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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#51: Nov 20th 2020 at 9:29:00 PM

I think Hoodlum being an infiltrator was something that was set up just as last-minute misdirection for this episode. He goes off-screen at a time where anything could have happened, comes back acting super-sus, the audience expects him to turn traitor, then it turns out to be someone else

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#52: Nov 21st 2020 at 3:31:30 AM

Of course, the real twist might be that Hoodlum really is an infiltrator, and went native.

What's precedent ever done for us?
thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
#53: Nov 21st 2020 at 4:03:52 AM

Really hard to believe that a person as comic as Hoodlum would be an infiltrator, but I guess it could happen in this kind of show...

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#54: Nov 21st 2020 at 6:13:54 AM

It’s always the ones you least expect!

thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
#55: Nov 21st 2020 at 7:09:03 AM

I wonder if that trope logic applied to when Doctor was revealed to be the Mole all along... I reckon yes, so I guess it could happen with Hoodlum too...

Comun Since: Jun, 2012
#56: Nov 21st 2020 at 7:58:59 AM

Hoodlum being a mole makes very little logical sense, considering we seen him in the first episode as the imprisoned Akudama who luckily happened to have his cell destroyed by the fight. The Execution Office wouldn't set up a mole whose participation depends on a random event.

JoLuRo075 Since: Jan, 2019
#57: Nov 21st 2020 at 9:01:19 AM

Of all the suspects, Doctor seemed the most obvious candidate to me.

* Swindler: Obviously not.

* Courier: He's too professional to be a traitor.

* Brawler: He's dead, And even before that, he was too excited about fights to be a traitor.

* Hacker: He left the team early, which wouldn't make sense if he was spying on them.

* Hoodlum: He only joined the group by accident. His sadness over Brawler's death seemed genuine, and as we saw in the stinger from the previous chapter, he actually cut Pupil's eye.

* Cutthorat: He is so obsessively in love with Swindler, it makes no sense for him to betray them.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Nov 21st 2020 at 9:02:40 AM

thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
Wispy Since: Feb, 2017
#59: Nov 21st 2020 at 1:15:35 PM

Chances are their is an extra executioner we haven't seen yet though judging by the OP, perhaps they will be introduced as Student's new partner.

thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
#60: Nov 26th 2020 at 8:24:22 AM

[up] correct, right on the money

Episode 8:
So yeah... Sagishi and Sister were spotted in Osaka and had to run for their lives. Thank God they found shelter, but then  they were caught by fucked-up men... And she decimated 2 out of 3 of them... Who took care of the last one? Hakobiya, Courier!! He was there to deliver the pouch from Brother, and that's about it, until Sagishi pleaded him to take them to Brother. Accepted.
Meanwhile, Hoodlum got severely dominated by the now-antagonist Doctor (feet to the balls kind of domination), Pupil has a new partner but refuses to work with him, and Cutthroat is somehow alive, wanting to go back to his angel (Sagishi, of course)...
Next episode's title is "The Shining", which is shocking for two reasons: (1) I know that movie, and I'm sure a lot of people do too, (2) If the movie in the title foreshadows what's to come, then the episode might have someone go Axe-Crazy and die. *cue Dies Irae*
I fear that Cutthroat is next to die...

Edited by thuse on Nov 27th 2020 at 12:26:34 AM

AbrahamOmosun Since: Jan, 2019
#61: Nov 26th 2020 at 9:14:43 AM

-Oh God, the censoring. I know this is probably on a time slot that makes this unavoidable but damn it is getting on my nerves. Maybe because I'm also watching Jujutsu Kaisen at the same time and the MC got his heart ripped out in episode 4

-On a more positive note, Short-Hair Swindler is the waifu of 2020. No debate. I wonder how Cutthroat will react tho

-The scene with her and the 3 men was... wow. She should really start avoiding takoyaki stands in the near future.

-Seems like everyone is converging again. Maybe Hacker shows up at the 11th hour to... hack something I guess. Also, it seems Hoodlum was planning on betraying them at one point but didn't do it and Student has increased her edge factor by 10 (5 for the eyepatch, 5 for the "I work alone" stuff)

Edited by AbrahamOmosun on Nov 26th 2020 at 9:16:47 AM

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#62: Nov 26th 2020 at 12:15:33 PM

I had delayed reaction to the post-credits scenes: "Oh shit, she's not pink anymore! This could go really badly!"

Surprised we didn't go to Kanto and meet up with Hacker, though.

Edited by Gilphon on Nov 26th 2020 at 3:16:06 PM

JoLuRo075 Since: Jan, 2019
#63: Nov 26th 2020 at 5:44:19 PM

I wonder how evil cutthroat really turns out to be.

