I really hope they weren’t. I hate in any fiction when you’re not close it being finished and it’s like “Hey look the protagonist is about to die! Oh no you need to worry!” I’m sure there have been stories that set up a protagonist than kill them half way and switch to someone else but for the most part I just see it as a cheap way to get people to worry.
The problem is while this may seem obvious to us think about if you were a student who was recovering from a cold, has some boy stalking her, and now has a jealous girl trying to kill her. Even just the last one her mind wouldn’t be working properly but all three her brain is kicking into “I gotta get out of here” and she just runs without thinking.
And I think that’s what adds to more tension, simply because we don’t know what happened to him. If it happened as you said, after Ayumi fell, then I, as a viewer, would just think “Oh well, goodbye loli, she’ll probably be saved somehow”.
Ergo, the fact that we don’t know if something happened is what is making me more curious and excited for the next episode.
But that feels more like a personal opinion xP
I definitely got the vibe that he needed to be alone with Ayumi for purposes other than doki-doki date time
Thank you Hirato-sensei I shall forever take note of your safety tips~
I guess that would work for most, but I at least do not care much about “protagonist’s privilege” and would be just as worried if it happened to Nao or Yusa.
A similar reaction came from a bit in the CLANNAD adaptation. Seeing Kotomi break down scared a bunch of people.
It happened in parts of Kanon '06 too. People were actually annoyed that Litbus didn’t have one.
It felt very sudden. Dude was looking for blood out of nowhere.
It’s definitely nice to have a good looking character in the show, but something is up with her.
I think he tried to run in, Nao stopped him, Yuu was left. Eventually he was captured and taken away. Kumagami shows up later, possibly tracking something, possibly led to somewhere.
Hmm… Maybe he senses Yuu’s power there, but Yuu himself isn’t there.
There’s at least two other groups outside of the main cast.
Nah, that’s Yuri’s.
I was thinking this when thinking about my impressions of this season’s anime, since we’re almost at the half-way point. It was a good episode, but it’s outclassed. Compare this episode to episode 4 of Gakkou Gurashi. They ended on a similar note, but Gakkou Gurashi’s was like “wow” whereas Charlotte’s was like “oh…”
Huh? If you don’t know, I guess you’ll find out
Do you know how they could fix it, with minimal effort?
Have someone scream “Yuu.” Done.
Even easier, end it before Yuu runs off into the rubble. Give us a week to realize that loli is kill.
Something was going on with Oikawa at the least. It wasn’t just a love-triangle. He had ill intentions.
Ayumi’s movements are controlled and restricted. She is only allowed to go to specific places at specific times.
It might interrupt the pacing of the show, but I hope she has some backstory. Maybe she was the subject before Ayumi showed up.
In this case, he’d be leaving something behind every time he takes over another person. Maybe he’s able to remotely control them without seeing them from now on. The first time just sows the seed.
Their subs are pretty awful. I’m annoyed by some of the translations, and I don’t even know Japanese…
He was being too obvious, so Nomura was trying to do damage control, methinks.
I mean… maybe if they had an effective weapon, but a box cutter?
The only issue with that is: what would he have done after his 5 seconds were up? His body still wouldn’t have survived the impact, and he couldn’t have stayed in another person’s body forever.
Times like these are where his power is really inconvenient, I think.
It’s very possible so long as the conditions are met, ergo, there being another person in his line-of-sight. We don’t know quite yet if there was anyone else near the rubble at that time
I wasn’t talking about her looks, but I didn’t really feel like anything was up with her :o
I think it’s a bit too early to say he was captured and taken away. Logically, if Yuu was crushed, the rest of the school administration would look for his body, to check if he survived or not. Unless they did find his body and brought him to a hospital, which does seem to relate to the key visual we saw early on (which does look like a hospital)
But if that was what happened, then is the hospital an untrustworthy place that needs to be escaped from? Or maybe something happens to the entire hospital while Yuu is there. That reminds me of the title of episode 7, being At the End of Escape
If anyone cares, according to Wikipedia, yandere-chan is named Konishi, and there is another character with no description named “Metoki” who I’m assuming is the red haired girl.
Idk if anyone has pointed this out yet, but desire-based powers would kinda make sense with Ayumi’s collapse. She has an interest in stars, so maybe “collapse” is a literal representation of the collapse of a star that causes a black hole to form. Going deeper into assumption-land, one could say this collapse DOES represent the formation of a black hole in the tonal shift of the show to something way darker than before.
Also, just something on the side. Maybe it’s coincidence, but anyone find it interesting that Yuu’s name is Yuu (pronounced like the English “you”) and he mentions have a disillusioned sense of self in the beginning? Maybe I’m just reading too far into it.
^^^ Lol, I shared that photo yesterday/2 nights ago on another page on the forums. Though I don’t think the picture makes a difference. Cause the people who were drawn and not colored in, we’re all fake. Being just random people. Plus, she looks like an older version of Ayumi, meaning Ayumi couldn’t have died yet.
Yeah, I think it is reused, just a little fun relation.
Sorry my bad but I understand everything except these.
Now /a/ and our Key FC on Facebook are very “rage” about Ayumi’s incident. Even my friend said Maeda Jun’s interview had confirmed the death of Ayumi. I’m waiting my friend’s translation to know deep about what that Maeda-sama reveals are and will happen. Very excited now.
Well, episode 6 is like a bomb. Everyone are discussing with very high spirit like AB! before.
Sometimes, interpersonal relationships are so easy to portray. That really short scene in Ayumi’s classroom at the beginning of the episode was all it took to show Ayumi’s relationship with the other two kids. With just that, their “roles” in the episode were already established.
There have been speculations on why Nao stopped Yuu from posessing Joujirou and jumping out of the window in his body, only to kick him out of the window herself. Here’s mine: Maybe she simply wanted to take the blame.
Joujirou just brushed it off without thinking too much about it, but would he have reacted the same way if Yuu were the one who dropped him?
Jumping is a power which is especially widespread among people with a far too lively imagination or those suffering from acute boredom. Also known as “Jumping to conclusions”.
