![]() ![]() ![]() After such an emotional and depressing episode, such an upbeat ED was completely out of place. This would have been an absolutely perfect episode if not for one big snag at the very end: the ED. The view from Nagisa’s perspective, Tomoya desperately trying to keep her awake, the music, and the flashbacks – all of it was done so wonderfully, and I still choke up a little every time I rewatch that scene. I had an inkling of what was coming thanks to all the foreshadowing, but the latter half of the episode was so emotional that I couldn’t help but get teary-eyed. If that had happened, then there wouldn’t have been such sadness. He wouldn’t have gone out with Nagisa and married her, and Ushio wouldn’t have been born. Tomoya now feels that it would have been better if they had never met and had gone down different paths. Back then, Nagisa had noted that nothing could stay unchanged, and she had wondered if they could keep loving the school. Tomoya remembers how she had promised to always be by his side and how he had finally found his dream, but nothing he does now awakens her.įaced with this, Tomoya remembers all of the time he’s spent with Nagisa, and his memory goes back to when they first met on that spring day. Nagisa’s eyes soon close however, and her hand goes limp. As Nagisa starts to drift out of consciousness again, Tomoya tries to keep her awake by talking about Ushio and how they’ll raise her. When she does open her eyes, he shows her their baby girl, and Nagisa is glad that she was able to give birth at home. He gets to be the first one to hold the newly born Ushio, but he then becomes alarmed at how Nagisa is barely conscious. It feels like an eternity to Tomoya, but as he’s despairing, he suddenly hears the cries of the baby. Tomoya stays by her side all day and all night, and she loses consciousness a number of times, only to be awakened again by the pain. Yagi, Akio, and Sanae soon arrive to help, and because of the snow, Nagisa is forced to give birth at home after all. It is in this environment that Nagisa gets a fever and goes into labor two weeks early. That same day, the city becomes covered in snow, and the trains and cars are unable to operate. Akio knows that they can’t do anything about it, but he does reveal that he asked that some trees be preserved. Still having doubts, Tomoya wonders if Nagisa would be well if he hindered the construction, and he feels that he’s going to hate the city. People and things cannot help but change – that’s what it means to live. Sometime later, Akio finds Tomoya watching the construction of the new hospital, and he observes that the city is ever-changing. In any case, Kotomi also mentions how there might be a number of other worlds, and this reminds Tomoya of how Ryou had once talked about there being many possible futures. This triggers a memory in Tomoya of the role Nagisa had played in her high school performance, but he can’t figure out why. She tries to explain how their world and the hidden world are deeply connected and have influences on each other, and that leads Nagisa to wonder what the hidden world is like. The group then talks about how Tomoya and Nagisa are so far ahead in life compared to everyone else, and the topic of life prompts Kotomi to bring up her research about the hidden world. Tomoya doesn’t have an answer about his feelings, but he does know that this happened because he’s with the person he loves and is living for her sake. At one point, Sunohara asks Tomoya what it feels like to become a father, and he reveals how he always felt that becoming a parent was something in the future and something that happened like a natural disaster. Sunohara, Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi then visit the couple during New Years, and the group gets caught up on how all their other friends are doing. Despite this, Tomoya and Nagisa spend a happy Christmas and birthday together, and he gets her another stuffed dango to go with her collection. Sanae, however, feels that they can’t think about such things. Tomoya is wracked with doubt, and he one night talks to Sanae about how Nagisa would be living a different, potentially happier life if she had never met him. In the real world, Nagisa’s pregnancy is progressing through the months, and Sanae and Akio are helping out where they can. In the illusionary world, the girl who can no longer help build the flying machine wants the robot to stay by her side forever, but the robot knows that he has to go back out for that to happen. ![]()
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