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Fantastic Children Episode 13 - Memories of Girishia

WARNING - MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. This episode provides honking great backstory details, so read ahead at your own peril. I have no opinion other than my usual gushing fanboyism over Fantastic Children being heightened by the disclosures in this episode, so don't worry about missing out on anything important on that front. This show, frankly, rocks my socks.

To the extended entry!

The Children and the Intrepid Trio head back to Kokkuri, where the Children use a special machine to determine that Helga is indeed the reincarnation of Tina. They then actually reveal some details about what the heck is going on after all this time...

The Children and Tina are from a planet hundreds of light years away known as Girishia (Greece, if you wish). An undisclosed tragedy occurred that led the Children, who were great scientists, to transport Tina's spirit to Earth via a machine called the "Autozone" - the Zone is where spirits go when their bodies die to be reincarnated, and there are different Zones for different places, and the scientists sent Tina to Earth's Zone. The scientists also sent themselves to Earth, but need to continually rebuild and use the Autozone in order to keep themselves reincarnating, whereas Tina dies and is reborn naturally for some reason. The Children wish to return the spirit of Tina inside Helga to Girishia, but this involves killing Helga by use of the Autozone.

The shadow creatures chasing the Children and Kirchner are known as "Enma", forces which seek to restore balance to the Zone. Kirchner upset the order of nature by dying and then reincarnating immediately in the same body with memories of his previous life, which the Children are doing to some extent with their constant reincarnation and accessing of their memories, but they are capable of fighting them off (and obviously staving off the effects by their constant reincarnation).

After much deliberation and disagreement on the parts of Thoma and Chit, Helga decides she wants the Children to unlock her memories and return her to Girishia - it is what she's been searching for all this time, after all. Meanwhile, Duma stands before a glass case containing what appears to be Tina's body from Girishia, calling her "Big Sister"...