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,

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[iverin]

.....Can Kitamura Kazuki be in it, too?

HOLY SHIT WAS I FIRST? That'll never happen again.

[darkeyedwolf]

YES! He and Mabo will fight Godzilla.

[iverin]

I approve.

Now excuse me while I try to go get work as an extra. Even a dead body would be fine. Mabo could look at me with anguish in his eyes before he picks up a REALLY FUCKING HUGE gun and kills things.

[darkeyedwolf]

ROBO WARS PART II. Except this time all their clothes have been ripped off and they must fight in the NUDE.

[a_white_rain]

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, persued by a gang of bloodthirsty terminally ill rakugo artists named after 80s Japanese pop hits. The only survivor: Nagase Tomoya the yazuka.
...Don't even know the characters but I'd watch it. I mean within a few years.

[darkeyedwolf]

The great thing is, minus the bloodshed, that's a pretty typical Kudo Kankuro script.

[augustfai]

OH MY SHIT. THIS DRAMA HAS ROBBED ME OF ALL WORDS EXCEPT FOR THE CHARACTER'S NAMES, "ARGH," AND "FUCK." Which is actually not that bad--most of the time I just make garbled sounds and clutch frantically at my heart anyway.

I have absolutely no problem believing Naruse wants to be stopped, legally.

I can definitely see it, too; so much, in fact, that I'm willing to bet that this is how it all ends...maybe. (Because I never know who's gonna pull the fast one.) Reminds me of that scenario that In the Realm of the Senses was based on--when Sada Abe cut off her lover's penis, rented a hotel, waited there until the police showed up and then was all, "What took you so long?" They didn't believe it was her so she had to show the proof.

[darkeyedwolf]

The only thing I doubt is that they'd end the drama with the main character in jail. But they can't let him get away with it, either. I'm placing my bets on redemption through death.

when Sada Abe cut off her lover's penis

I... I SEE.

my heart gonna die during this finale

[augustfai]

redemption through death--that sounds realistic, and really fitting for this drama. I can't imagine the ending in jail, either, and I'm pretty positive it won't end with him in jail then escaping out of it, ala the Bourne series--there would be no reason for him to do that.

She did! Super creepy, really. The entire story's on wikipedia. :D

ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES

[darkeyedwolf]

OMG I WANT IT. Naruse tattoos the prison design on his chest and then he and Shiori move to Panama...

[darkeyedwolf]

I thought that too, but I'm pretty sure (of course I don't have the episode to check, that would be convenient) he looked newly surprised when Shiori mentioned making the umbrella connection. I wish we'd find out how he's controlling the afterimages-- then we'd know if it was deliberate, if he was purposely pushing the rain memories into the umbrella or if they just kind of flowed in because he was thinking of that time when he held it.

I think they're hinting that Naruse is not as All Seeing as they want us to think he is.

I totally believe this. He tries so hard, but he's really losing his control lately.

[darkeyedwolf]

It's certainly possible. And it explains why he broke it off with her, if he was planning to reveal the truth. I'm just not entirely convinced. XD

Hey, you know Japanese, right? When Shiori was inviting him to fireworks, what building were they standing in front of? *bats eyelashes*

[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

[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

[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.