Just watched this.
don't know what's sadder, the ending that could be seen a mile away, or the mc getting cucked by a guy that's not even his main bro.
What's /a/'s opinion?
SatoruxSensei OTP
Bump?
Show was good overall. Interesting from week to week, and probs one of the best shows of its season.
And even if the ending seems obvious, there was no agreed consensus who the killer was in the /a/ threads that were going on while it was airing.
Cuck stuff can stay over in /Pol/ for all I care. Airi best girl anyway.
>>141758590
You know sensei probably had a taste of that shota ass while he was in a coma
>>141758455
All I know is that you're a complete idiot.
The show suffered from poor pacing after the Kayo arc. Other than that, the adaptation is decent, go read the manga.
>>141758808
>go read the manga.
Just as bad, idiot.
>>141758756
It would have been hard to miss that opportunity.
>>141758748
Airi was a generic genki
>>141758834
How so? Are you still crying over the ending?
Get over it, it's just a fucking story.
If you label the entire story as unenjoyable just because of it, then you really are being dishonest.
>>141758590
That's a funny way of spellingkenya
Apart from the predictable villain, I think its AOTY so far.
>>141758930
>projecting this hard
It's bad because it's bad. No amount of self-loathing can change a writer's skill
But don't you have a Toyko Ghoul general to shitpost in?
>>141758808
Is the manga significantly better?
>>141758853
I see the fujos are all over that already
It was a good anime for cucks like me.
>>141758748
>And even if the ending seems obvious, there was no agreed consensus who the killer was in the /a/ threads that were going on while it was airing.
That's a lie. We figured it out pretty early and through most of the latter episodes it was fucking painfully obvious
>>141759009
It's the source material, of course it's going to be better than the show itself, some things are better cleared up in the manga, but I'll admit that the writer could've gone differently with the events after dealing with Kayo. It did not stop me from enjoying it.
"I saved a girl from her abusive mum when she was like 9, and then I was in the coma for 15 years, but surely, she had to wait for me all this time, she owes me sex and we have to marry each other"
Be glad that she is alive already, he never wanted to fuck her, he just wanted to save her and he managed to.
Even satoru doesn't feel bad about being "cucked" so why would you. I still don't understand
>>141758930
I didn't even finish it because it was so stupid, boring and contrived. The main character was about as interesting as a bottle of milk and the story was clearly tailored for teenagers.
>>141758888
The manga fleshed her character more though. I guess the anime couldn't do it thanks to time constraints
c'mon anons, where's the true end image
Has anybody read Sanbe's island story?
Do you like not-Kenya, not-Satoru and not-Kayo?
>there are people on MAL who now think sanbe kei is a genius
>>141759234
I guess it's for us the viewer, that feels like all his efforts and hardships to save that girl went to waste.
I'd say he still got a good deal though
>milf mom still alive
>wake up slightly younger
>got his holes filled by sensei
>his manga doesn't suck ass anymore
>>141758455
It was inevitable.
>>141759234
>Even satoru doesn't feel bad about being "cucked" so why would you. I still don't understand
They're so used to the trite "MC does something for girl, girl wants his dick and his dick only for all eternity" bullshit that when anything else happens they can't handle it.
>>141759355
>I guess it's for us the viewer, that feels like all his efforts and hardships to save that girl went to waste.
But they didn't: he saved the girl.
>>141758455
The show is a great example of a completely trashy script.
>>141759009
>significantly
No, not really. Don't waste your time.
Wasted potential
Guys with this hair like this have a 125% chance to steal your girl.
Both the anime and the manga barely use the concept of time travel to its own benefit. Satoru’s revival ability, which sends him back to the past, is used only 3 or 4 times in total during the entire storyline. Additionally, he has little to no control over its occurrence, resulting in it being used only for narrative convenience. Common ideas such as time paradoxes or the butterfly effect are never dealt with on any level and why Satoru has this ability is never explained either. By the end of the show, the time travel aspect feels completely extraneous.
Similarly, Erased sets up a murder-mystery case, but does an incredibly poor job of following through with it. The show never builds a good list of credible suspects to keep the audience guessing, nor does Satoru ever try to play an effective detective. The perpetrator becomes easily identifiable simply because the show quickly runs out of valid options rather than because a string of clues is provided so the audience can figure it out. Little to no time is given to understanding the killer’s motives, and the eventual reveal is glossed over so fast that a motive might as well have not existed. While these are by no means mandatory details of a mystery or suspense story, it limits the amount of intrigue these aspects can generate.
>>141759355
I can understand why it feels this way, I kind of felt the same at first but like you said he's got quite a lot of cool things going on for him now.
I mean if he didn't time travel his mother would be dead just like kayo and he'd still be delivering pizza.
But honestly if kayo had waited for him 15 years, for a childhood love that is, it would have been too unrealistic in my opinion. But hey, everyone has different opinions.
>>141759483
>Both the anime and the manga barely use the concept of time travel to its own benefit.
Constituting 99% of time travel stories ever. Watch/read/listen to more time travel stories. It's primarily a short character drama, not a mathematical dissertation on the music of the spheres or a detailed case by case murder mystery: it does well on whatever funds and time it got allocated.
The killer was reveled so quickly that I thought they were going for a false flag, but it was just a poorly executed double false flag.
