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Xelkelvos posted:Unless I forgot something, I think there's the possibility that Kayo's disappearance and the kidnappings are unrelated. Kayo may have just run away from home and just froze to death. It's sort of been implied that they were all killed in the same way. And I think they'd notice if she'd froze to death after examining the body.
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AnoHito posted:It's sort of been implied that they were all killed in the same way. And I think they'd notice if she'd froze to death after examining the body. on the other hand... AnoHito posted:Oh the wonders of Showa Japan... 
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Jan 22, 2016 16:47
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It's nothing about the show itself, but I'm super loving Asian Kung Fu doing the OP for the show, it's so good
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Jan 22, 2016 17:02
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They said her body was found in the park after the snow melted, though. If she had run away she would probably have gone farther. I noticed they did the same thing with Kayo's parents as with the blond classmate, they briefly gave them red eyes, despite that not being their actual eye color. The anime seems to want us to think that "evil" people have red eyes.
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Jan 22, 2016 22:39
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Demicol posted:They said her body was found in the park after the snow melted, though. If she had run away she would probably have gone farther. Or possibly ones that our protagonist is filing as suspicious, given how much of the show is delivered through his perspective (with the tape-reel effects and everything).
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Jan 22, 2016 22:47
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Xelkelvos posted:I think the teacher is the kidnapper because he seems to have that vibe i get the same feeling. something about his demeanor is really unsettling
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Jan 23, 2016 03:01
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fwiw i also think that kenya is a red herring, although the scene featuring he and the teacher makes me wonder if he is loosely implicated in the killings somehow (perhaps as an accomplice or something idk)
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Jan 23, 2016 03:20
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two for the shoah posted:fwiw i also think that kenya is a red herring, although the scene featuring he and the teacher makes me wonder if he is loosely implicated in the killings somehow (perhaps as an accomplice or something idk) Well if the teacher is gonna be the bad guy, Kenya talking to him about something could be pretty drat important later. Like maybe he'll save the girl but Kenya dies in her place
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Jan 23, 2016 03:34
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I think it's too early to know who has which role, although it's fun to speculate. But Kenya obviously plays an important role and stands out as highly unusual for someone his age. He's either going to be a major bro, or an enemy.
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Jan 23, 2016 03:43
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Hmmm... I don't have much to say about this one. I guess that means it's good?
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Jan 23, 2016 04:39
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Cubemario posted:I think it's too early to know who has which role, although it's fun to speculate. But Kenya obviously plays an important role and stands out as highly unusual for someone his age. just to be clear i guess i should state that my posts consist entirely of speculation
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Jan 23, 2016 04:59
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If there's one thing I learned from Higurashi, it's that child protective services in Showa-era Japan were apparently hot garbage. Who knows if there's any truth to it. Show's real nice so far.
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Jan 23, 2016 07:02
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There was also that government run orphanage where the guy in charge molested everyone so it's not like child services was a safe haven during that time either.
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Jan 23, 2016 09:42
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Woo! In on the ground floor for once! This is a neat show so far. It reminds me a tad of Higurashi in the way it has incredibly bleak stuff hiding just under the surface of an otherwise benign universe. Can't wait for more!
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Jan 23, 2016 09:55
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I'm betting Kenya was the one who first noticed what's going on with the girl and is just telling the teacher what he knows. I don't want either of them to be crazy.
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Jan 23, 2016 11:55
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So am I confused or was one of the other 2 girls that were killed his one friend? Why hasnt that been brought up at all or have I forgotten a mention of it?
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DurosKlav posted:So am I confused or was one of the other 2 girls that were killed his one friend? Why hasnt that been brought up at all or have I forgotten a mention of it?  Hiromi Sugita is part of his group of friends. Also, he's a boy.
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El Burbo posted:
Are you sure? Is that manga stuff? I'm pretty sure she's just a tomboy. Edit: i don't actually want an answer.
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a kitten posted:Are you sure? Is that manga stuff? I'm pretty sure she's just a tomboy. I'm just going off what reddit said, but everyone else in the group is a boy so it seems resonable e: I haven't read the manga El Burbo fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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I've been waffling back and forth...the last time i saw her/him i became convinced she was a tomboy that they just think of as one of the boys. Now i'm unsure again, but i'm sticking to the anime only and not going to give in and read it. probably.
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Jan 23, 2016 20:26
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he's a boy
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a kitten posted:Are you sure? Is that manga stuff? I'm pretty sure she's just a tomboy.
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Jan 23, 2016 20:36
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He's a boy because his backpack is black. During this time, the standard is black backpacks for boys and red for girls. Also, the main character does mention that his friend is also a victim in the latest episode though it's only a side note.
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I've got a lot of theories about what's going to happen, but I'm only gonna say for now that whatever happens I'm pretty sure Hiromi will die regardless of time line shenanigans.
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There are like 6 notable shows airing this season and this one is easily the best despite clearly having the lowest budget of the lot. Can't wait for this to reach the final episode and resolve in a really bad way because there isn't enough source material 
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Jan 25, 2016 02:52
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It's doing the same thing Your Lie in April did, so it'll end at the same time as the manga. There'll be a proper ending. It might not be a good one, but it'll be one.
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I would just like to point out that the lack of proactive work from child services/police is because this is taking place in the 1980s. Things like choir practice did exist, and child rights were nothing compared to what they are now. I managed to get my gf to watch this show and get her hooked, I'm gonna mark this show as a great introductory to anime that isn't big-boobs pedophilic robot moe.
