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| I knew about all this from the manga. The backstory (so far, at least) isn't super-original or anything, but it provides nice context for the conflicting thoughts that go on in her head. As people have said, the pacing for the last three episodes will be challenging. |
| So Jin actually injured Nana when she tried to run from him, yet he brought her to Michiru so she could recover. Jin is up to something and he needs Nana for that plan. That was a pretty tragic backstory from Nana and honestly, it felt pretty real despite her killing everyone and lying about her whereabouts. So I can imagine that Nana telling her story would make people not believe her cause of everything that has happened. Jin was right after all, "You may not be the only murderer on this island".. Honestly, I have my suspicion on who the second murderer is. |
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NewYearSameMe said: Synchrohayba said: i dont know how to send picture here , if you want me to send you picture , give me your facebook privatlyAlso, they did not mention the brother in the backstory, so I dunno if that was intentionally or not... Nah, you are good, I already saw the images, but yeah, you are right, it is slightly more messed up... |
| Of course she escapes again lol. He let her go so she can kill off the rest of the students or what? The amount of plot armor she has is reaching parody levels And was I supposed to feel sorry for her? Sorry but that sob story doesn't excuse her being a murderer, so cry me a river |
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girlfriendluvr said: This episode left out the best parts of this section of the manga. Completely cut Michiru's speech! Good, I couldn't stand seeing more of her dumbness |
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bellybuttons said: They just threw the identity of the new killer at us it seems like. I am curious what her ability is, invisibility is my guess going off the title. I wonder if she's been following Nana around all this time? knowing this series loves twists, she could very well be a red herring |
| Great episode. Nana's backstory was nice to know, nothing too shocking but still pretty sad. There's a second murderer...so far Michiru, Jin, and Fuuko seem like the most likely suspects but it might also be someone new we haven't been introduced to yet. Michiru is really looking sus the whole episode, might be a red herring though. Looking forward to the next episode and I wonder how they'll wrap this whole series up with the last three episodes. |
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| so we get more backstory on Nana this episode, pretty interesting. Though while Nana and Michur had a nice little conversation somebody has been murdered... who did it? |
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| I liked nana's backstory. Now someone else has been killed but it wasn't nana, I feel like this show just keeps adding more onto the story after every episode. |
| Okay, so apparently Jin decided to let Nana free until a certain time, in order for him to knew her better, especially with his situations that still didn't know a lot about the committee, the one that gave order to Nana to killed the talented human. Well, its understandable, since he was still stack at those island, together with his own problematic as a wanted person. By knewing Nana better, he hope to get more information about the group behind all of those scheme. Instead, i got to see Nana backstory first. Well, its kind of fucked up story. Their parents got killed because of her mistake, its caused her to be a cold blooded girl against a talented peoples. However, i am still uneasy with her behaviour too. She was certainly weirdo at her age; brought the severed head without any fear, woke up all night without any fear, using some kind of weird game alone without any feel and her overall kid expression showed a typical of psychopath. Well, referring to her father story, i guess that Nana mostly had a talented power, like many other kids that she killed. However, since her grudge was too powerful, she decided to be a tool for the committee's dirty plan, and forgot all of her talent, or even forced to be a talentless for the sake of her desire to seek a revenge over her cruel past. Either its right or not, i don't mind anything with that. Lol. Anyway, after the revelations of Nana's backstory, another murderous action happened at her absence. Its involved the scene at the op one, and yeah, they might've already hinted the culprit. Was that right, its a green hair girl? Whats her motive? To started a war like Jin's already mentioned before. Lol. The island must be wreck in a havoc soon, even those useless eyeglasses teacher already set a plan to escape from those miserable island. Well, its time for Nana the leader to show off her charm! |
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| Came here after finishing all my episodes for the day, and oh boy, am I glad we have threads like those to discuss each episode, because I was dying to talk about it! To start off with, and in my opinion, this is the most important part: Someone was murdered, and for the first time since episode 1, it wasn't Nana who committed it(I'm not counting deaths that happened before the events of the anime started, so no, the zombies/previous talented occupants don't count here). This is an extremely important point since it reveals that there is more then one killer in this game of cats and mouse. The second most important thing we learned this episode is Nana's past. Now I'm sure some people will change their opinions of Nana after hearing her sob story, but honestly since Nana could also be lying about it, I couldn't consider it to wight more important then the murder perpetrated by someone else then her..There's a high chance that part of her story is true here though, and that's why I place it as second most important aspect of this episode. Third and lastly, is that Jin didn't kill Nana, I know some might think he's responsible for the latest murder, but I'd like to think otherwise. He seems like he's more interested in Nana's motives and psyche rather then straight up wanting to murder everyone again, so for now I'm giving him benefit of doubt. P.S.: Did Jin give her phone back to Nana? I don't remember that part to be honest, so its all a little fuzzy for me.. |
