Magia Record Episode 16: There Were Too Many To Carry

Isn't There Too Much To Bear 持ちきれないほどあったでしょ
First airing	August 15, 2021
Script	Katsuhiko Takayama
Storyboard	Sui Yoshizawa
Animation Director	Yoshikatsu Matsuzaki Nobuhiro Mutou Kana Miyai Mayumi funakoshi Kiichi Takaoka

Isn't There Too Much To Bear is the third episode of Magia Record Anime Season 2.

Summary

After Yachiyo and Kuroe enters the barrier of Uwasa of 10000 years Sakura, Iroha turns into Doppel, and Yachiyo and Kuroe enters Iroha's dream. Yachiyo wakes up in the mikazuki villa. Tsuruno, Sana and Felicia wants Yachiyo to have breakfast. While Sana speaks "Iroha" in the conversation, Yachiyo runs into Iroha's room without hesistation. After that, she sees Iroha's in the room and hugs with her on the bed.

Everyone is having breakfast, instead of Yachiyo and Kuroe, sitting on the bar chair and discussing Magius' plan and Iroha's dream. Yachiyo feels strange that everyone seem to know Kuroe, just like Kuroe aleady a member of Mikazuki team. Yachiyo asks Kuroe to tell her everything she knows, and Kuroe give her a paper about rumor of eternal sakura. Then, Yachiyo asked Iroha about her true existence and to confirm whether she still remembers her mission to save Ui.

After Iroha recalls her mission to save her sister, The scene then cuts into travelling by train to visit Ui in the hospital. After going to hospital, Touka and Nemu dance with song of Uwasa. Iroha plays with Touka and Nemu, carrying teddy bear like Ui like the real one. Both Yachiyo and Kuroe feel this strange, and Yachiyo transforms into magical girl and destroys building model. The re-construction of building model confirms that they are not in the reality. Yachiyo enters the internal space of the dream, while she ordered Kuroe to stay with Iroha, in order to maintain the stability and safety of the dream. Kuroe spoke to herself that the dream in Iroha looks like barrier of witch. Suddenly, Iroha appears and remembered about witch.

The scene now turns into magical girl team (without Yachiyo) defeating the witch (easily). After defeating witch while Iroha has final attack with "strider stir" , there are many grief seeds obtained and Iroha gives one to Kuroe.

On the other hand, Yachiyo runs through the entire internal zone. Particularly, she saw similar (fake) people acting like in the first scene of dream.

The scene now turns into magical girls playing with fireworks. Felicia, Sana and Turuno are discussing what to play, and Kuroe noticed that Yachiyo is here, wearing an apron. She must not be real one, since real Yachiyo should now be in inner space of the dream. Kuroe asks Iroha what she want to do here, and Iroha tells her it seems nothing she eager to do. She is happy, satisified, and admires Yachiyo.

Yachiyo finally reaches the end of Iroha's dream and saw Ui in teddy bear. It seems nothing strange on the teddy bear. So she have no way to deal with now.

Kuroe and Iroha now go sleeping. Before Iroha sleeping, Kuroe asks why Ui is not the real person (in her dream). Iroha feels defensive to Kuroe and asks whether Kuroe hates Ui. Kuroe responsed that she only asks, not feeling any suspicious to Ui. However, Iroha seems to be very sensitive to this.

Another iroha appears near Yachiyo and Iroha would like to visit her sister. Yachiyo then breaks the Ui the teddy bear. The barrier appears and Iroha turns into doppel. At the same time, Iroha the doppel binds Kuroe's hands and hates those two why they have to destroy the happy scene. She made a lot of work to complement the missing Ui with a better one, and composing a happy world to prevent Iroha's soul to be even pullated. She claims that it is Tamaki's new story. Yachiyo and Kuroe then fight against Iroha the doppel. Yachiyo then persuade Iroha the doppel to find the real Ui instead of the fake one. Yachiyo's attack leads to the separation between Iroha herself and Iroha the doppel. After defeating Iroha the doppel, the real Iroha drops from the tree of uwasa of 10000 years Sakura. Iroha and Yachiyo feel touched about Iroha's coming back, and the (real) Iroha and Yachiyo hugs again.

Meanwhile, Madoka reads messages in the rain. The newest one is from Mami, saying she will try help you no matter what happens. Madoka now seems to make a decision.

Trivia

• There are many similarities between defeating magical girls in Tamaki's story and Rebellion story. For example, there are a group of magical girl, instead of one or two. Also, they defeat the magical girl relatively easily, with obtaining a lot of (and unbalanced) magical power.

• There are many numbers "168" appear. It should be decrypted with Japanese number イ＝１、ロ＝６、ハ＝８, i.e. Iroha's name
  • Iroha writes "visiting" onto every day in the calendar, except 2, 8, 12 and 21. The least common factor of these numbers are 168.
  • The witch in the Iroha's dream shows number 168.
• The reason that the what substitutes Ui is bear is due to the topic (Isn't there too much to bear).

Gallery

See:Gallery:Magia Record Episode 16

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