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View Poll Results: Another - Episode 10 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 33 | 44.00% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 22 | 29.33% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 14 | 18.67% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 6.67% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.33% | |
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 | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-03-13, 09:56 | Link #101 | |
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A bit of a shame, because while the setting certainly has supernatural in it, it has been confined to the phenomenon thus far (as far as we are aware of anyway). Feels like a slightly "cheap" way to help them identify the Another so they can just move on with said part and plan how to kill it instead (and finding whether they have the courage to do so), but ah well :/
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2012-03-13, 09:57 | Link #102 |
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I'm not bothered much by how mei's left eye's works, but I'm more curious on why the phenomenon, who alters everything, doesn't alter something so relevant as an eye who can see its. Why is Mei's eye over the rules? She has to have some connection with the phenomenon. So I'm expecting some revelation about that, too.
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2012-03-13, 10:04 | Link #103 | |
is this so?
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You bring up a good point. Now it makes me wonder.. why does the phenomenon leave alone something that's potentially a threat to it like Mei's eye? Hoping for a good conclusion to this series in the next two episodes.
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2012-03-13, 10:08 | Link #104 | ||
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Most Fanasy novels with both magic and technology usually render either of them useless by the other - so her eye being a bionic eye might work against the phenomenon.
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2012-03-13, 10:09 | Link #106 | |
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In other words, anything beyond records and memories (which are a form of records) hasn't been shown as something within the phenomenon's influence. Aside from making people die, obviously. If Chibiki is to believed, it's neither malicious nor sentient/conscious , and as such probably wouldn't do anything beyond providing the initial grounds for Another to exist once again, then running it's natural course.
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2012-03-13, 10:27 | Link #107 | |||
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Hold up. Is it really called "Mystic Doll Eye of Death Perception"? Or is that just a fan coined term? I thought I was original with coming up with it. Quote:
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2012-03-13, 11:31 | Link #108 | |
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Basically it could as well be an optical illusion due to the loss of half of her vision. That is why she wanted to see the class picture of the 1972 3-3 so badly. It is the only physical evidence of a "dead one" that exists beside the current one. She wanted to be absolutely sure beyond a doubt that she saw the same colour in that person and Yomiyama Misaki. |
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2012-03-13, 12:33 | Link #109 | |
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Spoiler for speculations:
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2012-03-13, 12:35 | Link #110 | ||
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I'm sure she already knew who the dead ones was at the time she wrote it. When Kouichi asked her if she knew who the real dead one is, she said she did. And that was implied several times in this episode and others.
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2012-03-13, 13:38 | Link #111 |
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That tape sure brought some light to the whole thing.
Now all that's left is to find the extra student and kill him/her. That didn't help much 'cause figuring out who it is is the main problem. There must be something that is different.. Guess that eye could help a lot. This anime is getting more interesting by the episode!!
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2012-03-13, 14:08 | Link #113 |
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Mei said that her mother (adopted mother) made her that glass eye. How did it gain the ability to see dead people all of a sudden? (Edit: I mean, she did mention earlier in the series that she was able to see ghosts with this eye but how did she gain that ability to begin?) Does her ability have any connection with the fact that her twin is dead...possibly channeling this spiritual energy to her? (I wonder if ep 0 will answer some of this.)
I don't really buy the suggestion that Mei doesn't reveal her ability because she doesn't think anyone will believe her. I'm more incline to believe that she didn't reveal it sooner because she felt it would have been useless before the tape, and also because she was in denial of her ability for some time there along with her twin's death (she even admitted this herself in this episode). Given the desperate situation class 3-3 is in, and how they all believe in the calamity, any knowledge that would help them survive, no matter how farfetch, would have been wholly or even partially well received. I mean the class of 1993 went as far as climbing a mountain to a deteriorating temple to pray for protection clearly indicates that the students are open to any possible suggestion that would help them resolve this and remain alive.
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2012-03-13, 14:10 | Link #114 |
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It is strange how endearing are moments of Mei and Kouichi even in this soulcrushing atmoshepre. Teshigawa topped his last episode moron of the year feat.
I have a feeling someone snaps and starts to lop the heads off of the whole class. I would rule Mikami out since as far I remember she was one of the students of the class 3. If she is another noone should remember her existing. (Maybe i'm baised and don't want her to be hurt. Damn you preview.) I was certain that it is always a boy who comes back as another reading comments looks I was wrong that is where not watching episodes careful enough comes biting you in the ass. Izumi's dream is unsettling at first i thought she is having a wet dream. She has been throwing strange looks in his direction during the whole series. That memory alteration thing been bugging me for a while now. Does it mean everybody in town sees not only the another but also place he lives, his parents and so on? Besides what kind of affect would it have if Kouichi's memory of meeting altered? Since as far I understood only fake memory are implanted of nonexisting person and Izumi happen to be the dead meaning Kouichi should have memorized her not Izumi him. Another questions that is still unanswered is what incident is Reiko trying to remember. |
2012-03-13, 14:23 | Link #115 | |||
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Thank you for that post. You're feeding us some great clarifying information from the novel, and that post makes the conversation Dengar and I were having over the nature of the phenomenon sound silly in retrospect. Quote:
If I remember, one of novel readers on AS said that Kouichi's dad had arranged the transfer well in advance. There is no reason not to believe that, as of the beginning of the school year, there were 30 students on the roster. 30 students in the class, 29 desks. I think it's as simple as that. Quote:
So, the phenomenon wouldn't necessarily have to alter the memory of Ms. Mikami being a homeroom teacher -- it would only have to alter the memory of her dying as a homeroom teacher. (That sounds really farfetched, but I enjoy hypotheticals.) Quote:
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2012-03-13, 14:25 | Link #116 |
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I think anyone who denies a supernatural component at this point is grasping pretty hard at straws, so in that context, why try and explain Mei's eye scientifically? It's a magic eye. It may not make sense from a medical standpoint, but there's a certain suspension of disbelief in the premise to begin with. And this ability of her eye to see things supernaturally has already been discussed much earlier in the series, so I don't think anyone should be shocked to hear it now.
Alternatively, Mei could have some reality issues and the whole business with her eye could be a figment of her imagination. It's possible.
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2012-03-13, 17:26 | Link #117 | |
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Other than that it was just something I noticed and looked up for that sake yesterday. Her being able to perceive the trtuh is not necessary to solve it. You can actually figure the most important part halfway through the story, the rest is just additional hints for everyone having dissmissed it as it got split all over the story. They even gave us the most essential part of the clue another time in EP 10. - I doubt people will find it though.
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2012-03-13, 17:30 | Link #118 | ||||
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I can't blame Izumi for needing to vent her frustration (especially since there was a deeper reason behind it like her brother's death) but what she did was still plain wrong. Quote:
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3-3 is the class. San-nen san-gumi. I'm only going by what we were told (or not) in the anime. I've tried to look for it but couldn't any mention of when Kouichi's transfer was decided. What I do know, however, is that some of the students (like Nakao, he said that in ep 4 when they were discussion Kouichi's transfer) believed it was a "safe year" until Kouichi came. Why would they assume that? If they had known from the start Kouichi was going to transfer, they should have noticed right away that a desk was missing, and yet they apparently didn't.
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2012-03-13, 18:13 | Link #119 |
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So the number of students was already wrong in April and they didn't know...
They blamed the transfer student in may even when they knew he was coming I remembered mei saying she was first ignored in May,so in April when the curse started she a was normal girl ? |
2012-03-13, 18:16 | Link #120 | |
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