Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: The Town Without Me

[KrayZ33]

Oh man, that scene where the women suspected Satoru to be unemployed seems to be a real issue in Japan. These people are nuts, seriously.

I've heard this being said in a documentary once too where a german manager went over to Japan as a company boss.
He was totally shocked when he realised that they work from 7:00-19:00+++ (inofficially, like.. he came out of his office really late and saw them walking around) and they were all like: "Well, we don't leave before our boss leaves, that would be rude"
The way he handled that situation was rather funny. The next day, he went into their respective work areas at ~16:30 and said: "I'm leaving now, and if you arn't done with your work for today by now, you are working inefficiently, so you guys better finish up fast".
Obviously japanese people don't want to be told that, since they'd lose face and managed to finish their work 3-4 hours faster after that, but they were actually scared to go home because other people and their neighbours might think they are unemployed. Turned out they were just slacking off most of the time... and did nothing productive. One of them said something along the lines: "well, at first I didn't want to do it (because of what I wrote earlier)... but I realised that he is right, we really didn't do much and it's nice to see my wife and family sooner"

WTF is wrong with them? Holy shit.... I thought it was a special case but now I know he was totally right. They enslave themselve to work because they fear that other people might look down on them if they show up at ~15:00 @ home and by the looks of it (after watching this ep), THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING THAT. Japan and it's scumbag society, god damn.

I couldn't help but realize that the author might criticise behavior similiar to that, maybe even japanese people directly. Just look at it. Everyone is *so* superficial. No one bothers to realize Kayo's problems and no one sees how kind and beautiful she truely is, the police is quick to assume the wrong because of "how things look" to them, people don't bother to believe or trust someone as soon as they see something "suspicious" or rather, they don't bother to ask or think it over first.
And then there is Airi, who is doing the polar opposite - someone that is actually able to believe or trust someone. A glimmer of hope that there actually is someone that believes you and that you yourself can believe in for the very same reason.
And also the murderer, who is probably using that superficiality to rise in rank and power.
It's as if the murders are there to show that he is able to do whatever he wants as long as people stay the way they are... and he's been doing that for years and will do it for years to come(!).


Btw super hyped for episode 7, that ending was such a tease.
I could be wrong here, but unless they wanted to make it extremely clear in the next episode anyway, I think they might've given away too much of the murderer's face. (and he looked a whole lot older in that pizza store imho)