Category: Finished Series: Mystery/Suspense

Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World – 02

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World

As Bill Murray can attest, reliving the same day isn’t the best situation to be in. You may gain all the time in the world to master whatever you wish, no consequences for any of your actions and the ability to do over any situation not matter how dire. But you have to live through the same tedious situations over and over again, reintroduce yourself to people day after day knowing they will only forget you and eventually the time will come when you will break from the loneliness of the situation. But things are much harder for Subaru who not only has to repeat the day but also repeat his death over and over again. I am willing to give Subaru a break for not figuring out the time loop earlier considering that death is pretty traumatic and it’s easier to assume that it was a dream than face the reality that you just died. However with three turn backs even he figures out that he’s in a time loop. Subaru has been killed three times, twice in the loot house by Elsa and now once in the alley when he was accidentally stabbed by a group of muggers. When I think about this story, I am glad that white Fox was the ones to animate this. This isn’t the first time after all that they have dealt with a story of this nature

This episode was not very eventful as it was essentially Subaru attempting to retrace his previous attempt at a much faster pace. To sell his phone to the thief Felt in order to obtain the stolen medal and return it to our elfen tsundere before Elsa comes by and kills everyone. What I like about this so far is that our protagonist doesn’t shake off his deaths so easily. He jokes about it and generally puts up a good front but it really did affect him deeply. He runs into Elsa while looking for Felt and looks to be hit with some heavy post traumatic stress disorder. He is truly, utterly terrified of that woman which makes her pretty intimidating despite her looking to be just a minor villain. It’s the small changes in Subaru which catch my attention the most as I find him to be the most interesting of the cast. Subaru claims to be a Hikikomori but on all accounts he doesn’t seem like one. It could be a case like with KonoSuba where the protagonist gets a huge confidence boost due to being in a anime situation but I don’t quite think that’s the case. Subaru doesn’t look like a Hikikomori, nor does he fight like one. His fight with Felt when she was attacking him was most surprising when he displayed some pretty impressive dodging skills. To me, Subaru feels like a former delinquent who picked up anime as a hobby. That would explain his fighting ability.

As for the rest of the cast, I find them lacking. The problem is that a large amount of them are standard stereotypes with not much to them. I don’t hate them as they have enough to be likable but they do lack unique depth. They need more to them to differentiate themselves from the number of similar styled characters. The father daughter relationship she has with the loot shop owner is a step in the right direction but she still requires more. But at least the characters do work for what this story is trying to do. In particular it was good that thanks to Subaru being so forward and knowing too much, it caused Felt to be more on guard and suspicious of him.  As well as Elsa gaining an interest in Subaru after he froze up in fear in front of her. Whether the changes Subaru made end up getting him out of this mess is still in question but it looks like he made some good moves this turn. I have a feeling that Knight introduced this episode will play a big role in how this resolves.

~AidanAK47~

Mayoiga – 02

by LightningBolt, posted in Currently Watching:, Mayoiga

 

Hello there; I am Mario and this is my first ever post here in this blog. I hope you guys gonna enjoy my posts. As my name might indicates, I’m a male so Aidan; don’t refer me as “them” anymore; will ya?

For this season I will be covering Mayoiga; Flying Witch and Bungou Stray Dogs; but for those of you who still confuse of which writers write a post; Aidan and me decided to put our signatures/trademarks/whatever… at the end of each post. Mine will be ~SuperMario~ (haha)

Back to Mayoiga though, now in the second episode; we have much better idea what they will go for and the premise shows a compelling hook. We have a lost village where previous occupants seem to be vanished; and two people from the tour have been disappeared. People begin to spirited away really feel like a natural progress of the story; but providing that Masaki was one of a few characters that we spent time the most so far; I have doubt that this is the last time we heard of her.

The episode also take time to explore the communication of a group with so many different personalities and different goals to begin with; especially when it comes to trusting each other and making a decision altogether. Their confrontation with the bus driver highlights those issues; where those people have very conflicting attitudes toward the way to treat the bus driver.  I expect in the next episodes the clash between those characters would get more intense and would become the main focus of this series.

