A few episodes ago, I remember noting how I’d like to see the focus of this series go away from Aoki a bit, because the other characters hardly got any attention because of him. It seems like the creators answered my prayers or something, because that’s exactly what the past two episodes have done. While the previous episode was a bit*cough* extreme, this episode gives interesting insight into Nanako, how her parents divorced when she was young, and she grew up without her father.
This episode deals with a serial-killer, who in the end turned out to be a regular salary man who killed off his victims in order to vent his frustrations about his job. The interesting part was his wife, though. We all see this case through the eyes of one of his victims, which turns out to be the father of said wife. He divorced his wife a few decades ago, and he didn’t see his daughter ever since, but when he learned that she got married, he wondered whether she married the right guy, so he went to investigate, and found blood-drenched coats in the guy’s garbage. He couldn’t face his daughter, so in the end he tried to calm down her husband, which got him stabbed in the back.
Nanako thinks that she understands the feelings of the daughter, but instead the daughter starts yelling at her, asking her to leave. It’s not like she forgot about her father, but rather she wanted to forget about him, while Nanako has never attempted to forget the loneliness of missing her father.
