#last twilight ep3

[gunsatthaphan]

"you seem tense."

#last twilight #last twilight the series #jimmysea #mhokday #mhok x day #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #last twilight ep3 #this was cute

[alejunsu]

Last Twilight Ep3

Esta escena una de mis favoritas (una de tantas jajaja), el rostro de miedo y desesperación de Day, el momento en que aparece Mork, el hecho de que se haya puesto la playera para de alguna manera fuera mas facil para Day verlo, su cara de miedo y de alivio al encontrar a Day, el abrazo que se dan, osea todo en esta escena es magnifico, y transmiten un montón, simplemente hermoso.

Mork en su versión después de conocer a Day, es todo lo que esta bien en esta vida ❤️

#last twilight #last twilight ep3 #gmmtv #boys love #series bl #thai bl #couple bl #asian drama bl #so adorable #😭😭😭 #mork x day #morkday #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #jimmysea #la mejor serie #la mejor escena

[lunaylin]

i think what david saw that day must be so beautiful. so beautiful that he didn’t think he had to take his daughter to find anything else. that’s exaggerating. nothing in this whole world is that beautiful. there is. a moment so good that you feel like you can live there forever. i just got it. - sunrise - louise glück

#i guess i make gfx every three episodes lmao first ep3 then ep6 and now ep9 #jimmysea #last twilight #morkday #mhokday #mohkday #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #boyslovesource #thaidrama #thaidramaedit #asiandramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #asianlgbtqsource #mlmsource #*gfx #*last twilight #ninisdarlings #userjjessi #anialook

[priapussdick]

mork.exe had stopped working

#something lgbt just happened to him #😳😳 #last twilight the series #watching ep3

[airenyah]

god. the way p'aof does relationships

#p'aof shows just hit different!!!!!! #he has a way of showing relationships that just hits all the right buttons in my brain #idk how else to explain it #airenyah plappert #adrm #anyway i finally caught up on ep3 of last twilight which means i can finally unfilter it

[myjollyfroggyfriend]

they're flirtiiiiiing

#last twilight #ep3 #mhokday #jimmysea #gmmtv series

[moonkhao]

Which one do you like? I'll borrow it for you. It's okay. I don't like people reading to me that much. The feeling isn't right.

LAST TWILIGHT | EP3

#last twilight #last twilight the series #mhokday #sea tawinan #jimmy jitaraphol #morkday #my edits #lasttwilightedit

[bl-bracket]

Round 2: Jaab (Step by Step) vs Oh-Aew (I Promised You the Moon)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Jaab: "just look at him. LOOK. his long hair is gorgeous, his smile is stunning, his lips look nice and soft and luscious, his eyelashes are so long, and when he puts his glasses on his head and pushes his hair back so little pieces fall to the front??? people died"

Oh-Aew: "Oh-aew is best known in 'I told sunset about you', but his gender-envy causing self really blossomed in 'Last Twilight in Phuket' and 'I promised you the moon'. The iconic red hair, the heart cut-out sweater in ep4, the oversized button-up in ep3, the blazer and the suit in ep5... He has so many iconic looks and he pulls them off all in his own androgynous way. Besides the way he dresses, he also is unapologetic and confident in who he is, which at the end of the day is what truly inspires gender envy. And he's an artist too!!"

#bl bracket #bl drama #bl shows #round 2 #jaab #step by step #oh aew #i promised you the moon #gender envy

[deliciouskeys]

Black Mirror personal opinion

I binged Black Mirror season 6 so you don’t have to.

The ranking goes (spoiler-free, I think)

#1 Ep3 Beyond the Sea. Interesting premise, I like relationship-focused episodes, and I enjoyed everyone’s acting (especially Aaron Paul’s). Just not sure why it had to be set in 1969.

#2 Ep6 Demon79. This doesn’t feel like a Black Mirror episode because it’s hardly scifi (more like Twilight Zone). But again the acting is good, and the demon character is very likable. Just not sure why it had to be set in 1979.

#3 Ep2 Loch Henry. Doesn’t really feel like Black Mirror aside from “cameras are technology” but interesting little story. Acting is okay, but not as good as the two above.

#4 Ep1 Joan is Awful. I was very annoyed by this episode. But it does feel like Black Mirror. A dumb episode of it. Black Mirror is bad at comedy.

...

#Last and Certainly Least Ep4 Mazey Day This was stupid and also really bland. Not even enough material to comment on to hatewatch.