With that said, I still can’t figure out the role of the bus driver in the story. Every moments connected to him feel forced. He is the only one who hadn’t properly introduced (we even don’t know his name); yet  he getting way too much screen time. He always seems like an exclusion of the group; yet the series keeps including him. He better has a more significant role in next episodes; but at least he did see something that made him change his mind; so it’s interesting to see how things play out. I just hope that he won’t reappear just so that he would be the first one to be killed off. Time will tell on that.

~SuperMario~

 

 

Young Blackjack – 70/100

by AidanAK47, posted in Young Blackjack

This is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka’s manga series Blackjack and upon starting the series I worried that it’s old school sensibilities might interfere with telling a good story. Now having finished the series I can say that Young Blackjack was an interesting show. There aren’t many shows that feature medical drama with historical events and in that regard this anime is a breath of fresh air. The series mainly features Blackjack getting into a dire situation where he needs to perform surgery on someone. So Blackjack finds himself getting caught in the middle of the Vietnam war, student political activism and the Civil Rights Movement. It does prove to be quite entertaining though doesn’t quite reach the potential it could have had. The cast are relatively intriguing with Blackjack and his drug addict assistance being the standouts. Though his friend sadly disappears for the second half of the series. The rest of the character tend to have one time appearences and once there arc is over they are never to be heard of again. Many of them tend to be a standpoint in character form to express radical views or heighten the drama.

One of the particularly odd things about this series is in its presentation. It deals with some fairly dark topics but it is shown in the most over dramatic way possible. It’s a double edged sword as it allows the series to dive into some thorny topics without letting it get too grim. But in doing so it doesn’t quite give those topics the depth they deserve and often makes the nature of the problem rather one dimensional. Characters act too erratically in order to present a point and Blackjack is rarely in a position that tests his moral compass. There are also moments where the sillier aspects of the world break the down to earth nature of the series. A prime example of this is a villain presented in the final episodes whose resourcefulness with prosthetics leads him to gain tools on the level of Inspector Gadget.  Even his eyeball has the functionality of a Swiss army knife. The second episode even has Blackjack perform surgery that’s practically magic. When coming into a series like this you have to remember that this is based on a old Tezuka anime that featured a little girl sidekick who was in actuality a sentient tumor in a plastic exoskeleton. For this kind of series, when it throws something ridiculous at you, you just have to roll with it. If you can’t then one of the final arcs is bound to throw you off balance completely.

In terms of visuals and sounds blackjack preforms adequately. The soundtrack is suitable but forgettable and the visuals provide whats needed while looking quite good at times. The biggest failing of the series is that the titular promise of seeing the event that turns Hazama into Blackjack is never kept. The series taunts that each event might trigger it but sadly all we have is a random number of events that may have slightly influenced it and an ending note that he will indeed become Blackjack. Young Blackjack wasn’t an outstanding anime but it was interesting enough to keep me coming back week after week. As an introduction to the series it served its purpose well as I am now interested to watch it’s predecessors. According to fans, it didn’t do its source justice so it should prove worthwhile to look at previous anime adaptations. I have started the OVA and it’s already looking promising. If one was to see this as a incentive to check out the Blackjack series I consider this anime a success.

Subete ga F ni Naru – 45/100

by AidanAK47, posted in Subete ga F ni Naru

I like to see this anime as a false golden idol, where upon seeing it you believe it is something you have been looking for a long time. But when you take a look at it, you notice a crack in the statue and with that crack you find that it isn’t really gold but a wooden idol painted in gold resin. If you have been reading my reviews you likely can see the point when I began to notice what Subete truly was. It began with huge promise of a murder mystery with heavy dialogue focus and out of the ordinary characters. However the mystery it had to show proved to be too little for an 11 episode series as the show plays it’s main cards at the beginning and spends the remaining episodes padding out the runtime till it comes to the point to reveal it’s hand. In that regard it’s impressive that it managed to fool me for so long but sadly a facade can only hold up so long before it breaks.

Our story involves a teacher and his student going to visit an enigmatic female doctor who was charged with murder and confined to a facility on an island for fourteen years. They in turn get involved in a locked room murder and now are determined to discover just how the murder was performed. While this does sound like an intriguing setup it plays out in a slow paced fashion and instead of focusing on developing the mystery, it instead spends the majority of it’s runtime on three main characters. In doing so it renders the rest of the cast too underdeveloped and the identity of the murderer completely obvious. Any attempts at speculation are undermined by a lack of crucial information such as facility layout and machines that reach a supernatural level in terms of function. The final result requires some hefty leaps in logic and motives which make no logical sense. By the shows end our characters are very much in the same positions as they were in the beginning, leaving the question of just what was the point of all this in the first place. The shows last attempts at philosophical enlightenment are juvenile and lacking any empathic connection to reality. Mainly the meaningless meanderings of those who attempt to simplify the multi faceted nature of existence.

