Monad said:
What the hell are you talking about? They didn't do it to survive. They did it because they wanted their own village so they can walk around freely.
They can easily survive by lurking in the shadows considering how big the disbelief of their existence is. They didn't had to go and try to erase a whole village from existence.
Bura said:pieceofshota said:
So Natsuno bit the doctor first or after ? And exactly when ? Why didn't she notice when the doctor didn't needed to lie down with a dead fish eye and tired look, talking in short sentence ? I never seen anybody who could have his own thoughts and will walking around looking healthy. strange...So the doctor is also shiki now. ..
Did you even pay attention? He was giving himself a blood transfusion to prevent anemia.
tingy said:
Yeah I knew Ozaki was up to something since he barely resisted Chizuru in the last episode. But that was definitely a great plan, having Natsuno bite him a second time. Still, I felt really sympathetic for Chizuru at the end. It doesn't matter what kind of person (or being) you are, having a phobia is not pleasant, but she tried to keep on going. And despite her being pretty annoying and for going along with Sunako's plans, she just wants to keep living, and living somewhere where she and her kind and feel safe. It just sucks that they need to kill humans to do it. This anime is playing with my feelings D:
LOAD said:It's not about "which side is cooler and is more badass". It's natural to sympathize for the side that you are most familiar with. In our case, it's humans. Yes, this is fiction, but most people would feel bad about say, Kaori, who has
a) Megumi as a friend even though she's a total bitch to her
b) Megumi killing her dad who raised and loved her
c) Megumi convincing the dad she killed to kill his own family- leading to her mom being killed too
d) In addition to now being an orphan, this middle-schooler only has her younger brother left- who was also killed by a shiki.
This girl is essentially driven to near-insanity by shiki, while we see her grovelling in front of the monk describing how she knows she'll die next. Kaori is only one example in this series, as there are multiple others who have cases in which sympathy/empathy is strongly elicited from the audience. I'm not saying it's wrong for you to root for the shiki, it's that you're insulting those who exhibit emotions which the series most likely intended to do. Otherwise, why else would they show the humans going through such despair? If a group of individuals you never knew or thought could exist show up and kill your family, friends, and people you know, wouldn't you be afraid? Obviously I don't know you, but most people would be.
The human side is more complex. Questioning or
thinking about the humans' (or, ex-humans') makes them more interesting. Take Natsuno, who wants to save people from shiki despite hating the town and wanting to leave quickly. He
still wants to save people even though he is a shiki himself. Most people might question why he would think that way. Take Toshio, who wants to kill the shiki as well, but allows himself to be bitten by them. Most people would questions that as well, and we did get the answer as to why he did that in this episode. And as much as I hate him, take Seishin, who despite knowing what the Kirisakis are, goes to their house willingly and had even conversed often with Sunako in the past. Tohru is a contrast to other shikis. He feels such strong guilt about killing and we even see him cry- an action that is (usually) so full of emotion and is something so... human.
Aren't the human characters just
more interesting and complex compared to the shiki, who feed on humans because of survival and hierarchy? Sunako is an exception, since she has what is most likely the most complex character as a shiki. But the point is that wouldn't most people prefer the character that has more to them than what meets the eye over the character that is what it is?
TL;DR: It isn't that we/I don't "put enough thought" into who or what I am rooting for. It's being able to see the depth behind characters that makes people sympathize with them and in turn, want them to win.