#black mirror #the reviews no one asked for #review #black mirror s6

[serenedipity0]

IPYTM EP 3 RANT PT.2 (spoilers!!)

man not only how they could've done smth else with the plot and how itsay built such a beautiful story only for it to have this ???? confusing episode, it's quite sad to see teh doing shit like this. there's already so much shit out there that pushes the messed up "bisexuals only cheat and can't decide" narrative and I don't want this show to add to that??

deep sigh.

and I understand that hey, there's alot that can change between two people in a year and we as viewers can't see that because it's a 1 year skip between each episode but why, why have teh worry and tell oh-aew in episode 2 that he's scared oh-aew would leave him when he does this shit in the next year??? gah it frustrates me to no end. I know for a fact itsay teh would NEVER be okay with this in any circumstance 😤

I just wish we could see more of oh-aews perspective. I was hoping ipytm gives us more of that but everytime oh aew is on screen, its directly related to teh so far. he's a main character too!! what about his growth? why is he reduced to just being "lonely", "change in course" and "lovesick" ????

and finally, don't get me started on how much I looked forward to finding out what happens during this scene which was my favourite poster out of all of them :

only to find out teh did all of that purely for his drama exercise ????? and oh-aew didn't know shit ???? most queer love scenes are extremely sexualised and despite how fucked up the context of this scene was, it was still beautiful and bkpp did outstanding ofc but holy shit, knowing the context genuinely ruins it's so much, it hurts 😀👍 and knowing that there is a chance this might be the last kiss on intimate scene in the series is just so goddamn sad, I can't even express how I feel :((((

gahhhh anyways yeah I think that's pretty much all I have to say :/ I really hope EP4 and EP5 fixes this mess because I would be so upset if this beautiful show got reduced to an end like this. itsay was a masterpiece and i guess its hard to live up to smth THAT good and meet everyone's expectations but EP.3 was just an absolute downer fr :( if you've read this far!! thank you so much omg??? I hope you're having a good day wherever you are on this planet and you know that you're loved :) here's to hoping things will turn out for the better!!! here's pp with red hair to make ur day slighty better !!! ♥️

#rant #please make it make sense #pmeen why #i promised you the moon #i told sunset about you #last twilight in phuket #ipytm #ipytm ep3 #itsay #itsay 2 #ltip #bkpp #bkpp the series #teh x ohaew #lgbtq representation #lgbtq youth #lgbtq dramas #asian lgbtq

[save-the-data]

The Week that was (16th - 23rd,May)

Everything is out of my queue, which meant this week was busy with completing several GIFSETS: 

Completed Works: 

Gameboys  (14/14)

Second Chance (6/6)

Life As a Girl (4/4)

Tomorrow, I’ll Still Love You (30/30)

Gameboys The Movie (1/1)

Papa and Daddy (6/6)

Last Twilight in Phuket (1/1)

History4: Close to You (20/20)

Kalel, 15 (1/1)

Ongoing: 

Y-Destiny (ep8)

Nitiman The Series (Ep3)

Close Friend (Ep5)

Skinship2 (Ep1)

Fish Upon The Sky (ep7)

The Most Peaceful Place is My Place 2 (Ep2) 

Be Loved In House: I Do (ep1-2)

My Lascivious Boss (ep7)

Hidden Love (ep9)

Top Secret the Series (ep1)

In Progress 

Addicted (12/15)

Varieties of Love (4/118)

#Post: The Week That Was #GIF_TWTS #Gameboys #Second Chance #life as a girl #Tomorrow I'll still Love You #Papa and Daddy #Last Twilight in Phuket #History4: Close to You #Kalel 15 #Y-Destiny #Nitiman The Series #Close Friend #Skinship 2 #Fish Upon the Sky #The Most Peaceful Place is My Place #Be Loved In House: I Do #My Lascivious Boss #Hidden Love #Top Secret the Series #Addicted #Varities of Love #Asian drama #Thai drama #Vietnamese drama #Taiwanese drama #Chinese drama #Philippines drama

[alejunsu]

Last Twilight Ep3

Lo mucho que me gusta esta serie, esta escena, la tensión entre ellos, comienzan a darse cuenta de lo que siente el uno por el otro

#last twilight #last twilight ep3 #episodio 3 #boys love #series bl #thai bl #gmmtv #couple bl #so cute #mork x day #morkday #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #jimmysea #la mejor serie

[killerscartv]

