Zankyou no Terror Episode 6 Discussion

Arachnidango said:
Five's engrish was hilarious. All of the others who spoke english too were doing pretty well, but she really stuck out like a sore thumb.

Can't wait to see how their chess game plays out next week.

myronator said:
I liked the attempt at English, but it just came out slightly cringeworthy lol.

There really needs to be a good explanation for why Five is making them do this game instead of simply arresting them. I'm really really hoping this doesn't become something clichéd. There were several major flaws in this episode (eg. the idea that terrorists wouldn't be believed if they released a video saying they didn't do a bombing, in reality terrorists usually would release a statement either claiming the bombing or not). If it's going to be dumbed down for the rest of the season I'll still enjoy it, but it'll be disappointing. Hopefully things can pick up though and this game leads to a great payoff.

tirafesi said:
Those english skills though

Seems kinda wierd hearing them talking english lol

Arw said:
"Nine, that explosion wasn't our fault- " - really!? Is he an idiot? Who put the bomb in metro? Decide: either you are terrorists or not. If you are, then stop whinning and shifting the responsibility. If you are not - stop playing with bombs, that put civilians in danger.

BRK25 said:

They planned to disarm the entire bomb but the magnetic interference made them have to personally go and stop the explosion. They placed the bomb and ready to stop it from exploding.

Arw said:

So what? You think it's a good explaination, if someone actually die? If they don't want to kill anyone, they should stop playing with real bombs or prepare better (like confirming detonation 10 minutes before it blows up). They didn't expect that someone in police would outsmart them.

GSupernova said:
I'm not super jazzed about this episode. A lot more holes than pretty much every episode before it. I'm guessing a lot of this is due to the more classic-anime trope route this Five character is pulling the show in.


But that's not all - they should have done it in such a way to mock Five for such a simple riddle(stressing that Sphinx's riddles are difficult and sophisticated even if it isn't true), directly challenging her superiority complex. They also should have walked through the riddle and cracked it on video, stressing that there is a bomb in the airport and that the police should be evacuating it(why haven't the police done that already again? Does anyone not find that suspicious at all? I'm pretty sure it's not standard police procedure to find the bomb first when the culprit is a serial bomber). This places the blame on the police if anything goes wrong at the airport and hopefully prevents any civilian casualties as a result.

And the biggest problem of the entire episode is clearly the fact that Nine has no idea how to play chess. The rook slamming down on E6 was hilarious considering that's not a valid move and even if it was it would be the worst opening response by black in the history of chess. I know it's a mistake because the dialogue says F6 but they show it two separate times(once with the pawn there and then again with the rook by itself).

BRK25 said:

If the bomb goes off, it's the Japanese Police Department's problem cause America hasn't been shown yet to the public and everything would fall on their shoulders, not America. And at this angle, can assume America is the true terrorist. And the Police would be ordered by the higher ups to release a statement and express that it is a lie and they have already checked the airports and found nothing. Now, this would pull people off from working the Airports but not make everyone leave right away. Still, it wouldn't hurt. But then, one would be conflicted of a mass text and a video, be very strange and out of sync.

GSupernova said:


That's the point though. The police's higher ups are doing what they're doing(supposedly) because there's no risk to them because they can pin all of it on Sphinx. The public had no idea that the train bomb had been found and solved before it's detonation and that the police let it explode, it appeared that Sphinx just carried out their threat. So in order to counter this strategy, Sphinx has to directly challenge this perception(that the police simply didn't find the bomb). If the police failed to find the bomb after it's location was directly announced and it was detonated, there would be serious repercussions on the reputation of the police in the eyes of the public. It would be in the higher-ups best interest to start disarming bombs again, which defeats Five without direct intervention.

DerpHole said:
This whole "clutzy wife" schtick they've got going for the main chick is really irritating. Hopefully she stops being a timid cunt and grows some balls and does something badass at some point, like murdering that 5 chick.

The engrish was pretty awful. The english done by the voice actor of the blonde American is really good though. So good that I call it english instead of engrish

Arw said:
@BRK25 My opinion i: if someone die because of their bomb, they are guilty too. As for me if we assume Five takes 60% of responsibility (she doesn't care if someone die and allowed the bomb to explode), they take remaining 40%. Anyway, they are terrorist and they should be judged as such. I wonder if their cause is worth the price.
And honestly, I think in reality someone would already die (for example 9, being in the carriage with the bomb). :(

RediceRyan said:
Pretty good episode.
Wonder if the nuclear weapon will go off in this anime.
I doubt it.

GSupernova said:
I'm not super jazzed about this episode. A lot more holes than pretty much every episode before it. I'm guessing a lot of this is due to the more classic-anime trope route this Five character is pulling the show in.

First off, Sphinx's M.O. is very unusual and unique. It's nowhere near possible to flawlessly mimic it(the show didn't even attempt it in a completely fake world). The fact that no detective even for a moment considered the possibility of a copycat from super-sterile-business-like-text-message is ridiculous. It's such a jarring difference from the very set-in-stone video calling card, if I were a member of the public in the city where this was taking place, that would be the first thing I would have thought of. I'm guessing the only thing holding this plot hole up is that sending a mass-text to the entire city is a bit out of your average copycat's ability.

Second, announcing to the world that this is a copycat via a video would not be effective on it's own. However, that doesn't mean not doing it at all would be more worth it than doing it. If you're really concerned about public opinion enough to attempt to manually disarm two bombs when you know full-well it's a trap, releasing a video would not have hurt you any.

But that's not all - they should have done it in such a way to mock Five for such a simple riddle(stressing that Sphinx's riddles are difficult and sophisticated even if it isn't true), directly challenging her superiority complex. They also should have walked through the riddle and cracked it on video, stressing that there is a bomb in the airport and that the police should be evacuating it(why haven't the police done that already again? Does anyone not find that suspicious at all? I'm pretty sure it's not standard police procedure to find the bomb first when the culprit is a serial bomber). This places the blame on the police if anything goes wrong at the airport and hopefully prevents any civilian casualties as a result.

And the biggest problem of the entire episode is clearly the fact that Nine has no idea how to play chess. The rook slamming down on C5 was hilarious considering that's not a valid move and even if it was it would be the worst opening response by black in the history of chess. I know it's a mistake because the dialogue says F6 but they show it two separate times(once with the pawn there and then again with the rook by itself). Edit: Actually, looking at it again, it's even worse than I thought. The white pawn is actually on E4(not D4) in the mind game at first, then it moves to D4 and the rook they show slamming down is on C5 on the opposite side of the board as F6.

Fellener said:
Really great episode, setting up everything for a huge confrontation beatwin 5,9 and 12. The only thing that scares me is if they are going to use this plot with 5 for something, at first it seemed a little strange to introduce a "vilan" and i still dont think is really needed to move the history, but i hope they use it right.

Akanezora said:

I wonder what was supposed to mean the scene of Twelve watching the white feathers falling down? It could be that Twelve might feel something for Five as the white feathers were meant to be as the white feathers of the white crow in the opening?