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Chapters 8 and 9: The Plan for a Happy Friendship and a Story Nobody Knows
First a report on the previous chapters. Neiru invites the girls into his house and they think it’s wrong. She lives in the same company building, just one room for her, but first they see a project that they are working on, something that reproduces people’s dreams. Then they are taken to their room where they have a good time, but Neiru opens up to them and introduces them to Awano Kotobuki, their old friend. She died and Neiru saw her in one of the egg dreams. They talked about the state she was induced into and she says that she is already dead, so she has to separate them, both fight and overcome the trauma. An argument arises with the friends of today about whether it is okay to disconnect. Momo and Kawai leave, Ohto returns and together they manage to push the button. The other two heard things they shouldn’t hear from Acca, Ura-Acca and Neiru’s secretary.
Chapter Opinion
We finally know more about the most mysterious girl who is at least still alive WEPWe got to know Neiru better. I think multiple strands are tied and some new ones have opened, especially from the Acca that we call mannequins. I didn’t expect them to go in those directions and relate to Neiru. They are things that are hard to believe to this day, but over time they become more common and they are things that we should not leave out because they will be an important part of our reality. The chapter raises ethical questions as it is not abuse as such, maybe Seki can definitely be scientific abuse. Without wanting to, we may have grown up with ethical problems on a scientific level: is it good to experiment with people? What are test tube children for? Is euthanasia / suicide a right of one or something that should be done? an external entity? At least these three questions, because there may be more, come out quickly with the character that best suits: Neiru.
Wonder girl …
Neiru is the result of artificial insemination. That amazes me: Has Neiru been genetically modified to be gifted, can that also be required of Kotobuki? Because of this, she has no parents as she is the product of two people who didn’t want children, who definitely did it for science. We also know that it belongs to the Plati Japan organization. And here is something strange, at least because of the translation: Kotobuki is said to be made by Plati Japan while it is said to be owned by Neiru, don’t I know Neiru was also made by this organization? Whatever the reason, it doesn’t change your current reality. Neiru is largely an embodiment of what science “should be”: logical, objective, and unsentimental. At the same time, in the last part it shows its more human side, because science is made by humans and cannot escape this nature.
The self-assessment of whether what one is doing is right or wrong sets us ethical limits. Knowing that scientists are also people who can hurt a decision is something that doesn’t always come up. In any case, Neiru also takes a philosophical stance, especially when Momo asked him “Who are you?” and he replied: What an existential question. Today’s topic reminded me of a sentence by the existentialist Camus: “There is only one really serious problem: suicide.”
old friend
Kotobuki is Neiru’s albino friend, which was also made through artificial insemination. It is like its complement, for when we realize that Neiru is a dark color and Neiru is light, like a harmony, and it seems to me that this is a symbol of Neiru’s peace and well-being that can only be found in its complement, he wants it for it. keep it. Kotobuki was a doctor of psychiatry and was interested in the mysteries of life, especially one subject that interests me most: death. Neiru found her old friend in a dream where we can tell she is dead. She put herself into a vegetative state to investigate death, but that state is a point of no return. We don’t know a few more things about her, only about Dr. Seki and that she didn’t want to be touched by adults.
A border of no return
Death is the greatest secret there can be, a secret that we can know exists. It cannot be observed externally because the process of dying from a disease is not the same as dying and therefore cannot be scientifically quantified. Death is a personal experience that you cannot return from, even the one who dies may not even know what death is. There are death-like states like vegetables, and Kotobuki has been put into that state.
