#forceful harmonist

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Oh this really stacks up, doesn't it

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So, you mean to say that the outcome of one Ultimate Detective’s flawed deduction is... that the lie of a trial becomes the truth?

Well that’s not an ominous foreshadowing statement at all...

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(didn't notice it mentioned anywhere on this blog sooooo) The "E" in DICE logo looks supiciously similiar to Kaede's lab door. So "E" actually might be piano keys.

I remember this one! The funny thing about this is that Ouma was talking to Kaede like she would be a covert agent for him (in helping him get around secretly), and that particular graphic is very recognisable. Add that with his story of Kaede aiding his escape - before things apparently... went south - it's very curious as to what connection Kaede may have had to this situation, with DICE as well

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/post/180037388499 Tho given the necronomicon it could have been less than that; just having many kids in nightmarish loop participating in various killing games over and over

(x) True- there was the bizarre situation of lifesize dolls left crushed in the big piano, which led a few of us to think that Kaede herself had gotten killed multiple times (which would give credence to Ouma's story where he said that she was 'swiftly killed', and again where he talked about this game being the 'afterlife' in main mode), and those dolls were her effigies. It's a bit of a concerning detail even if there are no (as far as I can see) such effigies in the later executions

That said, the matter is what purpose a game would have to resurrect students in the first place- I'd imagine if someone was behind Monokuma they'd have a perverse thrill at killing and resurrecting over and over particularly if the goal was revenge, but if the organisation connected to the academy was tracking down and collecting Ultimates for a mass murder they would want more in numbers to collect as many as they can. Though considering a Necronomicon could have been used in the past (if Ouma is in fact the risen dead) it could have factored in one of the past games somehow

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This speaks for itself, really...

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仲間 - ‘Nakama’. Or Shuichi ‘referring to both Kaito and Ouma as his friends’. 

Problem is, ‘nakama’ (contrary to what olde One Piece subs fandom may have told you), can be anything from ‘fellow’ to ‘dear friend’, if you’re talking about people you’re in a group with. Hence, why it’s ‘trusted the most’ and ‘trusted the least’, which puts the former and latter in very much different ‘levels of ‘nakama’, and makes a point to say ‘we lost them both’, as opposed to his own feelings. 

While he is musing over the reality of having lost both of them, it’s worth noting that this is a callback to his words spoken to Ouma in Chapter 4, where he said that ‘Kaito has people around him [they trust him], but you don’t [they don’t trust you]’. He’s talking about the group, and Ouma’s reputation within it. So his later thoughts seem to grapple with the idea of Ouma as ‘a part of it, regardless’.

With that in mind, 'nakama’ has a clearer, more personal meaning when Kaede uses it (for Rantaro, though for anyone else who might have been in his place)-

-since she adds ‘taisetsu’ (important) to it, making her feelings known.

As far as Shuichi is concerned though, it’s a lot more shaky, and seems to depend on how you read into his thought process overall.

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...You know, awfully sucky that this character tidbit is only catchable in a pre-FTE segment because-

-this kind of motivation has already become relevant before.

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Fun food for thought: Chapter 1 was presented as Kaede acting on her own while taking advantage of Shuichi’s plan. Chapter 4 was all about presenting Gonta as a patsy and Ouma using him. 

Rather curious how these two situations parallel each other inversely. We’re led to lift all blame from the former despite him observing throughout, but pile all the blame on the latter because of him observing throughout. 

The main difference is we get to observe much of the former, and not so much the latter. But what if the so-called ‘clueless participants’ are the ones who took more advantage? In the case of the former, Kaede notes a few times that if it wasn’t for Shuichi’s idea, she’d be clueless, and yet we blame Ouma for ‘giving Gonta the idea’ and remove Gonta’s agency almost entirely. We don’t even know everything that went down between them, and that’s especially worrying when ‘Miu left alone for a minute to set the scene’ was a plot point.

Shuichi cries about giving Kaede the ropes to do it, but we say ‘shhh, it’s okay’. 

Ouma takes blame for ‘messing with Gonta’, and we say ‘that’s the worst’.

What’s even more troubling is the latter involves dealing with the game at a late stage, but the former is the trigger to start the game in the first place.

It’s funny how Chapter 4 is the one where Ouma clashes the hardest with Shuichi, for his own underhandedness in telling lies... just saying.