Note to self: Should I ever plan to commit suicide, I will do it by eating the barrel of a high caliber pistol. Stabbing myself in the neck seems like an extremely agonizingly slow and difficult way of killing myself. I don't want to suffer before I go, I just want it to end instantly like a light going out.
Anyways, after we got through Mr. Homeroom's bloody suicide, this episode gives a lot of hints as to who the Another may be.
Everyone seems too convinced that Kouichi isn't the Another. That in itself is a red herring. But the way Mei acts this episode makes it sound like she knows considerably more than she is letting on, which is the usual for her. <3 Either she knows she is the Another, meaning she really did die on the operating table during her tumor removal, or she knows she isn't and Kouichi actually is and she is lying to him about it.
I knew something was up when they used a 3D background for only the second time in the series, I was like this has to be a dream sequence, and it was! Kouichi has some wicked nightmares too, that shit creeped me out pretty hardcore. That was some pretty serious Raiders of the Lost Ark face-melting going on there, very well-animated and staged with the garish nightmare-lighting.
I love how they are having a beach episode and somehow it actually fits into the overarching story, it's not just some random going to the beach for fanservice and that's the only reason. I mean, there's going to be fanservice, but it's also going to move the story forward too. They completely telegraphed the events of the next episode when Kouichi and Mei were chatting with Mr. Creepy Librarian, they pretty much said that they'll have fun on the beach and then 2 people will die horribly while they are there. I'm looking forward to it. Nobody's been beheaded or dismembered yet, so maybe we'll get one of those next!
I will take on the mantle of comforting troubled wonzo by pointing out that the puppies symbolize Midori's happiness and innocence.
