Just some of my theories regarding these matters:
The extra participant was Hagakure. Assuming the âsurvivors leftâ countdown at the beginning of each episode was referring to the characters who were shown in the opening, and not only in the Killing Game itself, then Hagakure is the only logical answer.
The 13th Division leader must not be important, since they never addressed it once. It was always kinda âwhy is Asahina there instead of her branchâs leaderâ. I donât think they were ever important. Maybe theyâll pop up in Killer Killer or something.
Monaca wanted to observe Naegi, right? Maybe after getting to know Komaru in DRAE, she wanted to learn about her brother? This question was answered, but it was a little lazy.
Tengan set things up⊠probably just by asking around. Heâs the head of the Future Foundation, so it wouldnât be too far-fetched to assume he just looked at some documents.. He was probably studying the brainwashing video Junko created, and, like Komaeda, fell into a despair that was obsessed with creating hope by spreading despair?
Tenganâs motivation was to force Mitarai to use his hope-brainwashing video. He probably realized that Junkoâs followers couldnât be reasoned with, and Naegi probably told him that the Neo World Program failed. He probably thought Mitaraiâs video was the last hope for humanity, but Mitarai was the only one who could initiate it.
Kimura had the antidote on her when the FKG began, and she probably keeps a variety of different medicines on her at all times given that she pulled Cure W and her beast mode pill things out of nowhere. As for why she had Cure W specifically⊠maybe Tengan used a poison that she had already been studying and creating an antidote for? This⊠also needs an explanation, but itâs not really necessary.
I feel like Munakata and Naegi combined their hopes after Kirigiri âdiedâ, and the two had their big fight. When they spoke to each other, Naegi and Munakata seemed to understand each other, and neither really⊠acted the exact same as before then? I feel like they combined hopes by opening up to each other.
idfk Iâm not saying it was a perfect ending either, especially from a story sense, but I definitely think some of the questions left open are just us fans over-thinking things.
Hagakure being the extra participant is probably rightâbut itâs stupid. Because he was never included in the game to begin with and they made it clear to us that he wasnât involved in the game to begin withâhe was specifically left outside the Game because âno one liked him.â
Yeah, the 13th Division leader must have not been importantâwhich is why itâs annoying. They spend all of this time establishing that âAsahina was sent in place of the 13th Leader,â and how she wasnât in the 14th Division despite every other 78 Class member being there. They were either meant to be important and it was forgotten, or itâs a red herringâboth of which are horrible writing.
I know Tenganâs motivationâbut as I said, itâs really weak and kind of contradictory [I wrote a whole post on it here.] Despite not wanting Mitarai to participate in the Game, he still invited him to the meeting in the first place. Even if he only had a 1% chance of showing up, it was still a chance.Â
Again, Monaka being there at all was another weak point that never amounted to anything.
No, she didnât. Because when the Game began, Sakakura accidentally got Bandai killed and she couldnât do anything. So somehow between the two scenes we see of her before she chases Ando for 2 episodes, she just magically makes something. Yes, it needs an explanation otherwise itâs OP garbage.
It sure would be nice to have an explanation or flashback of how Tengan set things up instead of just âlol I did all of this and youâre never going to get an explanation, make one up.â
Thereâs âopen interpretation due to clues left in the narrativeâ and then thereâs âforcing the audience to fill in the blanks for you because there are no clues.â When you have to rely on the latter, than itâs bad writing.
They did not combine hopes. âCombine hopesâ would mean âto compromise/work together.âÂ
The end confrontation with Munakata and Naegi just resulted in Naegi calming Munakata down. There was no âcompromiseâ or âtrying to understand each otherâs viewpoints.â
Both of them were set up to be the end heroes, but in the end Munakata just relinquishes the spotlight to Naegi and goes off to do whatever (I donât know because he wasnât given his own cheesy epilogue like everyone else.)