The three main characters have different problems in regards to the plot. Moe is a decent character that has an infatuation with Souhei which is detrimental which reaches no real affirmation by series end. This in turn is used to pad out the plot as she steals screen time to deal with her emotional baggage, both with past and present matters. Which is rather odd when considering the dire matters of the situation at hand, which happens to to include a murderer running around unchecked. Souhei spends the majority of the time pondering and making philosophical musings which add nothing. And finally Miss Magata remains an enigmatic entity from beginning to end which makes her too alien to identify with. The show suffers from being visually drab as a majority of it’s story demands it focus on people talking in a room and not much else. At surreal points when it can express itself visually it still tends to present itself in a boring manner with little in the way of money shots. Music is equally lacking impact though it does feature a good opening theme. Ultimately it’s a show that promises much, wastes your time and then delivers an unsatisfactory conclusion.

Subete ga F ni Naru – 11

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Subete ga F ni Naru

I feel as if a spell has been broken over me, for the things I found interesting in the first episode suddenly annoy me. If I had to guess I would say that having seen what the show has to offer I have come to find it lacking and now the philosophical aspect comes across as deeply pretentious. In reality this episode wasn’t even necessary as it didn’t really tie up anything. Briefly it looked like Magata had given herself up the authorities but as it turns out she tricked Souhei into thinking so for, dramatic reasons I suppose? I mean I doubt Souhei would call the cops on her but if he was the type then chances are he would at least check to see whether the news would show her arrested. Even then by the time the cops arrive, Magata would be far out of their hands. Meanwhile Souhei and Moe’s relationship has not changed in the slightest. All that was resolved was a misunderstanding that Moe could have easily resolved by asking questions instead of coming to her own conclusions.

Magata visits Souhei again and as if to try and counter my previous claim by explaining her motives. But sadly she only confirms everything I thought. Magata is indeed an idiot. A particular conclusion of hers that I just shake my head at is her deduction that if death didn’t have suffering then it wouldn’t be feared. Oh you silly child, suffering is only part of why death is feared. True, none wish for a painful death but when taking into account why people fear it, it is not the primary reason. What truly makes people fear it is uncertainty. There are no guarantees that there is a form of afterlife, or reincarnation. No matter how much you believe in heaven, there is always a question of it’s existence. What people fear about death is the distinct possibility that beyond it, lies nothing. We always avoid thinking about it but if you consider that everything that makes you what you are just disappears with nothing left behind, that is scary. Between eternal damnation and Oblivion, Oblivion is far more terrifying. And I am sure that if your child had killed you and you lay in a pool of your own blood, you would come to know the same fear. So as for her main reason behind all of this, she simply wanted to die but was too proud to do herself in. Well Magata there are plenty of ways to get that, pop onto the internet. I am sure you won’t have trouble finding someone who is willing. You likely won’t even have to pay them. Just get them to sit down and listen to your childish drivel for an hour or two and I am sure they would be ready to shut you up.

The end of the episode has her doing the very same to her child and the greatest folly to her logic is that she is attempting to explain human behavior by narrowing it down to a single factor. This is the same logic as when people break things into two categories even when something can not fall easily into either category. Such as in the way a anime can sometimes be neither bad nor good, just mediocre.There are a number of biological, subconscious and conscious reasons as to why humans can be kind. Taking this into account, you logic becomes broken.If humans know everything then they would attempt nothing? Wrong, for knowing something and attempting something are two different experiences. You yourself have broken this in this episode. For you know the effects of smoking and all it entails, yet you still attempted smoking did you not? With this being the end I must say that Subete is not a visually impressive show and nothing speaks that clearer than it’s final minutes. There is a certain desperation in how the animators just want to shove something on screen regardless of how it makes the scene look. For example, Moe and Souhei had a conversation and during that conversation they switched locations numerous times.The only way to really look at this is that while these two were talking, they would both stop, move to a new location and then resume talking again. There positions don’t make sense either as they went to a church and for some reason Souhei sat on one row with Moe sitting on a row on the other side of the room. If you were talking to someone then why would you sit as far away as possible?

