ARE WE ACTUALLY GETTING A HAPPY ENDING?! - 86 (Eighty Six) Episode 22 REACTION!

[@OutOfPocket-h9e]

Just wanna say, this is one of the only animes with a satisfying ending, a perfect ending might I add. I know the novels continue after the anime but I love where they left it, next episode is definitely a tear-jerker.

[@ErisianRomantic]

So...yeah. That's just about all of the "happy" you get for a good while. Fantastic place for an anime to stop, but damn, there is so much mad shite to come.

[@OutOfPocket-h9e]

@ErisianRomantic Stop. I don't wanna hear it, I've suffered enough watching all those people die man 😥

[@deadline6149]

@@ErisianRomantic come on, there is also happy...somewhat

[@pablonts]

​@@OutOfPocket-h9e in the future is way more sad lmao

[@ben-san9677]

7:01 I love the visual storytelling in this show. The photo of Spearhead Squadron that Lena has is so faded that she can't make out anyone's faces (Theo had to write her a cheat sheet so she could tell who was who). But when we get Shin's perspective, he can see everyone perfectly clearly because he's been carrying all of them with him this entire time, and he hasn't forgotten a single face.

[@usalv23]

Finally someone who understands why she didn't recognize any of them at first sight.

[@kenohki3492]

Thanks for the reaction! When Shin says he can't have Lena see him in his current state and Frederica says he's being such a boy, every couple I see reacting to this ep does so in the same way. The guy says something along the lines of "I get it" and the gal says something along the line of "should have told her!" Writer really understood that dynamic. Kurena's change of heart toward Lena is a really nice growth. My understanding was Raiden was controlling his Juggernaut via remote which is why he wasn't hurt.

[@VirtuousWanderer]

Yeah, from what I have seen in other comments, Raiden basically set an autopilot or something, then hopped over on Fido before the explosion.

[@Assassin-Eighty-Six]

The Dark Shin, is the inner thoughts of his PTSD and Survivors Guilt. The thoughts about that why he is the only one to survive and everyone else dies around him. Wondering that he should die anyway and have no one remember him. The word “remember,” always comes up or even “I won’t forget.” Lena doesn’t know what Shin looks like even though Lena has the photo of the entire Spearhead Squadron, but she doesn’t know the faces, only the voices from the devices (PARA-RAID). When Lena activates the Device on her neck and it connects not just Cyclops, it also connects to Shin. When hearing her voice and finally realizing who it was, Shin was surprised and happy inside that she is alive. When Lena said, “You survived and made it here, I think that’s something you should be more proud of.” Shin finally cries not the cries of sadness, but the tears of acknowledgment of him being alive, and that he deserves to live. That is what Shin wants, The acknowledgment to survive and to live that’s all he has been wanting the acknowledgment of being alive, and he has the right to survive. Every time episode 22 comes up I cry every single time when Lena talks to the pilot (even though we know Shin, but she doesn’t know) The music you’re hearing is called “ Voices of the Chord,” by Hiroyuki Sawano. The one part when she says proud of the one part of the song connects like it just hits you with a bunch of emotions. That piece of music always makes me cry when hearing it in Episode 22

[@FroYo1305]

Cara punching something coz shin's machine hatch closed was so funny xD i almost chuckled in the middle of bawling out my eyes.

[@rusakgaming1552]

PEAK INCOMING

[@GrimBrotherss]

My fav episode 😊 the song is Voice of The Chord, thats makes the scene feel so good

[@StoickTheTired]

I don't know why but I luv that people forget that none of them have seen each other, impossible even Raiden saw a quick glimpse of Lena, but it was in the heat of battle. At best if he was to describe her it would just be a normal looking attractive alba lady 😁 When you re-watch the scene you will see the Wall of San Magnolia in the back. It has been theorized that Shin was unconsciously running back there of some hope that maybe Lena was alive. And he got his answer

[@paliloveyousomuch]

4:07 - 7:17 The black bars is his willing to die. Slowly turning white and disappear after he sees lena.

[@gege9937]

From the LN, Raiden actually survives because of the regenlief's design to have emergency backdoor exit and the moment he ejects from the mech fido picks him up and thats the reason on ep21 both fido and raidens juggernaut go separate ways.

[@Ozai75]

Poor Cara, now you know how we felt. Also Cyclops has Lena's back because she's got the hots for her.

[@deadline6149]

Can't blame Shiden.

[@mirai7233]

Can't really blame Cyclops there

[@racerkingbbs04]

This anime has an actually perfect ending ! This is what I thought of why Shin didn't meet/confront Lena.... He (Shin) understood what kind of weight his words carried for Lena and how she came to "catch-up" to him and the others, but Shin felt like the state that he currently is in is not what Lena should see them in .... Purely me thinking too much into it maybe but what a beatifully written and directed moment it was, it was definitely worth waiting 86 days when the show aired... And ofc Hiroyuki Sawano doesn't disappoint in the music department...

[@maizeman90]

Hell yeah, time to cry again. Let's go!!!

[@VirtuousWanderer]

86 when you really think about it is just a show about having an online crush you never got to meet

[@douglasaccat]

I felt exactly like Cara when watching this episode. Yelled at the screen and everything. :D

[@functionc]

Its such a treat to be able to see other peoles reaction on this ep xD cant wait for the next one!!!

