Ajin: Demi-Human
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| Oh so then Kei's a psychopath? Damn, now that it's laid out like that I kinda feel dumb for not realizing sooner. It's been foreshadowed pretty well I must say. Also, props for the kind researcher. Hope he lived through all of that, it's important to retain your conscience even if it hinders scientific progression. |
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| Satou vs Kei sure was interesting, kei has been portrayed as pretty unusual so far, no wonder he knew that an ajin would contact him and he left Kai behind |
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| Well, Kei had every right to shoot Satou for putting him through this torture... although his reason was quite funny. Decapitating an Ajin's head, huh? Might worth a try... I wonder what's the rain got to do with the IBM. So Satou was the guy from the god's army, no wonder his combat skill is great even when he's old. So Kei is putting on a facade, now this makes me wonder whether he really considers Kai as his friend or not, hmm....... interesting, let's see what's his real intention are. I also wonder if he knows all along about Satou's plan. |
| He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. |
| We all knew shit was goin’ down when Sato opened his eyes |
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| Wtf is wrong with all old farts in this anime |
| So, the way I see Kei. No clue for his relation with Kai/Kaito. Regarding his sister: He obviously doesn't care much about her. In the first ep, she mentions that it's odd for him to visit him, and when Kei asks her the question with the dog, she says something along the lines of 'I knew you didn't visit me for no reason'. Then, we've got Saitou's comment about Kei asking about his sister's well-being, last episode I believe. Where, Saitou says Kei was abnormally cold, like he was just asking about his sister 'cause it's the thing you're supposed to do. And no, he's not emotionless because he's an Ajin, I would argue that Tanaka is pretty emotional, and maybe Satou as well (don't know enough about him). I do think that it's inconsistent. Not saying that it makes no sense, but as people trying to rip apart this point mention, he didn't have many an opportunity to show us who he really was, back in the last 5 or so episodes. Which I think just means that there should have been a more obvious cues to Kei being detached from feelings; this is a story after all, the structure didn't have to be what it was. Kei with the scientist, and the military man. From what I understand of the situation, he sees someone who's dead as a body, not someone who was alive. He accepts that the military man died, the same way he accepted that the first scientist died, but the reason he was outraged that Saitou killed the scientist and not the military man seems to be because of the position those people were in, and not because he was present; able to stop the murder. Or, what I mean, is that a man with a gun patrolling a building is most certainly aware that he might die, and risks his life to kill/incapacitate intruders. Kei thus understands that killing the man was a necessity in order to have Saitou save him, and that the man was not unaware of the danger of his occupation. The scientists, on the other hand, didn't seem to have been told what was actually happening. Yeah, they'd be aware of the military force, but it makes sense for a government institution to be guarded. We know that Kei/the public weren't aware that Saitou broke out Tanaka out of wherever he was kept, so they might not have been aware their life was in danger. They weren't told about the 'variant' in any case, which we know because of the claw mark on the glass, last episode. Then, they obviously only did as ordered, and have said so audibly next to Kei. This does make them irresponsible, but also, pardonnable (according to Kei, at least). The second scientist (the one who was killed by Saitou's IBM) translates this POV well, while the last scientist (who tried to help Kei escape) understands for the first time, here, that Kei is, fundamentally, the same as a human (save for the not-dying part), and has empathy for him. Furthermore, we were told in (I think) the shot just before Saitou kills the first scientist, that Kei thinks of death as being the absolute worst thing that could happen, and that he could never wager anything as valuable, including all the suffering he went through. Which is why he found it acceptable to either cut the scientists arms or break them (he didn't say both, but I'm watching EN dub with subtitles, so it's one or the other), but not to kill them. And I don't think it's weird for him to see death as the ultimate sacrifice. So to have some people die just 'in case they had tranquilizers' when there was an alternative would bring him to protect them. Then, finally, some people brought up how it made no sense for him to defend people that inflicted that much pain on him. Yet, last episode (I think), there was this scene where Kei had the chance to kill a scientist with his IBM, yet decided not to. Not saying that his logic there wasn't a bit wonky, but it makes much more sense for him here to continue on with that path, rather than kill them. Then, continuing on the same subject, I saw some people comment on the double standards of Kei, where he didn't let Saitou kill the scientists, but he went around and killed Saitou, his 'saviour'. I think the big difference here, is on the perception of death. To Kei, what he did to Saitou was just an inconvinience, used to buy him time. He understands that Ajin don't die, like that. It's like how in some series, a character shoots a gun out of the hand of another character to stop them from killing a common ennemy, except here it makes more sense, since the scientists aren't actually ennemies. I would have continued on about the two scientists that weren't killed outright, but I didn't see any comments here delving into their influence on Kei, and I talked about them enough, so I'll pass on that. Now, regarding Kei's sister, and how she seemed worried for her brother even though she doesn't like him. I, as a brother, find that my sister was like that; said she hated me at times, yet was worried if I wasn't there, or smth. Just because you don't like someone, doesn't mean you don't want them to be safe. Especially considering they grew up together. Now, on to the last point I have; 'Why did Kei decide to shoot Saitou there and then, instead of letting the scientists die' when he was just revealed to not care for people. I think there, the difference between empathy and sympathy should be noted. He doesn't care for other people, but he gets that to them, like him, life would be their most previous posession (which is why he had that scene with the scientist on the roof). So what he's trying to do, to cover for the fact he doesn't 'get' feelings, and fit in to society, is recreate what he understands to be sympathy. Or maybe I'm just projecting. But anyways, save for his ultimate goal (which doesn't seem to be fitting in with society), the rest fits him like a glove. If you read all this, then thanks. If not, then sorry, no TL;DRs. |
| Great episode and great fight between Satou's and Kei's IBMS!!! |
| Sorry for my english xD! RIP Kentaro Miura :( RIP Akira Toriyama :(  |
| The lore of IBMs goes deeper than I thought. |
| One of the better main characters I've seen, honestly. He's not evil, but he's also not a goody-two-shoes. Seeing him flip from trying to save the researcher to instantly giving up when he thought he was dead and then back to trying to save him was bizarre, but honestly kind of refreshing to have a pragmatic main character that's not freaking out constantly. |
| Sociopathic anime protagonists are always fun, so Kei's definitely become more interesting as a result. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| So Kei was actually a sociopath before becoming an Ajin? |
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| Great episode, though it's really weird to see the military doing absolutely nothing while all of this happened (especially because it was televised), they could have captured both of them with minimal effort. |
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