12/22/2023 0 Comments Mythoughts and explorations blogHe offers the money that he wins as a bounty for anyone who can prove that they are a real spiritualist and that there is a one week deadline, as a kind of mirroring of how the series started. One year after the explosion, we’re shown Ueda winning yet another award. Before she does, she repeats to Ueda what Houdini said to his wife in the introduction animation. Wait! The beginning?! We’re talking about the end of the movie, right?Īt the beginning of the movie, we’re told about Houdini’s quest to find a real spiritualist so that he could contact his dead mother (something we’re told about at the beginning of the previous special too), and while on his death bed he told his wife, “ if there is an afterlife, then in one year I will find a way to contact you,” before he died.Īt the end of the movie, Naoko sacrifices herself so that a Tunguska event like explosion can be averted and everyone can get away to safety. That’s not to say that the puzzles/tricks in the earlier productions aren’t well thought out, but these ones were real head scratchers, reflecting Naoko’s ability to see through ore and more obtuse tricks. The gags where really funny (as is always the case with Trick), and the puzzles/tricks were really well though out. This is kept up in The Last Stage, by some of the Malaysians making the same finger pose and chanting, “Okaaaasamaaaaaa” while looking a paintings of Mother, which are dotted around their isolated village. One of the things that was telegraphed during the final special was that Mother (from the very first episode of Trick) has a sister, who is also a spiritualist and is looking for the people who brought down her sister. Along the way, Naoko meets up with Yabe (because a Trick movie without Yabe would be a strange beast indeed). ![]() The pair then fly off to Malaysia and travel to the isolated village. Real World) things, which then set up Naoko’s need to travel with Ueda. There was a wonderful scene, set at a Water World like amusement park, which had quick references to out of universe (i.e.
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