Episodes 10 and 11 of Momentary Lily deliver shocking revelations about the girls’ identities and the world they inhabit, challenging their understanding of reality and pushing them to confront a cruel truth. The episodes aired in March of 2025, continuing the Winter 2025 anime season.
Yuri Returns, Leading to Underground Secrets (Episode 10)
Episode 10, titled “Another One and Insufficient Canned Food,” picks up directly after the previous episode’s cliffhanger, with the girls spotting Yuri, who was thought to be dead [4, 8, 10]. Determined to uncover the truth behind Yuri’s reappearance, Team Emyu tracks her into a subway system, eventually discovering a hidden, highly advanced underground facility [7, 8, 10].
Inside the Facility:
- The facility is filled with pods and a large pillar structure at its center [7, 10].
- The girls encounter doppelgangers of themselves within the pods [7, 10]. These doppelgangers possess different memories but are otherwise nearly identical to the original Team Emyu [10].
- The reappearance of Yuri is explained when the girls meet another Yuri, along with doppelgangers of the rest of Team Emyu. They realize they are copies [10].
- Renge experiences a vision and remembers meeting Nerine before losing her memories [7, 10]. Nerine was Yuri’s friend and died fighting a Wild Hunt, entrusting her Andvari to Renge and asking her to deliver a message to Yuri [7, 16]. Renge’s memory flashes are revealed to be Nerine’s memories, which were transferred to Renge through the Andvari [10].
- Renge remembers living with Nerine, who almost died from a Wild Hunt attack [16].
- Nerine’s Andvari was then held by Renge, and when he grabbed Andbari, Nerine’s memory came into Renge’s head, and Renge lost his memory as Nerine’s memory was covered over Renge’s memory [16].
Unreasonable Truths and a Dying Body (Episode 11)
Episode 11, “Kappou Together With That Untouchable Girl,” sees Team Emyu diving deeper into the mysteries of the facility and confronting their origins.
Unveiling the Truth:
- Hinageshi uses her Andvari to hack into the facility’s system [2, 7, 17].
- The girls encounter an AI that takes the form of Yuri [3, 7]. The AI reveals the “unreasonable and cruel truth” about the facility’s purpose and the girls’ existence [2, 17].
- The AI explains that facilities like this one are located all over the world [3].
- These facilities were created by higher beings to study life on different planets under varying conditions [3].
- If a civilization thrived, the facilities and Wild Hunts would erase them, preserving their culture and world, which would then be tended to by Rats [3].
- The facilities collect information to create copies of bodies and memories to create stronger weapons [2, 17]. These copies are then sent back to the original’s location with their memories intact [17].
- Team Emyu is revealed to be copies, and the AI declares Renge to be the only human among them [3].
Renge’s Condition:
- The AI explains that Renge is not a copy but a human who was modified by Nerine’s Andvari [3].
- Before dying, Nerine ordered her Andvari to give Renge power [3]. The Andvari manifested within Renge, modifying her body to function like a copy while retaining her human side [3].
- As a result, Renge’s body is dying from the inside [3]. The modifications placed a massive burden on her, and her body is rapidly deteriorating [3, 17].
Facility Shutdown and Looming Threat:
- An autonomous system initiates a deletion process [3, 17].
- The AI, Yuri, is also being deleted [3].
- Before disappearing, the AI warns them that the facility will shut down completely, deactivating the remaining copies [17].
- The Wild Hunts’ restriction from entering the facility is lifted, meaning Balor will inevitably come [17].
- Hinageshi reveals the information gained from the hacking, explaining that because of their intrusion, the facility is no longer safe [17].
Implications and Questions
Episodes 10 and 11 of Momentary Lily raise several questions and implications:
- The Nature of Reality: The revelation that Team Emyu are copies throws their entire existence into question. What does it mean to be a copy versus the original? Do their experiences and feelings hold any value? [15]
- Renge’s Fate: Renge’s rapidly deteriorating condition raises concerns about her survival. Can anything be done to save her, or is she doomed to die?
- The Higher Beings: Who are these higher beings, and what are their motivations for studying and erasing civilizations?
- The Wild Hunts’ Purpose: How do the Wild Hunts fit into the higher beings’ plan? Are they simply tools for destruction, or do they have a more complex role?
- The Master Controller: The AI doesn’t know who is in charge, only that the goal is to observe life on different planets [3]. Who is the master controller, and what will they do now that the facility has been compromised?
- The Future of Team Emyu: With the facility shutting down and Balor on its way, what will Team Emyu do next? Can they find a way to survive and uncover the truth behind their existence? [3, 7]
- Nerine’s Will: Renge wants to help and save Renge. Will the team fullfill Nerine’s will?
The episodes leave viewers with a sense of uncertainty and dread as Team Emyu faces an increasingly bleak future. The revelations about their identities and the world around them have shattered their previous understanding of reality, forcing them to confront difficult questions about life, purpose, and survival.
