#2 eps in and im enjoying it

[fujunfuren]

This camera allows you to take only two shots. The first shot allows the living and the dead to meet each other. It lets you meet the person you thought you’d never see or touch again. It lets you have a very brief but miraculous moment. The second shot means saying goodbye. It announces that the brief but miraculous encounter that you’ll remember forever is over.

THE MIDNIGHT STUDIO (2024)

[storge]

Wang Xingyue | The Double (2024)

[bestjeanistmonster]

finally watched sonic prime season 3.

spent three hours watching a whole lot of nothing fight scenes happen before getting a cliffhanger ending. I admit my expectations were high but I didn’t think that they should’ve been that low

Also renegade knuckles is amazing, prime!Amy should’ve been able to meet the other roses she would’ve adored them and Rouge should’ve gotten a cowboy universe.

That is all

[junk-culture]

actually forget rating jane eyre adaptations based on their faithfulness to the book the quality of acting the chemistry the cinematics etcetera etcetera. let's base our analysis on how cute the dogs playing pilot are

[sluckythewizard]

TABLET WENT DOWN FORA MINUTE SO I WAS REDUCED TO USING PAPER AND PEN. so anyway ive been watchign this show thats kinda neat u guys prolly never heard o it its called wondey luts

[jorrated]

My inability to stop reading/ watching something whenever I really get into may be a blessing in studies. But it absolutely will ruin my life in anything else

[jullythevamp]

i didn't think there was something worse than the jojo brainrot. there is: iwtv brainrot. tell me why I was watching dead boy detectives and as soon as that one guy said "fascinating" my mind immediately started playing s02ep05

[kkoct-ik]

what are we thinking

(explanations / elaborations under the cut)

confidence: ★★★ = most, ☆☆☆ = least

★★☆ mew-chan: there's a popular theory about Gin's apparent significance that suggests any number of things are hidden in mew-chan. i dont feel strongly on one theory or another, but i think it's a solid idea

★★★ Sara does not win (the game): i think it would be poetic if in spite of her win rate / being favoured she refuses to win or otherwise destroys the game

★★★ one bad end: like the mindbreak / Q-taro escapes ending, i think it would be fun if there was a way to fail during the minigame segment

★★☆ Keiji gets decimated: he's overdue and if i don't get to see his mangled corpse i'll be very disappointed. i do not think he is surviving to the main game, and if he does, i think he will be the Sacrifice (there's a convincing argument about how this is the only card he has not had thus far)

★★★ Kai & Joe: this is a loose end i hope is tied up. i'm very invested in Joe's relevance and how suspicious / strange some of his behaviour in chapter 1 is

★☆☆ mishima's head / collar: Midori assumes his collar is how Keiji 'cheated' the russian roulette, so the game clearly hasn't forgotten about it. assuming he is actually dead, i speculate it will be used to cheat / cause issues at some point in 3-2, depending on who actually has it

★★★ Meister doppelgänger: Safalin's clue that floormasters die after meeting their doppelgänger is never used during 3-1's russian roulette. one version of Sara's father and Meister have the same sprites. if Mr. C is not Meister, he is his doppel. if Mr. C is Meister, Dummy!Mr. C is his doppel (see two Mr. Chidouins square)

★☆☆ hospital bed: this is a loose end im looking out for. i've seen some insane cope theories about it & i'm not huge on any in particular, but i would love to see it cleared up

★★★ BANGER music: this should have been the free space but i'm really looking forward to it

★☆☆ we cannot save the Dummies: sorry dummy fans. the game has made a point to make the cast come to terms with the fact that human lives are more important than dummy lives. i think this theme of the value of life will become relevant at least one more time

★★☆ Hades' descendants: Q-taro is an orphan, Reko/Alice & Shin/Kanna are siblings (ie. have one set of parents between them), Gin has a step-father, Sara may or may not be adopted; i think there is some link between the participants' parents and why they were sought out by ASU-NARO

★☆☆ Midori's doll body: it's still out there. where did it go. this is not an insane cope that we see Midori again, i kind of hope we don't, but his fixed dummy body is still in the equation

★★☆ ASU-NARO Gin: ties into the mew-chan theory, elaborates on it. i don't believe he's a liar, but i do think there are a lot of inconsistencies around him. also Miley mother theory is solid and we are definitely not all delusional

