{"id":462,"date":"2006-04-23T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=462"},"modified":"2006-04-23T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:37:38","slug":"shinigami-no-ballad-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Shinigami no Ballad &#8211; episode 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The journey of the heart&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A nice end to this series, which I would rank roughly ten thousand geological ages better than its predecessor in the time slot. The strange thing is that you never really get a keen feel for Momo or Daniel, but the individual stories are crafted well enough that it doesn&#8217;t really matter that much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The episode begins with a school girl named Sakura finding herself transparent to the world and unable to interact with anything tangible. Upon wracking her brain, Sakura realises that she had fallen off a bridge, and Momo and Daniel take her on a tour of the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Like several episodes before it, &#8220;The journey of the heart&#8221; made references to the Japanese culture of death and absence, with the thousand paper cranes and making a meal for an absentee (which has recently been seen in <i>Mushishi<\/I> as well). It&#8217;s nice to know that traditions can still be upheld, especially those pertaining to something as important as death.<\/p>\n<p>The tour that Sakura took was enlightening, and one of the episode&#8217;s strengths was its ambiguity as to the nature of the bridge accident and whether it was actually deliberate. The conclusion that Sakura arrives at with a laugh is really the only possible outcome. Sometimes you&#8217;ve just got to laugh, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The journey of the heart&#8221; wasn&#8217;t quite sober, or even entirely melancholy, but it was a nice conclusion to a show that wasn&#8217;t so much about death as it was the value of life. Momo is, after all, only a guide; the mortals are those who must discover things. I suppose that her detached nature is the tragedy of the character &#8211; that she cares, but can only observe most of the time &#8211; but she was eminently likable and helped forge six episodes of a generally high standard.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-08.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-09.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-10.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-11.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The journey of the heart&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/snb06-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A nice end to this series, which I would rank roughly ten thousand geological ages better than its predecessor in the time slot. The strange thing is that you never really get a keen feel for Momo or Daniel, but the individual stories are crafted well enough that it doesn&#8217;t really matter that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shinigami-no-ballad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}