[@CPLChavez]

What's sad is this quietly came out in 2021 and did not get the publicity it should have. This is peak anime storytelling and animation. If this had gotten the publicity it deserved, more people would know about it and might have done more due to the public outcry and demands. This only covers the first 4 light novels in a series of 12 books. Absolutely loved your reactions and cannot wait for the final episode to come out on youtube. You are right, Shin needed to hear those words from someone and coming from Lena was all the more impactful for Shin. He always wondered why everyone left him and died before him. Well they fought to their end and died doing so. Shin always fought to the end and lived. He could never understand why, until Lena. Everyone else could fight to the end and the other be proud of their sacrifice and courage and should be remembered by the living. But Shin should be even more proud he fought to the end and lived, and could remember everyone who died before him. He was always thinking about it negatively and never in a positive mindset. Now he has a reason to keep fighting and keep living.

[@AICW]

It did not come out "quietly," the issue is that when this show began in Spring 2021 it was overshadowed by several other anime that were really, REALLY huge at the time. Shows like Higehiro, Nagatoro-san, Tokyo Revengers, and To Your Eternity. The same situation happened again in Fall 2021 when 86 was competing against Demon Slayer Season 2, Komi Can't Communicate, Mushoku Tensei, and JoJo Part 6. The reason why it feels like 86 didn't get a fair shake is because strangely enough, all of the shows above I mentioned except for Mushoku and DS have all sputtered out and died in terms of fandom.The online discussions of them have all evaporated and it left 86 with a case of survivorship bias that it didn't have at the time of airing.

[@alfredoarganaraz3149]

A decir verdad en Twitter fue tendencia el ep 21 ep22 y ep 23 y eso que hubo un parate de 3 meses entre el 21 y 22 en total fueron 86 días y para ser casi precisos en marzo justo en el día del reencuentro de shin y lena en el ep 23 La publicidad vino por donde nadie la vio

[@VirtuousWanderer]

Imagine how upset people were watching this as it aired. There was an 86 day delay between 21 and this ep

[@Toothless_10]

This episode is just beautiful.

[@deadline6149]

7:45 how i understand you, i was the same. 13:26 that did not age well 😂

[@pieperson444]

damn i need the next episode

[@jaxonavery976]

hearing prez say theres no way we get a reunion at the end of this season and laughing hysterically every time he says it LMAO

[@Kathxrsiz]

86 is super amazing, this episode is Peak of the anime

[@deadline6149]

Nothing beats the last 5 minutes of ep 23 tho.

[@fallthewolf8749]

if you liked this series you should check Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , really good show, 86 its REALLY similar to this one in story, but instead of spider tanks, theres robots. Iron-Blooded Orphans its like a separated series it doesnt have nothing with any other gundam series, so you can watch it without knowing about gundam! 😃

[@kwame31]

Y'all should have watched them back to back. At least you didn't have to wait 86 days for this episode. The tears...

[@genchan1224able]

当時、視聴者の全員が壁を殴りたかったと思うよ。あなたも同じです( *´艸｀)✨次で最終回なのが寂しい。

[@ErickAnime_]

Ohh yeah! Peak is coming!!!

[@marwanfudo998]

Not watching eps 22 and 23 together is just diabolical

[@aryapatel405]

Finale is finally coming

[@Akabendu-of3is]

The next episode... bring tissues

[@feureusacousticguitartrip1314]

watch the last episode handller one

[@jacobrasmussen2176]

Just wanted to give some more information on how spearhead squadron survived, as it wasn't just basic plot armor. Once again the anime only hints at what happened from the LNs outright stating it. The rest of spearhead squadron were off-screen so that is easy enough, but Raiden was never actually in his mech when he saved Shin in Ep 21. The reginleifs have an autopilot mode and that was what it was on while he jumped aboard Fido to escape the blast from the morpho, that is why he is next to Fido upside down in this episode.

[@leoboussami]

This is untrue. The autopilot thing is a myth that people keep spreading everywhere for some reason. It comes from a tweet by Asato where she said that "Raiden survived because he wasn't even in his mech" was her suggestion in a script meeting that got rejected immediately. In the anime they literally show him inside the cockpit seconds before the shot hits. So please, stop repeating information you never bothered to verify yourself.

[@qwirkt]

@@leoboussami Which is why Raiden looks a bit fucked up, bandages and all. They survived because Shin finally found squadmates that are also hard to kill, like him; as Raiden put it, "no one left you behind" this time

[@AICW]

@@leoboussami Just like the other lie they keep spreading about how there was an 86 day delay between eps 21 and 22. No there weren't, it was a 79 days from when the delay was announced and 76 days from when ep 21 aired.

[@leoboussami]

@@AICW The 86-day delay was between the announcement and episode 23 (from 23.12.2021 until 19.03.2022), so they aren't exactly right but eh, close enough. Funnily enough, almost the exact same time period passes during episode 23 itself, starting on 24.12 and ending on 20.03.

[@AICW]

@@leoboussami "Close enough" doesn't cut it because *nobody* ever claims that. The shills always repeat the easily debunkable lie of "we had to wait 86 days to see what happened next after episode 21!"

[@Alei-StR...]

Uhmmmm..

[@StellaStellaki]

episode 22 and 23 you sould watch together not like this...... anyway

[@CaraPrezReacts]

We did watch them together one right after the other, the videos are separate so we can edit them in time