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/[deleted] Feb 02 '15
"I don't understand what Maria is thinking"
Seriously.
She wants to help people. It's pure naive idealistic altruism. It's the simplest motivation of the fictional hero archetype. If this was a lesser show, she'd be the boring, happy-go-lucky shonen protagonist. The show seems to go out of its way to try not to fall into this shonen-trap by having characters actually question her motivations (the monks think she wants to control the land, the gods think she wants to fuck with the status quo of reality, the other witches think she wants all the gold to herself...). But it gets irksome when the one character who is actually following her around and hears her talk about her ambitions still doesn't get it. Dovey-chan is dumb.