Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[LuckyTrouble]

Super_Boom said:

So I'm looking back through Erased, and comparing characters names, and I'm having trouble understanding something.

Is that girlish boy in the group of friends one of the victims? The names (Hiromi) and faces are the same...but so far Satoru's only been focused on keeping Hinazuki alive. If that character is in his group of friends, and he can keep track of the names and faces of all the victims, it seems to me he should at least make that connection. So far I don't think it's even been mentioned...so I have no idea if he is aware or not.

Just seems odd that he's throwing all his focus on one single victim when another victim is right next to him.

I think his current train of thought is that if he can stop the first murder, it may stop the train of murders. That said, I think the murder of Hinazuki is meant to be a foregone conclusion and that stopping the murderer from taking the first victim isn't the goal. Rather, the goal is using the first victim to catch the murderer. It would make for an incredibly harsh reality, but considering he was sent back after his mother became a victim, it doesn't quite click that the goal is saving Hinazuki, as if it will completely stop this murderer's impulses.