Kokkoku Episode 5 Discussion

Syrup- said:
5 episodes in and I still have zero idea what the point of any of this is. Nothing makes sense, no matter how much I try to understand the rules. I get the feeling the mangaka has been writing from his ass to some degree because everything introduced seems to act as a coverup for a previous or almost immediate ass pull.
many rules had ben set and follow, there is no rule that was broken so far, you only need to pay close attention and read all the subs even if you have to pause.

A family hunted down by thugs so they can have control over some time stop power so they can use it for... uhh? Everyone on the bad guy's team is nefarious and lecherous, so I would assume their pretense of using it for good is a lie.
it is clearly said that they have the knowledge about the power but don't know how to activate it, also it is not a lie that they wanna use the power for good but it is for their own good.

If nobody can exit stasis on their own, how is there a "church" surrounding this power? It would imply someone has been in and out of stasis at least two to three times to gather info around heralds and their existence.
ithere was a "church" surrounding that power that could get in and out, they are not it

Oh and not to mention at the same "moment" in time, Juri and that woman happened to use the stone, causing them to meet. That's some premium grade A bullshit right there, but my disbelief is already on heavy suspension.
as I said before, the only one that used the stone was the grandfather, and the spell spreaded from both stones, what implies that at some point those two stones where one

edit: also maybe I'm not understanding the problem correctly, but why did the thugs need them to use the master stone in order to steal it away from them? They have their own time stop powers, couldn't they have just used their own to stop time, steal the stone without resistance, and be done with it? They're thugs. They can kidnap one of the family members in broad daylight (without timestop), steal a pint of blood for ritual activation purposes, and then bugger off and do evil; it's not like the family's permission is even necessary.
ithey can't use the spell

Also
why does the MC wear the labcoat
is she a chuuni

Syrup- said:
They can use the spell, other wise they wouldn't even be in the time stop at the same time as them. They have their own stone. Also, if they are not the church, who is the church, where does the church come from, and why are they following this church but have no idea about anything surrounding it?

I never said any rules were broken, I was saying the rules seem to be made up on an asspull basis, feeding into plot twists that never seem to pay off.

I'm not really interested in getting into a tugging match over these details where the quotes get more and more fragmented.

FireCrauter said:
DAT eyes


The brother did not turn out to be as useless as we all thought. At least he made Makoto escape and because of the advances it seems he did not die.
I hope he does not become Herald

Zahylon said:
From what I can see, when the Master Stone activates, all the Stones create a field, and everything in the field can move in the static world.
thats right, but I think the little stone is a fragment of the big stone and not created separetlly.

So....From what I can see, there's a way to use this power to kill someone, and that's using the most cliched artifact a villian could use in an action movie: A countdown bomb.
if you try to use a time bomb the Heralds will kill you, they read the intent and act before you have the chance of actually doing it, plus anyway the bomb wont go of anyway.

like, lmao, just make a clock-bomb, time it, and use the Time Stone to freeze time when the bomb has like 3-6 seconds left.

Heralds btfo, world domination archieved, the NWO is defeated by middle-aged japanese men.

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Now, something starting to bother me....that guy hired the most useless thugs of all history, they cannot outrun a Grandpa.
it is a grandpa that teleports away, they can't keep track of him, the moment he teleports, they can only guess where he teleported to, we can see easely where he teleported because we as the viwers get to often see it from an eagle point of view or either the frame moves with him, it is not an ease thask from the ground


They're like drop outs from the Imperial Stormtrooper academy...

LF2005 said:

thats right, but I think the little stone is a fragment of the big stone and not created separetlly.
Maybe all the stones were originally one really big stone


if you try to use a time bomb the Heralds will kill you, they read the intent and act before you have the chance of actually doing it, plus anyway the bomb wont go of anyway.
Debatable since you're not killing them in the Stasis world. It's mostly a theory, don't know how the Heralds would react to a Time Bomb.

it is a grandpa that teleports away, they can't keep track of him, the moment he teleports, they can only guess where he teleported to, we can see easely where he teleported because we as the viwers get to often see it from an eagle point of view or either the frame moves with him, it is not an ease thask from the ground
Yeah, but several times they just chased them in plain open ground. and those guys couldn't catch a grandpa. But, maybe Grandpa is really fit

????? haaa, SW ??