We know the girls that come out of the eggs are dead, and if I’m not mistaken, they were all by suicide. Neiru knew the body he was keeping died, but how long was it? Finally: when someone dies you cannot say goodbye, the old friends were lucky enough to be able to say goodbye and one of them gave them one final message: enjoy the friends you have who in turn do the same thing in another possible will do world.
euthanasia
This is a very sensitive topic that is subtly addressed in the anime, but it has been addressed and that is the important thing. This issue is brought up when Neiru tells him to separate her, she is already dead and she only has one body. What is more important now, the will of oneself or that of others? Or do you have the right to be able to quit or not? Life is the most precious good and it is most cherished at the level of the law. There we have human rights and the constitutions of different countries. The life that excludes death must be preserved. But if you no longer want to live, or if you are in a state where he cannot recover, do we need to keep him alive even if he suffers? Kotobuki has reasons to die for good. Should we accept her or make her change her mind that it is better to live even when she is in this state?
In the last few chapters, we were shown and told that the cases presented are girls who, in a way, did not want to die, but died. In other words, we’ve been told that life is better. Now we are in another case where at least Kotobuki is considered to be better at dying. I loved that contrast because there really are cases when life only increases the pain. Suicide is a personal problem, but there are no legal, cultural and related issues to do with it. It’s a complicated decision for both one and the other.
Complicated decision
It’s not easy to say: I want to die. There are reasons for it: bullying, harassment, or the simple thought that life has no meaning and that the biggest mistake you can make is being born. Nor is it easy for others to accept this desire to die. Kotobuki embodies the first person, Neiru embodies the second. Another thing that seemed very right to me is to associate this type of death with someone who is rational, as suicide is usually viewed as something irrational, but with Kotobuki we can understand that there are rational reasons with no emotions that cloud the decision. In this case, Neiru is responsible for bringing sentimentality, not wanting to separate or want to get rid of her precious friend, and this is normal: what sane friend wants to be left without his best, or simply best friend?
In cases of the plant condition in which the person only survives when connected to a machine. The decision is not yours and you stay in touch with the patient with the hope that he can return from this dream even if the possibilities are minimal, that’s fine, but we know the wishes of the person in this state, does not want do he live or die? The person in charge of the patient decides whether the body should be preserved or separated and killed. The worst part of making such a decision is that you feel like you are killing the person. What is really humanitarian, let it live or put an end to it?
Damn adults!
Neiru repeated a lot about Kotobuki: she doesn’t want to be touched by adults, or I don’t allow adults to touch her. I suppose it says this because the albino girlfriend was the subject of experimentation, that is, she was seen as a thing rather than a person. Neiru doesn’t want her friend to be treated like this until the end of her life, she wants her peace and that’s why she hides it. But Kotobuki’s body is very valuable to science. Should children made by artificial insemination enjoy equal rights or are they limited to the wishes of their creators? Dr. Seki has to embody this kind of adult, this Kotobuki trauma that has to be faced. On the other hand, we see that the mannequins and Neirus secretary are linked and the girls apparently use it as an experiment. This conspiracy, which I did not expect, leaves further intrigue: Who are the Acca and what is their relationship with Neiru’s companies? Adults believe the world and children are theirs: Damn adults!
Getting drunk
You always have to be drunk. This is what it all consists of: it’s the only question. In order not to feel the terrible burden of time breaking your shoulders and bowing to the floor, you need to get intoxicated without a break.
But what about? Wine, poetry, or virtue, whatever you want. But get drunk.
And if you ever wake up on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a moat, in the sad loneliness of your room, the drunkenness has already subsided or dissolved, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, about the clock to everything that flees, to everything that groans, to everything that rolls, to everything that sings, to everything that speaks, ask what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer you: «It’s time to get drunk! In order not to be slaves and martyrs of time, get drunk, get drunk ceaselessly. From wine, from poetry, or from virtue; whatever you want. ” In the The spleen of Paris by Charles Baudelaire.
There are topics that I’ve left aside, like worlds that reminded me of modal logic and some physical theories, but I don’t think this should be seen as something essential, but rather as something inferior to the central topic we were talking about, was asked. The last remaining chapters will be interesting and we still need to know something about Momo and solve the koito thing. It was shocking to learn that eggs are made, but how they do it and why they do it. Excellent chapter.
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