Still Game (Full TV Series) 2002-2019

A Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who played the lead characters, Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade, two Glaswegian pensioners. Lifelong friends Jack and Victor are neighbours in Osprey Heights, a tower block in Craiglang, Glasgow. They may now have entered their twilight years, but they’re still game for life’s adventures. The pair navigate these changing times with a cheeky pint or two down at their local pub, ‘The Clansman’, and this assortment of auld allies... Ford Kiernan as Jack Jarvis Esq. Greg Hemphill as Victor McDade Paul Riley as Winston Ingram Mark Cox as Thomas "Tam" Mullen Jane McCarry as Isa Drennan Sanjeev Kohli as Navid Harrid Gavin Mitchell as Robert "Boabby The Barman" Taylor Shamshad Akhtar as Meena Harrid

Here are the missing last 4 episodes from Season 9 on daily motion - Se9 - Ep3 - Dead Leg, Part One - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80366a Se9 - Ep4- Dead Leg, Part Two - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x803661 Se9 - Ep5- Hitched - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sgje0 Se9 - Ep6- Over The Hill - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74y4f8

#Still Game #full tv series #ford kiernan #greg hemphil #scottish sitcom #2002-2019 #paul riley #mark cox #jane mccarry #sanjeev kohli #gavin mitchell #shamshad akhtar

[priapussdick]

#brooo #last twilight the series #watching ep3

[semi-imaginary-place]

rewatching decadence

ep1: so... indoctrinating kids that they life their life in service to an upper class. also like, the way deca dence takes care of giant gadoll is to punch it like no giant sword or laser canon or anything just the power of a giant mountain sized fist. this show actually has some good foreshadowing from seeing Natsume from the perspective of Kaburagi’s hud, to Natsume’s dad (Muno) finding the Solid Quake logo at the beginning of the episode and the logo again being shown in the last shot at the announcement signs off with have a profitable day which is a weird public safety announcement but makes sense as a company slogan. I’m still not sure what the “TIME 1:00  POINT SE,07,G” means. I didn’t write it down last time because I was unsure of myself, but my first thought when the cyborgs showed up was VR chatroom for the upper class.

ep2: yeahs that’s totally an advertisement that plays right after natsume realizes the human costs of war as the tankers pay respects to the fallen. I realized what it was with the cartoony designs, the bright colors and patterns, the funky shapes of all the structures aboard the space ship, it looks like a tv show for toddlers. inoffensive and deliberately cheerful to distract from the horrors of a corporation owning your person. the eng subtitles are confusing here it should be “real death(simulation) awaits” in that the company is advertising being able to experience death but not have any of its permanent consequences as a feature of the game. The cyborgs are corporate wage slaves being compensated for their labor in company credits and the only other things we seen them do outside of work is play the company’s mmo, or recreational drugs. “I should be proud of my function and to be scrapped” as property of the company. aaaa that’s terrible. aaa. what are cyborg cores??? and why are they valuable. Solid Quake has no control over the core, only the cyborg’s housing. Is it that they cannot produce more? Considering the others on the team got executed for sentenced to an eternal forced labor camp with appalling conditions, Minato really did pull some strings for Kaburagi. ooh so “time until scrapping” and “operational limit near are two different warnings. the first is a general reminder of lifespan and the second is because oxyone levels are low. now its “TIME 20:00  POINT SE,05,I”. all those new gadoll events probably wreck havoc on the tanker economy. its 400c now and i think it was 500 for 2 earlier. First time through I wasn’t paying attention and totally thought kaburagi was an assassin, but no he’s just clean up crew. ahh yes, come spend you wages at the company run stores. micro transactions... wait so where were people getting the number 13 from?

ep3: ah yes Solid Quake charges to use the media center, truly a micro transaction hell. Natsume’s character arc is about whether to push herself or not. Here Fei acts as part of a continuing dialectic saying that Tankers have no place outside of Deca-Dence, that sooner of later Natsume will die from it, and once again highlighting Natsume’s right arm. In the other level of this though, tankers shouldn’t go outside because that’s not their role in the solid quake mmo, and those who would disrupt the mmo are killed. I like how you can see Kaburagi switch from videogame logic (oh she’s low level so let’s just stick her in the tutorial zone) to real life (what skills and experiences would help in fighting). So several corporations took advantage of desperate people to sell them a service that would augment them with mechanical parts. I get that pipe in a little outfit is funny, but does no one really realize its a gadoll, i meant natsume recognizes it instantly. like the scene where Natsume talks about her right arm, the anime does a good job of showing how her feeling about it are complicated. She’s lived with that arm for years, but it also hinders her sometimes, and people will comment about it. there’s this specific type of humor that pops up in this show and given how its the same joke, my guess is that its the same person behind it. The “joke” being that Natsume is put in a position that references sexual assault. The first is with fennel where she makes up an excuse of having to go see kaburagi to get away from him. And then there’s this episode. There’s also a few stray lines here and there that alarm me in that they imply Natsume has dealt with the threat of assault before. Since they didn’t do anything meaningful with this, I’d rather it just not be there. Minato is in on the secret of Pipe’s existence and by the way the two talk, they’ve called each other before in the last 7 years. Its good to know that Kaburagi wasn’t JUST brooding for 7 years and that the two of them stayed in contact.

