Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.

[darkeyedwolf]

Stolen from darlas_mom: Which random people from different disciplines would YOU like to lock up together and force to collaborate on group projects?

Kudo Kankuro and Takashi Miike. Can you imagine? It'd be the most insane slasher comedy ever. Teenage schoolgirls would prostitute themselves to musical transvesite samurai in fedoras who play baseball,

Comments

[inuhariko]

As much as I love the original, and I do, you go and post the equivalent of cracksubs that are just 10x the awesome and ksdfjsdfjd, I can't deny I didn't think the same thing at the time.

Also Kasai is pretty damn fine once you relieve him of his spectacles and rough him up a bit. ♥

I do think Naruse meant to reveal the truth to Shiori. He was only surprised, perhaps, that it didn't turn her away from him like he'd intended. I think Naruse (Tomoo, whatev) still has a difficult time understanding there are decent people in the world. All of his designs require a choice and he's been consistently rewarded by people making the wrong one. I love that Shiori is never going to give up. Never going to stop trying to save him. There is nothing out there that can mess with Naruse's mind more than sincerity and faith and purity and goodness. >_<

Thank you for reposting kegom's Maou theory because it really does seem to be leading up to that. Naruse really does want to be caught. Sincerely. He's not just taunting Serizawa when he says please work harder, find the truth, catch the killer. He means it. It's not enough for Serizawa to just know who he is and why he's doing it, he needs to be caught. And I don't know why and it's frustrating. Just look at all the italics I'm being forced to use. ;__; But kegom's theory is still holding and it's the closest thing to an answer I can see. I'm eager for the final showdown as much as I don't want it to end. I hope Maou doesn't disappoint!

[darkeyedwolf]

All of his designs require a choice and he's been consistently rewarded by people making the wrong one.

YES. Except lately. Lately, people have been choosing non-violence and self-sacrifice and it's fucking up the plan, forcing Naruse to get his own hands dirty and to confront this mask he's been living in. Neesan forgave him, Kasai and Serizawa Sr. were better than murder, and Shiori is like the living embodiment of everything he stopped believing in. Even Naoto is begging for punishment to save his friends. They're shaking everything Naruse is!! DELICIOUS.

It's not enough for Serizawa to just know who he is and why he's doing it, he needs to be caught.

What really interests me? I always thought his big plan was leading up to Naoto's murder, the final kill, the ultimate karma. But if he truly, sincerely wants Naoto to catch him...

I wonder how much it has to do with Hideo. Hideo valued the law-- if Naruse gets away with his crimes, it might be like spitting on what Hideo valued. (But this is just speculation, since Hideo's lawyerly ambitions were mentioned in like, one line. XD)

I'm eager for the final showdown as much as I don't want it to end. I hope Maou doesn't disappoint!

Me toooo! I know people liked the ending of Mawang, so hopefully they'll be similar.

[inuhariko]

The thing that's interseting me lately is the strong emphasis on "truth." Because I don't think Naruse knows the whole truth of what happened that day with his brother. Does he know the stabbing was really an accident? Does he know Yamano originally had the knife to begin with? I think there's more to the situation than even we, the audience, know because the series has yet to show us the truth of that incident 11 years ago, clearly, from beginning to end, focusing instead on a jumble of blurry disjointed recollections.

Somehow I think it's the truth that eventually is going to turn around and bite Naruse in the ass.

[darkeyedwolf]

Oh man, that's really good. I'm hoping it'll come down to Naruse and Yamano (because the whole "two sides of the same bloody coin" thing would be awesome) and all the truth will be revealed then. Or maybe Naruse will have known all along and we'll finally get a confrontation about it.

[twothreefour]

Hiiiii jumping in here but I wonder if Yamano saw what actually went down from where he was hiding in the warehouse (that Naoto was just trying to scare him etc etc) and kept it to himself. I really wonder how much Yamano has told Tomoo anyway. Did he mention that the BIG NIFE was his? Is he really just helping Tomoo for Great Justice, or for the lulz? Anyway, Tomoo/Naruse isn't going down by himself and I'd be surprised if Yamano isn't one of the last people on the hit list.

[darkeyedwolf]

He better be, that cowardly little weasel needs to go down. I really want to know how Naruse feels about Yamano, whether he considers him a necessary evil or another victim or just a tool...

[inuhariko]

From his vantage point, I didn't think Yamano could tell it was a feint and not a ruthless stabbing. If Naruse got his version of the truth from Yamano as the eyewitness, he may have been misled from the start.

Yet, even if Naruse does find out it was an accident, I don't know that it will change his feelings. Both Ikehata's death and Yousuke's death were technically accidents too (accidents that could have been avoided had they made better decisions). Maybe he's always known and it's always been part of the plan. I don't know, but I do hope Yamano has always been a target and not an ally!