Aiyou de Mishi Episode 16 Discussion

Khashishi said:
The ending wasn't as strong as I would have liked, but it could've been worse. It reminds me of the movie "Memento". But I wish we were given a more of the motivation behind the actions of Aiyou and others. I don't really understand why they are messing with Yan in this way.

Something as simple as Yan Yuechu telling Aiyou, "Please give me more thrilling puzzles to solve."

But Yan Yuechu is quite dangerous to be around, as Shi Yu experienced. The group is being really careless in letting Yan do his thing, and not turning him into police/mental institution.

S1ke said:
Any info regarding next season?

swing124 said:

I think there will be a 2nd season...they left us in a cliffhanger.Btw,I still think Hu zhi is behind all these.Maybe He has inserted a chip or something in the MC's head to trigger his beast??

RedAce said:
So you mean Yan was behind everything? Punishing the people who were rude to Aiyou earlier, then kidnapping the girl from his workplace. Was he behind everything? Also if Xin Risheng is just his alter ego, why does he appear in the last scene working with Aiyou and changing his clothes (he's revealed to actually be a female). I still don't understand this, but I think Aiyou set him up to think it was his alter ego who did all of this but it was Aiyou who made it happen through Risheng's help somehow. 

ezMattak said:
Acho que muitos detalhes e partes do mangá não foram adaptados já que o mangá tem 78 capítulos e o anime é composto apenas por 16 episódios, cada um de 15 minutos: é por isso que o final não é claro. Também a última cena, aquela em que Xin Risheng está trocando de roupa e depois está ao lado de Aiyou, não é canônica (rolei o mangá e não tem nada parecido).
Espero uma segunda temporada, mas acho que não vai acontecer, já que o mangá tem uma base de fãs muito pobre.
Se quiser dar uma olhada esse é o link do mangá (está em chinês aliás):
https://www.baozimh.com/comic/aiyoudemishi-bishuiyu

excalibur977436 said:
With that ending, it doesn't seem likely this will get a second season. If that's the case, this is one of the most terrible endings jn recent memory. It basically renders the whole series useless if it simply reverts back to how things were from episode 1. Such a slap to the face of the viewers. It's a shame really, cause it had something good going on.

842713424 said:
This shit literally makes ZERO sense. And anyone saying otherwise is a meatrider IDC. If Risheng is, in fact, a real person:

1. How did she disappear before MC's eyes at the office and somehow delete her phone number off his contacts list when presumably he was still sane enough to make his way down to the street 

2. Why didn't Qing Meng see her at the abandoned house

3. If Aiyou and Risheng are the ones behind the crimes as implied, then how and why did MC dream of the bottle escape room immediately before he saw it for the first time? If instead MC was the one behind the crimes and it was his alter-ego doing it, then WTF was the point of Risheng as a character? What did she add to the story? They could've just made Risheng his alter-ego which would create a less contrived, cleaner conclusion than what they ended up doing.

Apparently, Risheng isn't even in the original manhua, so they obviously butchered the source material to give us this mess of an ending

Benedictblue1 said:
I was so lost, and I figure it out. It took me a fat minute, but in the previous episode. They’ve explained why Xu Aiyou is doing all this and why Yan Yuechu needs to stay away from her and his mental illness which is his amnesia. So it comes into play because in this episode, they’re gaslighting the guy to believe that he’s committing all these heinous acts instead of Xu Aiyou. But in reality it’s her with the help of Xin and possibly everyone who works for her. Successfully, xin and Xu gaslight the guy to believe it was him causing the issues in his life and made him forget her and everything he did.

Also, Hu Zhi didn’t trust Yan’s Ex-GF because she was associated with Xu. He didn’t want to remind Yan or try to touch on the idea of any mentioning anyone from their past so Yan won’t go through an Episode that would cause him to forget everything just like he did in this episode and misses a day of work.

I still think this was poorly done, just for her to continuously punish him for an unintentional accident with her father (which is also shown in the OP). The show started to make sense once you go through it again but it pissed me off just to try to understand why she would keep haunting the dude. It felt like a cheap rip off of goosebumps

842713424 said:
This shit literally makes ZERO sense. And anyone saying otherwise is a meatrider IDC. If Risheng is, in fact, a real person:

1. How did she disappear before MC's eyes at the office and somehow delete her phone number off his contacts list when presumably he was still sane enough to make his way down to the street 

2. Why didn't Qing Meng see her at the abandoned house

3. If Aiyou and Risheng are the ones behind the crimes as implied, then how and why did MC dream of the bottle escape room immediately before he saw it for the first time? If instead MC was the one behind the crimes and it was his alter-ego doing it, then WTF was the point of Risheng as a character? What did she add to the story? They could've just made Risheng his alter-ego which would create a less contrived, cleaner conclusion than what they ended up doing.

Apparently, Risheng isn't even in the original manhua, so they obviously butchered the source material to give us this mess of an ending

alshu said:
Well, this was kind of good, but with some weak points.

What I liked:
- Nice visuals, VA performances, sound environment and music.
- Some of the escape rooms were great.
- The main plot is kind of obvious from the start, but but this is a good thing, since we need to know "why" and "how".
- The victims of the main villain including the MC are kind of unsympathetic and they are given warnings and chances to escape. Usually their arrogance and sense of self importance are their demise.
- The main question being "Why the MC is still alive?" has a simple answer -  the main villain wants him to suffer in an endless cycle.
 
What I disliked:
- The show really dragged out especially in its middle part. Some trimming is needed and 11 episodes would be a better suiting format.
- Some things were left unexplained...or maybe I missed details. For example the trap Yu Shi was in. How Yuechu Yan dreamed about it? Was this one of his older traps? Maybe even Aiyou Xu's father died in a similar one?
- The MC is a bit too thick headed for his own good, despite supposedly being good at designing traps. 

MaeSouSexy said:
I really was excited with this anime and I was expecting a beater of a episode finale, but I couldnt have more mixed feelings about this end.

Ok, he's trapped inside his own head
Ok, he's the guilty one
Ok, about Yan's alter ego
Ok, he forgets everything when remembering the details about his life before

But the fact that he's being punished in a eternal cicle by Aiyou cause her father died from a heart attack in a escape room that Yan developed, makes everything so freaking sick, the guy is almost bound to suffer by her hands... Its a good end, but also a bad one for Yan. The whole anime suddenly feels meaningless.

I mean, I didnt read the manga, but even if he killed her father on purpose, he doesn't remember anything now... I mean, I dont know whatever

nox7 said:
From my rough understanding of Chinese, and reading the full Manhua on this, the anime adaption's ending seems to be leading people to conclude incorrectly about Aiyou Xu.

(This is a massive spoiler about the truth of the entire story, please open with caution if you plan on reading the Manhua)

swing124 said:

I think there will be a 2nd season...they left us in a cliffhanger.Btw,I still think Hu zhi is behind all these.Maybe He has inserted a chip or something in the MC's head to trigger his beast??

traed said:
This has to be incomplete because things really dont add up here. Having amnesia wouldn't make someone hallucinate nor does dissociative identity disorder so what about all that supernatural stuff? Unless Yan is being drugged on a regular basis. Also if Aiyou has such a grudge with him why did she sleep with him? Not like that helped him remember anything.

Yan obviously didnt do anything with Shi Yu, he didnt have the time to and was around other people when she was taken. That likely was something Aiyou did. Maybe the room she was put in was a recreation of one he had designed before but why endanger someone else over it? Nothing makes sense.