as Kanba did to Shouma. He was alone in his cage with the walls seperating him from everyone else, he hated the world and wanted to destroy it.

"Simply put, the apple is also a reward for those chosen to die for love."

Because both boys chose love in the end (like the apple dialogue in episode 1 says), they both are rewarded with their own apples, making this "just the beginning."

These 'apples' are their Penguindrum. Shouma gave Himari, Himari gave Kanba, Kanba gave Shouma. Mawaru Penguindrum
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:mind blown: pretty much.
 
The trailer looks sweet, the art is pretty retro and distinctive and noitamina's animation should be great. Definitely an anime to look forward to next season along with F/Z 2.
 
watch

Cowboy Beobop

Ghost in the shell the first movie

Ghost in the shell SAC

Ghost in the shell Solid state society

Ghost in the shell 2nd gig

Samurai Champloo

Rurouni kenshin

Planet es

Ergo proxy

Escaflowne

Earth girl arjuna

the above list ought to get your started but if you want run o the mill shounen anime then you can go for

naruto

bleach

one piece

fairy tail
 
Watch Code Geass before that huge list.
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name='viralbug' timestamp='1328872181' post='1701899']Watch Code Geass before that huge list. [/quote]

is there a third season of code geass ??
 
Does anyone know where I can find Yamato Takeru? Came across the opening.

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I don't generally like mecha anime but this one is an exception. Would love to watch it again.
 
Sarath_ said:
Finally can resume Naruto now.

Anyone saw One piece? How is it?
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One piece is the best shit out there !! Oda is a bloody genius !

But be warned !! You need to have lot of patience for it. It took me 3 years to reach episode 30 because before that it was very boring.

But its worth waiting for because after that it's an EPIC journey.I have stopped watching One piece after episode 530 because I can't watch it one episode at a time have to marathon it.
 
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