ep4: Natsume after having gained confidence in herself takes down several gadoll and earns her place in The Power. Its a fulfilling payoff after seeing her train for several episodes. Natsume is where she always wanted to be, fighting gadoll in the Power. gahh It really is a patch release trailer. Ohh so I assumed that the other structures on the cartoon earth were other corporations, but in this episode we see one of them (the white and red striped cone thing opposite the deca-dence dome) and the cyborgs there are talking about the game (MMO LARPing lol), so either Solid Quake owns multiple of those structures, or these cyborgs are customers not owned by Solid Quake and playing of their own volition. that would makes the cone cyborgs where solid quake is deriving its profit from since its not like it pays its workers. reading comments online, a lot of people missed that because a ranker was found to be cheating (mikey), the rankings were abolished. In the present time, gears/players are not ranked. Ah so Kaburagi was transferred to the maintenance department from the warrior department. Wow reassignment is so much better than the poop jail. I remember it being said, armor repair, doctor, and weapon shop could be employee(cyborg) run so I wonder if the medics and that one armor shop guy are tankers or not. So this anime already snuck in a sex joke with the when the poop gang swapped kaburagi’s avatar with a sex toy, so i wonder if the safetyprivatemode was made so that the mods wouldn’t have to listen to robot sex. I really wish this show could have had 24 episodes. The trend for the past 20 years has been shorter and shorter shows so I know it would have been likely impossible to get the clearance and funding for 24 eps but oooh in som alternate universe maybe... i brought up fleshing out minor characters and character relationships before but there also stuff like Natsume’s right hand almost clamping on ... Mindy? Which usually would be a narrative flag but is completely dropped because of the episode limit. And the confidence Natsume gained last episode come to work against Kaburagi trying to keep her from the suicide mission. Its only from this point on that Kaburagi starts to really change, as of this point he is still a loyal cog to a machine that does not care about him. Kaburagi and Natsume in the 2nd half of the episode continue the same dialectic that runs through the whole of the show, about giving up and learning to try again, about pushing your limit, about why someone bothers trying. On the collectivist versus individualist spectrum, Deca-Dence is on the individualist side with assertions of the importance for deciding for yourself what you will do with your life. Its an interesting counterpoint to The Twilight Mirage (Friends at the Table) which I am currently listening to in that The Twilight Mirage is a western production and strongly collectivist with one of the antagonist being sort of kind of an embodiment of independence/individualism while japanese works as a whole tend to be more about the whole over the individual than western ones. Kurenai talking about why she fights is very good and very important for 2 reasons, first it help flesh out not only her but offer a very needed other opinion on what its like to live as a Tanker, second it segues nicely into Natsume’s memories of her dad telling her about the outside world and him being the only one to believe she can do it (fight in The Power) as contrasted with flashbacks of all the other characters telling her she can’t. This culminates in Natsume gathering her resolve to fight not because of something grand like changing the world or the fate of humanity, but something very personal scale: changing herself and proving to herself that she can do it. The is also the climax of her character arc, the point of no return.

