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<blockquote data-quote="Dai" data-source="post: 619937" data-attributes="member: 9636">3. ever cry, never life.A self-contained story this time, and stronger for it.&nbsp; Assumptions about which characters' actions are justified or not are continually shaken up throughout until everyone has blood on their hands and it's hard to tell if anyone was 'right'.&nbsp; This movie features possibly the most despicable example of senpai/kouhai culture I've ever seen, where Kokutou harbours his junior, a confessed and unrepentent serial rapist, not only from the sadistic avenger but seemingly from the law too (let's not forget that his brother is a detective).&nbsp; It's a glaring plot hole that we never find out what became of Keita in the end; was he even arrested?For all her edgelord talk of 'murdering' everything in sight, Shiki is probably the most moral character in this chapter (Touko lost that battle by being a deadbeat who doesn't pay her staff).&nbsp; If an appendectomy is murder, Japan's surgeons need to take another look at their insurance.&nbsp; As with Keita, we don't really find out what happens to Fujino afterwards.&nbsp; This is a recurring theme across the chapters; Shiki and co. only seem interested in stopping the supernatural event, and take no interest in the aftermath (in movie 1, Shiki didn't even seem too motivated to prevent any deaths aside from Kokutou's, writing them off as inevitable due to the number of time-displaced ghosts she saw).&nbsp; Whatever you think of Fujino's revenge against the rapists, she lost any shred of justification once she killed that random driver, so again it's awkward that the story dodges the issue of whether she's prosecuted.Overall it's an interesting story that seems engineered to leave the viewer without easy answers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dai, post: 619937, member: 9636"] [B]3. ever cry, never life.[/B] A self-contained story this time, and stronger for it. Assumptions about which characters' actions are justified or not are continually shaken up throughout until everyone has blood on their hands and it's hard to tell if anyone was 'right'. This movie features possibly the most despicable example of senpai/kouhai culture I've ever seen, where Kokutou harbours his junior, a confessed and unrepentent serial rapist, not only from the sadistic avenger but seemingly from the law too (let's not forget that his brother is a detective). It's a glaring plot hole that we never find out what became of Keita in the end; was he even arrested? For all her edgelord talk of 'murdering' everything in sight, Shiki is probably the most moral character in this chapter (Touko lost that battle by being a deadbeat who doesn't pay her staff). If an appendectomy is murder, Japan's surgeons need to take another look at their insurance. As with Keita, we don't really find out what happens to Fujino afterwards. This is a recurring theme across the chapters; Shiki and co. only seem interested in stopping the supernatural event, and take no interest in the aftermath (in movie 1, Shiki didn't even seem too motivated to prevent any deaths aside from Kokutou's, writing them off as inevitable due to the number of time-displaced ghosts she saw). Whatever you think of Fujino's revenge against the rapists, she lost any shred of justification once she killed that random driver, so again it's awkward that the story dodges the issue of whether she's prosecuted. Overall it's an interesting story that seems engineered to leave the viewer without easy answers. [/QUOTE]

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