Subete ga F ni Naru – 10

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Subete ga F ni Naru

Have you ever had a time when you were watching someone play a video game and the obvious thing to do is right in front of them? Yet despite all your hints they fail to see it and continue to wander around wasting time, so much so that you just want to rip the controller out of their hands and just show them? Well that’s this episode in a nutshell, with Moe being our clueless dolt. This episode was basically a reveal of all the details of the mystery and as more of it is revealed the more disappointed I become. For you see in a mystery series it’s never really fun to be right. Sure, there’s the smug self satisfaction of guessing the mystery before it happens but being surprised when it turns your expectations on its head is all the more enthralling. So to have the the characters reveal revelations long figured out as if they were incredible feats of cognitive reasoning, just leaves me feeling annoyed. There’s quite a lot of logical leaps here with characters making assumptions like it’s hard fact when alternative assumptions could be made. But let’s examine just why this is so unimpressive.

So the series has focused heavily on the phase “Everything becomes F” which is revealed to be a timer for when Red Magic temporarily shuts down the system. Truthfully the use of Hexadecimals was quite clever but here’s the problem. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a malfunction that happened right before a murder takes place was fully intended. So all the complex reasoning was to figure out something that a little logical thinking could easily accomplish. As Rider from Fate/zero said “Using a simple method to accomplish something impressive, far outshines using a complex method to achieve the same thing.” Then we have Moe constantly making the assumption that they are talking to Magata’s daughter despite things pointing to otherwise. But the reasoning behind why the daughter died behind this is just utterly ridiculous. Basically because of one question from Moe, this caused Magata’s daughter to question her existence and decide to kill herself. So in fifteen years Magata’s daughter never once questioned her role? Are you telling me that Magata brainwashed that kid so well that she never once thought for herself and that brainwashing was undone by one single question? That is just utterly absurd. Then cones the reveal of Magata’s sister being Magata herself which even Souhei didn’t figure out until it was too late. But this does bring up what maybe be a plot hole if I am remembering correctly. I believe we saw Magata’s sister step off the helicopter and arrive on the island with the director’s wife. So then at what point after the murder did the director pick up Magata, fly away and then return to the facility? All while keeping his wife from getting suspicious? Or was his wife in on it as well? But I can’t think of any logical reason as to why she would help Magata. I honestly wonder how Magata’s thought she was going to get away with this. I mean she didn’t wear gloves when killing the director and she left the knife and while she cut of the limbs off her daughter so she wouldn’t be identified by fingerprints but that doesn’t stop people from identifying her through dental. On that regard wouldn’t the police have a file on her detailing that she does not have siblings? This whole murder is just very poorly conceived. Highly dependent on factors which were random such as if Magata’s daughter did not resemble her then her plan would be completely moot. If anyone spotted her while slipping out during that one minute blackout then that would have been 15 years of planning down the drain.

With all the philosophical hogwash that was trying to be portrayed as enlightening, this episode has brought me to a conclusion. As Magata made her getaway and left Souhei and Moe with her final message I believe I have come to understand her true character. For you see Magata is not a prodigy or a genius. It’s simple really, she’s a complete idiot. After all what person decides to build a robot whose purpose is to unlock a door when any average Joe would have just removed the door lock? What kind of person decides the best method to get rid of her parents would be to outright stab them? What kind of moron conceives a plan to spend 15 years in a facility, conceive a child, brainwash it for what seems to be the sole reason of making some philosophical metaphor? The answer quite simply is an idiot who believes they are a genius. When Magata puts forward her thoughts to Souhei what we see is nothing more that Juvenile philosophical fluff any egotistical teenager with a functional brain can come up with. Makes sense when you think about it, Magata was incarcerated and isolated from the world so while others of similar mindset would eventually realize that their thoughts were no more special than anyone else’s, Magata kept herself in a box and became convinced that her idiotic drivel was some kind of masterpiece logic. Without anyone to give her a good slap in the face and tell her to grow up, she remained an idiot.

