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Perfect 10 | 35 | 39.77% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 30 | 34.09% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 18 | 20.45% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 3.41% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.14% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 1.14% | |
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2012-02-07, 08:24 | Link #101 | |
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2012-02-07, 08:24 | Link #102 | |
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EDIT: Thanks, now I found the right sequence. Do we have a clear answer as to whether the teachers are exempt from the curse yet? I could 'understand' them brushing the issue aside if they are... but I'm still suspecting they have a major role to play in this.
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2012-02-07, 08:43 | Link #103 |
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The thing I am wondering is..... that if ignoring a student from the class is the counter measure the class came up with...... then couldnt it be, that introducing an extra student in the form of an transfer student is a counter measure from the ghost side?? And Sakakibarakun could be dead all along.
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2012-02-07, 08:44 | Link #104 | |
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Why're you guys taking Misaki's explanation at face value? Even if I am to trust everything else, how on earth do they know that the extra person that gets added is already dead? That's mere speculation on their part. They don't know that for certainty. In fact, its all rumors that they have been told so they are unreliable narrators.
It could very well be the case that the kids were lied to. Someone is using them or something. Maybe as part of a long, arduous ritual. There's something fishy going on and its not just the apparent supernatural activity. You guys say there are too many coincidences for this to not be supernatural but doesn't the fact that there are too many coincidences also mean that somebody could have planned this out in detail? Quote:
I don't think Misaki ever implied that the curse would stop even if they figured out who was dead either. The way I see it, the class is marked for death every year there is an extra student and it's not the fault of the dead who came back. I still think there's something really fishy going on and somebody's abusing this story about the ghosts and crap for something. The supernatural may or not be involved but I'd be surprised if it was just a curse or whatever that's taking people's lives here for no other reason than apparent vengeance.
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2012-02-07, 08:48 | Link #105 | |
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Here is another interesting thought: So, Sakakibaras aunt is the younger sister of his late mother. She went to class 3. Kouichis mom died.... what if that happened during the time his aunt was attending class 3? They said they figured out how to trick the curse 10 years ago, if I remember correctly, so.... here it comes: What if Kouichis aunt caused his moms death by aknowledging Misakis existance? And thats why the damn bird keeps repeating: Why, why??? .... why did you do that... |
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2012-02-07, 08:56 | Link #106 | ||
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That aunt of the MC is really suspicious. That face she made when she yelled at the Mynah ... There was already the fact that she was in class 9 - 3 when her sister, who was also in class 9-3, died. But she seemed to be suffering from PTSD or something and is clearly hiding things from the MC and the show's hiding even more info from us because we never got to hear what she was telling the MC regarding her fourth tip to succeed in school and what "upholding class rules" exactly means. Did she come in contact with the dead 15 years ago or something? Quote:
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2012-02-07, 09:03 | Link #107 |
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Exactly... so when she was attending the school back then, they didnt know whats causing the curse, so they didnt take any countermeasures, the curse was triggered and Kouichis mom died as a consequence. Now his aunt feels responsible...
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2012-02-07, 10:34 | Link #109 | |
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"Oh, no," the teacher says, "they have a ritual they perform every year that prevents it." "So how many students have died since you've been here?" "Me, none. I started after they began using the ritual. But Old Man Watanabe in the English department says it used to happen all the time." Is your reaction going to be, (A) "Hmm, I better take this seriously and make sure the class performs the ritual properly," or (B) "Why the hell are you wasting my time with some stupid urban legend?" If it happened once, and if that were all that happened, sure. But when it happens every year and the class starts racking up a bunch of mysterious deaths, people are going to connect it to the story of Misaki and the class photo. |
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2012-02-07, 11:49 | Link #110 | |
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The question is, does this rule out relatives? Do the dead change appearence? Or are they merely people who were supposed to finish the 3-3 the year they died or after that year? According to Mei it is very likely that what the students did to Misaki 26 years ago made the other dead envious, because that Misaki could finish that "year" as if alive. |
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2012-02-07, 12:17 | Link #111 | |
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There's also the question of what happens to the ghost after school? Does the curse affect his family as well, making them remember him? Or does it create a fake family for him to live with? Are the ghosts relatives immune to the curse -- if so we can eliminate Mizuno's brother as a suspect. Also, who was the ghost in the first year (i.e., the year after the original Misaki died)? Did Misaki repeat the class, or was it someone related to the class who'd died before the Misaki thing? |
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2012-02-07, 13:09 | Link #112 | |
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2012-02-07, 14:04 | Link #114 | |
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So somebody has died in connection to the curse and then he or she reappears in class 3-3 an unaccounted for time later as somebody who does not appear dead in the slightest. But shouldn't something like that lead to at least some inconsistencies with the sorroundings? If they are one place short in class maybe there are other subtle areas the curse cannot change...something like slight bugs that hint towards the dead one. Care elaborating which one that is? |
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2012-02-07, 14:42 | Link #115 |
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On the day they start ignoring him, Kouichi is walking up the stairs when he sees Mikami-sensei and says to her "Oh, you're here early." Then she ignores him and he's like, huh, ok.
