Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi episode 3: What the hell?

So tired guys. So tired and pissed. I live near slobs. Jerks. Assholes. Apparently walking up the ramp to the garbage disposal is way too hard. The door is way too heavy to open. Trash is way too inconvenient to throw away. So people have just left it to rot all over the sidewalk and ramp. I spent an entire hour today picking up ALL THE BAGS and throwing them away. Throwing up forever. I don't think ice cream can fix this hot mess. I mean....do people want to pay MORE for their home owners fee. THROW THE DAMN GARBAGE AWAY!!!

Wai sad little girl face!!!!!

While scrubbing the rest of the muck off of me have another anime episode. If you aren't gagging like me. STUPID NEIGHBORS! Here is the post for Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi episode 3. Spoilers for....well a lot of head scratching. AND SPOILERS FOR MADOKA! Major plot point discussed in this post.

And we couldn't have this village with Hampnie because of his beliefs?

Episode Summary: During a brief flashback Ai and her Momma are looking out towards what becomes their village. Momma explains she wants to create a heaven on Earth but doesn't get into the details with Ai. All seems to have gone well until Hampnie shot them all up. In the present Ai is still with Hampnie as he teases her that she doesn't even know where he is walking. After some teasing and small talk Ai gets Hampnie to open up on his real mission. He wants to find his love Hana and see how she is doing despite the fact she left him high and dry. He will see how she is doing and proceed from there. Ai notes how lonely this sounds and starts to feel bad for Hampnie again, that he is not a monster. Hampnie keeps on talking, trying to explain to Ai how awful this world really is. Because no one is being born it is inevitable that he will be the last one “conscious” on Earth. He wants to find a way to off himself before that fate occurs. This leads to Ai crying more, that Hampnie is just misunderstood and what not. Hampnie stops them on a bridge and gets pissed. He kicks Ai off the damn bridge where she falls in the water and seems to pass off for quite a while. Eventually Yuri comes along and seems to rescue Ai from the water. There is some underwear antics but eventually Ai is dressed and Yuri explains to her that Hampnie blew himself up in an attempt to save himself and Ai. Still Hampnie has been captured. Ai decides that she needs to rescue him despite the fact that he did some awful things. Yuri then decides to break things down for Ai, putting aside his hate apparently FOR NO REASON. He shows Ai a picture of the woman Hampnie is looking for and Ai is shocked.

Um....you keep thinking that Ai. XD

Hampnie wakes up and apparently the circus is in town. Freaks all over the place and Hampnie is tied up. The head freak is named Hicotz and has decided to either be Hampnie or torture him to maybe death so he can...be him. It is quite insane and Hampnie finds it all funny. Hampnie confesses that his main goal in life is to die with his family and friends around him, with no regrets. A happy fate. Hicotz is devastated by this news that Hampnie is not insane and goes to hurt the man again when Ai, Scar, and Yuri walk in. Ai announces that the person Hampnie is looking for is her mother and that he is her father. That her mother left Hampnie many years ago to create a village full of dead people, to protect Ai or something. Thus explaining everything or nothing. Ai, Scar, and Yuri then have a mortal kombat moment, killing all the Circus freaks as Hampnie realizes this is all true, that his Hana gave birth to their kid and how wonderful none of this is. After all the freaks are killed for good Ai bends down to talk to Hampnie. He confesses how happy he is...and DIES! But since this is Dawn of the Dead Hampnie wakes up and Ai cries all over him. Hampnie was happy that he was able to get over his immortality by some MAGIC and now it is his time to actually die. So the group walks back to the village, creating happy memories for Ai as she spends time with Daddy. Then when the day ends....she buries him in the graveyard next to her mom, so he could die as himself. She does so with tears in her eyes but vows to keep on being a gravekeeper. THE END!

Scar's words are usually crazy so you know....

