The Amazing Digital Circus Ep 9 Summary
So I just finished watching the last episode of The Amazing Digital Circus in Brazillian portuguese.
Before the movie begins the ugly fish from the beach episode tells us to not spoil anything and wait until the end because there is a QR code for merch.
The episode starts with the group discussing Caine being deleted, Kinger affirms Caine was messing with the controls and that's probably what caused his deletion. Kinger seems to remember now about the brain scans, Jax snaps at everyone since they will never leave the circus.
Kinger starts trying to restore the Circus, he and Ponmi try to fix a hole on the floor and are joined later by Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble. While the group works Jax tries to approach Ponmi but he gives up talking to her.
We then cut to Jax being abstracted.
The girls and Zooble discuss what they could have done to help Jax. Gangle laments she can't even cry for him.
Ponmi then gets a gun and lures the abstracted Jax into one of the corridors with their private rooms, she shoots all the lights and throws herself at Jax. She enters some kinda of pocket dimension inside Jax where different doors show how Jax thought he was perceived by each Circus member. The scenario where Ragatha abstracts is the darkest one since it's just Jax trying to strangle Ponmi. We are shown the Zooble one where Gangle abstracts and Zooble blames Jax, they have a looney tunes like chase that ends with Zooble falling from a cliff. In the Gangle one Zooble abstracts and Gangle is wearing her fast food happy mask and bossing everyone in how to prepare Zooble's funeral, Jax is wearing his maid outfit and offers the key to his room to Gangle so they can "meet" later.
We then cut to a break room where we see the two Jax from the previous scenarios and a piano player Jax. After they leave the piano player Jax offers Ponmi the key to get to the real Jax.
Ponmi sees a recap from Jax life in the circus, he was very good friends with Ribbit and Kaufmo and was even friendly with Ragatha. One day while Jax and Ribbit discuss their lifes outside the circus Jax admits his parents divorced while he was in high school and the dad left never to be seen again. He constantly fought with his mother, who called him a "less man" when he didn't fight back and "bad just like his father" when he retaliated. One day they had a pretty bad fight and Jax pushed his mom, he isn't sure if she died in the fall or not since he took off and became homeless.
Ribbit says if the police never went for him his mother is probably okay, she says his secret is safe with her and wraps her ribbon around his ear. Kaufmo suddenly knocks at the door and Jax get weird, throwing the ribbon on the floor. His relationship with Ribbit gets worse, with him antagonizing her and saying that the story about his mother was a lie and she was dumb for falling for it, isolating her from the rest of the group until their adventure in some snowy cliff where Jax say some pretty mean stuff to her which causes her to abstract.
Jax assumes that mean persona after that and berates Kaufmo for thinking there is a way to escape, which leads to the pilot episode abstraction. We also see Jax just being a cunt to everyone in the circus and his POV of his fight with Ponmi in the gun episode.
Ponmi then wakes up to see the real inner Jax, she embraces him and says that she should have been there for him. Jax says she is only making things worse but Ponmi encourages him to vent. He admits hating her but is really sad to losing his sanity and that he doesn't want to go away. Ponmi is then rescued by her friends, who say they would never let her solve everything alone.
They make a shack and lure the abstracted Jax into staying there. That's when Gangle finally cries for him.
We then cut to Caine in the void, he has conflicting feelings about being deleted, but ends up admitting he was wrong. He gets rid of the blue AI he absorbed before and ends up getting acess to the brain scans, finding out the real name of each character and their social media. While at the beach he has some dialogue with the flirty moon and she says he loves him(even though he never taught her to do that), then he goes back to the circus, ask for forgiveness and show them the lifes their original selves live:
Abigail, Suzie(Ragatha), Zoe/Zoey(Gangle), Riley(Zooble), Grant(Kinger) and Leroy(Jax).
Ponmi still does urban exploration and even brings friends with her now.
Ragatha left her town and cut contact with her mother, she is very happy.
Zooble opened a bar.
Gangle got hit by a truck, but after recovering she became a designer and posts her webcomic online.
Jax got back at his feet, becoming a delivery driver. Caine tells them Jax is a costumer at Zooble's bar.
Kinger has two girls with his wife, he still works in IT.
Caine starts calling them their real names, but Abigail says there in the circus she is just Ponmi.
We then have some scenes of Caine letting all the adventure portals free to come and go, Ragatha plays softball with Ponmi and Caine, Zooble opens a bar in the circus and makes drinks (even for Caine), they all have good moments together and some of the abstractions now live in the Aquarium in the losers' lounge from the gun episode.
The penultimate scene is the real people from the circus waiting at a bus stop together.
The last scene is just Ponmi walking alone in the circus and waving at the viewers.
If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
There was no reference to Bubble, she is there in the void but doesn't talk and has no face lol. We don't see her anymore in the circus which is weird because she was there after Caine "death".
My main issue is there is nothing about how the main cast besides Kingler had their brains scanned. Zooble and Ponmi were urban explorers and Jax was homeless but Agatha was with people when she put the headset and Gangle was in the hospital after her accident. Were they the only only ones brave enough because life was pointless for them? What about Ribbit and Kaufmo?