Young BlackJack – 10

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Young Blackjack

Thus begins one man’s revenge against those whom have done him wrong. It would not be out of line to say that Hyakki’s transformation from all around good guy to B-movie slasher villain was a tad sudden. The man is certainly desperate and I think suddenly having someone to blame for everything that’s gone wrong in your life could give rise to a thirst for vengeance but in this case we have the beginning and end of the transformation without the progress between. Hyakki accidentally killed one of his targets and suddenly took it as a sign from God that he must finish the job. The thing is that despite all efforts to make him intimating, these men are essentially getting chased by a limbless man. Hyakki has mastered the art of the Jason Voorhees casual stroll which can catch up with anyone regardless of running speed. As I stated before I don’t really feel any sympathy for his victims as they have brought it upon themselves. Any man who’s seen the count of Monte Cristo should know that before slighting a man you better be prepared for payback. A lot of this murder spree is inspired by the character Hyakki takes after who chased demons who stole their limbs.

One thing I must say is that detective has some of the worst bedside manner I have ever seen. I may not be a professional on the subject but I am sure you do not casually tell a patient that they lost an arm and then proceed to tell him his fellow doctor is dead.Then getting surprised when the patient has a complete mental breakdown. Detective, maybe you should have left this to the doctor instead.We did have an interesting moment with Blackjack coming to accept his need to operate regardless of laws. The Maiko made a valiant effort to prevent Blackjack from doing another illegal operation but due to her own lack of skill and experience was eventually pushed aside by Blackjack. It was interesting at just how she reacted to that, she certainly has pride but had to come to accept that Blackjack could save someone she couldn’t. She still took credit for his work to keep him in the medical world but that experience isn’t going to disappear. Other than that Hyakki isn’t making any effort to cover up his involvement with the murders which is odd considering the guy isn’t stupid. Or possibly he has no intent to get away with this at all.

Subete ga F ni Naru – 09

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Subete ga F ni Naru

Subete, I am not even angry. Just disappointed. When you started you promised something intelligent and I thought this might be that murder mystery I have been waiting for. But you have let me down and now that you have revealed your full hand, I see that a majority of the series has been fluff. How someone got into the room has been figured out mainly because we the audience have seen her past where Souhei seems to have made a huge assumption to reach that conclusion. Meanwhile figuring out how the murderer left was just completely impossible. No one could have figured out about the time difference using the info they gave us and most importantly the nature of a computer replacing a file of the same name is incorrect. A computer will never overwrite a file without being told to, in the case of a duplicate file it would likely create a file with something added on to the name to differentiate it. Sure the explanation for this would be a that Magata programmed it to overwrite files automatically but that’s something the viewer has never been made aware of. You may think that a Unix programmer might be able to figure it out but I do work with Unix systems and I didn’t have a clue. In the first place the timestamp issue only came up when Souhei used a script to extract the files. This is just cheating on the animes part. The addition of a new character at this stage is pointless and to make matters worse she’s downright obnoxious and completely unrelated to the story.

Thus the murderer is revealed to be none other than…Magata Shiki! Well of course it’s Magata, how can it be anyone other than Magata? That spotlight hasn’t budged an inch away from her for the entire series and no other character has enough exposure to possibly be a satisfying reveal. I guess I was hoping for her to be a red herring and for someone else to be the murderer but as it turns out, it’s that simple. That bugs me because I feel like I have been listening to someone who felt like they had something smart to say only for them to declare the obvious as if it was great wisdom.  So with the murder mystery turning out to be a waste I have to ask just what has this anime brought to the table. The sad thing is that when the mystery is gone there really isn’t anything left. The only notable characters are Souhei, Magata and Moe. The majority of the dialogue not related to the mystery was basically coming down to Moe getting sulky because Souhei doesn’t notice her affection or her getting jealous over Souhei. Souhei on the other hand is usually debating the philosophical or smoking. Magata is too enigmatic and alien to possibly relate to and I really do hope she has some reasonable motivation for this ridiculously convoluted plan. I mean if the goal was to remove her parents so she could give birth to the directors child then they are far better alternatives to consider than this. A tragically timed accident for example. If this was truly the only way Magata thought of on how to do this then I truly question if she even deserves the title of genius. In all honestly in the material presented feels like half a series stretched out to a full cour.