He could perfectly be Obliviously Evil, or a complete heartless sociopath.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Nov 26th 2020 at 5:47:02 AM

Wispy Since: Feb, 2017
#64: Nov 26th 2020 at 7:29:01 PM

Yeah it looks like in the next episode that we are going to see Cutthroat turn on Swindler and see how Cutthroat got his name.

Short hair Swindler is adorable although its pretty sad that its kind of signaling how Swindler pretty much lost her innocence this episode and was forced to become a full fledged Akumada due to that shitty system. I never expected her to start killing but considering she and Sister were about to get sold to a human trafficking ring and possibly raped I don't really blame her for it.

Edited by Wispy on Nov 26th 2020 at 7:30:05 AM

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#65: Nov 26th 2020 at 8:14:26 PM

Well, we've gone from fun crime time to miserable crime time. And it looks like we might be moving towards horror next episode

The main group should be meeting up with doctor and hoodlum pretty soon, since the latter are following a tracer in the former's possession. Doctor's goals are her own, I'm not sure she'll actually be a direct antagonist when they meet

My guess is that endgame will be everyone catching up with Brother right as he gets shipped off to Kanto, followed by some big revelations about what's really going on. Then Swindler sells the big floating heads on some bullshit and achieves a happy-ish ending

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#66: Nov 27th 2020 at 2:14:04 AM

[up] Doctor will be a direct antagonist because she wants to cut up the little kid to harvest her cells. For science. We’ll probably see Doctor and Hoodlum catch up to our protagonist’s posse, and maybe Cutthroat will catch up at the end to join the fun.

[up][up] Yeah, can’t blame Swindler. She does rock that short hair ‘do though.

[up][up][up][up] Still excited for Hacker’s comeback! He’ll probably be involved when they reveal the big stuff about Kanto.

And now I want some takoyaki.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#67: Nov 27th 2020 at 3:40:20 AM

Yeah, but vivisection is going to inconvenience the kids for, like, five minutes at best. There's nothing in Doctor's goals so far that makes her a guaranteed, permanent antagonist.

What's precedent ever done for us?
fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#68: Nov 27th 2020 at 4:05:40 AM

[up] Huh? You literally said she wants to vivisect the kids. Like Swindler would be fine with that.

And what if she doesn’t want to stop at that? What if she wants to keep them as test subjects? Or am I just not getting what you guys mean by a “direct” antagonist?

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#69: Nov 27th 2020 at 4:17:56 AM

Swindler would definitely be angry, but there's nothing stopping Doctor from just doing it, grabbing the samples she needs, and then merrily waltzing off while the kids heal up, after which she's no longer a matter of serious concern for the protagonists. Insanely fast surgery is kind of her thing.

What's precedent ever done for us?
fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#70: Nov 27th 2020 at 5:06:18 AM

That’s assuming Doctor doesn’t want to keep the kids around.

thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
#71: Nov 29th 2020 at 12:39:16 AM

Right... Happy Birthday, Brawler... RIP

Mami Since: Oct, 2017 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#72: Dec 3rd 2020 at 6:15:34 AM

I

Am upset

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Well, I kind of knew it was coming but still there's really no winning with cutthroat honestly

Edited by Mami on Dec 3rd 2020 at 3:19:19 PM

I absolutely cannot help but adore handsome 2D boys
thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
#73: Dec 3rd 2020 at 6:40:07 AM

Episode 9:
Eerie episode, but considering what the episode is titled from, it's no surprise...
In other news, the propaganda puppets seem like they don't want to do their job anymore, people are rioting for Akudama blood after Sagishi posted online and the incident from last episode coupled with sightigs or her and Cutthroat, Hoodlum and Doctor made out (off-screen), Doctor revealed her true intentions: to conquer death so that she can become the grim reaper that can choose who lives or dies at whim (even herself), Courier keeps on calling the two people he has under his care "shit", and Brother is off to somewhere with the Executioners, thus the adventure continues... That's a lot to handle...
Next episode's title is "Babel", from the movie about miscommunication and globalization (as expected, since it is a reference to The Bible after all), so expect those themes next episode. Also, Hoodlum might be the next to die...

Edited by thuse on Dec 3rd 2020 at 11:06:22 PM

thuse from see timezone Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
JoLuRo075 Since: Jan, 2019
#75: Dec 3rd 2020 at 6:56:53 AM

The problem I have with the "Anyone Can Die"/Kill Em All tropes is that there comes a point where I no longer care about the characters and unfortunately that happened to me in this series.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Dec 3rd 2020 at 6:57:08 AM


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