2009-05-10, 15:18 | Link #83 |
Me, An Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
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Oh fair enough.
Well anyway, I think it's worth pointing out that Diana's badge doesn't disapear in the Opening like the others, which is kind of annoying. I'd hate to think a woman like her manages to stay alive. |
2009-05-10, 17:32 | Link #84 |
別にいいけど
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
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I think Diana alongside with number I will be on of the last to die.
I find interesting the theories behind the supporter. Someone pointed out the fact that of the guy that kills Hiura very little is shown. But the biggest problem to me is the fact that according to what we have seen so far the supporter does not expose himself to do the dirty work. So it is not rational to expect that the guy we see in Hiura's room was number I himself. Why would he kill number IV by himself when he can simply order Juiz to do that? The probability that the man who killed Hiura was number I are near zero. However that doesn't mean anything. Number I could still be the supporter. But it bothers me that the number I was shown already. Everything points at him, but this could be a trap to make us believe so. The only thing that is certain is that number I believes to be the supporter and acts accordingly. However Hiura says (repeating what he heard from the outsider) that noone knows who the supporter is (except the outsider), not the even the supporter himself. So it's rather probable that number I believes to be the supporter out of fanatism or for numerology reasons. This whole story stinks a lot. The Outsider decided that one of the 12 is the supporter, however he doesn't say who the supporter is. How is the supporter supposed to do what he's meant to do if he isn't even sure about his role? It looks like a bad prank to me. Maybe the supporter doesn't exist, it's just the outsider trying to make everyone suspect about everyone else. Basically every Seleçao knows that any other seleçao could be the supporter. But since there's no supporter, then all twelve of them fear the remaining eleven.
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2009-05-10, 18:36 | Link #85 | |
Lurkin' in ur threadz.
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2009-05-10, 22:35 | Link #87 | |
デゲソ!! ( ・_・)ノ
Join Date: Oct 2008
Age: 34
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Not that I can read Japanese, but are we not going to see all of Selecao at this rate? Unless it was one big coincidence, number X was supposed to be the next one to kick the bucket, and it looks like he's showing up in episode 9?
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There's also my really out there theory that Mr. Outside and the Supporter are the same person, acting as the twelfth person of the Selecao. He could just be using this "game" as a test to how different people think Japan should be saved, and from there formulate his plan to save Japan based off of the other Selecao. Like Mr. Outside said, only one of the Selecao would survive, so perhaps he's using his rules as an excuse to have them kick the bucket after they use up all the money, as a safety measure for himself as his plans as a whole. It works out in the end, since he would be the only one of the Selecao who would be able to save Japan if it all works out. I don't really see why Outside would trust a random person he chose (unless there really was a selection process for the Selecao) to do the dirty work for him, when it would be much safer and wiser to do the work himself and keep the Selecao in place.
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2009-05-11, 07:27 | Link #88 |
別にいいけど
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Yes it is very possible that by telling them about this supporter, explaining what the supporter is meant to do and then telling them: "it might be you or it might be someone else", was an ingenious way to both making them fear each other and making them think about the possibility that they themselves are the supporter. Well most of them obviously do not think that (i.e. Kondo), but the outsider probably thought that a few of them would take the bait, killing off stray seleçao thus reinforcing the illusion that a true supporter really exist.
There is also the possibility that the same way the Outsider knew that those 12 people wanted to save the country (even if they themselves do not remember that) he also knows that one (or more) of them would spontaneously take the role of the supporter. At this point it's hard to understand what's the true objective of the outsider. At first it would look like he wants to save the country, and he choose this strange system to make a few selected individual to try their best for that end. He gave them the means and he gave them a great incentive to pursue this goal. However there are a few rules that do not make sense in this perspective and rather make everything look like a sort of Battle Royale sadistic game. It would be best for the good of the country if the seleçao were cooperating, but instead he wants them to compete, fear, distrust, each other. Plus there are reasons to doubt about his judgment on choosing those individuals. Kondo and Diana were very poor choices if the outsider's objective is really the salvation of the country. And the fact he didn't draw any moral line around the orders Juiz is supposed to accept is also very strange. Juiz is like a robot, I wonder if she's a human or an AI. Well in conclusion I'm not sure whether the Outsider honestly believes he's acting in the best interested of the country or if he's just a bored multibillionaire who wants to have fun.
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2009-05-11, 08:07 | Link #89 |
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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Whether or not there really is a Supporter, the fact of the matter is that the person(s?) killing Selecao who have either used up their money or have deviated from the path would need to have insider information about the Selecao themselves, such as perhaps having the same phone system that the Selecao have and similar monitoring capabilities.
It could even be that Nr. Outside is, himself, the Supporter.
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