I just watched this anime in one sit.
My first impression was that I liked it very much, but the more I think about it, the less I like some points.
- The aunt, Shindo Yumiko, who is a relative to her should know way better her own family, if she does or does not have another niece. I mean, she knew about the died (twin?) brother Kurimoto Kishio (ep5), her maid in America, Morikawa Suma... but did not raise her hand and told everyone that, uhmm, she does not have a sister?? Somehow I feel like she pretty much knew what happened, just stayed in denial or refused for some unknown reason to give up the lunatic niece who murdered pretty much all her other relatives, wtf.
- The locked room mystery. First, we learn that she could come out whenever she wanted (the glass guy tells authorized persons can open the room door from outside, she can open it from the inside, and the corpse's arm is missing... at that pont the security personnel come up with the okok, but we watched it and nobody went in and came out, also on the videos we checked - later we also find out that the whole system was somewhat corrupted so there was a one minute escape bug in the system, but if i remember correctly, the show never explains to us when, exactly. She had to leave earlier from the room - as she uses the elevator from the basement to the roof while others witness the corpse bride leaving the closed room - but when, and how she get to the basement, if the guards were watching the enterance. Also, does she not need to go trough any other security gates to reach the roof, then how she opens them (maybe this part was explained with system failure or something i don't remember?)? After she is impersonating her never existed sister, the sister should also have to sign in to this security system - why does the system not say error, when she uses her Magata SHIKI hand (already registered in the system) and says a different name as identification?? What kind of crappy security device is this? And, if she thought of this before, then the whole she planned her daughter to kill her theory sinks, because she made the system years before - she met "the daughter refusing to execute the insanity" problem later in time.
- The original plan - how she put it together in her genious head? "You see, dear daughter, you should murder me, because that would make mama happy, after that don't worry, I made a crack in the system, you will have a whole minute to leave this room you never did before and wander around a building unnoticed - don't sway off about the fact that your world just becomes a hundred times bigger than it was in your entire life, and there are other people around too, you just have to somehow get to the roof, your dad will be there with a helicopter as planned (exactly planned WHEN??? when did she and uncle exchange the crucial parts of the plan?), you kill him also, because FFFF, and...done! Yay. After that, you should... umm I don't know, do what you want you will be free. (On a fucking isolated island. After murdering two people). Or did she plan that her daughter should pretend to be the sister, Miki? Did she taught her english, also things about America to be able to pretend like she is from there?
Or was her plan for the daughter to kill her, then cut up the body to bits and peaces and throw it down the drain (Which also bugs me huge, why did they not actually check in the whole series, if there are, or not human limbs chopped to pieces in that f*ing hole??) and live her life from that point impersonating her mother (this had to be included in the plan, if not then why did she need the outside world to think that her daughter is her (the visit from Nishinosono was explaied with this). It obviously would not work out as her daughter was not genius, she could not continue the super high tech (??? just guessing, because we did not get clear information about this also) work what her mother used to.
So, the longer I think about it, the more I convince myself that the plan only makes somewhat sense if SHE PLANNED IT THE WAY IT WAS EXECUTED FROM THE START - which means she did plan her daughter to die, and she did not really plan to die, as she could ask her dear uncle if no other option, to kill her (It is possible to make wounds which don't kill instantly, but are fatal; and her reasoning when the sensi asked her why did she not commit suicide was some blahblah about she would want her life to end by someone else - asking the uncle would have make sense, if she really wished for it. I think that she did not want to die, but wanted to disappear and do what she wants - and because she was batshit crazy, of course she made a complex seven years plan including her daughter's and uncle's murder instead of opening the fucking door with her hand, walking out and never coming back again.
O.o
And, no comment on the telephatic holo capsules, as that element was clearly a convinient plot device, being nonexistent sci-fi technique. ( I do know that some kind of salt water filled, noiseproof dark tanks exist but they don't work as a direct link to another person's mind duh.)
Some more thoughts.
The knife which she used to kill the uncle, is it the same she killed her parents with? If it is, how does she still have it, wouldn't the police confiscicate it as evidence?
The whole she is a genius, she does not think as an ordinary people about life and death etc - until she is desperately trying to find a way to end her own life, I don't see how she is living that "superior life" - she says what she wants but ends up chilling on a beach, leaving bodies behind. The whole bloody escape plan is unnecessary, she could leave anytime, use the helicopter and disappear just like she disappeared now (and uncle surely would help her escape, if she ever asked).
Feeling superior, murdering people pointlessly, and creating blurry reasoning behind it - this is what Dr. Magata Shiki looks like to me in the end.
Also, what was exactly her motive for killing her parents? Because they wouldn't let her keep a baby whose father is her uncle? But the murder happened on a family meetup, birthday party - they couldn't possibly know about that or the mood would be totally different. But she already had the knife as a "present", so she planned to kill them before they knew anything about their relationship. And why did she want that baby so much? If the baby was not the reason, then what was it? Being free? If being free equals to lock herself up in a room for some decades alone with a soon to be born child, who needs huge time and attention, and who she wants to keep secret from the world at all costs? I simply just don't understand her motive clearly for the parent killing either. Or being free for her really just means that free to do whatever and whenever she wants to do, eliminating those who could restrain her? I am really curious, anyone who finds her character appealing, or thinks that understands her actions, could you explain to me?
As for ep.11, I really hoped for a last twist in the events (not exactly hvae idea how), but there wasn't.
I liked the show's atmosphere, at first glance the story too, and it DID make me think about it much more than other shows (see this rant above). What I did not like is the execution of the investigation, some ways it had logic, but some ways they did do it a little random. (Searching for evidences, examining the corpses, asking some questions from everybody present in the building, interrogating suspects could be done more sistematically for my taste). i would rate it 6-7/10, I guess.
Sorry for grammatical errors, it's been a while since I wrote in english, I hope my sentences make more or less sense.
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