Oct 31, 2022
The risks of civil courage, if you don't know the full picture ... I don't think the girl is to be blamed there, honestly. I mean she was obviously beaten and then pressured into calling Hideki out as the molester/rapist(?). Still not okay, but understandable if you ask me.
It was written just great and I was even slightly sweating from the eyes at one point, but I still have my troubles with plots about putting the blame for something that could be actually proofed easily onto someone else. I know that stories like those happen to a degree or another in reality, but Japan in fact is a constitutional state and to make it actually fully, justifiably realistic, other stuff would need to be addressed or shuffled around.
But well, it's not really a core of this story, but rather a back story, so it is not that problematic. It just has a tint of "oh, my character needed some dramatic backstory to make the audience empathize with him". And I don't want to say that this event didn't shape Hideki as a character, but it has no real relevance for the plot (yet). I could imagine, that when they all turn against one another in the last day (I guess it was hinted that this is a possibility) that he gets PTSD flashbacks from the events and freaks out. But I would call that a rather loose connection 😉
Nonetheless I really liked that chapter! Hideki entrusted Ayase with a secret and she keeps it for him now. They even held hands! If that isn't a development (despite Hideki still being dense as ever) , what is? 😊😂🫶
