Episode 6 – Useless Useless Demon’s Dededede Destruction

So, that is the place it will get darkish—and I imply actually darkish. As in, “Guys, I hope this episode began with a disclaimer” darkish.

*Warning for dialogue of kid suicide.*

Ever since Maoka Magica, it looks like each widespread style and/or well-known sequence is doomed to get its personal psychological or ultra-violent deconstruction: a piece the place all of the tropes inside are performed fully straight to point out the disastrous outcomes of such a narrative happening in the actual world. With this arc of Dying Dying Demon’s Dededededestructionwe get this for groundbreaking youngsters’s anime Doraemonwhose family-friendly adventures have captivated the minds of kids for generations.

Whereas some particulars are completely different (as a result of, you understand, copyright), the essential premise is identical. We’ve an elementary college pupil who is presented with superior know-how by a mascot character sidekick. The earlier episode centered on the start of the story: how the invention of an alien and its know-how not solely improved the lives of Kadode and Ouran, but additionally the lives of their schoolmates and the group. On this episode, nevertheless, issues shortly go downhill.

With the equal of a sonic screwdriver, Kadode formally holds the ability of life and loss of life in her palms; thus begins her descent into villainy. Kadode sees herself as mentally mature and morally superior to these round her. And with the thoughts of a kid, she divides all the things she sees into good and evil, with evil being labeled as something that hurts her, Ouran, or society. So she begins to attempt to make the world a greater place—in any case, with nice energy comes nice accountability.

However when she by accident kills somebody, she redoubles her efforts to show herself good by eliminating “evil” as a substitute of serving to these in want. She escalates, beating up and torturing anybody she catches doing flawed to additional their status and climb the ranks. Quickly, she’s killing corrupt politicians and inflicting accidents for anybody who does not meet her ethical requirements.

It’s Ouran who brings all the things crashing down. Kadode sees her solely good friend as pure and harmless: the one one that is really good on this corrupt world. Kadode sees herself as somebody who will sacrifice herself for Ouran’s happiness, and make issues higher for her (even when it ends together with her being the one particular person left on the earth). However in fact, Ouran is only a regular child. She has completed unhealthy issues, together with standing nonetheless when Kadode was being bullied. She does not need Kadode to kill individuals in her title, she simply desires to have enjoyable together with her good friend.

It takes Ouran bodily attacking Kadode to get that message throughout. When Ouran, the embodiment of fine, sees Kadode as somebody who should be stopped, it shatters the barrier of justifications Kadode has used to guard her coronary heart. All of a sudden, she should face what she has completed.

Whereas her household tries to persuade her that she’s loopy—that it was all in her head—she is aware of in her coronary heart that all the things that occurred is actual. She’s a assassin, the worst sort of particular person. And within the face of Ouran’s kindness, she will be able to’t assist however see that whereas she craved energy and justice, all she actually wished was a good friend. Whereas Ouran nonetheless desires to be her good friend, even after understanding all the things, Kadode can’t settle for a cheerful ending after all the things she’s completed. Her guilt and sense of justice gained’t permit it. However as she jumps to her loss of life, she does so remembering the happiest second of her life: flying with Ouran, questioning if one thing like that might ever occur once more.

Judgement:

Random ideas:

• Though it is not translated (because it’s completed with on-screen textual content), the ultimate moments of the episode finish with a joke. Ouran cannot bear in mind the flashback we simply noticed. As a substitute, she texts Kadode that she simply noticed a ghost (i.e. the boy on the roof).

• The most important distinction between the Kadode we see on this flashback and the fashionable one is that the Kadode from the previous sees herself as her “absolute,” whereas the fashionable one sees Ouran as her “absolute.”

• “Isobeyan” actually evokes Kyubey vibes, does not it?

• Ouran’s brother is really her guiding star morally. If Kadode had a household half as supportive, I doubt issues would have turned out the best way they did.

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