Young BlackJack – 09

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Young Blackjack

I think the outcome of this episode was thoroughly spoiled by the opening, where we have Blackjack and this Hyakki facing each other as arch enemies. But I didn’t expect that the man’s character would be so interesting. The episodes beginning broke the fourth wall by referring the original Mangaka’s works and how is man is based on Tezuka’s other work. I was fully expecting a villain of the level of zaki from episode two and got instead a sympathetic ambitious man who had most of his limbs lost in a car accident. As well as a doctor who saw Blackjacks recovery and the surgery that made him who he is. He’s a really respectable guy seeing as he lost all his limbs and yet uses his disability to help design better prosthetics and even having a fiancé willing to stay with him regardless if he’s limbless or not.

So it seems that revenge is in order and while the show will likely go the route of how revenge is never right, I can’t help but feel it’s justified in this case. From the looks of things these doctors cut the brakes on his car and fully intended to kill him in order to remove him from the medical world. I don’t see how responding in kind is particularly evil. Still one thing I find odd about how these doctors prevented him from operating again by informing the patient that he would be using prosthetic limbs. Wouldn’t that be par for the course to inform the patient on just who is doing the operation? I mean what would have happened if after the operation he went to see the patient and the patient got furious that he was operated on by a quadraplegic?

A common point that is brought up again and again is that if Blackjack continues to carry out these illegal procedures that he will never be allowed to become a true doctor. Seeing as we already know that he will lose his license and become a back alley surgeon these reminders that Blackjack will lose his license seem to provoke the question “I this the operation that gets him removed from the professional medical world?” So far he’s managed to avoid that outcome but with Hyakki going rogue there’s a chance he might let slip that Blackjack was the one who gave him the ability to operate. These two look to become enemies next episode but just how will they combat each other in a show about medical operations?

Subete ga F ni Naru – 08

by AidanAK47, posted in Currently Watching:, Subete ga F ni Naru

At this point the theory of Magata being pregnant before she was locked down on the Island is looking very likely as during Souhei’s revelation of the answer to everything, we get a brief glimpse of a pregnant woman. But lord only knows what the Ostriches are supposed to symbolize. What I really wonder is just how Souhei came to any conclusion at all with the lacking amount of information he was given. In particular if he does come to the conclusion that Magata was pregnant going in then I just have to question how he could possibly know that when her relationship to the director was made privy only to us, the viewers. Naturally however Souhei doesn’t share his miraculous insight as Moe cuts him off saying she will figure it out on her own. We do have three more episodes to go after all.

While Moe says she will figure it out I feel her earlier words captured my feelings on this mystery. Namely when she said, “I stopped caring about the case” and that is my exact mindset. I don’t like giving up on a puzzle but I feel the show is not handing us all the pieces needed to solve it. Two murders have happened, one inside a locked room and another on the rooftop. However we have no idea on the layout of the faculty, or the character of the facility personnel or the timeframe of the murders. The how of this mystery is missing far too much information to come to any conclusions about what happened, whereas the Who of this mystery seems blatantly obvious. I truly cannot see anyone else other than Magata being the murderer for no one else had screentime significant enough to make being the culprit justifiable. Some are saying Magata’s kid is the culprit but I find that lacking when it comes to motive and the big question of how she is able to move about the facility like a ninja despite spending her entire life in a locked small area.

No, my suspect remains Magata and from what this episode is suggesting, Magatas older sister is Magata herself. The two big hints to this is Magata comparing herself to the loneliness of seven and her sister being featured in Souhei’s revelation. What adds to this is that she is not present in any of Magata’s flashbacks and the camera’s reluctance to show Magata’s face when in the sealed area. So my current theory is this, Magata had a child in the sealed area secretly and raised her up to take on her role and impersonate her. Then under the guise of being “Magata’s older Sister” she left the island with the director. Hence why Magata has always retained a youthful appearance. The director killed the child and when he brought Magata to the island she killed him. There are numerous holes in this theory such as how did she get the things need. To raise a child without tipping off the guards or what would have happened if she had a boy or if her daughter didn’t look like her? And namely just how did the director manage to kill the girl inside a locked room? But like I said, I have past the point of caring. Subete has been a rather big disappointment and while its reveal might save it somewhat, the series would remain a slow show that plays its cards too early and then drags its feet to the finish.