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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 8 months ago #63307

rebecca1/2 NOW ONLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 1771 Karma: 30	Warning: Spoiler! She crashed because the girl in the hospital room, is her. Presumably this is why she ages when the others don't - she's still alive, in a coma; I'm guessing the whole thing will slowly be revealed over the course of the series.
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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 8 months ago #63308

ShawnMerrow OFFLINE CoolBoarder The Poster Maker Posts: 4451 Karma: 190	rebecca1/2 wrote: Warning: Spoiler! She crashed because the girl in the hospital room, is her. Presumably this is why she ages when the others don't - she's still alive, in a coma; I'm guessing the whole thing will slowly be revealed over the course of the series. Warning: Spoiler! That is my guess to.
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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63582

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Episode 5 -

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Interesting opening scene of the “Beautiful and Cruel Poet, Mr. Mika Kirameki” who believes that the world can be separated into two parts – beautiful and ugly.

Fumika has to deliver a Shigofumi to a cat, Schroedinger (of Schrödinger's cat?), and meets Chiaki, who has a Shigofumi for the same cat. They determine that the letters are from and old man and his wife that probably died around the same time and Fumika thinks that it was a blessing because “being left alone is incredibly cruel”. I wonder if this has something to do with her.

Kaname is still trying to find the girl he knew and discovers an old article that says a poet was shot by his thirteen year old daughter, and has the picture of the poet from the opening of this episode, but no explanation is given as to why. Kaname starts calling his old classmates from middle school.

Chiaki asks Fumika why she ages and says again that mail carriers are dead and tells Fumika that she should look the way she did when she died. Chiaki also finds out that Fumika is afraid of cats.

Kaname speaks to a girl named Natsuka and tells her that he needs to reach Mikawa. Natsuka remembers him and ask if he was going out with Mikawa. She says that if he tells her the truth, she will give him a hint to where Mikawa is. Natsuka knows that Kaname had a crush on Mikawa and there is a flashback of Kaname speaking to a girl that looks like Fumika. It looks like a confession of love and it also looks like the girl rejects him. Kaname tells Natsuka that Mikawa turned him down and not to tell anyone. Natsuka says that Mikawa might be at Yuzawa General Hospital. But Natsuka is puzzled by Mikawa's rejection of Kaname, since she was under the impression that Mikawa liked him.

As Kaname arrives at the hospital, Schroedinger runs onto the hospital grounds with Fumika still chasing him. She becomes startled as she flies by the room with the unconscious girl in the bed and crash lands right into Kaname. She recognizes him and covers his eyes, asking him to be quiet and he wants to know if she's running away from the hospital. The cat chooses that exact moment to come to Fumika and rub against her. This makes her jump and the cat runs off again. So does Fumika.

Chiaki and Fumika finally corner the cat in a building that's about to be demolished and it was nice to find out a little about Chiaki as well. Schroedinger scratches on one of the doors. The cat once lived here with his humans and both Shigofumi contain a key to the apartment. Fumika opens the door and the cat goes right to his little bed and falls asleep. It’s very sad and made me tear up. The old couple's last thoughts were of their cat. However, the cat will still lose its home since the building is still being torn down. Fumika tells it to “say all your goodbyes in this one day.” I wonder what will happen to the cat now. Chiaki asks Fumika if she has family and Fumika cryptically says – “I ended it.”

As Kaname is about to enter the hospital room where Mikawa is, his father shows up and they enter the room together. Kaname is surprised by the girl's appearance and his father tells him that she hasn’t woken up since the incident three years earlier. Kaname is really confused now and wonders just who he saw on the roof that day. I love how this show keeps giving hints about Fumika but always leaves you wanting more!

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63630

Newshawk OFFLINE CoolBoarder Otaku Grandpa® & TAN Casting Sensei Posts: 4054 Karma: 91	I am in total agreement with you, Wicca. I thought this was going to be a totally episodic show with very little to connect the episodes. What we have here is a show with two different story lines the individual episodes shigofumies and the back story of Fumiko. I can't wait to see where it goes next!
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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63822

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Actually Newshawk, I think the individual episodes may end up connecting somehow too.

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Episode 6 -

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The detective tells his son that he couldn't possibly have met Fumika, since she's been asleep in the hospital for the past three years. But Kaname is still pretty sure that it was Fumika he saw on the roof that day. However, he does ask his father why Fumika is asleep. Detective Noji can't tell him, but does confirm that she shot her father. But now I wonder if her father is actually dead. I had thought his appearance in the last episode was a flashback, but now I'm not so sure.

Kikukawa is being bullied at school and calls himself “Half-Dead Person” in a chat room, but Morishita figures it out and Kikukawa begs him for help. Morishita refuses and runs away, thinking Kikukawa is crazy, but the bullies saw them talking and accuse Morishita of being Kikukawa's friend. They ask him if he'd like to take Kikukawa's place or else prove they aren't friends. Morishita lures Kikukawa to the school roof that night and Kikukawa sees that he's joined with the bullies. They want him to walk across a steel beam and I think Morishita was relieved when the night guard showed up; he really isn't cut out to be a bully.

The next day, the teacher announces that Kikukawa has died. Morishita feels bad, but the bullies only look annoyed at having lost their fun. It looks like the school is going to suppress the truth too, so as not to embarrass themselves, since this is the second incident since the hostage situation. It also looks like Morishita will be taking Kikukawa's place as the victim of the bullies and he's also become “Half-Dead Person 2” in the chat room. He now realizes the torment that Kikukawa had been going through and how hard it is to endure the mental torture.

The bullies take Morishita to the roof. They want to blindfold him and make him walk across the steel beam and Morishita knows they will never give up until he's dead too. Fumika interrupts them to deliver a Shigofumi to Morishita from Kikukawa. The bullies try to bully her as well and she knocks them all out. However, the letter brings no comfort to Morishita and once the bullies come to, they torment him even more. How convenient that there just happens to be a screwdriver nearby and Morishita uses it to stab one of the bullies. The other two run from the screaming, seemingly insane Morishita, but Fumika knows he did it to survive “as an animal” would. And now he will have to go to reform school. The bullies have also moved on, to a girl this time and in the long run, nothing changes. It’s a vicious circle and it's really sad that people feel the need to be that way.

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63884

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What annoys me about Episode 6 is that

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63886

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Newshawk wrote:

What annoys me about Episode 6 is that

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63891

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Newshawk wrote:

What annoys me about Episode 6 is that

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Actually -

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63968

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LadyOfWicca wrote:

Newshawk wrote:

What annoys me about Episode 6 is that

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Actually -

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OK, I guess I'm just showing my age. Not having any children in school any more, I seem to have lost contact with that segment of the population. I'll take your word for it.

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Re:Shigofumi 2 years, 7 months ago #63980

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Episode 5

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