| SPOILER ALERT!!! I guess it is this is the real enemy.... |
| I'm really convinced the murderer is either the teacher or Michiru. Would honestly love Nana and Michiru teaming up and being murder gfs |
_cenjoo said: Penguinman37 said: I really hate it when they make a sad backstory for an evil person, It's very cliche in shounen anime. Can't they just make an evil person with a normal backstory. Yes cliche and sad, but you can't hate it. I like to think of it this way. We would have thought for the rest of the series that Nana was blindly following orders from the government. Essentially making us hate her, a lot. Now that we know why she has this hatred for the talented, it makes us sympathize more with Nana to know why she came into that situation in the first place. If Nana had a normal backstory and she ended up taking this job from the government because she had nothing better to do. It would make us all root for Kyouya and the class yes, but we would question why even do this when she could've lived a normal life? Why would you do this with no motives? If she did it for no reason then we would conclude that she was just crazy. No matter what everyone needs motives to do something, whether it comes from a sad backstory or they are just crazy. I hope that kind of makes sense lol. Yes we can hate it. Sob backstories for evil characters in anime is as cliche as it gets And I don't care about her motives, nothing can justify her being a murderer |
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| oh not guy i've never seen before has died but it wasn't Nana this time , cut to girl that totally has something to do with it that we've hardly seen but most likely will be a bait N switch. while we got to know more about Nana i really hope it wasn't trying to make us feel bad for her also i don't believe anything about it outside her parents were killed like what kind of "burglar" kills like that mmm not sure we'll find out with 2 eps left wish Jin didn't drop such a huge hint or the ending might of had some form of a impact |
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| So Nana kills the talented for revenge for what happened to her parents, it was a sad story. I'm enjoying Jin's approach to Nana, but he better not let his guard down. Another murder and it wasn’t Nana, well since the students realized that the island has no laws there was a chance it would happen. |
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Glordit said: MegamiRem said: Was that backstory legit or just a made up story? I have my doubts. Interesting twist at the end yet again, who murdered this dude. Back story is legit but there are |
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| I dunno, I don't think a mere robber will go so far to kill an entire family, let alone beheading. It seems Nana's backstory has more "backstories". |
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IHateBoredom said: Another good episode, but as a manga reader I am quite worry of how they will end this anime. I am afraid the end for this anime won't be proper. I think the same, probably never gets a 2 season and will have an inconclusive ending. Anyway, I hope that gets an s2 cuz I feel that nana gets an improvement in the second part. |
| Well....didn't expected that Nana would have had a traumatic past!! I thought that she was taught in some secret facility which trains agents to kill the Talented. And now there's one more murderer among them. This show just keeps on getting interesting with every new episode!! |
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| Great episode, we got to know a lot about Nana and we never got interrupted by herself thinking in ways to kill someone, so it was a nice change of pace! And Nana as a child was so cute! I really hope the new assassin turns out to be a big threat for Nana and the plot, it would suck if he/she get discovered and defeated immediately :/ |
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| Great episode, that was definitely my favorite episode so far. This episode was a really nice change of pace, after nonstop killing and shit I really liked this episode. And it showed us Nana's backstory, I have a feeling that whole "robbery" is orchestrated by the government or something, there's something off about it to just be a normal robbery. Protecc Michiru please, she's too pure for this world. They're really not trying to hide that the 2nd killer might be the green haired girl lmao, unless it's bait. Really looking forward to the next episode, I am really itching to read the manga. |
