The Netflix-exclusive supernatural drama series Girl from Nowhere ended its second season on a shocking cliffhanger involving complex character Junko that left more questions than answers. The Thai series concerns a supernatural entity named Nanno who goes to various schools exposing the lies and hypocrisy of the students and staff. Girl from Nowhere season 2 upped the ante and added a protégé for Nanno in the form of student, Yuri, and the pair quickly had a falling out over another student named Junko. For its first season as a Netflix exclusive, Girl from Nowhere took its already fascinating premise and made it all the more engaging by exploring deeper themes.
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Praised for its unconventional approach to storytelling and skewering of contemporary social structures, Girl from Nowhere season 2 stood in a class all its own. By adding elements of the supernatural to classic revenge movie plots, the series had a conventional grounding for its very unconventional story. Along with the fascinating characters of Nanno and Yuri, the ending of Girl from Nowhere season 2 put the character of Junko in the spotlight, and it seems as if she will be a large focus going forward. Junko represents a rogue element in Nanno's well-ordered scheme, and if Girl from Nowhere ever gets a season 3, it will certainly explore that fallout.
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Yuri Gave Nanno's Blood To Junko To Make Her Immortal
As shown in Girl from Nowhere season 2, episode 8 "The Judgment", Junko was a student who had been kept under the sway of her mother using debilitating drugs. She was relegated to such a state because she had violent tendencies that led her to commit murder, and it was clear that Nanno was completely conflicted about the relationship between Junko and her mother. However, the revenge-obsessed Yuri had no such hangups about Junko and actually swapped the medicine so that the student could recover from her illness. This led Junko to exact violent vengeance against her mother, and Nanno was caught in the crossfire as well.
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Further stirring the pot, Yuri put some of Nanno's blood on Junko's lips which allowed her to become a supernatural entity much in the same way that Nanno had previously done with her. This transfer of power represents Nanno's original vision getting completely skewed, and offers a complicated analysis of Nanno's entire quest for revenge. The introduction of Yuri represented the evil possibilities of Nanno's ideology, and it seems as if her past mistakes had finally become full-fledged disasters as her powers were spread between Yuri and Junko. Nanno questioned her place as a neutral observer in season 2, but Yuri and Junko were not plagued by such existential quandaries.
Is Nanno Alive?
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The best shows on Netflix represent a diverse mix of contemporary and classic programming, and Girl from Nowhere season 2 exemplifies a unique approach to its narrative that few shows have attempted. Nanno isn't a normal protagonist, and her anti-hero status was further complicated during season 2 as it was revealed that there might actually be many Nannos in the world, each exacting a measure of revenge against those who deserve it. That revelation is particularly important when analyzing the ending of Girl from Nowhere season 2, after Nanno was brutally stabbed to death by Junko.
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Because of her existential crisis, Nanno sustained injuries that weren't healing, a fact not lost on Yuri. Because of Nanno's apparent weakening, her "death" at the hands of Junko had an air of permanence that all of her previous fatal injuries did not. With a sad smile on her lips, Nanno appeared to have died in "The Judgment", but then she was seen again watching over Yuri and Junko. It could be that another Nanno had risen to take the place of the fallen one, or it could be that the previously weakened Nanno was reinvigorated by her death and was back for revenge against the other two.
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The Real Meaning Of Girl From Nowhere's Season 2 Ending
As with the rest of the show, the ending of Girl from Nowhere season 2 had a much deeper meaning that a simple shocking twist. The show spends a lot of its time subverting teen drama tropes, but season 2 had the chance to delve much deeper and actually analyze the character of Nanno and question the correctness of her complicated sense of morality. On one hand, Nanno learned a valuable lesson at the end of season 2 that showing sympathy would only lead to her death, and one interpretation of the finale could be that she returned with a new certainty in her own revenge.
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However, it could also be seen as a condemnation of Nanno from the very beginning, and season 2's raucous finale was everything unraveling around her as it was destined to happen. Either way, by injecting a bit of fallibility into the character of Nanno, Girl from Nowhere season 2 was much more interesting and opened the door for possibilities surrounding the character's growth going forward. Ultimately, by trying to root out evil and expose it, Nanno accidently created more evil that was then unleashed on the world in the form of Yuri and Junko.
