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Jun 10, 2021 3:58 PM

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ughhh ooishi is the worsttttt. watching him try to interrogate satoko bordered on cringe. seriously why is he so inept?? why does he keep interrogating schoolchildren?? shouldn't he be going after the adults??
Dec 10, 2021 9:41 AM
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these van people and the hospital nurse were definitely part of the conspiracy and why the hell were the students at school at midnight. i need answers and oishi why the fuck could you not come earlier
Dec 18, 2021 9:51 PM

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Oh well... At least we got more information in this episode.

Back to the time loop we go.

Mokocchi_x3 said:
ughhh ooishi is the worsttttt. watching him try to interrogate satoko bordered on cringe. seriously why is he so inept?? why does he keep interrogating schoolchildren?? shouldn't he be going after the adults??


What adults? They all died. She is the only survivor.

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Jun 6, 2022 3:24 PM
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Wtf oiishi ?? Imagine she had trauma why u do that to her , feel pity for satoko plz . Also that fuckin nurse kill my satoko goddamit
Jun 6, 2022 5:59 PM
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My own thought on Rena's message is that the gas disaster is in fact planned. I took it as the show saying that Rena survived what took place and was then killed off by someone since you would quarantine a victim and provide supportive care vs killing them. I think Satoko realized that Rena was probably killed by the same people who followed her.

Rika being killed over and over, but keep in mind that in a previous arc, they showed that her intestines were pulled out. We heard in the first season that they can do this while a victim is alive so perhaps they wanted to extract something from Rika. Her being apparently the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama then the disaster happening soon after does seem to lend credence to the theory that they need to kill her to cause the disaster.

As for who the people in white are, hard to say at this point. Oishi's frustration is definitely felt! Imagine if he knew that they killed Kuma too.
May 25, 2023 9:15 PM
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8igfan said:
My own thought on Rena's message is that the gas disaster is in fact planned. I took it as the show saying that Rena survived what took place and was then killed off by someone since you would quarantine a victim and provide supportive care vs killing them. I think Satoko realized that Rena was probably killed by the same people who followed her.

Rika being killed over and over, but keep in mind that in a previous arc, they showed that her intestines were pulled out. We heard in the first season that they can do this while a victim is alive so perhaps they wanted to extract something from Rika. Her being apparently the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama then the disaster happening soon after does seem to lend credence to the theory that they need to kill her to cause the disaster.

As for who the people in white are, hard to say at this point. Oishi's frustration is definitely felt! Imagine if he knew that they killed Kuma too.
I felt Oishi's frustration. He did pretty well in figuring out that the gas incident was a hoax, but it was too late! 
Just as we were about to get more answers, it slipped away.

Sep 1, 2024 3:01 PM

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The overall story is great, I think most people agree on this. But this episode's pacing was stiff like an overcooked steak. You can see what will happen from a mile away, and then the pacing takes its sweet time to deliver what you already know will happen. The pacing of torture. Also because the bad ending was avoidable, which doubles the annoyance factor.
Jan 11, 4:18 PM

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Satoko has to be one of the dumbest characters ever.

She tells all her friends everything trying to convince them something's wrong, that Rika's acting weird, that they're in danger, etc... but then hides the ONE thing from that would truly be convincing - seeing Rika in the woods telling Tomitake he's going to die & to not go inside the shrine! She then follows that up by not telling them (or the cops) that Rika's lied to Ooishi. Makes sense.

Then, when the kidnappers/killers are coming to attack their house, Rika shows her a hiding spot & tells her to stay quiet & not come out. The second the intruders come into the room, Satoko says "Rika!" out loud so one kidnapper hears her.

And if that wasn't dumb enough, she immediately walks out of the house & starts yelling out "Rika!" to call for her... in the middle of the night, all alone, knowing murderers are out there. Genius!

But wait, there's more! She proceeds to walk around alone, straight to the shrine (how convenient) & find's Rika's dead body.

Instead of recognizing that the people who brought Rika there could be nearby (in fact, it's almost guaranteed given how quickly she got there... Rika's body didn't just magically appear at the shrine after all, someone obviously brought her there very, very recently), she starts screaming her head off & yelling "Rika!" yet again.

It's like she was BEGGING to die too.

And the episodes leading up to this had all her friends just brushing aside her concerns saying cliche shit like "it's probably just your imagination" (great writing...), she barely put any real effort into convincing them or convincing Rika to be honest. She would ask her to tell the truth every once in a while, but if Rika responded by lying, she just shrugged & said "oh well."

But instead of telling the police someone was following them or that Rika was talking about dying out loud each night, she waits until THIS episode to tell ONE police officer (who instantly offers to help her btw, meaning they did take her seriously), and it was just a random dude she stumbled into while looking for the doctor.

Oh yeah, and she was satisfied letting Rika just lie to Keiishi, Mion, Shion & Rena about everything & didn't push the issue further. Once per episode she'd bring up something, but just grunted & squeaked her way to accepting their confusion based on her slim explainations.

"She tried to tell people, but they didn't listen!" - Sure, she spoke up a handful of times, all while holding back important information & just letting her friends make dumb assumptions without pressing the issue.

Did I ramble on too much about this? Absolutely. Did Satoko deserve to die based on her actions? I think so... or at least, I definitely didn't feel bad for her after all the dumb choices she made after Rika was taken.
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