Originally Posted by
Ryllharu
1) I used to read the manga, and I stopped well before the anime started (edit: because it is glacially slow in comparison). The manga only ever shows Kumoko's POV in the labyrinth, it never shows the other timeline, so that half of the equation is all new to me. The anime will completely eclipse the manga by the time it ends.
2) I know you don't pay attention, and you fill in gaps that you overlooked with stuff from your head-cannon, so I am confident you missed the previous signs that they were misleading us.
3) You're a fucking idiot if you missed how obviously telegraphed it was in this episode.
- The white girl's eyes flash before they flare. It's quick, but pause it and count.
- The survivor informs Shun and the audience that Julius was killed by a rot attack.
- The episode immediately jumps back to Kumoko after that explanation.
- She uses a rot attack with her new upgraded eye attack.
The scenes are juxtaposed to make this comparison really obvious. It is a direct contrast to the deliberate misinformation earlier in the season when the show was pretending there weren't two different timelines and they were doing purposeful juxtaposed scenes to try to make it look the other way around. They were pretty smart about the misleads before, but they've flipped it now that the Dragon guy and D revealed themselves and we know concretely they are different timelines. It's clever directorial composition. Not typical for anime.
Are they deliberately misleading us again to make it look like the white girl killed Julius when whatshisface doesn't actually know what happened because he died temporarily before being revived? Maybe. It's possible it is another red herring. I just highly doubt it. They've revealed the two timelines. They've revealed the administrators, they've shown us the "truth" of the world, we've seen the dragon guy again in that flashback. They don't seem to have a lot more things to deliberately mislead us about Kumoko and how she interacts with the world.
But keep bitching about me "spoiling" to cover for you missing all the rather heavy-handed hints in all the series we both happen to be watching this season.
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