ep5: If last episode was natsume’s point of no return, then either this episode or episode 7 is Kaburagi’s. Rationally speaking, the optimal scenario would have been for Kaburagi to stall long enough for the Tankers to escape before pulling back himself, but emotionally and narratively, there’s no way he couldn’t. After all the build up of deciding for yourself how to live and pushing your limits. Its appropriate that here in defense of the girl that inspired him to live and choose for himself rather than just continue existing in the default of what Solid Quake demands of him, that Kaburagi chooses to release his operational limiter (literally pushing him limit) and derail the company’s plans. How did no one realize purple dude was breaking imprisonment to play on a hacked avatar. Like he’s still as purple and bloodthirsty as ever. He acts and speaks the same. Someone would have totally seen him and gone “eyyyyy [i forgot this guy’s name] is back” and talked to people about it and someone should have heard. So I remember reading comments from various idiots who were mad because they mistakenly thought the anime took place in a virtual space and that Natsume was made of lines of code. And first off even if that was true there’s a difference between objective reality and the lived experiences of a person and what’s to say her experiences and emotions would be any less real than yours. And second, did everyone forget The Hunger Games? Like its just another game that plays with real lives and doesn’t care who gets killed. Solid Quake is just using humans as a stage prop. Man this episode is jam packed. Its like getting punched in the face 4 times. The pacing of the last 4 minutes was really good. The quiet scene as dawn breaks acts in direct contrast to the high energy of the Stargate takedown that preceded it. After time and against not listening to him, Minato still calls Kabu to check in with him. There’s also his certainly that it was Kaburagi that saved the Deca-Dence mech (i need to be clearer when I’m talking about the physical fortress city mech, the mmorpg game, or the deca-dence system itself). And then when the world state gets reset is just so good because it make it clear that the gadoll were never the true enemy. The tankers could kill as many gadoll as they want and nothing would change. Kaburagi’s at an interesting point here, in that he’s no longer in a state of having given up like he was in episode 1 just waiting to die and following along with Solid Quake’s orders, as of this episode he has deliberately gone against the company’s rules, and yet he’s still believes that nothing will actually change. He’s broken a rule and resigned himself to punishment instead of say for example getting rid of the punishment all together. He’s still a good little employee that hasn’t rebelled against the system. And then the “Take care of Pipe” and Natsume turns around and he’s already gone, is sooo good. The final shot too of his avatar face down in the snow! The “This world needs bugs” is in direct contrast to Hugin/Fugin(?) repeating that this world must be rid of bugs, and the same phrase Kaburagi repeated 7 years ago when he was transferred to the Maintenance Department instead of being killed. I wonder how much the cyborgs feel in their original bodies  vs. how much they feel in their Gear avatars. Kaburagi doesn’t seem to care about food and no food stalls were shown in the Gear area so maybe they doesn’t have much sense of taste? The avatars also have a lessened sense of pain. And then the limit release sequence shows connections increasing between the two bodies so does it make the cyborgs more attuned with the avatar’s senses?

ep6: eh so this is another example of what I mean when I say some of the humor in this show is in bad taste. They probably put the oxyone port where the ass would be just to make this joke. But this is better then doing to it Natsume. The animators even had a gleam censor for the over where the capsule was inserted as if it wasn’t obvious enough what it was suppose to look like. Spurned on by the the promise that one day if they work hard and behave (”rehabilitated”), the cyborgs will get let out when in actuality its a forced labor camp so that Solid Quake can squeeze just a little more labor our of the cyborgs for even less compensation. The cartoony style here helps offset just how horrific there working conditions are. And Kaburagi still the good little employee (iiko) tries his hardest to play by the rules and win. Except in this game, there is no “win’ written into the rules. So finally he is forced to move outside of the system Solid Quake has made. I still can’t believe they let Donatello keep the gun... Maybe cyborg cores are brains. In 5.5 Kaburagi’s core is in the top half of his metal case, and Donatello’s is also in his head. I’m still not sure what that sequence where Kaburagi takes the head fin and an image of a cyborg core is overlayed, means.

#deca-dence #deca dence #anime #i think too much #reviews #writing

[kyuu-rereads-umineko]

Ep6, Chapter 12

it’s been 10 months but IT’S MURDER TIME

also did i mention this is chapter 12 out of 18

(Also, I’m aware that my formatting for coloured text is broken right now. I’ll look into it later.)

Erika is woken up by someone knocking at her door, and she snarks that they’d better “have a good reason for knocking on the detective’s door at an hour like this.” never change erika

actually i take that back please change stop being so unpleasant but ANYWAYS

In the Meta-World, Erika proposes that they “raise the stakes”. 

“It’s simple. Battler got a shot off at us in the last game. So, if Erika does the same in this game, we’re only even.”

Lambda realizes that Erika’s saying she’s not going to make a detective proclamation, and Chick takes offense. “You intend to participate in the game with a foolish handicap like that...? That is not only presumptuous, it’s quite rude...!”

“If this game is won by a human without the detective proclamation, it’ll be impossible for Battler and the others to pick up the pieces of the Illusion of the Witch... But on the other hand, if Erika loses, that detective trash will be sent into the depths of oblivion along with the worst possible Fragment.” BERNKASTEL DID NOTHING WRONG

Battler asks Erika if she’s okay with this deal, and she stutters, which doesn’t escape his notice. Even if she doesn’t say it outright, Bern doesn’t try very hard to pretend this isn’t her doing, lol.

