きみが死ぬまで恋をしたい

I'm surprised no one ever mentions this. It feels so disrespectful and dehumanizing (I guess that's the point). I don't think they consider her human at this point. She's a weapon. Period. The line that bothered me so much in one of the earlier episodes was a guy bringing the sack back and saying, 'It took a while to find all the parts'. Not that it took them a while to find all of her parts, or not that it took a while to piece her back together. Just that it took a while to find all of the parts of their broken weapon. This society is irredeemable in my mind.

It's nice to see that Mimi's aversion to Sheena practicing magic isn't just about the two of them spending less time together. She's afraid of Sheena getting stronger because she knows what happens to strong students – they get sent off to war and die. Both of them are so desperate to protect the other that it finally leads to a fight, and I'm sorry to say this Sheena, but you lost this debate as well, just like you lost the debate at the end of last episode. Mimi simply has a better grasp of the big picture. So there will probably be an apology in the next episode, but the question is how Sheena is going to keep practicing magic. She obviously won't stop, but will she tell Mimi, or will she try to keep it a secret somehow?

I like that this series has frequently been willing to put its main protagonist/ our PoV character in situations like this where the story actually frames them as being on the wrong side of the issue. Like in previous episodes that discussed this issue, it ultimately comes down to Mimi’s ability to save the lives of an indefinite number of students vs Sheena’s personal distress at seeing Mimi get hurt. It’s obviously not ideal but Mimi continuing as is is by far the better option. Maybe the resolution will call back to Sheena and Mimi’s talk at the end of episode 10 and they both agree that Mimi can keep continuing what she can to protect people by fighting, while Sheena will also keep doing what she can to protect others by developing her healing magic?

I don’t like the utilitarian way of thinking but unfortunately, continuing to send Mimi out is the “best” choice out of two options that are both terrible. It shows you how much Mimi’s suffering doing this and then eliminates all other options that could make her not have to do it. It’s incredibly cruel and unfair to make her bear this burden but no one else can take her place and so many more will die without her.

The school is a failure, but Sheena is not engaging on that level. She isn't talking about how to resolve the war, whether winning, surrendering, or running away. She just doesn't want Mimi getting hurt. Which is fair, but is naive given their situation. Unless she addresses the situation first, she is just an unrealistic idealist. And well, they ARE children so I'm not blaming them too hard. But I can't say Sheena is "right" here.

Sure, the school might be bad, but being child soldiers is the inevitable situation the students find themselves in. We haven't really gotten any information about the war, so we can only assume that one side's resources are so depleted that they can't put up a fight without using children. It is fucked-up, but it's also a reality that the orphans have no control over. What we do know is that Mimi shouldering the pain allows other children to live to see another day. As it currently stands, Sheena's argument is selfish wishful thinking. As much as Sheena cares about Mimi, there is also someone who cares about the child who would have died instead if Mimi hadn't gotten hurt.

Which is very likely regardless of what Mimi does. When the enemy gets past Mimi(and they damn well can considering they've launched attacks very close to home base, not to mention that one guy who nearly killed Sheena), Sheena's gonna be field medic when the frontlines make their way to her. Ideally, Sheena doesn't get deployed to frontlines, but she should be trained to fight when the frontlines reach her.

I'm really worried about Ari. I hope she isn't pushing herself and following in Seiran's footsteps. 😢 While I was relieved to see Mimi come back unscathed after her first mission in a long while, it was obvious something was up when Sheena thought Mimi kept coming back unhurt only to show us Mimi leaving her bloody coat out the door. From Sheena's perspective, everything is starting to slow down , with everyone coming back alive and Mimi coming back uninjured. It turns out there haven't been any casualties recently because Mimi has been spreading herself thin on the battlefield and saving everyone. That scene where Mimi saves Esther and Rika was insane, tho! Mimi literally tanked those hits and let the enemies gather around her only to take them out all at the same time the second she started to recover. Yeah, there was no way Mimi was gonna keep this a secret forever. And to no one's surprise, this leads to a massive argument between Mimi and Sheena , which I honestly think they needed. It sucks but it's hard to argue against Mimi. If she takes everyone else's place, no one has to die. But at the same time, Sheena is right: Mimi can't do it all alone. It's insane that an entire Kingdom is letting a tiny little girl, even if she's immortal, shoulder all of this burden and pain. I honestly don't know an answer that will work out for the two of them but Fran-sensei seems to believe Sheena can change Mimi. With only two episodes left, I'm curious to see what answer these girls will find.

