86 Episode 10
Added 2025-10-23 18:02:08 +0000 UTCComments
To anyone who really wants to know more about the fido situation I highly suggest the light novels as they explain it well. And anime only covers the first 3 novels. Fidos origins are specifically talked about in volume 10 if you are only interested in learning about him.
Jonathan Renner
2025-12-15 16:06:15 +0000 UTCSame!
The Anime Dude
2025-11-07 06:10:08 +0000 UTCOne of the big flaws of 86 (so far in the 2 seasons) is that it only really focuses on Shin and Lena. The other characters are kinda just there, and are there to facilitate Shin's growth or exposit lore.
Ethereal
2025-10-26 09:31:56 +0000 UTCI kinda am surprised, but the Killua one was overlaid with tension and the narrator kinda confused things. This one was an emotional recap of Spearhead Squadron's highs and lows. Even beyond that, the connection between Gon and Killua is a personal one between the two of them, so while it's touching, it's a connection that's inherently exclusive to them.
Renegade
2025-10-26 03:19:56 +0000 UTCThe Fido sequence is probably my favourite part of the entire show. So much to unpack in there, while it also serves as a clever way to recap our memories with the spearhead squadron!
Zilleyon
2025-10-26 02:29:12 +0000 UTCI'm surprised Wes got emotional during the ending here, but in Hunter x Hunter he was casually talking over the scene where Killua was bawling his eyes out..
Lyraden
2025-10-25 23:30:06 +0000 UTCFIDO NOOOOOOOOOOOO
nordquist7516
2025-10-24 18:15:18 +0000 UTCyes please this and takopi I'm crying every time I'm watching them, Made in abyss would break me and them too please watch it x'D
TheSlothSmile
2025-10-24 16:29:34 +0000 UTCI... never noticed that last photo of Fido. Wow amazing attention to detail! Thanks for the reaction. While Shin is a great main character, I do wish there was more moments with Raiden. Of the cast, he is probably my favorite character. He always brings a unique viewpoint. Sometimes, I do think this show can be a bit... much with the emotional knife. It was brilliantly done, I did not think I could re-feel for characters who have had only one line.
Dawud Knight
2025-10-24 13:17:01 +0000 UTCI wasn't sure I agreed that Fido is Annettes dad because of the angle of the picture, Shin is holding something small in his hands in the grass, but if it was something related to the para-raid thing, then I think you're onto something. It could be old footage from a camera or a machine that he later implemented π«’ Noooo~~~ this hurts my heart~ Also, on the note of "surprised he has so much peace after accepting death." You'd be surprised, but I feel that being afraid of death makes life harder, and I think if not for my religions respect and acceptance of death, when I attempted suicide, I wouldn't have gotten help. I think all the flowery language around death and the distancing from it through idealisations of what happens after you die, and such kind of makes it easier to both die and be afraid of death. But when you are closer to it and look at it at face value, it's easier to both accept that it's a part of life and that when you die, you go back into the universe (I believe this spiritually speaking, like with reincarnation, but I also mean scientifically, the energy thumb print that was you carries on and what you were goes on to feed other life forms and birth new life forms) but also, it's easier to look at the reality that death is painful and permanent. It's an escape, but it's also the end of possibility to enjoy the things you enjoy. When it's not your time, you are effectively taking something away from yourself if you end your life. I think Animism has really helped me in this regard and is why I find animistic religions like Shinto are so beautiful in their love for life and death as equal concepts, and view life as even more beautiful for its impermanence. It's all about balance of light and dark and how the light wouldn't be as loved if the dark was gone. It's just a difference in perspective that I feel teaching people to fear death really robs people of. I've had a lot of people ask me "how can you think this way/like these things? Doesn't it make you depressed?" When in reality, honoring death or liking my gothic things keeps my depression at bay. It makes me appreciate what I have or can have, and it also makes me feel less like an outsider with topics of psychology and mental health and studying my disabilities. Instead of looking at the "positive" that could be if only i could be like everyone else, looking at other people and seeing them happy and wondering why I wasn't allowed to be, I can sort of.. flip the script I guess and bask in the weirdness and come to terms with "It's ok to not be ok" allowing me to release some of that toxic positivity that comes from people who think "life should be all sunshine and rainbows and talking about mental illness or death is just being negative" Sorry this is my unfiltered ADHD brain spiral so I got a bit off track lol but anyway, getting closer to the macabre, the dark the way Shin has after running from it for so long or even chasing it like an enemy, it makes perfect sense to me that he'd be more at peace and can enjoy life and see the beauty in it, and bask in it despite how limited his time is because I've experience the same and so I always recommend people challenge their fears of death. Even went to a mummy museum recently with real preserved people that had a similar message and it really impacted my case worker who took me π he was a mess afterwards, but then we had a really good talk about it at the park after that kinda went like what I've expressed in my absurdly rambly comment π honestly ya'll, I should just start collecting my comments to you and showing them to my therapist π I do a better job typing these things out here than I do trying to think of things on the spot when they ask me "so what do you want to discuss/work on today?" Lol
Chels
2025-10-24 00:25:26 +0000 UTCRIP Fido π PS. We need Made in Abyss to complete our depression arc π₯²
Rostislav
2025-10-24 00:12:09 +0000 UTCSomething that hasn't been pointed out often is that the direction / storyboarding for the show is excellent. Especially when you consider it's the director's first-time. He knows how to make a scene emotionally poignant through his shots and framing.
Ethereal
2025-10-23 21:38:35 +0000 UTCThis show murders me everytime, man.
Drake Chuckle
2025-10-23 21:24:11 +0000 UTCThis is my fave episode because of the Fido Scenes. Made me fucking cry because of a robot π€
Jin Noodles
2025-10-23 20:26:03 +0000 UTCReally nice catch with the Fido scene. Many reactors I've watched did not catch that "older" Fido memory with Shin, Annette, and Rei. Love the speculation all around and the commentary about Shin's mindset and how different he was in this episode. Regarding Wes' speculation about Fido being Annette's father...well, we can see from that old memory/image from Fido that it was before the war since Shin and Annette were still friends. And we know that Annette's father didn't die until the war was under way since 86 children were being used to develop the ParaRAID (pointing to the lack of human rights for said children). So that would seem to contradict the timeline of that Fido memory. And it would be the same issue for the speculation of Fido being Shin's father. We know that Shin's parents were likely killed in action (we see the Casualty Notification for presumably Shin's mother in episode 8). So that would again not line up with Fido's memory from 2138. And the memory was a recorded image, machine like...and not what we would typically assume to be a human perspective. The real hint is the angle of Fido's image. Notice the grass in the shot. The perspective was from an angle from the ground looking up. Hmm... **EDIT: I paused the video at 27:41 to make this comment...only to see after I finished and when I continued watching that you both ended up reasoning out that a "puppy" would make more sense. LOL - nice job! That said, there is definitely something special about Fido. And that whole ending sequence was one of the masterstrokes of the direction for this anime. Someone else pointed this out but the focus on Fido was not actually in the source material. And the way it was blended into the episode with seeing Fido's perspective in a sort of life flashing before its eye was amazingly done. RIP Fido - 10/30/2148
JJR10
2025-10-23 19:47:44 +0000 UTC