“After all, when Battler played for the Human side, he never had anything as convenient as the detective’s authority. All he was allowed to do was use the blue truth and demand that Beato repeat things he said.”

Erika proclaims that she’ll “destroy the Illusion of the Witch for [Bernkastel] without fail,” and we cut back to the game board, where George and Jessica have knocked at Erika’s door looking for Battler and Maria. Erika’s face lights up when she hears that there’s no sign of them in the guesthouse, and no one’s answering the phone at the mansion. She rushes out into the rain on her own, heading for the mansion.

“The first twilight usually starts in the morning, but it looks like we’ve got an early fight this time.” Pretty good indicator that, like in Ep5, whatever’s going on behind the scenes here isn’t the same murder roulette game that Yasu’s games were about...

Entering the mansion (the door being unlocked this time, for some reason), she runs into Gohda right away, screaming about calling the police or an ambulance or someone. Business as usual, here.

“That expression really is wonderfully pathetic. Just perfect for the first one to discover the crime.” lol

Erika snarks about the island being cut off from the outside world, as always, and in the Meta, she asks Battler to explain the crime scenes and such.

Again, business as usual here - the parlour was locked from the inside, door barred, etc., and Rosa and Maria were found dead inside.

“The entrance wasn’t locked when you came into the mansion because they went out through it to check the parlour from the outside. It had been locked before they left through it, so there was a chance that the others who had gone missing were lying elsewhere within the mansion, and the adults are now searching the entire building...”

Battler confirms that the victims were found where they were killed during the love trial earlier - Rosa and Maria in the parlour (of course), Natsuhi in her own room, Kyrie in Krauss’s study, and Eva in the VIP room (okay, she was moved there after being killed in the rose garden, but still). Though that still only makes five victims...

On the board, the adults have found a guest room with the chain set. Never a good sign on Rokkenjima.

Cutting the chain and entering, they find none other than Battler lying on one of the beds. Rudolf breaks down immediately, crying over his body, while Krauss confirms that the guest room was also a closed room. “They’re all closed rooms, aren’t they...? ...I don’t... understand... It couldn’t be suicide, could it...?!”

In the Meta, Erika feigns surprise at Battler being the sixth victim, and he just replies with, “It’s more interesting to kill yourself off every now and then.” lol

Chick claims the murders couldn’t have been performed without magic, Erika counters that it wouldn’t be a game if that were the case, and Battler coyly says, “That’s an interesting thought.”

“This game is fair. The goal is to explain without magic the strange crimes that are claimed to be caused with magic. If that couldn’t be done, it wouldn’t be a game.”

“To turn it around, the witch side had a certain responsibility. They had to make a crime that could be reproduced with tricks and not magic.”

“In other words, in order to carry out a closed room murder with magic... it was necessary to create a crime that would be possible by Human hands.”

To be completely honest? While, yes, that’s been an unspoken assumption all along, and implicitly confirmed in Ep5, I still don’t like how Ep6 just lays it all out like that. It’s a minor point, seeing as the howdunnit ultimately isn’t the key point of the story, but it still bugs me.

Meanwhile, in Featherine’s parlour (oh god I forgot how fucking nuts the meta was in Ep6), Ange finally realizes why the Stakes couldn’t murder her classmates when she asked them to back in Ep4.

“‘Magic can only do what you can accomplish by your own hands,’ ...is that it?”

“At that time, if I had been capable of killing my classmates... Capable of pulling it off... Then the Seven Sisters of Purgatory would probably have pulled it off for me. They could only accomplish what I could do myself... No, that’s not it either. They could take what I had accomplished and turn it into ‘magic��.”

“If I had called those classmates out somewhere without witnesses... and if I had succeeded in murder... At that point, ‘the Seven Sisters of Purgatory would be capable of carrying out a magical murder’...”

And Ange hits the nail on the head: Magic, in this context, is an adornment. Not even a Witch can make a lollipop appear out of thin air, unless she’s already got one hidden in her pocket.

“Those who accomplish something without using magic... later claim that magic was used and call themselves witches.”

And of course, because Erika already knows and understands this, she simply won’t ever surrender, unlike Battler early on, when he still didn’t know up from down. Ange finds herself getting stuck on the same point as always, though - Since drawing the game out longer would mean more hints for the Human side, i.e. a higher chance of the tricks being seen through and the magic being destroyed, why would Beato deliberately drag things out until she lost...?

Back on the game board, Erika takes advantage of the confusion in the mansion to quickly check all of the crime scenes. Dlanor reminds her that without the detective’s authority, her “photographic memory” isn’t infallible. For instance, she can’t confirm by investigation that someone is genuinely dead, as opposed to just pretending.