Then later when that one guy mentions "do you think Mikami sensei has some kind of life threatening illness?" he's very quick to go "pfft, I think she's fine." I'm pretty sure Kouichi knows Mikami-sensei more than we've been allowed to see. Like not necessarily sexually or romantically, but he does have some kind of connection to her that has thusfar been hidden or downplayed by the narrative withholding info/scenes from us. Like I said, not sure which direction to go with it, but I think it will be important. |
2012-02-07, 15:05 | Link #116 |
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I find that librarian guy suspicious. He knew about Kouichi's mother and was fascinated about learning about her death. And plus, I have a feeling he knows something about Mei since in an earlier episode, he requested Kouichi to leave the library whilst looking over Mei, as if he knew she was there but didn't want Kouichi to know, or to speak to her.
Well, another death has happened, but I can honestly say that at least it wasn't as grusome as what the others have been. And who knows, maybe this 'curse' wasn't the thing that killed him, he did have a heart condition, perhaps the recent events and orders he had been giving just put to much stress and pressure on him. And now it appears that Kouichi is being given the silent treatment just like Mei. These students must be terrified to have to resort to things like that. But now at least we know that Mei really does exist...right? This episode showed that she does seem like a normal school girl.
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2012-02-07, 15:50 | Link #117 |
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Ok Mei's explanation left me asking one thing, if she was the "ignored" this year because of the class going up by one, why wasnt Kouichi ignored from the beginning? From what I got they ignore someone to set off the dead person in the class. But Kouichi now increased the class by 1 again. How would ignoring 2 people reset the curse?
Sorry this is has been discussed but I didnt look thru 5 pages of posts
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2012-02-07, 15:58 | Link #118 | |
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So, events happen like this 1. Some time before the kids of class 3-3 actually become class 3-3, Misaki is chosen to be ignored, making to be 3-3 class have 1 less than the required number of students 2. The extra dead person is added bringing the number up to the required number of students 3. Sakakibara joins, shit hits fan Misaki must be alive since she existed before the dead person was added and Sakakibara must be alive since the dead person was already added before he was added. |
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2012-02-07, 16:08 | Link #119 |
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Wow, take me some time to understand this add-on thing and merging with all the previous info we speculated on and probably I need to re-watch the episode. So, I let that aside for now.
My question is simple, why Kouichi is not affected by the curse? I mean, since it seems quite the rule now that who speaks about Misaki die. (The dead of the day was funny in the way that everyone, I bet, never had the time to say, ok, he is a dead man walk... that he died. ) So: 1. He is safe because entered the game afterward. Did he? 2. He is safe because he accepted Mei, but now it doesn't make much sense. 3. He is safe because he is already dead. Plus, in this episode Mei was overcute so I got the feeling of some sad ending, as someone in the prev. pages already wrote, even if it doesn't seem that kind of show. Now Mei looks like a normal girl and Kouichi, well he is as usual impassible and focused, but now he sees her as a human being, a really cute human being so he could go all for her. On a side note, it seems too that who is elected as the non-existent is safe. Kouichi is an exception cause he is an irregularity. So knowing the curse in advance I would volunteer to be the one for sure
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2012-02-07, 16:13 | Link #120 | |
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I think we still don't know all there is to know about how the curse works and how the countermeasures are supposed to circumvent the curse. I also believe that the students themselves don't know all there is to know. If I had to pick someone who is likely to know everything, I pick the librarian.
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