Tales of the Abyss - 11 December 7
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Summary:
As the Tartarus takes the group by sea to see Emperor Peony, it suddenly experiences an engine problem. This forces them to head to the nearest port for repairs, and it takes them to the city of Keterburg. Upon arrival, Jade informs the stationed troops of his identity and leads the group to go see the governor Osborne. Jade is originally from here, so he knows his way around, and he brings everyone past Emperor Peony’s old home. Peony’s father had a lot of enemies, so Peony was kept here during his childhood. The group eventually arrives at the governor’s mansion, and they’re all surprised to learn that Nephry Osborne is actually Jade’s younger sister. After they explain the situation to her, she agrees to help get the Tartarus ready again and puts them up in a hotel. She also wishes to speak with Luke privately, though Luke first heads to the hotel with the others. There, the group discusses how Jade and Dist were both from this city and went to the same private school when they were young. Dist had also been the person who made it possible for Anise’s stuffed toy to grow bigger in response to her fonom frequency, and she doesn’t consider him a bad person.
Later that night, Luke goes back to see Nephry, and due to how he’s a replica, she wants to tell him why her brother created fomicry. Jade had been a child genius, and one time when her doll got broken, he had used fomicry to make her a replica of it. However, Jade was also a terror as a child and had enjoyed cruelly killing harmless creatures because he didn’t understand the death of living things. His teacher Nebilim was the one who started guiding him in the right direction, but when Nebilim died, he returned back to how he was. Nephry thinks that Jade was doing frightening things with Dist, and she wants Luke to stop him. When Luke returns to the hotel, he finds Jade waiting for him and takes the chance to ask Jade about what his sister said. Jade explains that he had actually killed Nebilim, and he recounts how she had been able to use the Seventh Fonom. He had been determined to figure out how he could use it as well, but that led to the accident that caused her death.
Wanting to save her, Jade had tried to use fomicry to create a replica of her, but it was a failure and went berserk. Nevertheless, he and Dist had vowed to create a perfect replica, and Jade joined the military. His necromancer name comes from how he pulled replica information out of the dead on the battlefield. Luke can understand Jade’s feelings, but he questions why the production of replicas of living things is prohibited, so Jade explains how close he came to dying from failed experiments and how Peony had talked some sense into him. Jade also admits that he realized that replicas don’t have memories of the past, so it wouldn’t have really been Nebilim, and what he really wanted was her forgiveness. As the conversation draws to a close, Luke thanks Jade for telling him all this and feels a little closer to him. The next day, the group reboards the repaired Tartarus and sets out again.
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This episode was pretty much entirely devoted to Jade - probably because Peony is appearing next week, and this was as good a time as any to give Jade and Dist some backstory. Whereas Dist was portrayed as just a crybaby and misunderstood loner, Jade felt a lot more complex as a character with his desire for knowledge and lack of understanding of death. Plus, the way he tried to create a replica of his dying teacher and failed with all those human attempts reminded me of Fullmetal Alchemist’s rules against human transmutation. That always ends up being something you don’t wanna mess with.
I question though why they even bothered hiding Peony’s face if they’re just going to show him in the preview for next week. Surely there’s not some surprise there too, though I guess he does look rather evil with that smile of his at the end of the episode. It’s akin to the smile of a certain evil someone from today’s episode of Index. It also looks like Sync might be finally taking control of Guy next week. I’m sure Luke won’t be too happy about that.
Hikki at 3:48 am on December 7th, 2008
Hosnap Peony! He punched Jade!
Sup Nephry. How’s married life treating you.
GUYS WE HAVE TO HURRY ST. BINAH’S IN DANGER.
Acerbus at 3:55 am on December 7th, 2008
Yay, it look like they covered part of Dist/Anise’s Gaiden! I really, really, hope they cover part of Nephy/Peony’s Gaiden…out of the manga extras that was one of my favorite (and most tragic).
I’m also kind of curious of they’re going to go into part of the Nebellim sidequest now that they’ve actually shown her…
HEYhey!!! at 4:04 am on December 7th, 2008
^-^ woohooo XD cant wait for ep 12! haha! finally we get to see the amazing PEONY! and his RAPIGS! haha!
KokWeng at 4:58 am on December 7th, 2008
Sync take control of guy?![next week] ? wow can’t wait for next epi <3
Chimasternmay at 5:04 am on December 7th, 2008
seems like a flashback
Lelouch at 6:06 am on December 7th, 2008
Awesome.