(spoiler: she totally can and she totally will)

“I quickly visited the VIP room, Krauss’s study, and Natsuhi’s room on the second floor, as well as the parlour and the guest room on the first floor, this time checking with my own eyes, as I had failed to do in the last game...” I’d forgotten that Ep6 actually confirms that Erika didn’t check the corpses herself in Ep5, huh.

“The closed rooms were all made without relying on any elements that could be locked or unlocked from the outside by a master key or something else.” AKA, the chains were set, windows were locked, etc.

"It is probably their goal to construct closed rooms where explanations using master keys are made completely INEFFECTIVE.”

Erika homes in on the fact that the parlour doesn’t have a chain lock - instead, the door was just barred with a hat stand, like Battler said. An interesting choice when there are plenty of guest rooms with chain locks, indeed...

She asks if the deaths could be confirmed “even without the detective’s authority,” and Gertrude replies, “Know that there were no corpses that could have been confirmed dead with certainty by physical means.” RYUKISHI.............

Lambda points out that, while she liked the closed room chain from Ep3 better, “these closed rooms are even more complete, considering that master keys don’t help you at all.”

“There are two general ways of breaking closed rooms that Battler might be after... An illusion of a closed room, or an illusion of a crime.”

Lambda states that, looking at Battler’s game board “from the underside,” she knows the closed rooms are “perfect.” Bern asks her to say that in red, she refuses because it’d be rude to Battler, saying, “If you do love me, you must see my words as red truth already, right...?” lol

“...Then the closed rooms are perfect.” lol

Either way, the alternative is that no one actually died, of course. “Doesn’t this mean that everyone got so pissed at Erika bragging about detectives and stuff that they joined together and set up a fake murder to make fun of her?” 

(spoiler: yes)

Bern, however, replies with, “Unfortunately... this isn’t a fake. The victims really have been killed.”

“No detective proclamation has been made, but Erika’s very accurate when examining corpses. She’s good enough that I could give her examinations the red truth.” FORESHADOWING...

Of course, Bern being Bern, she won’t confirm anything that easily. “Well, she isn’t even the detective this time around. I won’t give her any red.”

“Still... that makes it incredible. This time... Battler’s really made a perfect closed room!”

Lambda asks if this might be too much for Erika without her authority, and Bern says, “No matter how it turns out, it won’t be boring.” TRUE NEUTRAL

“Lambdadelta had guaranteed that it was a perfect closed room. Bernkastel had guaranteed that it was a perfect murder. A perfect ‘closed room’ and ‘murder’.”

Meanwhile, Battler asks Erika if she’s satisfied with her investigation. She says yes, and asks if they’ll start throwing reds and blues at each other now or later. “I don’t like putting things off. I think the same goes for you.”

(booooo i have to worry about text formatting after all)

In order, Battler confirms in red:

All six rooms were closed rooms (until Gohda & co. cut the chain locks and entered)

The “closed rooms” couldn’t have been constructed from outside

Interference from the outside is impossible (barring immaterial things like sound)

When the closed rooms were deconstructed, the only people inside were the victims

...but when Dlanor asks him to confirm “No murder was committed after the deconstruction of the closed ROOMS,” he refuses. Erika jumps on this, claiming that the victims were alive and Krauss’s group were the culprits, and Battler... doesn’t respond. Instead, Chick says, “The murders will continue to occur, so we cannot say in red that no murders will happen after this.” HMM

“Sheesh, what twisted logic. You probably see what we’re getting at. Krauss’s group cut the chain and destroyed the closed rooms, then killed the people inside. I just want you to counter this.” Dlanor points out that “Krauss’s group” isn’t a specific number of people, but Battler acknowledges in red that “Krauss’s group” - i.e. Krauss, Rudolf, Hideyoshi, and Gohda - were the only people besides Erika to enter any of the rooms, as of the current time.

While it’s framed as being a “who knows what might happen next” kind of deal... Hmm. I wonder...

Something that I’ve thought for a while is that Battler’s gambit with the logic error in this Episode was completely intentional on his part, and something that he actively instigated and worked towards. With what we see of the GM’s awareness in other Episodes, I find it hard to believe that Erika could run off and kill five people without him noticing it somehow.

To that end... I wonder if his refusal is because he already knows that Erika’s killed off everyone? Those murders would have to occur after the “deconstruction of the closed rooms,” so he wouldn’t be able to say that nothing of the sort happened in red...