…...I have no words. Well that is a lie. Obviously. I am person of many words. But right after watching this episode the words didn't come easily. They especially stopped flowing when I took a look online and realized a lot of people viewed this episode as positive. I was slightly...well caught off guard by this. Clearly this is the best episode of the show and this is the best anime of the season and I am just odd.

Also THIS was weird. Um random friendship now? When did things get worked out?

So...why is this so weird? Three episodes in and one of the main character dies? HMMMM. Now before everyone goes but Tenchi what about Madoka...hear me out. With Madoka I feel as if we really knew Mami. Knew what she was about. Her hopes and dreams. Right before she got her head bitten off she confessed to Madoka how she wasn't this brave girl, that she was scared and tired of being alone. She had some haughty moments with Homura. She took Madoka and Crazy Face under her wing. I felt even if her time was short in the first three episodes her impact was felt for the rest of the episode.

Best father ever!

Perhaps that will be the same with Hampnie later....but for now it does not seem the same. It all seems really....disjointed and sad and pointless. Like this was the final episode. Ai has no family. All is lost. Go get them zombies. When Mami died it showed how harsh the world was and forced Madoka to think how things were not cupcakes and rainbows. Now that Hampnie is gone now what? Like really now what? Ai is going to go out there and kill other people? Can something TOP this sad moment? I feel as if the high moment of the show has already been reached and there can't be any more tugging at heart strings.

Good thing Ai doesn't look like her mother or anything.

I mean....do I care that Hampnie died? Kicking around Ai...doesn't make me want to like him. And I hear there was more abuse in the source material. Given how....nice he apparently was supposed to be I am not feeling this. I get being a conflicted soul, I do. But take that aggression out on the dead. Or the semi dead. Or finding out how all this happened. Beating Ai around as if to toughen her up...not flying with me. Even if Ai flew through the air.

How can you die happy knowing that Ai is still alone?!

I just...I don't feel as if there was enough of Hampnie to matter. To make what happened to him impactful. Like all his plot points WERE explained, but at the bare minimum. Not enough to make him main character status. Not enough for Ai to truly have developed feelings for him. Not enough of anything. A man looking for a girl who left him over 12 years ago. He wished to experience the feeling in the sun forever. And he hates that the dead can stay alive and pretend to be human.

:( Well that is a bit sad.

Okay I lied. While writing the summary I remembered there was one part of the episode that did make me feel something for Hampnie, made me feel bad for him. When he was explaining to Ai that he didn't want to be the last human on Earth. I can see why he would think that. Might be a little too soon to be thinking that way, as there are lots of humans left but maybe it will take him a while to figure this out. I mean....15 years doesn't really sound like a lot when it comes to immortality but I guess Hampnie figured out what his wish really was and needed to find his lady before it became too late. So while Hampnie and his child abusing ways were hurtful it seems as if there is a lot going on in his head. That he is very passionate about things and can get emotional at times. So.....yeah that point of the episode did touch me. Guess that was the grand finale for Hampnie.

Here is some good news, die now!

While some of that was explained it really...wasn't. Like if Hampnie was himself immortal why did he hate the dead beyond the normal hatred? Like please don't eat my brains eventually dead people. No Hampnie acted ultra upset. Like it disgusted him on a personal level. But why is that? Not explained. Oh I see. Nor is it explained why Yuri did a complete 180, deciding to SAVE Hampnie when 5 seconds ago it was his life's mission to kill the man or be killed by the man. I mean it really isn't explained why Scar just randomly showed up but maybe real gravekeepers can do that. Of course it doesn't explain why Scar didn't show up the 6 plus years in DeadRUs village, after the momma died. See, way too fast and not enough things are explained.

You might need a new fanclub....

Who the hell were the people that captured and tortured Hampnie? Like really they didn't last long enough for me to care. Only the one who was trying to look like Hampnie mattered. Everyone else was killed in the Matrix apparently. Why the hell was he trying to be like Hampnie? I realize that all of these people were dead and probably started to lose their minds. But how famous was Hampnie? Who else knew about him? I thought it was the zombie apocalypse up in this world and people still were able to communicate that Hampnie was...happenin? I don't know, it just seemed so random. Like hello Governor, want to torture some lovely people on The Walking Dead? Forced forced and random. And crazy.

