Suicide Ballad Episode 1 Discussion

Piper Pawz said:
Ok so i think i understand what happened. So the beginning where she goes to the woman on the building is in the future ( we will get back to this in a second.) the beginning is actually at 0:45 , where you can see her hair is ragged, and she is waiting for the man to come to the train, where the boy (lets call him Jisatsu, the Japanese word for suicide) saves him. The spirit (lets call her Yobo, which i believe stands for prevention? i am probably wrong but suicide prevention yall) becomes ecstatic that someone had been saved from suicide. She decides to start taking care of herself at 1:17 by cutting and braiding her hair (this is important later) , and follows Jisatsu home out of curiosity. she later finds that he does not have a very easy life, but does the best he can with it.


One day, Yobo decides to go into Jisatsu's house where she finds him looking sullen and lifeless, his eyes dead. she goes to his poster and finds a picture him and a woman (most likely mom or close relative), who Yobo realizes was the woman on the building she pushed off. I believe the lady killed her self out of guilt, doubt or despair that her husband wanted to live. Why do i think that? at 0:34 , you can see a man that is running towards the woman, who i believe is her husband, and the man who almost killed himself at 0:57 . They have relativley similar hairstyles and clothing choices, so i believe that Jisatsu saved the man because he is a father/father figure and loves him dearly, which helps explain why he looks so relieved he saved the man. I can also tell that the cutscene with the woman in the beginning of the clip can be shown it was from the future because of Yobo's clearly braided hair, from later in the story.


Yobo quickly realizes she had just killed someone dear to Jisatsu, and now her beacon of hope has been destroyed due to her own fault as a spirit of death. Jisatsu goes to walk in front of a train, in the same fashion as the man he saved did (another reason i think they may be somehow related) and time stops, so Yobo can push him. but instead, she pulls him. She pulls him to saftey, and he feels relieved that he survived, then feels immideatley terrible that he feels he deserves to live. Yobo is so happy that she was able to save him, but as a spirit of death, if one meant to die lives, then another must perish, and she fades away into nothingness...



(sorry if this is wrong or bad grammar this is like at 12 am and i am half asleep)