GokuNazz said:I still can't understand the plot.
Anyone willing to do a recap or TL;Dr thinggy, please with cherry on top? :|
Also what's the connection of the mass murder to all of the stuff that has been happening since EP1 and EP2.
welp, I'm lost
The way I see it:
1) On 1st of March, a lot of people are found in a lake, drowned or maybe dumped there by a serial killer. It seems that it all happened overnight.
2) It seems to be 256 dead people in the original timeline, and mysterious people are trying to save them in February.
Is seems that by the end of episode 3, they might have saved about a hundred of them, as there seem to be only 51+100 corpses in the lake.
3) It seems that Professor Hashigami was in the epicenter of the plot, and he was tortured and killed. It is unclear who did it, and if that person learned anything from the professor.
Professor was a well-known student of the occult, and he believed occult relevant to Nicola Tesla's works.
Wild guess: as his son has said, many people who claim occult powers are either crazy, or intentionally lying about their powers.
Murder of 256 people was an experiment to check their powers, because, if they are real, surely they would be able to predict their own death and do something about it.
4) A bunch of young people seem relevant to making things right. Quite possibly they are part of the 256 dead people in the lake.
By the order on MAL characters page:
Miyuu "Myu" Aikawa - idol prophet of moderate fame on the internet. People occasionally try to debunk her online, and she still suffers from her inability to save her father in spite of her gift.
Her best friend mysteriously disappears at the end of episode 2, giving her a personal stake in the incident.
Yuuta Gamon - occult blogger who seems to suffer from anxiety disorder or something like that. After seeing Professor's dead body, and having his radio talk to him, he's got even more mentally unstable, to the point of trying to fit the key he got out of the Professor into any keyhole he sees.
Hashigami Sarai - son of the Professor and a hardline skeptic. He is on bad terms with Professor due to their differences over the occult. It seems that appearances and reputation are more important to him than truth.
Aria Kureinaino/Ria Minase - after her parents' death, she lived alone with her brother, bullied by other children, and sexually harassed by teachers. Her brother died in a surgery to transplant one of his kidneys to Ria, but she refused to accept his death, living with his corpse for a year. Now she sells curses as Crimson Aria, and talks to some mysterious transparent being. It is not clear how this being is related to her dead brother, and if he did impersonate her brother for a year. And if this being is real or just another delusion.
Moritsuka, Shun - the young detective. He is older than he looks, and he is working with whoever is trying to save the 256 people. We see him going all over the place, talking to all the other people, apparently trying to resolve something. One of the things he's after is a list of all the 256 people who are to die. Maybe the people he's working with aren't from the future, they just get vague predictions.
Ryouka "Ryoutasu" Narusawa - the big-breasted scatterbrained girl who is a friend of Gamon. For a few seconds we have heard her being serious this episode, so her usual personality might be fake, and her true agenda unknown.
Ririka Nishizono - the doujin mangaka. She seems to be a prophet too, but she doesn't do predictions for others, she draws manga based on what she has seen. Pretty good at being feminine and mysterious.
Touko Sumikaze - the journalist working for an occult magazine. She, too, is a prophet, and has seen the lake incident. From a victim's perspective. She also seems to get along well with the Professor, and knew much of what he was doing.
5) The episode ends with a lot of these people getting a mysterious phone call. Did someone gather them up to solve the puzzle? Is it a killer setting up a trap?
rsc-pl said:What is wrong with the noses? While everything looks just good, all noses are drawn just weird.
I am sure they did it to please @DrGeroCreation - he loves noses.
Daniel_Naumov said:Flawfinder said:I fail to understand what learning about this girl's brother issues added to the story. It didn't make her interesting. It has no ties to the main plot. It has nothing to do with the occult. It wasn't entertaining. You could have cut it out and nothing would have changed.
On a side note, I just finished rewatching the first Danganronpa anime. Funny how that botched adaptation had more characterization and intrigue in its opening episode than Occultic had in three. Was supposed to make you sick looking at her, but well, different cultures different standards. She will not be the top winner in that nomination, that is for sure.
And the whole show should have not had the ;, associating it with Steins;Gate etc. is a little... cringe inducing.
Compare it to Chaos;Head, and everything will make sense. It's very much like Chaos;Head.
Jack_Corvus96 said:how the hell would you make a self-transplant of kidney all by your own? thats plain Lunacy lol
No, proper doctors did it in a proper hospital. They still failed, and the brother died.
ichii_1 said:Gamotan losing his calm and a devil brings him back?
Devil bringing him back is an unexpected explanation. I like it.
Thanatos said:I enjoyed pretty much this entire episode, except the dream sequence with the MC. Which... well just wandering around Japan(I assume?) just throwing a tooth-key into random keyholes seems quite inefficient.
Nothing about Gamon is "efficient". It just shows how crazy he is at the moment.
gentongz said:btw, love to see Gamo character went from annoying cheerful to paranoid in just 3 episodes, i wonder how it goes
He wasn't okay from the start. He did call himself a NEET, even though he is in school, right? He was just trying to convince himself that what he was doing was the right thing. Just like that time this episode when he was walking down the street and convincing himself people weren't looking at him.
tatata said:just how many people can dream the future?
How about every single one of them? |