Kawagoe Boys Sing Episode 9 Discussion

"Funny, IT-kun didn't seem to react to him as if he knew who it was..."

This is a load of nonsense.

As soon as IT sees his dad in the previous episode the camera shows a shocked and embarrassed closeup of him and then cuts to a slow zoom of his dad clearly implying a connection. 13:10 if you want a timestamp.

Then afterwards, once they're outside of the building and hus dad is being talked to by the police we see every boy staring at him apart from IT-kun who is looking away (20:55). Then it cuts to a closeup of IT-kun looking down appearing embarrassed and sad.

Not only was their relationship hinted, it could only have been more obvious by having the dad hold up a sign saying "I AM IT-KUN'S DAD"

Because it's my only account?

This episode was so different in absolutely every aspect to other episodes that I initially thought I had clicked on the wrong show and had to check to make sure I was actually watching Kawagoe Boys.

I was incredibly close to dropping this after the dumpster fire that was the previous episode, but wow did this episode redeem this show.

Dang. IT's mom pulled the old "going to the store to buy some milk then never came back" thing. Except that was a lie since she left a note.
I think it's good that IT's dad saw that he needed to change though. He's been ruining his life and the important connections IT had. That and holy moly this guy, though the gun was fake, put so many people at risk and didn't even call the police like holy moly he was irresponsible. Imagine this happening in real life. As chaotic as last episode was, I think it makes people really wanting to find this clown a lot more real.

@SuperAdventure Ohhh trust me, people have doxxed people for way less than that. This guy sent delivery workers over to get taken hostage, never called the police once, and decided to strip and dance for the sake of views or whatever instead of actually helping. He also potentially put himself at risk which could have left his child alone, but that's not something the viewers would probably know. Overall, what he did was pretty bad even if it ended okay. I'm not surprised that people came after him. If all of what happened last episode happened in real life then IT's dad would be beyond a menace.

You don't have to do much to find out where someone lives. They usually just start asking people in that area if they've seen someone who looks like the dude in the video. I see people do this all the time for porch thief videos on sites like Nextdoor and such. You just ask around.
And they'd definitely watch the whole thing. Some of the viewers of the video were even calling the police. Maybe they'd even stick around to see if the police would show up. Like it's not just him in the video, there's a serious situation going on. Someone taking hostages at gunpoint in Japan is also rare. There are a ton of reasons why curious or concerned people would keep on watching.

Even if you take off the video, it's very likely that someone has already saved and uploaded it again. That tends to be the case when this type of thing happens in real life. I think the only thing that's maybe not likely is them coming to his actual door. Most people, at least in the US, wouldn't dare go to the door. They do send death threats and such in the mailbox, but they know they could get caught if they go to the door. I'm not sure about Japan when it comes to actually going to the door. The rest of this has absolutely been done many times before.

And then, like RowinHaddick said, yes IT reacted to him like he knew who he was more than once-- and in a pretty big way too. Also, I do believe the orders the dad was making was going through to the robot IT had, implying that they share the robot in some way (turns out because they're family).

By typing all this I just mean to say it oddly enough ended up making a lot more sense than even I expected. No worries, most of the things actually do check out.