[hoarfrost]

Originally Posted by konart

Spoiler for death of the week + ep6 preview:

Well, I guess broken heart can be "healed" by holding hands

Spoiler for explanation:

As I see it:

Something that had happened 26 ago triggered chain reaction of dead people coming back to class 3. Once a dead comes(and he or she comes anyway) a "stack overflow" occurs and one living person dies in place of a dead person. So they decided to trick the system by treating one person as non-existent, giving one extra seat for the dead.

That makes sense, but I don't think I understand the exact mechanics behind it or even whether we're supposed to understand at this point.

Spoiler for :

So there is always one extra student. Arbitrary but okay, I can accept that. Therefore, one student is volunteered to be ignored to make up the discrepancy (I don't know how the selection process goes but you'd think the guys would object to making it one of the cutest girls). Before MC came there was an extra student and Misaki was being ignored, meaning the system was at equilibrium. His presence puts them back to plus one. Logically then, shouldn't the death of the one girl have put them back to equilibrium? Unless more students are added to the class or more dead are, but I didn't notice the former and Mei said that there is always only ever one extra of the latter.

Unless Sakakibara's presence puts them at plus one and his acknowledgement of Mei then moves them to plus two, meaning when the second kid this episode died then they should be at a proper number. But then why the need to ignore Sakakibara?

Gonna have to rewatch this episode. Feels oddly paced to me anyway, like it was only half of an episode.