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However unhinged I thought Migi to Dari was, it wasn�t enough.� I�m hard-pressed to remember another series that embraced the bizarre in real-life with such complete abandon.� It really is glorious to watch, especially given how miraculously the ship holds together through the crashing waves of insanity.� And, it must be said, Paku Romi (really one of anime�s great actors) is delivering a boffo performance here.� She�s a big part of why Reiko comes off as simultaneously horrifying and hilarious as she does.
I really should stop trying to categorize a series that defies categorization, but I can�t help myself.� There�s surrealism her to be sure, some absurdism, obviously black comedy.� Maybe satire as much as anything.� Maybe it�s its own genre, though I can�t imagine too many writers trying to follows in its footsteps, and sadly we won�t be seeing any more works from the author.� I do know that if Sano Nami didn�t completely buy in to the madness, and director Mankyuu didn�t double down on it, this wouldn�t work.� It�s an all or nothing sort of show, and it would never have worked if it had aimed for half-measures.
Take the introduction of Metry, for example.� Did that vacuum bit have to be played as grotesquely as it was?� Of course not � but it communicated so much, and established so much uneasiness in the mood.� However weird (this is a theme) I guessed Metry�s actual story was, the reality topped it.� Okay, you figured she was the Ichijou�s maid, and she had the twins with Akira.� She even developed a seemingly strong relationship with Reiko.� But then � forced surrogacy by �fooling� her husband?� Reiko�s phone was clearly off the hook all along, and she was just waiting for the trigger to really go over the edge.� And boy, did she ever.
I guess Migi and Dari must have inherited their brains from their father (who don�t me wrong, is utterly clueless), because Metry doesn�t seem to have been the sharpest pin in the cushion.� I�ll say this much � it�s totally understandable that they grew up to be as strange as they are, given their circumstances.� And just as much that Eiji grew up to be the twisted soul he is, because he � unlike them � had to actually share his life with Reiko every day.� As for Karen (who�s faking every symptom in the book to keep Akira occupied) I still don�t quite get who her parents are.� Obviously Reiko is no one�s mother, but she implies that Akira isn�t her father either.� Did Reiko force another maid to surrogacy, or steal Karen from someone based on the idea that as a baby, she looked like their child?
The three boys being triplets was definitely a twist I didn�t see coming.� That casts a spotlight on the already widening chasm between Migi and Dari, who react to this along the lines you�d expect based on their development.� Eiji � who might just have been faking his infantilism all along � winds up pushing Reiko just as he did Metry, just not far enough of a drop this time.� Eiji in his diaper speechifying as his batshit mother climbs the walls is truly one of the most delightfully bizarre spectacles I�ve seen in anime for a long time.� And Maruta�s �official boyfriend� English line delivery absolutely had me on the floor.
Eiji�s descent into darkness (beautifully depicted symbolically) is pretty much complete when Migi and Dari tell him their mother is dead.� I think he determined to kill Reiko and then himself right then and there, but the one thing I don�t get is her appearance when the others found her in the �re-education� room.� Did she just spread the blood from her head wound around and fake it, or had Eiji already stabbed her?� Or did she give herself a gut wound to make it seem more realistic?
Where does this all end?� Well, we have two eps left, and by God it�s pretty clear Migi to Dari can fit a tremendous amount of whack into two episodes.� The outro of Eiji burning down the house by burning down the house, to the strains of �Clair de Lune�, was a set piece of true genius � the cherry on top of an episode that would have been a delicious sundae of madness even without it.� I�ve given up trying to outthink this series at this point, and I�m just going to enjoy the ride.
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