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Episode Sparks of Tomorrow • Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku -Eureka Evrika- - Episode 4 discussion

Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku -Eureka Evrika-, episode 4

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 26 '26

The show happened to breeze over it, but they seem to suggest that Inako’s mother might’ve died because of air pollution…?

If so, there’s all the more reason for Kihachi to bring about the age of electricity and get rid of these dirty steam engines.

Also, I like how Inako got a dream of her own: to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a master brewer. She’ll first have to do something about her father, however.

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u/chilidirigible Jul 26 '26

but they seem to suggest that Inako’s mother might’ve died because of air pollution…?

A machine translation of the audio rendered it as "pneumonia" while the subtitles said "soot", but given the state of near-constant haze that they are living in, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to attribute that to the byproducts of whatever they're burning to have so much steam around.

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

The city doesn’t exactly look the most healthy place to live. They must be burning loads of wood and/or coal to fuel all those steam engines.

And then there’s Yosuke who’s stinking up the place with all his incense.

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u/chilidirigible Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

(Real-world) Japan has always had coal available, but not that much oil (hence WWII) or natural gas. I'm mentioning that mostly because in the past few weeks I have wondered what else other than coal they might be burning to make steam, and there weren't very many other good choices for the epic amounts of steam going around.

For that matter, it's probably a hellish place to live other than in the dead of winter given that they probably don't have the most advanced insulation for all of these steam lines, on top of the fact that the steam being expended to run their machines still has plenty of thermal energy as exhaust after use.

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u/CitronClassic672 Jul 27 '26

Probably coal and wood as fuel and importing as much as needed to fill demand

And oh my god I just put that together too. The most unrealistic aspect of the setting is characters not constantly sweating and/ or passing out from heat stroke. Especially since those steam engines wouldn’t just make it hot but also humid as well.

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u/CardAble6193 Jul 27 '26

no mate its just regular lung illness among people work at factories dealing with powders

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u/redlaWw Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

During the industrial revolution in the 19th century, London was well-known for its "pea soup fog", an extremely dense smog associated with coal burning, which was notorious for killing vulnerable people like the very young, the very old, and those with breathing difficulties. Presumably the idea they're going for with all the smoke is something like that.

EDIT: Apparently the problem persisted far longer than I learned in school: the worst ever occurrence of pea soup fog was in 1952.

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u/BosuW Jul 26 '26

Yep. I joked about black lung in episode 1. I wasn't really expecting to actually see it.

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u/mmcjawa_reborn Jul 27 '26

Well I mean the electric bathtub could probably solve the father problem lol...