I honestly don't know an answer that will work out for the two of them but Fran-sensei seems to believe Sheena can change Mimi. I wonder what Fran's goal is? Fran, Mimi, and the school/country agree about the strategic logic of having Mimi bear the burden, so what does Fran want Sheena to change about Mimi? Fran doesn't always see eye-to-eye with the military leaders, so perhaps if Mimi refuses to fight, the school/country will have to change something.

I think its clear from the numbers of combatants that each side has/ loses in each battle that the school would have lost this war a long time ago without Mimi and perhaps Fran's goal is to have Sheena convince Mimi to stop fighting so the school has to surrender and finally end this pointless war. its possible that the school are the bad guys here too fighting against what the rest of the people in this country or place want.

I mean, what could Sheena possibly do? I don't want to seem mean or heartless, but Mimi's sacrifice is saving dozens of lives. Do they really have an alternative? Yeah, Mimi could return to fighting the way she was before, but that would mean letting a lot of innocent children die, so they would essentially be the indirect killers. It's one thing to let people die when you have no option to save them; it's another thing entirely to decide to let them die when a solution exists. And it would be Sheena's fault—she would be the one who decided to put Mimi above their lives. Does she really love Mimi so much that sacrificing other people's lives is a lesser evil for her? It's an extremely morally challenging dilemma from Sheena's point of view, but for us on the outside, we can tell that Mimi is factually doing the right thing. I'd want this show to have a happy ending, but up until now, it has been sadly realistic. It doesn't matter how good Sheena gets with healing magic; she cannot save more lives than Mimi can. It's the sad reality. I really want to see how they'll handle this difficult situation.

Exactly. If we assume that they're using orphans because their resources are that depleted, I assume the cities are filled with widows and children who aren't orphans yet. If the choice is between sending mothers and their children or sending orphans, the leadership probably chose what they believed would benefit the country's future most. But it's very hard to judge when we don't even know why the war is being fought or what each side is fighting for. If their enemies are the more justified side, then the school's country is just morally bankrupt for involving innocent children. If the school's country is defending itself against an unjust war of total annihilation, it becomes much more morally complex.

Seiran's death really got to Mimi, which I can't really fault her for, but at the same time she should let Sheena find her own footings. la creatura "You should just become my housewife, Sheena" I know she is immortal, but this gotta hurt like a bitch... and top it off, Sheena get emotionally scarred for life a second time. ...these girls REALLY need a therapist. The whole scene in the infirmary was great, I love how despite them fighting they are both motivated by survival guilt, and neither of them is necessarily wrong.... That being said, while not wrong, this was pretty insensitive from Mimi.

Battlefield medic is the main reason, but I think the underlying reason is that they may soon run out of better options; When the war begins, countries usually start training their young men, but as it drags on, sometimes they have to go with older men, then old men, boys, women, girls, and so on; Soon as it gets to "Why are you training these ones?" it's usually because they realized they don't have enough of the ones they should be training, so they go to the next option. When they run out of actual soldiers (other than Mimi), and the war gets on their doorstep, they'll NEED Sheena to be able to do more than throw a potted plant at them. She might never be able to do much, but when someone kicks in the school's front door, 'not much' is the best they'll have to rely on.

Yeah the whole system feels very dubious. Like the orphans are only worthwhile if they can kill with their magic and no other use is fostered or encouraged. They did say healing magic is rare and perhaps they don’t have a system for it since it’s usually not worth training? But it certainly seems like it’d be worth making an attempt with the rare individuals who aren’t good at battle magic but do show restoration capability. Disregarding it entirely seems very short sighted. Of course the larger issue is the inhumanity of sending all these children to war in the first place. It’s both an understandable creative decision but also frustrating that our POV is so narrow we have no sense of the larger conflict or war. I do kinda wish we’d occasionally hear the teachers let slip a little more.

Could also just be that the author isn't too knowledgeable about how actual warfare works in practice, or that they simply didn't put too much effort into it because it's not the main point. After all, the point is the grief and suffering that war causes, and the relationships built in spite of that, which the series portrays really well. But it would be cool if there were an actual reason behind the disorganised battles.

