| This is written as of ep7. If you were working with Seizaki, how would you plan on catching Magase? Preferably bring charges to her. If not, kidnapping or if necessary, kill her. Note I think the latter is a fair option considering Seizaki was willing to kidnap Itsuki. So if you think it is a necessary action, feel free to suggest that. Ideas don't need to be too specific, it can be broad or detailed. First, what to charge her with if we are to arrest her. I think murder is our best chance. She sent a live video of her murdering Sekuro. Evidence is clear as day. Possibly abetting suicide, but there is no concrete evidence for that so I doubt we can charge her for that. So we got that out of the way.. next, we need some preparations: 1) First it is clear that Magase can 'mind control' through words. To counter that, earplugs is needed during operations where she might be around. Earplugs aren't perfect, but should be enough to block her voice. Greater attenuation the better. If we need to communicate, sound mufflers over earphones will do the trick. 2) Also she seems to persuade people through arousal. Maybe a injection(for more immediate effect) with some sort of anaphrodisiac or dopamine antagonist drug. Of course this is speculation and I'm not sure how her suggestion ability work. I'm just going by what we know so far. This is a back up if earplugs and sound mufflers fail. Problem is that we can't just wear the earplugs everywhere we go. She could ambush us(like she did in ep7) and that is why we need to carry the injection for emergency use. So now that she is largely no longer a threat, we need to find her and subdue her. This is difficult because she can change her appearance which make tracking her down difficult. We don't know if there is a supernatural element to this, so I'll assume there is. We will need to rule each possibility out. 1) She uses make-up and other traditional methodology to change her appearance. This is possible in real life. This has been demonstrated by intelligence agencies rather publicly. 2) She can supernaturally morph her face. Said appearance does not resemble any actual person. This mean that no one share the same face as her disguise. 3) She mimics other's faces. So she 'duplicates' another person. As a result, two people should have the same faces, like twins. 4) She steals someone face. She kills them and somehow take their face. IE. Sekuro's face is up for grabs. ---------------- We can rule these out based on existing known cases of her face changes. So what do we know about her transformations: A) She have only been changing in to other females. Never male. We can rule out males as potential suspects. Unless otherwise proven wrong of course. B) She was(or looks like) Itsuki's wife. This is the greatest information we can have gotten for her transformation. If Magase was NOT Itsuki's wife, the unnamed child would immediately recognize this. He would know rather that was his mom or not. This means she either IS his mother, or she changed to her appearance. If Magase changed to her appearance, she either kidnapped or murdered the original. Itsuki is a bit crazy anyways and seems to cooperate with her. So I wouldn't rule it out entirely... but I find the murder unlikely, but still a possibility. If Magase was Itsuki's wife from the start, then nothing would have to be done. If this is true, it is MUCH more easy to keep track of Magase's movement. If the real wife was murdered or kidnapped, we can expect her activities to change prior to the debate/election. Magase is not his wife and hence would not act the same way. Questioning the kid would give us insight on any change of behaviors. Which can hint if Magase was the wife the whole time, or just took her place somehow. We can do further verification. We can contact Magase's old physician and see if he has any medical and maybe DNA data on her. We can cross reference that information with Itsuki's wife. Make sure there are no signs of forgery. If they match, then they are the same person. If not, then they aren't, simple as that. We will also have to see if the wife's behavior revert back to normal once the debate was over. If so, we need to question the wife for any blank memories or if she was kidnapped, or what she was doing during the time of the live debate. Next thing to do is to track down Sekuro's body. We can try to pinpoint the location of the murder via background information. Probably in some storage shed or basement. Maybe even the janitor's room of some building. We can also try and pinpoint the exact location by tracking down the IP address. We can find out a lot of other information based on her internet footprint. She used a camera, but was sent to his computer, meaning it had to go through a computer and uploaded to the internet, live or not. Sekuro was murdered by Magase. We can determine Sekuro's condition. If only dismembered, then we can rule out Magase stealing faces. If her body was more than just dismembered, we can expect some foul play after the murder. Which may hint at 'stealing faces.' We also need to look back at the photos of the 'prostitutes' and try to find if they actually exist independently from Magase. If they are alive and doing their own thing, we can safely say she copies faces. If they are dead or missing, then it might be that she stole their faces. If no record is found, then Magase can freely change her appearance with no reference to other people. ----------- We can use all the above clues to try and pin point her method of facial transformation. Once we know how she transform, we can use that to give us clues as to where she might be. If she took Sekuro's face, then tracking down where Sekuro is last seen would be most logical. If Magase was Itsuki's wife, even easier. If she can freely change her appearance, then we need to look for undocumented people as suspects. If we know her actions, we can try and set a trap and catch her. Of course all this is easier said than done. It is still going to be difficult finding out who she is and where she is at any point in time. These are just ideas I came up with. |
zcv45Nov 19, 2019 6:05 PM
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| If this were Psycho-Pass, she would have been already blown to smithereens. |
| "Everyone wears their own panties inside their heart" - Kousaku Hata |
Thanks for the serious response, it is something I find most enjoyable about series like this. I only watched each episode once so i may have missed certain things or misinterpreted what the characters were saying. 1) I was also trying to figure out what was special about Seizaki. After you mentioned how he was unaffected by talking to her, it makes more sense. Maybe her interest is in his immunity? Or maybe that his sense of justice that prevents him from being corrupted? I'm not sure but it did get me thinking more about this aspect. 2) Yes, the interrogation scene is a missed opportunity. Presumably she might have talked to one of the guards and got them to let her go. But he should have at least watched the recording. That would indeed reveal a lot such as how she persuade people. 3) I also don't trust the Shiniki initiative politicians either. And you are right that Nomura seem to not have even tried to do a background check. Although I doubt it is staged. He might have known who the kid was but took a gamble, not exactly sure. 4) Yes I do remember ep7's reveal. Which is why I recommend trying anaphrosadiac although it is just a speculation if that is even effective countermeasure. 5) If Magase was only morphing in to Itsuki's wife, then the real wife must either be watching the TV and thus should be confused. Or is knocked unconscious or kidnapped. Alternatively she could also be in on the conspiracy. I doubt it since the kid is not involved which makes it seem like Itsuki is the only one in the family that is involved. Regardless, talking to the wife is the best course of action. Along with looking back at the security footage during the interrogation. 6) I feel stupid for not making the connection between Magase, the title, and the whore of Babylon. Now that you said that, it seems obvious. But if it goes anything like the Book of Revelations, it might be too predictable although there are definitely parallels. |
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FalloutShounen3 said: If this were Psycho-Pass, she would have been already blown to smithereens. I don't think so. She seems to be criminally asymptomatic. |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
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LtGalactie said: Yeah I bet the Dominator would just shoot itself after talking to her for a minute. Well to fact that we'd need the big reveal to her skills. |
| When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| Well I just finished watching this so I'll leave my understanding here. Not the city of shiniki but the entire world (or meta the anime itself) is magases playground. She's the whore of Babylon and we are watching Babylon. She was also likened by POTUS to the snake of Eden, ie the devil himself. Or in this case; Herself. Magase is the devil. Which explains her powers. She's a shapeshifting snake. With a silver tongue. She's not stealing faces. Itsuki is a pawn. After killing Alex, she forced seizaki to kill himself. |
| Being a woman, look like the 100% male working class in both japan and US couldn't match her. |
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