★★★ Shin revenge: Shin swears to kill all of us. i specify Keiji because he could realistically be killed (Shin has a soft spot for Gin, and we are the protagonist). i don't really think Shin will anybody, but i think he will be given the opportunity to. (that said if there is an ending where he loses his mind and kills us all i will not complain)

★★★ suicide: whether it's a noble one like Kai's, or a deranged one like Gashu's, i am almost certain there will be a suicide

★★☆ floormaster collars: hey it's the reason i made this bingo at all. i think every single floormaster being trapped by the game (bar Midori, but i'll get to that) is an insane reveal (not just Gashu; if you look at them, all of their necks are hidden from us exactly where a collar would be). i'd love to see a floormaster executed or have their lack of autonomy highlighted in some other way

★★☆ cast revival: i think this would be fucked up, and the technology exists. it also ties into the theme of the value of life, the theme of grief, et cetera

★★★ two Mr. Chidouins: this is my personal tinhat theory that combines the fact that Mr. Chidouin has two distinct sets of sprites, and the fact that the Mr. Chidouin Kai speaks to says he is not Sara's 'real father' (commonly interpreted as adoption, but it's possible this is because this Mr. Chidouin is a dummy). accordingly i think Meister-like Mr. Chidouin (that we see in the winner's room with Sara) is his real/human version

★★☆ memorandum author: i have no strong copes on who (Mr. C / Meister / anyone else), but chances are they will become very relevant as the purpose of the game is finally revealed, and i am assuming we will meet them in person (ie. that they are not long dead)

★★☆ massacre / slaughter ending: either a Sacrifice win or a 'contestant kills everybody in a brutal bloody way' bad end. i will not accept anything ambiguous; i'm looking for an ending where everyone is Dead

☆☆☆ vows & trials: i was going to specifically manifest Gin's first trial being revealed, but i've decided this is my cope square. i want to know about all of them

★★★ Keiji's vow: Mr. Policeman had a kid. "jou" pun. i firmly believe Joe is Mr. Policeman's kid and Keiji's vow was to atone for / get closure for his crime by meeting Mr. Policeman's kid. i hope it recontextualises Joe's initial suspicion of Keiji / attitudes towards police too

★★☆ three new characters: in my mind: Ms. Shortcake (we know of), the dummy version of Mr. Chidouin (previously only seen in Kai's flashback, but likely to become relevant), and a secret third thing. i know this square is a little cheap, but you never know

★★☆ Midori is a huge liar: Midori is at the Least not a traditional floormaster (not a dessert, openly antagonistic & violent towards participants, can remove his collar, was originally supposed to participate), so i speculate that he does not have to follow the floormaster's code, and therefore is able to lie. this boils down to the fact that i simply don't believe that Joe was a handicap, and am suspicious about what is being told to us about AI Sara as well

[dontbotheraziraphale]

hi dead boy detectives is SO FUN. this is the dark whimsy we deserve

[namelessprince]

listen no im not saying the jrwi guys should crunch and do 5 campaigns a week just so we can all have our favorite shows back. im saying i dont like wonderlust ✌️

[fujunfuren]

FRANKLY SPEAKING (2024)

[storge]

The envoy sent a message back. Fan Xian fell ill and passed away on the way back to the capital. His body has already been cremated.

ZHANG RUOYUN as Fan Xian Joy of Life 2 (2024)

[lemongogo]

i need tht man so bad .

[fourx]

would u you kill me if i said story wise tpot 2 wasnt all thst great

[hall0wedwyrm]

so im working on a Caine theory/analysis and I've made an interesting discovery. In episode 2, Pomni asks "What time period is this supposed to be again?", I originally thought this was in reference to how at the end of ep 1 it shows an old looking monitor with a modern looking headset. I did some research, trying to confirm when headsets (specifically VR ones) were first around as we know them today and i found this \/

The head set on the Left is a NASA headset ("the Virtual Interface Environment Workspace") from 1990. On the Right is a screenshot of said office space. You can see the similarities, with the front of the devices having the four... thingies, the only real difference is the separate headphones and top strap, other than that they're reeally similar.

BUT to me this confirms that the real world of the Circus is set in the 90s, supported by all of the retro-gaming references and general style of the show. I dunno if this was obvious to people, but I just found this and I'm kind of amazed.

This also leaves... a question. Does this make Caine an advanced AI?

[otoris1]

when rewatching an anime do u guys skip the chapters that u dont really enjoy that much