Part 2: Murder Speculation (First Half) (殺人考察 (前))

Original Air Date: 12/29/07

 

Short Summary:  

Flashback episode.

In 1995, a string of brutal murders in which victims’ bodies are desecrated and severely mutilated, serves as the backdrop and eventual driving force behind Shiki and Mikiya’s relationship: a first encounter on a snowy night, which Shiki later forgets, and later on, their days together at the same high school.

At school, everyone seems to be aware of Shiki as being different, aloof and cold; in a word: abnormal. Everyone, that is, except the kind, perhaps over-friendly Mikiya. But Shiki is far from flattered by Mikiya’s attentions, and Mikiya, before he knows it, comes face to face with two Shikis, one who wants to kill, and the other who just wants to kill him. Could Shiki be the culprit behind the string of brutal murders? And if so, will Mikiya be her next victim?

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I’m pretty tired of the lame things people say in regards to people who are learning Japanese and who also happily gravitate to all things anime. Like most, I started watching anime first, and out of that sprang the urge to learn the language. But sometimes it’s a real pain in the arse to explain it to those out of the loop.

Random Inquisitive Chinese Girl Whose Spectacled Eyes are Like Lasers Boring Into Your Brain: So why are you learning Japanese anyway?

Me: Oh, you know, ‘cuz I enjoy it.  Plus I plan to visit the country someday, you know.

Girl: Is that all?

Me: Crap! She can smell the anime fandom! Oh, yeah, that’s basically it.

Girl: Ever seen anime?

Me: Nah. I’m too busy studying to be a neurosurgeon, you see, and–*phone starts ringing with the Crank Dat Pikachu theme* GASP! Where the hell did this cellphone come from?

Girl: …
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