But it looked like a crowd of people were still hovered around where the guy jumped. And it looked like Zebra was the only one surprised that a guy that jumped in front of a train got up. But I don't know, how did lil' slugger see them? Maybe somewhere along the episode they had actually died without realizing it. And I still don't get the condoms thing...
I've watched a few episodes of PA. It's similar to Boogiepop Phantom. Both anime have a main re-occuring character (Lil Slugger/Boogiepop) who make people "disappear". Then there are the random people whom you see in one or two episodes, and through the point of view of these characters, the story is told. Also, both are creepy!
Hey, I just started reading this forum and I'm a big fan of the show. I have some stuff I read about the Happy Family Planning episode that I feel might help a little.
Through out the episode, there are little hints as to why each character wanted to kill themselves. For Zebra, after the attempt of hanging themselves goes terribly wrong, you see that Zebra has an opened up locket lying next to him, showing him posing with another man. It's possible that Zebra wanted to kill himself because of relationship problems with this man, or maybe something went wrong. For Kamome, the condoms thing seems to sum it up. Komome must've been an unwanted child in the world, the condoms they show are a cheap, weak brand and Kamome probably has a bad home life. As for Fuyubachi, he seems to have an illness of some kind. They mention him taking his pills.
When the three pose behind the girls in the pictures, their screams are caused by the fact that Fuyubachi, Zebra and Kamome really are dead. If you notice, after Zebra and Fuyubachi take the pills, their shadows are no longer visible through out the episode. Also, with Kamome, after she shows up to where they are, her shadow is no longer visible either. It's possible that after their encounter, and after Zebra and Fuyubachi killed themselves, she killed herself by jumping off of the bridge. As for the fact that they were served in an inn.. I guess in order to make sense of it all, that has to be ignored, haha.
Yay! I said that! I said that Fuyubachi freaked out at the end because he noticed they didn't have shadows! I said they probably died at some point in the episode! Yay!!! Thanks for the clear up! It was still sad though. Can you explain the end of that very last episode? Why was the main character writing chalk things on the sidewalk? And why was his hair white?
Haha, I'm glad I could help. With the last episode, I'm still a little confused on it. I'm guessing his hair is white because he's been working on that gigantic math equation thing for a long time. I really have no idea what the equation symbolizes yet. But when he put that equal sign and his eyes got big, I thought that was possibly the coolest way to end the series.. to leave us guessing.