I wonder if the frog is related to the one who enjoyed mounting Chu-Chu.  <g>

This episode.  Holly hell.  I don't know who's crazier, Ringo or Penguin No. 2.  It's interesting to see Ikuhara the show's sexual undertones kicked up a few notches.

I'd really like to see more of the older brother, though.  Whatever he's up to would be a nice change of pace from the Ringo plot.  Then again, it actually looks like her story might go out with a bang soon anyway.  It's certainly building to a climax, anyway.

Last edited by dirufacade (08-26-2011 09:21:05 AM)

OMG! What is Ringo planning to do to Tabuki? I'll just laugh if she finds him in bed with Yuri next episode.

Also why does the entity possessing Himari seem so concerned about initiating Project M? Maybe this is more proof for my theory about this entity being Momoka.

Yuzu, you can make spoilers by turning the text white:

I liked the part where Darth Vader turned out to be [color=white]made from people[/color]!

I'm wondering if Ringo has actually read the diary from cover to cover, or is she just reading the pages as she goes along her plan for Project M.

I am very curious as to what the end of the diary says.

EDIT: I was just thinking about Tokikago's relationship with Ringo. Given their conversation in Episode 4, what she did in Episode 7 actually comes off [spoiler] pretty "malicious", since it was her idea to invite Ringo over to a party where she was to announce her engagement with Tabuki, while knowing FULL WELL that Ringo has an obsessive love over him. All I can say is, how very Anthy of her to smile like that. <_< [/spoiler]. Ringo isn't too far from her conjecture about how Yuri is an "Actress", in my opinion.

Also, random note, for those who watched episode 7, did you notice how the [spoiler] "Paris" song is written by a certain "Ikuni Ikami"? Ikuni has a god complex, not that I would put it past him to make a self-insert like that [/spoiler]

Last edited by Hiraku (08-27-2011 11:46:47 PM)

about the cult that carried out the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, from Wiki,

"Aum Shinrikyo is the former name of a controversial group now known as Aleph. The Japanese police initially reported that the attack was the cult's way of hastening an apocalypse. The prosecution said that it was an attempt to bring down the government and install Shoko Asahara, the group's founder, as the "emperor" of Japan. Asahara's defense team claimed that certain senior members of the group independently planned the attack, but their motives for this were left unexplained."

Ringo Oginome was born on March 20, 1995, the date of the gas attack.

Hiraku wrote:

I'm wondering if Ringo has actually read the diary from cover to cover, or is she just reading the pages as she goes along her plan for Project M.

I am very curious as to what the end of the diary says.

EDIT: I was just thinking about Tokikago's relationship with Ringo. Given their conversation in Episode 4, what she did in Episode 7 actually comes off [spoiler] pretty "malicious", since it was her idea to invite Ringo over to a party where she was to announce her engagement with Tabuki, while knowing FULL WELL that Ringo has an obsessive love over him. All I can say is, how very Anthy of her to smile like that. <_< [/spoiler]. Ringo isn't too far from her conjecture about how Yuri is an "Actress", in my opinion.

Also, random note, for those who watched episode 7, did you notice how the [spoiler] "Paris" song is written by a certain "Ikuni Ikami"? Ikuni has a god complex, not that I would put it past him to make a self-insert like that [/spoiler]

I SO agree!! XD "  i thought that was so cruel of yuri. and how she was like "ohoho you should bring your boyfriend!" i dont like yuri.... ok i'm gonna admit i hope somehow ringo will be with tabuki,...it's probably not gonna happen ahh i noticed the "ikuni" part...ikami..i didnt catch that though   "

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS WEEK'S EPISODE O_O i cant wait to see what's gonna happen XDD

satyreyes wrote:

So obvious, in fact, that it's possible the show will just let the actual events of 1995 sit in the background, comfortably insinuated as an explanation for the main characters' traumas while the action in the modern day continues.  But that's just a guess

My guess is that the attack is connected to the group/agency/cult which uses the half-black/half-white penguin logo (the KIGA penguin).
But what if the Takakura parents themselves were somehow involved in the attack? We've seen the same logo on the jacket of the Takakura father. Could that be the reason why Kanba and Shouma feel that their family deserves a mysterious "punishment"? Have they learned of it only once their parents disappeared? Is it somehow connected with Momoka's death, as Kanba hides the pictures of their parents from Ringo after he entered her room and learned of her past (and Momoka's, probably)? Ringo's mother has a moment of hesitation when she learns that Shouma's family name is Takakura, as if she already heard that name somewhere in the past...

Thinking about it, could the KIGA apple we see in the OP be a reference to the "poisoned" apple of Snow White - we've seen a Schneewittchen book in the first episode, right?

satyreyes wrote:

Do we know this?  If memory serves, one episode established that Ringo was fifteen on March 20, 2010 -- Curry Day -- but we have no reason to think that Curry Day is the same day as Ringo's birthday, do we?  It seems like that would have been mentioned.

Right from Episode 6:

Ringo's father: Isn't it sad that her birthday will always fall on Curry Day?
Ringo's mother: But tomorrow is Momoka's...
Ringo's father: Yeah, the anniversary of her death. But is also Ringo's birthday!

Can't wait for tomorrow's episode...

Oi, can some kind soul point me in the direction of Penguindrum 8?  I can't track it down today.  Maybe I'm exhausted from work but I can't find it.  x_x;

or maybe [gg]'s sub isn't ready yet?

Last edited by dirufacade (09-02-2011 07:11:35 AM)

Oh snap, shit just got real. Episode 8 was amazing.

Danger:  Please do not imitate rapists.

I haven't watched episode 8 yet...waiting for the gg subs

Anyway, I found in some places that many people say it's overhyped. What do you Utena fans think? Is Penguindrum overhyped?
And I also find many are disliking this series in the process because of Ringo...

Last edited by Maya-chan (09-02-2011 07:45:09 PM)

WHOA. That's one thing SKU lacked.

That bust statue in the piano room familiar to anyone?