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I doubt the bureaucracy accounts for or cares to do their due diligence. They've resulted to sending children to war on a school / orphanage that is a step away from a frontline. Unless Fran can get her to the point where she can heal a human, I don't think the ones in charge care she can heal flowers regardless of rarity :L (I'm not saying it is smart, but considering the issues we've seen and how they're being handled that's the impression I'm getting out of their government as a whole). I don't recall how they dealt with Mimi's mother for using forbidden magic, but for such a rare healer with immense talent to be tossed for using a magic classified as forbidden doesn't leave a good impression on their ability to judge value.

Mimi's logic certainly was sound. She's immortal so she could just tank it and relieve the pressure from her peers. Unfortunately, the human emotion was nothing if not illogical. There's no way Sheena could get through to Mimi like that. She needed to sit back and compose her arguments before having a talk with Mimi again. Good on Fran-sensei for being a third party that could evaluate what Sheena did wrong. The school should forget about having Sheena sit the test like the others when she's better served for healing. It's like judging an elephant by its ability to jump.

It felt like Mimi was throwing herself now more than ever in harm's way after witnessing Seiran's death. Mimi was right about Sheena not making any sense and Sheena knows that already but still she doesn't want to see her getting hurt. I still can't get over how tragic these kids' lives are. Glad to see that at least a single adult like Fran believing in Sheena that she can do something about this fucked up situation of the kids. I wonder if those enemy mages attack them just hoping to get rid of Mimi.

I’m so happy with how the series has handled Seiran’s death. It wasn’t just shock factor nor tragedy for the sake of tragedy. It has had a tangible impact on Mimi, Sheena, and Ari’s characters in the aftermath. Sheena is committed to being more useful and helpful. Mimi wants to protect Sheena and everyone from getting hurt more than ever. And Ari… yeah. I like that the series didn’t go with the standard morality of a situation like this and actually framed Mimi as (mostly) in the right in that makes sense that an immortal like her should bear the burden if it makes regular students don’t have to die, but Sheena can still help the situation with her healing magic. Fundamentally they both want the same thing.

Unfortunately I agree with mimi. Why send students out to die and have more seirens when mimi the immortal can handle things? All season I've been waiting for mimi to get abducted by the enemy while she is in pieces, the situation she is putting herself in now seems like the most likely time for that to happen but idk if its that kind of show given we still know literally nothing about the opposing side in the war. Even though she's mad at sheena mimi still had to say goodnight....im wondering if we get another slow thoughtful episode for the finale or something awful happens and they leave us on a cliffhanger

The utilitarian view often doesn't consider that there's a psychological and morale toll for such actions, however. The math can math, but human beings are more than numbers and stats. Where do you see this small community going if Mimi has to take on even greater burden until her only moments of respite is coming home to a domesticated Sheena? Where do you see their relationship going? Therefore, even though it's true that Mimi being on the battlefield saves lives, the emotions still have to be addressed.

Benefits to who? Mimi is killing a ton of enemies on the battlefield each time, what about them? Are you just ignoring those? If so you are picking sides after all. That's putting aside the fact that Mimi doing what she does could be perpetuating the war, causing even more death, instead of say trying to negotiate for peace, but the series has had paper thin worldbuilding so far, so we don't even know much about what the war is about even. Things aren't simple like that.

i half expected Mimi to be telling the other students who got deployed to just wait around until the fighting was over. but i guess the word would have spread very quickly then. also when they came and picked her up in the forest i thought she was actually getting kidnapped for a bit there and that it was gonna be the big thing for the final arc and yeah shitty situation all around. having Mimi who can survive getting damaged taking on almost all the fighting be logical even if her carrying all the burden alone is wrong. I figure we are due for some drama with only a few episodes left of the season

when they came and picked her up in the forest i thought she was actually getting kidnapped Honestly I'm surprised it hasn't happened already; I think I've been speculating on this ever since the "I'm immortal/I'm already dead" thing... The enemies even confirmed they know she can't die, so... Why are they sending soldiers into the meat grinder every day? They need to either find a way to kill her for good, or to take her away from those who can fix her... Otherwise they're just sending people to the slaughter for no reason.

Do they actually know? Like I'm surprised too they haven't been able to capture her yet since her healing still needs time to work. But if we assume that the enemy really doesn't realize she's immortal, since there's no communication between the soldiers and the headquarters, then that makes sense. The soldiers that took her out on the bridge seemed not totally aware what was going on and who they'd just fought.