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Originally Posted by totoum
I took that quote as meaning he was away from the town for only 18 months,that doesn't sound like something you say to someone who just visited the town 18 months ago,but who lived there until 18 months ago.
Or maybe the akward wording is due to the translation
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Actually I took that line to be deliberately confusing, but translated correctly. The author of Another (I have not read it, but if it was adapted as is from a novel, it really is a stunning adaption) appears to be an expert at using metaphors and words to confuse the truth.
We know this metaphor confusion to be true since the idea of a "dead one" is used as an overriding metaphor for social isolation for at least eps 1-4.
It could lean both ways, but I would lean more heavily towards the view that Kouichi lived in Tokyo from birth till Junior High, but for some unknown reason visited Yomiyama one and a half years ago for an unknown reason then forgot about it because it was not important.