Kono Sekai wa Fukanzen Sugiru Episode 2 Discussion

Why does every other anime need a villain whose motivation makes no fucking sense whatsoever?

This is surprisingly realistic!
If debuggers were trapped in a game with access to debug mode, of couse some people would abuse it, while others played legit.
It makes sense that some people would continue reporting bugs; they have no obligations, so might as well do what they enjoy hoping it matters.
Obviously some people would do the stupidest thing they can think of, just to see if they can.
Factions that agree on some of the above are then a natural follow up.

My biggest question so far is what happens when a player dies. They may have mentioned and I missed it, but I have my theories.
It could work like SAO, so it would be like real life but with potential bugs and debug mode (Note: I have not watched so please no spoilers).
Or it could be like a normal a game, so they would be able to respawn (It would be like a little Shangri-La Frontier if so).
Either case could work if they handled it right.

@felixsifuri Honestly, the motivation checks out to me. They've been stuck for a year. Haga copes by being a workaholic and convincing himself there's a light at the end of the tunnel, the city crew have kind of cracked their sanity playing on god-mode. It's not the most compelling motive out there, but it checks out enough.


In any case, I'm still finding the show weirdly engaging, though I'm still not convinced whether it will follow through to a decent payoff.

lol, I'm with the yellow haired dude (apart from the random killing of NPCs, wat). What a whiny preaching clown this MC is, "dOn't uSe dEbUg mOdE!" If I were in their shoes, stuck in a game for longer than a year with no way out, you best believe I would be using all the cheats XD

Not too sure why those other debuggers need to attack Haga and Nikola. They could just simply leave them alone and continue going about their debauchery

@GakutoDeathGlare
Have you seen what happened to Sumida? That wasn't preaching, that was a fair warning.

@Avvenirista Yes, but that's from the perspective of a viewer watching this show. If I was trapped for a year, I doubt I would be able to resist (depending on the actual risk chance of getting screwed while using it, tbh), and there's no way in hell I would still be doing the job I was designated to do lol...

I'm with others that say the antagonists don't make sense. Main thinks he'll get out eventually on some loose logic and others say screw it let's enjoy ourselves. That's fine, but what's with the stab greeting and trying to take him by force? The explanation someone gave that they want to live here and are worried debugging will ruin it kinda works but is pretty weak.

I'm also confused what happened when they won the fight. Did the main know from before that wall was broken? Our NPC sure didn't give the impression she'd seen any successful wall clipping, but otherwise him passing through too and any sort of strategy around it doesn't make sense.

@Bio
Haga and Nikola were aware of the glitched wall in the tower because they spent the entire day searching for such bugs around the city's outer walls.
I genuinely don't see what you're seeing in Nikola's reaction and as for Haga, he had to expose himself in order to steal Sumida's tablet outside the game's playable area or the guy could've smelled their scheme and used his skill (no cooldown even without tablet?) to escape outside.

@Avvenirista We didn't get any indication that their searching found anything. Nikola's only comment as they turn in for the night was how goofy it was, and she's shocked when the enemy guy actually goes through a wall.

@Bio
So what you're saying is that you wanted Haga and Nikola to explicitly talk about the glitched walls and their plan to beat Sumida instead of just having the duo allude to the whole thing like they did (she said to go to that specific tower for a very good reason and you're ignoring that).
That's understandable but ultimately that's a just a matter of individual preference, that alone doesn't make the whole scene weak.
And sorry but I'm still not seeing what you're seeing in Nikola's reaction just before Sumida's demise; she dodged the attack quickly and grabbed Haga at the right time so she clearly knew what she was supposed to do in that situation.