This post is a Work In Progress.
Updated: February 6, 2018 12:55am (JST)
I just got back from the YoRHa Boys Stage Play, so here are some initial notes and spoilers! Click on the button to below to view the spoilers! (You’ve been warned!!)
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- No2 – Defender, but he’s actually an Executioner in disguise. oh no
- No9 – Healer
- No3 – Attacker
- No4 – Gunner, but he used to be an Attacker
- No6 – Attacker
- No21 – Scanner, (No21 and No22 are twin models)
- No22 – Gunner
No3 and No4 were part of the M001 project and are considered the “senpai” of the M002 members who are deployed later.
The instructor’s name is Black, direct opposite to White, aka the Commander.
Cactus had been fighting the machines for years…and used to be confident in commanding his team… but during an ambush, he was the sole survivor…which shattered his resolve…and he became a coward after that (traumatized)
◼️The End
- More characters than expected survived through the end… Only No2, No3, No6, and No21 die. xD
- No6 takes great pleasure out of slashing the Instructor close to death, but the Instructor manages to reprogram the SS system and attaches it to his sword…which he then stabs No6 with. No6 says that he can’t be hurt…and then the Instructor tells the SS to begin the scan, but this time, it somehow rewrites the code on No6’s black box and starts the self-destruct sequence. No6 cries out in denial and says that the Instructor will die, too… to which the Instructor says that he always planned on seeing his students off until the very end.
- No3 and No4 fight. Eventually No4 reluctantly takes up his sword again to fight him (he reverts back to Attacker mode).
▲ In the end, No3 pleads with No4 to finish it.
- There’s a part where No21 thoroughly gets killed and reanimated by the virus…and he screams SO insanely, it was amazing. I totally got the chills, it was great!
- During the fight with the infected No21, No2 asks No9, should he become infected with the virus, that he kill him…
- But No9 refuses, so No2 ends up killing himself
- Before that, No2 left a message for No9 and asked him to delete No2’s back up personality data… because he didn’t want to remember having to kill them all should they meet again in the future…
- But Cactus was shown alive at the end…along with the other two resistance members. No4 is confused when he sees them…and sees Cactus’ arm twitching weird like he’s infected with the virus (like he should have been before!”, but… he says that “cowards have their own way of fighting”. His arm and the other two were merely injured by gunfire, not the virus. Attackers and Gunners were fazed our after this experiment with all male-model YoRHaThe male-models were a bit of a failure, so the Council of Humanity decided on producing only female YoRHa models in the future.
- The surviving male-models were to be formatted and reprogrammed as Scanner types, which explains why Scanners are all male-models.
At the very end, the whole cast comes on the stage during the YoRHa song “Guadalcanal”. During this part of the song, they merely sing “Ahh” rather than the original lyrics which were as follows:
outo o, yamai o, itami o, umi dasu
ishiki o, kiroku o, kikai o, horobosu
Give birth to vomit, sickness, and pain
Destroy the consciousness, the chronicle, and the machines
◼️ My Thoughts
- I really liked Phlox. As one of the three Resistance members, he was a pretty minor character, but his personality was really quite noble and he was very loyal to a less-than-adequate leader like Cactus.
- No6 is a sadist like Dito. Plus, he seems to be enamored with the Instructor. There’s a scene in which the Instructor demonstrates how to use the SS system to scan for viruses and he uses it on No6 who reacts very…uniquely. He squirms with strange pleasure and is disappointed when the scan stops. He even goes up to the Instructor and asks him to scan him again… preferably somewhere alone, just the two of them. The Instructor unfortunately declines. The next moment, No3 says, “So, you’re even hot for men, huh?”.
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