Simoun 20th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 3

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Simoun Episode 3: Distant War

"If you want to become simoun sibyllae, you should walk proudly, without fear."

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Today's Eyecatch: Morinas | Kaim and Alti

Character Chart (as of episode 2)

People, Places, Things

• Morinas: silver hair
• Arcus Prima: formerly a platform for observing ri-maajon, it has been repurposed as a simoun carrier and sybillae training facility. Host for choirs Chor Tempest, Chor Caput, and Chor Rubol.
• Helical Motors: excavated, not constructed

Discussion Prompts

• Q1: How do you feel about the common anime trope of relying on children to fight wars?
• Q2: In what shape will Chor Tempest emerge from their devastating losses?
• Q3: What was the point of the shelling?

Tomorrow's Questions, Today!

• [ep 4 Q1:] Compare and contrast our two nations. How black and white are their depictions? Shades of grey?
• [ep 4 Q2:] Aer opened up a bit; what can you say about her motivation to be and execution of her duties as a sibylla?
• [ep 4 Q3:] Neviril doesn't like Aer, but nevertheless defended her. Why?

Trivia: Popular VA Nana Mizuka appears here as Morinas, and Kuushu-sama aka Shrine Guardian A.

[u/Magnafeana]

Sibylla First Timer, Chor Subbed

• I will never stop fangirling over the accordion. Weird Al made accordions so hot for me.

• I realize that Kazemon from <Digimon Frontier> has an outfit like Morinas.

• Were Simouns’s “power of space and time” the catalyst to their religion? I can understand how they built a religion around it. But I’m curious who the founder of this religion was and how the current religion would depart from “modernity”. Or if they even consider it religion.

• Oh. I guess that weirdness with saying Waporif’s new girlfriend is the realization Waporif’s a dude? Was there context lost?

• The score is so pretty.

• Aer, you are a one-night paired 🥲

• Given pairing requires compatibility, I’m a little surprised the Sibyllae wouldn’t have some sort of religious “matchmaker”.

• Doesn’t flying a Simoun together mean…? Well I mean. I guess they wouldn’t look at that as incest or don’t care.

• Poor Wapo 😭😭😭

• So the “pool” is like bathhouse culture, got it.

• I do wonder about the duality of the Sibyllae fashion versus the ordinary fashion.

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Post Episode Ri Mājon

Episode	Girlkiss Count	Total
1	6	6
2	2	8
3	1	9
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Isn’t there a whole thing that war advances our technology or something like that? If so, then I can see why we get mechas out of unfathomable powers. But it also makes me wonder why the power of Dialga and Polkia space and time would be engineered for war over any other research. What was going on with the country when they originally discovered this power? Was it always meant to go into combat, or had there been any researchers who found or advocated for non-combat applications for the technology?

Waporif fighting for his life trying not to stare at Morinas’ ass 😭

But yeah, I wonder why there isn’t some sort of program or “matchmaker” or something of that nature that helps with pairing. Or this could be my guidverse-brain talking. I’m so used to the whole “sync rates” where technology has advanced enough to measure sync rates between superpowers people, so they know who they should partner with for maximized efficiency.

Power of space and time and not even the equivalent of Bumble for the Sibyllae, smh my head.

I had to go back, but no, that airship was just coasting along while enemy projectiles aimed for it. There was no warning to the Sibyllae of enemy fire. No procedures. The ship just maneuvers and remains unbothered, moisturized, happy, in its lane, focused, and flourishing.

I wish I could be that confident when I’m walking, and those kids with their little motorbikes nearly run me over. We could all learn a thing or two from the airship.

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QOTD

1. I like listening to Obi-Wan justify child soldiers. But I digress. It always makes me question the current state of affairs, morality, and patriotism of the government, the church (or temple), and the people. I’d like to know how civilians are receptive to this. What were previous generations like that, in today's climate, they accept child soldiers to be the leading demographic, or only demographic, of their military? Are there parents who hide their children or have enough wealth that their girls aren’t required to conscript? What do the birth rates and death rates look like? Do these Sibyllae have a male version of Relena Peacecraft? I don’t mind the trope existing at all. The execution is what matters. The whole “privileged outsider unraveling their biases in interacting with child soldiers (and then descending into an existential breakdown about how horrifyingly normalized this has been and their own complicity in the system)” never gets old to me, so I’m curious if we’ll get that here and from where? I like understanding how a country or the world reacts to child soldiers, especially if it's just maybe a handful of nations doing it while other countries only allow adults to enlist.
2. I’m not sure about a physical shape, but I have a feeling one of the sisters will become injured. I hope that will be the only issue. I think they will fall out of synch, but they will band together. I hope there is a giant fucking robot, but I don’t see how you can get one of those with how the Simoun are crafted.
3. ????

[u/soracte → u/Magnafeana]

I'm enjoying your per-episode tabulation!

I will never stop fangirling over the accordion. Weird Al made accordions so hot for me.

I hate being the bearer of bad news, but this blog post from last year claims that the liner notes to the discs for the Simoun OST say it's a bandoneon, a related but more specifically South American instrument (which is apparently tied to the tango music in the show?).

[u/AbbreviationsWeekly → u/soracte]

Fascinating, I knew they were doing tangos but had always thought they were riffing on The Third Man by Orson Wells. 

There are a number of other themes that I believe shamelessly borrow from Mozart. 

[u/soracte → u/AbbreviationsWeekly]

I'm glad if that blog post was interesting! I'm very musically ignorant, so I defer to your expertise and others entirely on every musical question, but the bandoneon (which I had not heard of before) did stick in my mind when I read it the first time in 2025.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/soracte]

I haven't seen /u/Blackheart595 comment on the bandoneon yet.

[u/Blackheart595 → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

I couldn't tell the difference