So who was this guy exactly?

So who was this guy exactly?

The chūni byō

Ichigo the cool kid next door

He didn't exist.

He was an egregore

A tulpa

>vlcsnap

Did you watch the show?

Y-Yes?

The dog killer.

a scapegoat pyshicaly manifested by the collective ego ~desu

Japan's collective refusal to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for their past and present actions after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bombing itself served as a cultural scapegoat/excuse for not dealing directly with the horrific social issues that had either previously existed before the bomb or had been indirectly created or exacerbated by it. Who needs to face up to reality anyway if you're too mentally scarred to do so? Don't think or resist, just sit down and take a rest, sit down and take a rest, sit down and take a rest, sit down and take a rest...

(Notice how by the end, Maromi/Slugger is literally killing them and destroying everything they had built, the ruined city clearly resembling the aftermath of the bomb.)

A pretentious metaphor.

>Didn't understand the show
Watched the show years ago but I think he clearly exist as the assailant of the first attack but from then on nips have used him as an excuse to run away from various responsibilities.

How did they punch themselves with a bat then?

Boy, it's been a long time since I saw this.
I remember it as being really good, but I can hardly remember it.

>he clearly exist as the assailant of the first attack
She already made him up when she was younger, exact same 'attack'.

The artist girl made him up as a child to avoid being blamed for her dog's death. She later used him again to escape from her work problems. Then, he spread meme-style to others in overwhelming situations. The kid the police caught was just a copycat.

I see no issues here, but who killed copycat?

he became an hero just like in his favorite vidya

Alright, I'm brand new to this site and I don't know how to do spoiler tags, so I'll just assume that anyone who has read this far has watched it or at least has read the previous spoilers. I just finished watching the entire series and I feel so strongly about the show, and fact that there is no solid explanation for it, that I registered to provide my interpretation of the show. This is going to be a long post, and there are still some parts I'm working out so I welcome any comments. However, I feel like I have an accurate take on this anime so help me get this out there!!

It's an obvious fact that Maromi and 'Lil Slugger were both physical manifestations of Tsukiko's wild imagination. However, what EVERY SINGLE post and review I have read on this show seems to be overlooking is the fact that Tsukiko, and all the other characters, are really....

DEAD. -eerie music plays-

Remember episode 8, entitled "Happy Family Planning?" At first I thought this was pointless filler (like episode 10), but in reality this was the most important episode of all. The three main characters in this episode kept trying to kill themselves.. To no avail. The one person who OBVIOUSLY managed to kill himself in the episode, the guy who jumped in front of the train, walked back onto the platform all manner of torn up - even after the girl comments that he was smushed all over the tracks. This leads me to believe that the three main characters in this episode had killed themselves and so they saw the train-tracks guy as a ghost; This is speculation, but I think the two men killed themselves with pills after abandoning the little girl - who must've also killed herself because she suddenly appeared in the room (as a ghost?!) right after the guys took the pills. [another possibility is that some people can see ghosts and the guys simply joined her after they died.] The rest of the episode, their suicide attempts fail for one reason or another, and NOBODY CAN SEE THEM. Everyone walks right past them - even when the little girl starts screaming and crying. This evidence leads me to believe that a lot of characters are, in reality, dead throughout the show AND stuck doing the same thing they were doing when they died.

Ultimately, I feel like this entire show is just a convoluted regret that stands as a barrier between Tsukiko and her happiness in the afterlife. You may have a couple questions now: why is Tsukiko dead, what afterlife, and what regret? Let me begin by assuring you that Tsukiko is indeed DEAD throughout the show.

In order to understand this, you have to consider my personal theory of what happens when we die - it kind of involves the multiverse theory. So, the multiverse theory says that there are unfathomable numbers of different parallel universes that exist beyond the scope of our perception. To me, this is one very logical explanation of the afterlife: when we die, we become part of our own "world" or reality. So there would be an unfathomable amount of worlds that coexist, often completely unaware of each other's existence. If one perceives their personal afterlife to be a good thing, it's heaven. If we perceive it to be a negative thing, it's hell. This duality is seen throughout the series; note that the series begins with EVERYONE in Tsukiko's world talking negatively on the phone. It ends on a very positive note, everyone saying happy things. This somewhat supports the fact that the world, Tsukiko's "reality," is affected by her perception and is most likely her afterlife/a parallel universe.

The real evidence that Tsukiko is dead (in episode 12 I think) is when she briefly leaves her world to visit her dad's, who for some apparently random reason is also the Chief who interrogated her in the beginning. Remember the crazy 2-D people that gave him free beer and smokes? Yeah, that was HIS afterlife, which was empty without his daughter in it (So if the people are closely connected, afterlives can overlap). When he took up the bat and shattered everything, he became part of Tsukiko's afterlife... an interesting point which I won't discuss further. Just know that this is enough to prove that there are a variety of different afterlifes described throughout the show - the one that seems most realistic is Tsukiko's (because she is the main character).

Manifestation of stress/means of escape.

La creatura de las Americas

I really don't think its a stretch to see that Tsukiko is dead, so it surprised me that nobody had considered it. If this is news to you, what will REALLY blow your mind is to consider which characters are really dead, when they died, and how they died....

For now, lets focus on Tsukiko because, as the main character, she's the easiest to piece together. This is just pure speculation, but I believe Tsukiko's life went something like this:

Tsukiko gets the puppy and it dies when she is distracted by a shooting pain in her stomach (perhaps her period? not trying to be gross or funny, it just fits with a theme in the show). She blames the death of her puppy on a mysterious assailant wearing in-line skates and wielding a metal bat so her father isn't mad at her. Her father vows to avenge her loss of innocence and always carries a bat in case he gets the opportunity to avenge her. -something that was said also leads me to believe he kept a GOLD bat because he deep down knew she had lied- From here there are many possibilities.

(For example, one possibility could be that her dad killed the boy who met the description she gave. Yet another could be that the boy goes to jail after being accused of killing the puppy. His life ruined, he kills himself. There are many possibilities, and it is highly likely that all of these variations are implied to have occurred in some version of reality. There simply isn't enough solid evidence to tell EXACTLY what the truth is. What can definitively take out of it this that her lie caused a schoolboy to die somehow.)

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Is this pasta?

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