The phrase "Sono me...dare no me?" ("These eyes...whose eyes are they?") has been the tagline for the preview of each episode. And with episode three, the question finally comes to life. Takumi recalls as a child, he drew a picture of a bus crash and tore it in two, just as his mother received a telephone call informing her of a bus crash in which the bus was broken into two parts. He didn't think much of it at the time, but since Yua suggested he might have precognitive abilities, he's starting to wonder himself. He goes to the hosptial to see the doctor that he saw as a kid, but the doctor doesn't remember him. Before they can talk about much, he passes out and is put in a bed to rest. Seira visit him dressed as a nurse and he regains enough energy to go home.
At school, some girls are swapping scary stories, but Rimi can't handle it and asks them to stop. When Daichi asks someone to get a book from the library for him, she jumps at the opportunity to leave. In the library, she meets a white-haired girl and is impressed by the intelligent looking books the girl is reading. At home, Yua is searching for information on dissociative identity disorder, presumably because she thinks Takumi suffers from it.
Takumi in the meantime is going over the images that 'Shogun' sent him earlier. He is shocked to find that some of the images are of him running away from the scene, and he realizes that the images really were sent from the future. He remembers that Yua suggested he had precog abilities and begins to research. He remembers as a child, feeling like a giant eye was staring at him, and he could hear himself asking "These eyes...whose eyes are they?" He stumbles on a page about a singer known as FES who sings for a popular band called Phantasm. Phantasm's website is incredibly dark and bloody, and he guesses that they might have something to do with the NewGEN murders.
Takumi and Daichi go to the Phantasm concert and we see the lead singer FES is the girl that Rimi met in the library. At the concert, Takumi sees FES materialize a strange weapon, but no one else seems to see it. He realizes that the lyrics of her song describe the bloody murder that he stumbled upon. When FES closes her song, she looks directly at him and asks "Whose eyes are they?" In a panic, Takumi runs away. Away from the concert, a young girl with blonde twintails burns a school uniform sadly. The next day, Takumi and his sister Nanami are going on a sibling date, but Takumi is distracted by a girl with black hair holding a weapon similar to the one FES used. Back in the hikikomori cave, Takumi receives a link to strange auction with pictures and information about a supposed vampire killing. In the final image, there's a dead body in a bathroom stall with bloody handprints all over the wall. He is shocked to find that someone has written in blood on the wall "These eyes...whose eyes are they?"
Ohohoho, this is getting so delicious. I felt the previous episode moved too slowly, but this one was nicely paced. Yua takes a back seat this episode and it focuses largely on Ayase/FES. It's also the first time we get to see the materialized weapons. Takumi's "happy delusions" feel really out of place with Seira dressed as a nurse and FES approaching him as her clothing disappears. I know in the game the delusions are based on how happy or unstable he is, but it's kinda jarring. I might be able to handle the Seira ones, but the random ones with Yua and FES in various states of undress don't fit in at all. I love FES' voice so much. Usually idol singers have high pitched voices, but her deep and beautiful voice is a pleasure to listen to. The mystery deepens quite a bit with the "whose eyes are they?" question echoing through the story. Next episode looks like we'll get to see more of the black-haired girl. This pleases me, as I think she and FES are the most interesting looking. Yua isn't too bad, and there isn't enough of Rimi to make a decision. Nanami is so uninteresting right now. We even got a cliched "Onii no baka!" from her in this episode. The OP shows her with a materialized weapon as well, so let's hope she gets more interesting. Anyone wanna bet that the homeless dude is Takumi from the future?
Whoever does the fake internet pages must really enjoy him/herself.
WE-KEY PEDOPHIRIA?
--Ou-bento
1 comments:
the thing that kinda pissed me off is that they never really answered the question of "whose eyes are they"... i mean, was the question posed by the real takumi or was it from the fake one... and who were they from... i did feel like he should sue the new gen killer for using his words... and how did the killer know the words? it's one aspect of the plot that drew me in but in the end was never explained...
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