I shall forgot all that you did and that I barely know you to celebrate the fact you are my father!

From the start Ai assumed that Hampnie was her father. Despite the fact that he looked about 17. Currently. Understanding now he is not. But still...this false belief turned out to be true and it....felt off. Really off. That there wasn't enough leading up to it. Ai said you are my father and BAM it was true. Of course none of this really makes sense and Ai should still have hurt feelings. Like how Hampnie didn't sit down and explain to Ai WHY he killed the villagers. Now it all makes sense, that they were slowly dying or already dead. But since Ai lived in a bubble she didn't know all of this and should still see Hampnie as someone who is heartless. Not woohoo you are my dad!!!!

If Hampnie felt this way before Momma met him why did she...stick around long enough to get pregnant? Maybe Momma leaving made him think this way. Or she was making the village to show him how things could change. WENT OVER GREAT!

Also why did the Momma leave Hampnie anyway? She was supposed to be a gravekeeper yes? Not knowing much about gravekeepers I doubt they can die? Or maybe she was that defective she didn't want to be around him when she did? But Ai never meet Hampnie. So Mommas was dying for years? Perhaps she loved him and was hurt about his attitude about the undead and left to start a village of the undead? I doubt that makes sense either. If this village was a haven for those “dead” why would the Momma have to die anyway? Why would Momma tell Ai about Hampnie if she feared him? None of this really makes sense and is wrapped up in OH romantic. More like stupidity.

THIS IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD!

I feel as if all the words in my head make more sense than the ones I am typing out to you all. I feel as if this episode was so off base and off. Hampnie just...loses his mortality after finding out Ai is his daughter? Because God is just granting his wish right? Well if that is the case why are there still undead all over the place? If God was in the business of granting more wishes why let this happen at all? Some say it all has to do with what really happened to Hampnie the day he got his mortality. I don't know. It just seems...odd that Hampnie could find happiness in this moment and POOF it turned into an episode of Buffy and Angel is all a demon again. I mean...what is there to be happy about? His woman is dead and had a kid without him knowing and now he will leave her all alone in this world because he killed her village. The only two people near Ai at his death are a crazy gravekeeper and someone who up until 5 minutes ago wanted him dead too. So yeah. I am not seeing the happiness. Surrounded by his friends and family, smiling indeed.

See Hampnie gets to be happy. That is all that matters. Suck it Ai!!!!

Before anyone says this I get it. I get that Hampnie had to die. And had to die soon as it would make him a hypocrite and that is worse that leaving your daughter alone in the world unable to take care of herself. I get that he had to die on that day or his morale character would have rotted his soul. No no, Hampnie couldn't spend a few weeks with his daughter, trying to teach her how to survive in the world and getting her somewhere safe. All those hours of smacking her around were enough folks. Hampnie had to die now, happy and on his terms, next to the woman who apparently left him and broke his heart. I get that all!!!

Can't you see the happy ending?!

So after all this tragic mess the show is over right? OR it is only episode 3 and there is still tons and tons of this show left. I get it folks. This was never about Hampnie. It was about Ai and how she is thrown from her happy world to that of chaos and sadness. I really do understand that. It is just that people are saying this is the show of the season, mainly because someone died in seemingly a pointless way. That so much was left up in the air and unexplained the real impact of the death didn't really make sense or effect me the way it should have. I feel as if this episode was TRYING to be outrageous and talked about, not actually succeeding in doing so. That this show is TRYING to be the break out show, not letting it happen naturally. Either I am missing a lot of the original source material information or I am massively confused. Just.....Yuri is helping Hampnie, Ai is forgiving Hampnie, and Hampnie is okay with going out this way? What the hell.....