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Thor-Stryker posted:I managed to get my gf to watch this show and get her hooked, I'm gonna mark this show as a great introductory to anime that isn't big-boobs pedophilic robot moe. Sounds good bro
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yeah...having just watched episode 3 yesterday, i kept waiting for something egregiously dumb to happen, since people itt were like shouting at the screen to call the police. but it wouldn't surprise me at all for this stuff to happen ~40 years ago, or even in present time. i'm still really enjoying the balancing act the show manages to do with the slice of life stuff and the mystery/darker subjects. even if i really prefer the former. 
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Thor-Stryker posted:I managed to get my gf to watch this show and get her hooked, I'm gonna mark this show as a great introductory to anime that isn't big-boobs pedophilic robot moe. could you tell me the names of some of the shows that are big-boobs pedophilic robot moe? edit - just asking so i dont accidentally download and watch them
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:could you tell me the names of some of the shows that are big-boobs pedophilic robot moe? star citizen
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Endorph posted:star citizen Man, those Kickstarter rewards went to some strange places.
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dogsicle posted:yeah...having just watched episode 3 yesterday, i kept waiting for something egregiously dumb to happen, since people itt were like shouting at the screen to call the police. but it wouldn't surprise me at all for this stuff to happen ~40 years ago, or even in present time. It's definitely possible for it to happen in the US in a smaller town where state authorities are less present and local authorities may be a minor issue.
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Hokkaido is kind of considered the rear end end of Japan in general. It pretty much consists of nothing but small towns and the capital Sapporo. This problem is actually getting worse as time goes on, since 70% of the towns on the island are shrinking while more and more people flee for the big cities.
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I forgot it was set in Hokkaido, too. That's not, like, Alaska-levels of isolation but they're basically living in Japan's equivalent of a town in northern Maine. Complete with serial child murderer!
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I have a theory about Kenya: it's possible that he killed Satoru's mom, but that he won't be an antagonist in the show. People aren't born as serial killers, so even though in the original timeline he would grow up to become one, Satoru has the power to change that.
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My big crazy theory at the moment is that Katagiri is Hinazuki's sister, born after she was murdered. The dates kind of line up with our MC being 29 and her being in high school, the hair color is the same, and she's rather prominent in the OP along with Hinazuki and Satoru's mother. Which leads to my next crazy theory that only one of these three can be saved; the idea being that if Hinazuki lives past her abduction that triggers something in the timeline that prevents Katagiri from being born (probably because her mom doesn't need another child to beat on?). But if Satoru wants to save his mom, the Hinazuki continues to live with an abuser and eventually dies or commits suicide down the road. Also something going on with people's eyes. Red eyes show up in a few people, and in the OP pictures of those individuals are shown with their eyes scratched out, including a few other people who haven't really played much into the story yet (like Satoru's boss, although he did get a lingering shot at the end of Ep. 1). I initially thought the teacher was the killer both in the present and the past, but looking at the past victims and the present potential victims, they're all either girls or Hiromi. Hiromi threw this thread for a brief loop over whether he was a girl or boy, so I can see a killer easily making the same mistake as well. But keeping that in mind, the teacher wouldn't make this kind of mistake, unless him killing Hiromi was calculated to throw off any potential pattern. I dunno, I really enjoy thinking about this series and it's probably the first show I've watched where I don't immediately go to the source material to try and get a leg up on what's going to happen. I'm so excited to see if any of my theories hold any truth.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Ds3nVJ-ok&t=507s I mean the facts fit.
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Moldy Taxes posted:I initially thought the teacher was the killer both in the present and the past, but looking at the past victims and the present potential victims, they're all either girls or Hiromi. Hiromi threw this thread for a brief loop over whether he was a girl or boy, so I can see a killer easily making the same mistake as well. But keeping that in mind, the teacher wouldn't make this kind of mistake, unless him killing Hiromi was calculated to throw off any potential pattern. As mentioned earlier in the thread, nobody who saw Hiromi's backpack would make that mistake, meaning that the killer knew that he was a boy if he put ANY prepwork into it. Another possibility is that Yuuki (The young Michael Jackson impersonator) murdered Hiromi, but that someone else killed Aya and Kayo, and the latter (or someone related to them) is the one that came back out of the aether to get rid of Satoru's mom. As mentioned before, my biggest concern at the moment is trying to figure out exactly what cosmic injustice Revival is trying to thwart. There's no end of possibilities: 1. Kayo being killed. 2. Satoru's mother being killed. 3. Yuuki being executed for a crime he didn't comit 4. Satoru going to prison 5. Someone else getting murdered in the original timeline ,,, or any number of other, slightly less likely possibilities.
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I don't know. It seems like all those problems are tied to together and solving the child murders will save Yuuki and his mom (if her murderer is the same child murder which is likely). And if his mom doesn't get killed then he doesn't go to prison.Kytrarewn posted:As mentioned earlier in the thread, nobody who saw Hiromi's backpack would make that mistake, meaning that the killer knew that he was a boy if he put ANY prepwork into it. Then you have to consider that someone who knew Hiromi like Yuuki or the teacher could use that to throw the trail off since the murderer would have to be someone who didn't know Hiromi. Zettace fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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