Thinking about it, I’m not sure that actually fits with Ep6′s sequence of events - Erika’s murder spree happens after she herds everyone into the guesthouse, doesn’t it? Either way, hmm...

At any rate, Erika continues by asking him to confirm that Krauss’s group “are not culprits.” After a moment’s thought, he replies, “I’ll acknowledge it, but I’ll make the language more strict. Krauss, Rudolf, Hideyoshi, and Gohda... were not involved in the murders of Natsuhi, Eva, Kyrie, Rosa, Maria, and Battler.”

“And that means, ‘it was also impossible for any of the other humans, who didn’t even enter the closed room, to have been involved with murder,’ doesn’t it?”

blah blah repeat of ep4′s rules, in order to win the witch side has to protect at least one of its riddles but the human side has to explain everything, blah blah

Having said that, Battler doesn’t confirm Erika’s last statement, saying, “I don’t give out red for free.”

“Let us CONTINUE.” Battler confirms in red that all of the victims were murdered, but when Dlanor starts to list off the seventh item in her list, Erika interrupts her, saying, “That’s enough.” Seems to me like she’s leaving some leeway for her insane murder spree later on, but...

“From here on, it’s time for me to argue back with the blue truth.”

“Sure, fine. Let me hear your masterful theories.”

Chick watches from the sidelines, thinking that Erika and Battler are probably having fun... and feeling a bit jealous. Sorry, Ryukishi, but no matter how hard you push Erika as being another rival for Battler, it doesn’t fly for me.

Back on the game board, all the survivors have gathered in the guesthouse. Yeah, Erika’s killing spree is after she returns to the mansion from here, huh...

The adults all question what the hell happened, how Battler and Maria got inside the mansion, etc. In hindsight, I can definitely see that they’re doing this to prod at Ms. Detective Erika about the crime being “impossible.”

Erika asks everyone to calm down, pointing out that how Battler and Maria got into the mansion might not have anything to do with how the culprit entered. Krauss agrees, saying, “I feel as terrible as the rest of you. However, we must take the initiative now and regain our composure.”

“The culprit is still on this island. And we can’t be sure that this tragic crime is over. We need to stay calm and prevent any further tragedies.”

Rudolf wants to find the culprit, while everyone else points out that their best bet is to wait until the police can arrive and investigate. 

“Kyrie... Battler... Dammit... dammiiiiit... I never... had a chance... to tell you the truth...”

Erika successfully convinces Krauss and the servants to head upstairs, leaving her, Rudolf, and Hideyoshi behind in the lounge. “In times of confusion, when only men are around, it’s easy for a composed member of the opposite sex to take the initiative. Even without the detective’s authority, she was able to control them quite naturally.” lol

“This crime happened during a short break in the family conference. In that tiny span of time, six people were killed without anyone noticing. I can’t imagine a crime improvised on the spot going so smoothly. This crime was committed by someone who knew the layout of this mansion well, inside and out.”

Unsurprisingly, Rudolf and Hideyoshi are none too fond of the idea that the culprit might’ve been one of the other family members or a servant, but Hideyoshi’s line in particular stands out to me:

“I never even considered suspectin’ Krauss nii-san or Rudolf-kun...!! All of the siblings had excellent relationships with their spouses! True, the Ushiromiya family may be strict with discipline and money. But that doesn’t mean we treasure our own families less than anyone else...!”

“With their spouses.” “Our own families.” Foreshadowing that, whatever happened on Rokkenjima Prime in Ange’s world, Eva likely wasn’t the culprit.

Erika proposes that, while he didn’t kill anyone himself, Gohda might’ve let the actual culprit into the mansion. Well, we know in red that that’s not true, but that’s not particularly relevant to anyone on the board...

“Though the siblings hated each other, it wasn’t possible that they’d hate each other’s wives enough to kill them.” UM..........

Erika repeats some of the same points that have been brought up since early on when it comes to the servants - they’re relatively familiar with the family members, and they’ve got master keys. Pretty standard, though as usual, there’s no red-abiding explanation for how someone could set the chain on the door from outside.

“Though it might be possible [to set the chain from outside] in reality... the red truth had already declared that these closed rooms could not have been constructed from the outside.” Oh. Now that’s telling, isn’t it?

“It might be possible in reality.” In other words, each episode isn’t just a work of fiction for us, but in-universe as well.

“With her accomplished conversation techniques, Erika was cleverly grasping the initiative. ...Even without the detective’s authority, it’s possible to control human nature to this degree. What do you think, everyone...?”

#kyuutext #umineko #umineko no naku koro ni chiru #dawn of the golden witch