Can’t wait for the subs.
dark horse at 7:11 am on December 7th, 2008
waaaaaaaaaaaaai! nebilim!
saris at 7:35 am on December 7th, 2008
YAY for Peony at last XD
And why does the creator make him smile like an evil guy when he is such a funny one? hahaha.
Zetatrain at 7:57 am on December 7th, 2008
Why does Peony look sinister? seriously its not like he did anything evil in the game, unless its something from the manga that i don’t know about, but even so, it doesn’t suit his personality at all.
Deathclock at 11:39 am on December 7th, 2008
“Busagi” ftw!
Oxyn at 12:06 pm on December 7th, 2008
“I’m sure Luke won’t be too happy about that.”
Don’t know why that made me laugh XD
Hana at 12:18 pm on December 7th, 2008
Yay! Peony! I have been waiting for him forever! Despite the fact he’s only a side character, he remains one of my absolute favorites. I love him. Not to mention the fact he looks so cool in the anime. But I agree with everyone else, he looks weirdly evil. Unless that was him spying on Nephry. I haven’t watched it yet but if he is than I can understand it. Anyway, awesome episode. Can’t wait for the subs!
MaimeDaifuku at 6:02 pm on December 7th, 2008
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Tales%20of%20the%20Abyss/Tales%20of%20the%20Abyss%20-%2011%20-%20Large%2012.jpg
Looks like a digimon….
miko86 at 11:40 am on December 8th, 2008
They showed part of Anise and Dist gaiden!
I like how they’re showing stuff like this which were never showed or hinted in the game.
on that note….
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Diabolikul at 2:34 pm on December 8th, 2008
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Tales%20of%20the%20Abyss/Tales%20of%20the%20Abyss%20-%2011%20-%20Large%2030.jpg
i thought it was a beautifull girl but damn…its just peony
Reika Noko at 9:08 pm on December 8th, 2008
Oh, so they showed some of the Anise and Dist Gaiden as well as some of the Peony Gaiden. It’d be pretty entertaining to see the Ion Gaiden in an episode one day, hehe. And with Guy being in Sync’s “Cursed Slot” and whatnot, that’d be a nice show too. Oh my, the conflict between Show Spoiler ▼
But at least eveything gets resolved, like always…
Megas at 12:59 pm on December 9th, 2008
After rewatching the episode (I’ve been doing that too lately just to be able to follow this crap), that grin on Peony doesn’t look all that evil at all. Hell, he didn’t do anything akin to being evil in the game. I think yall just got use to any charcater smiling, not showing eyes, etc. being evil. Peony is a weird & refreshing character, but his nature is the exact opposite of being evil. Now Jade & Dist, those guys ARE evil.
WingZero zxt at 2:31 pm on December 9th, 2008
Decided to pick this up after needing fill the gap to help forget code geass (remembering its over is just to painful *sob* :P) got as far as episode 9 but decided to comment anyway!
My thoughts so far:
All of lukes friends (accept maybe guy) are men and excessively cruel to him
I think this because in a worlds where everything is apparently preordained by ‘The Score’ they had the audacity to blame him for accomplishing somthing that was written in it! They also consistently question his behaviour but hes a replica so its essentially like questioning a 12yrold for acting like a 12yr old and doing as hes told by grown ups ultimately i kind of feel sorry for the poor chap!
Luke being a replica frees him uo to get romantically involved with Tear ultimately!
Its in the opening therefore it seems logical especially as they already seem closer
Im not sure if Yulia Jue is still alive or not is she?? she needs a slap if so!!!
for telling people that if they do things like start wars and demolish cities they will achieve prosperity!
Van is prob just trying to bring his own people back and defy the score at the same time
so i feel sorry for him despite the severity of his mis-guided behaviour
WingZero zxt at 2:33 pm on December 9th, 2008
Also Asche is a moron for leaving withot a word after he made it home just cos his clone was there!!! he could have done somthing about it this whole time!!! ohwell if its wrttn in the score….
Reika Noko at 3:53 pm on December 9th, 2008
Asch coudn’t. They all thought that the replica was the real Luke and they couldn’t see it. He was crushed that he would be easily replaced by a replica by his own family and friends so he ran away. Get it?