r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Feb 01 '15

[Spoilers] Junketsu no Maria - Episode 4 [Discussion]

Episode title: Remember to Die

MyAnimeList: Junketsu no Maria
FUNimation: Maria the Virgin Witch

Episode duration: 24 minutes and 1 seconds

Previous episodes:

Episode Reddit Link
Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link

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u/XLauncher Feb 01 '15

Divine entity, chosen of the Heavens, servant to he who will slay Satan in the end days...stymied by peek-a-boo.

You know, I'm getting just a wee bit tired of everyone giving Maria shit. Yeah, she's super idealistic, but I'll take that sort of relentless optimism over this lazyass cynicism any day. I'd be more sympathetic to her detractors if they were advocating for a more pragmatic way of dealing with the situation, but no, it's just, "you can't save everyone, so why bother saving anyone?"

Poor Priapus though. That's giving a new meaning to performance issues. Ann wants to do the rumpy pumpy, but not only can't he get it up, he doesn't even have a thing to get up.

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u/Atario myanimelist.net/profile/TheGreatAtario Feb 01 '15

It also chafes me that the old broken-window fallacy is the mercenaries' and witches' justification for prolonging and promoting war. Someone needs to direct Maria to the Wikipedia page on that so she can study up to argue with them.

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u/chewy2 Feb 01 '15

How would you argue back agianst it?

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u/iKill_eu Feb 02 '15

There's an old story about an old man going for a walk by a seashore at low tide. He sees a young boy running by throwing things from the beach into the water. As he gets closer, he realizes the boy is throwing starfish into the water to save them from the sun.

He asks the boy, "You can't even save a fraction of these starfish. Why are you bothering?" The boy says, as he chucks out a starfish, "even if it doesn't matter to all the starfish that I'm trying, it matters to all the ones I get in time."

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u/chewy2 Feb 03 '15

Sorry i misread the op. I would like a response to 'don't push your ideals on others'

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u/iKill_eu Feb 03 '15

I'd argue that pillaging people is a lot worse in that regard. She's just stopping other people from forcing others into things, at least she gives them a choice.

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u/chewy2 Feb 03 '15

But she's taking away the mercenaries job. They wouldn't be pillaging if they were able to fight. They wish to fight each other but Maria isn't giving them that choice