>>141759727
Should have been Kenya.
>>141759482
>>141759727
It wasn't that obvious in the manga. Sensei felt like some random side character till volume 4 or something but the anime was focusing way more on him and depicted him as mysterious from the very beginning. I think the anime director is a Yashiro fag.
>>141759737
Would have made sense
>>141759770
Bullshit, it was just as obvious in the manga. Simply because the cast was too small and had no other possible suspects that wouldn't feel like an asspull.
>>141759770
The difference between foreshadowing and completely blowing your ending is subtlety
>>141759737
I expected this too. Especially since he seemed to know what's going on and even acted like a time traveller. Would be nice seeing an enemy with this power as well.
>>141759763
I want to have sex with Nadeko's hair
The biggest criticism is how obvious the villain was from the get go. Not only that Satoru sometimes didn't act like an adult when went back to the past, it was weird.
I do prefer the anime end though.
>>141759770
Yeah the anime fucked up on this big time.
>>141759918
All you need is a mannequin and black licorice (or a bunch of white snakes if you're into that)
>>141759934
The endings different?
>>141759518
>But honestly if kayo had waited for him 15 years, for a childhood love that is, it would have been too unrealistic in my opinion.
Definitely agreed. Waiting 15 years for someone tends to be a bit of a stretch even when they've already been married for years, but a couple of 10-year-olds who weren't even really dating and were only really close for a matter of weeks, no way. Even if one of them did save the other's life.
>>141759934
I'm on the other side. Anime end is fine, but they botched it by not including the killers past. The panels where his wife realizes he's a killer are great.
>>141759999
Yeah, completely different.
They never go to a roof or anything, and the killer doesn't just meet up with Sato either.
>>141759999
Yes pretty much. Cancer loli played a bigger role in the manga and there was another time skip and the killer kept killing people there whereas Satoru turned into Jesus in the anime and prevented Gaku of even becoming a serial killer again after 1988.
The manga also had Gaku's past.
>>141758455
>Just watched this.
>cucked
NO YOU FAT FUCK
You didn't "just" watched it. You already watched it with /a/. You're just making excuses to shove your "cuck" meme with this show. You've been making this kind of thread every week.
>>141759355
>that feels like all his efforts and hardships to save that girl went to waste.
How? In the first place, he didn't save her because he felt attached to her. He intentionally avoided her during his "first life" because he felt they were too similar, and it's hard to look into a mirror that highlights the broken parts of you.
Saving Hinazuki wasn't just for her, or out of some feelings for her, it was just as much for the other victims (including Jun and his own mother) and because of a complex he'd built over the trauma of that time.
He's not some goddamn fedoralord that only does good things for people out of the expectation that he'll be rewarded, that they'll be ingratiated to him. Had his original rescue worked out, Hinazuki would never even know he'd done a damn thing.
He wanted to save people because that's what a hero does. And he did - the town became a town where only he was missing, and he couldn't be happier. He happily gave those 15 years he'd already lived once alone to the people who originally never got a chance to live them at all.
Goddamn, what a guy. What a legend.
>cucked
>on a girl maybe a third his age
>during a coma nobody knew he would ever awake from
I know you really like that meme, but it doesn't fit
>>141758455
>cuck
>>>/tv
The only bad part is that Satoru apparently had no remorse for shackling his poor mother to his bed for 15 years.
I mean, in one time line she is dead. In the other she was basically a walking corpse for 15 years. But sadly we never saw Satoru reflect on that.
>>141760212
Maybe in one of those extra stories in Gaiden. It sounds like one of those chapters authors tend to skip for the sake of the pacing of the main series.
>>141760075
>>141760120
Interesting
>>141760212
Well he made it back so her efforts weren't for naught
>>141759277
Imagine if there was a romcom where 70% of the series teases the what you thought was the main girl and suddenly she's gone.
Did Sensei raped the girls too or just murdered?
>>141760506
Just murder iirc. His brother raped the little girls.
>>141760288
Sure, but that was just good luck on his part.
What if he had woken up after she died of old age? What if he had never woken up?
My problem is simply that Satoru is given the character trait of loving his mother. But he doesn't bat an eye at wasting 15 years of her life.
Maybe it's a value thing, but given the two choices:
a) mom lives until she is murdered, had a good life up to this point
b) mom lives until she dies of natural causes, spends over 10 years in grief because her son is in a coma
Which one would you choose?
>>141759152
>trying to pretend you knew all along
Sure, anon. The last present-day arc, with the house fire and the police chase, was the earliest that it started to become clear.
>>141760643
I mean it's not like he had a choice of going into a coma.
Also
3 lives for 10 years seems like a fair trade
>>141758455
>>141760506
Just realized sensei is just crazy Koizumi from haruhi
>>141760332
>>141760766
These are pretty good
>>141760332
ty anon
Agape is vastly over-rated
I think the "cuck" stuff is just the shit cherry on top of the contrived plot device sundae. Erased wasn't very good, not as a mystery, not as a character study.
Just about the only thing praise worthy about it is semi-decent directing, and that's only if you're a mouth breather who thinks red = dead is some revolutionary and subtle mechanic
>>141760332
This settles it.
>>141758590
I disagree