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Kur4y4m1 said: Klefki_of_Awsome said: Came here after finishing all my episodes for the day, and oh boy, am I glad we have threads like those to discuss each episode, because I was dying to talk about it! To start off with, and in my opinion, this is the most important part: Someone was murdered, and for the first time since episode 1, it wasn't Nana who committed it(I'm not counting deaths that happened before the events of the anime started, so no, the zombies/previous talented occupants don't count here). This is an extremely important point since it reveals that there is more then one killer in this game of cats and mouse. The second most important thing we learned this episode is Nana's past. Now I'm sure some people will change their opinions of Nana after hearing her sob story, but honestly since Nana could also be lying about it, I couldn't consider it to wight more important then the murder perpetrated by someone else then her..There's a high chance that part of her story is true here though, and that's why I place it as second most important aspect of this episode. Third and lastly, is that Jin didn't kill Nana, I know some might think he's responsible for the latest murder, but I'd like to think otherwise. He seems like he's more interested in Nana's motives and psyche rather then straight up wanting to murder everyone again, so for now I'm giving him benefit of doubt. P.S.: Did Jin give her phone back to Nana? I don't remember that part to be honest, so its all a little fuzzy for me.. Tachibana Jin hasn't given Nana's phone back because he wanted to investigated committee that send Nana to the island more. Also, Jin wanted to see another true color of Nana before he returned it to her. Yeah, that was the part I was talking about.. So he didn't return it to her then? OK, thanks for telling me!:) |
tomarwan said: I really hate it when they make a sad backstory for an evil person, It's very cliche in shounen anime. Can't they just make an evil person with a normal backstory. Except no shounen protagonist uses their sad backstory to directly manipulate other characters, not just to show their motives and make viewers sad. Honestly, Kyoya should've addressed that possibility from the very beginning. Why should a new kid be the only killer? |
| Oh, I forgot to mention that I like how she was considering using her tragic backstory for sympathy points and as a cover for her actions. "I should make personal stories like this as relatable as possible." It takes a really special mentality to try to twist even that to manipulative advantage. |
| Sounds like Jin was right about Talented having a dark & psychotic side which could appear under certain circumstances. I don't believe he himself killed that guy, especially since he's seeking for truth. Also he mentioned that his peers fought themselves, each Talented fighting another Talented : basically it would be a new cycle |
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kuwangpa said: Also, I just realized that since Jin can transform into anyone ...can't he simply transform into Nana and do some "experimentation"? He clearly can't due to the unknown limitations as it was implied at the beginning of the episode. |
| Yeah u know what, Nana got out of there through luck. Jin is a true enemy of humanity.... It was interesting knowing her backstory,it made me feel sorry for her but i still love Nana. i hope you she finds it in her to really spare Michiru( but we can't be sure yet) Interesting twist at the end, i just hope that i haven't figured out who it is just based on the shots |
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| Poor Nana :/ I'm pretty sure her entire backstory was some kind of set up by the exact same people who are giving her orders now. It probably wasn't a talented person who murdered her family and just a normal human killer, but the government saw a chance to use that instance to their advantage and fuel some deep hatred within Nana, so she would do their dirty work on the island. The girl with the green hair could be our second killer, but she could also be the next victim - the focus on her has to mean something tho. I also don't get why certain individuals hate Nana that much. It's pretty obvious she's not doing any of this for fun and was brainwashed. Jin not killing her also makes sense, cause she's not a threat to him and he wants to know about the higher ups. Underdog anime of the season imo! I really hope we'll get a second season, even tho it's extremely unlikely ^^' |
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tomarwan said: Penguinman37 said: Well today's episode showed Nana's backstory. It is very sad indeed. Well I enjoyed Nana being beat down by Tachibana, greatest moment of the whole series. OK episode :/ That was my favorite moment too.  I really hate it when they make a sad backstory for an evil person, It's very cliche in shounen anime. Can't they just make an evil person with a normal backstory. It was satisfying to see. Because it is hard to make good villain without tragic backstory that will not sound just like an asshole. Other good villain is type "love to hate" like Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Only exception can be characters like Light Yagami from Death Note who was becoming more and more evil during the course of the story. Also, there is the rarest type of villain "who is right"... but this is even harder to pull of. Overall if Nana didn't had tragic backstory entire story would land superflat. |
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| Nana blames herself for the death of her parents and does not blame the thief which shows that is a conscientious character and he really has no desire for revenge very unlike these male Mc of "grimdark" bullshit fantasies like goblin slayer or shield hero. Also this episode shows that Nana does not have an infallible plot armor, when she faces an enemy that cannot be easily defeated she will not |
| despite knowing her story now that doesn't give her the right to kill these kids, i still can't stand her |
i liked the flashback nana was very interesting you know her past. |
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