Some details of Mujica EP 5 you might overlooked
Just finished EP 5 of Ave Mujica and felt like there're a lot to dig deep into, so I'm sharing some subtlety I found during the watchthrough:
- Uika's finding out Saki left
After the major setback from Mortis in EP 4 Saki has truly become helpless and in a sense lost/maigo, which is ofc captured by Uiks. In this scene she was about to knock the door before entering the apartment (as she would usually do) (this is also a sign showing she really cares about personal/private space of Saki), but after a short hesitation she directly entered without notice: unlike the usual passive move she's been taking, here she tried to be more proactive and hope her pudding strat will bring Saki back. But it was too late. tbh when I saw the words from Saki for a moment I thought it was her last words. No wonder Uika would be that panic seeing the note.
- TV show Nyamu's on
There's a lot to say about this scene. First, we can see the TV was in Saki's father's bedroom. Would it be so, then, that Saki's father somehow suddenly decided to figure out what ex-Mujica members were doing after disbandment? Given what a jerk Saki's father was, my feeling here is it's highly unlikely: maybe it's just he turned on the TV during daytime and left it on the whole day while being drunk, and as the time for nighttime show arrives the show just went on air. Second, about the TV show itself, we see the host asking Nyamu about her unique background, and Nyamu responded with the Mujica doll backstory, which seemed to surprise the host (a more accurate translation of the line "do you want to start from there" would actually be "do you REALLY want to start from there"), implying there's been quite a bit of time since the disbandment of Mujica, and the host wasn't ready for such a long story about to come. Nonetheless, the host went on asking what Nyamu was doing before Mujica, which a) was trying to satisfy Nyamu's wish to begin with a story long long ago, and b) seemed to be (un)consciously avoiding mentioning details of Mujica: after all, maybe the disbandment is still kinda cringe to bring about even after this long, and maybe there is just not much to talk about, as the disbandment was so sudden and without a reason.
- A very interesting pair of shots revealing Saki's feelings
There's a scene where Saki crumpled the notes from Tomori and left it by the water sink in the kitchen. At first thought this was a somewhat weird shot to me, but after I saw the second scene it all made sense. We see Saki leaving her tea cup at the same position after finishing the tea, and this implies Saki might be used to put everyday items/utensils at that very position, just so that she can conveniently pick up these things at hand whenever she wants to. So if crumpling the note shows her effort to isolate her inner world from outside attempts of Tomorin to have a heartfelt communication, putting the note within her reach means somewhere in her heart, she's still hoping for someone to pull her out of all these shits, and that Tomorin's notes did go through the fake defensive shell Saki wraps herself around and rooted in Saki's bottom of heart.
- Saki touching her piano after going back to Togawa's mansion
This was again something I did not expected. When Saki was about to touch the piano I was expecting it to be full of dust, and I was expecting Saki to be prepared to see a piano full of dust, but it was not! On the exact contrary it was so clean you can see Saki's hand reflecting on the surface of piano as she touches it. This very likely means Saki's grandfather was still asking servants to take care of all Saki's belongings, including the piano. Combined with her grandfather's words in car that he had paid off the compensation for ending the tour prematurely, we can see he is indeed showing his care to Saki in his own way.
- Evidence that Mutsumi was never given care at home
From the teaser we get to see what Mutsumi's room is like. Shattered around are toys and dolls and books with mostly pictures and few words, indicating Mortis might be mentally still a kid. We also see the curtain was all torn apart, that the plants, desk, and lamp are all on the ground. Which naturally leads to the question: how in the world did her servants and parents not discover her problem? Did they not even hear the noises made when the furnitures were smashed? Well maybe they're just so reckless they aren't even willing to pay a single bit of attention to Mutsumi's mental health.