Himitsu ~The Revelation~ - 10
Another excellent episode from Himitsu. This time, it’s about mass murderers who have been arrested and have gone crazy ever since. In this episode, one of these guys gets murdered during a power outage. Because the security-cameras weren’t working at the facility where he was kept, there was no evidence except for his own brain.
As it turns out, it was a suicide. Being confined has a strange effect on mass murderers, and most of them will end up haunted by the people they killed. This particular guy has found emotional support in a white mouse, who he keeps talking to. When the power went out, his eyes blackened out, and he thought that the mouse was gone and on a whim he killed himself.
This was also a means to test out the capabilities of the MRI-team by a rather ambitious and annoying guy who was in charge of the facility, and as it turns out, the entire suicide murder was set up for this reason. This again brings up the question: these people are utterly useless to society, so do we have the right to just kill them off? I also couldn’t help but think “why don’t they kill the mouse and look at its brains”? This episode really showed how convenient it can be for someone to die, even though it’s morally unacceptable. It’s amazing how critical this series is of modern-day society.
It’s nice to see some social commentary in anime, sometimes I feel that decent opportunities to represent these qualities are often overshadowed by producers sticking to the basics, such as focusing heavily on the characters instead of themes, and it’s gets a bit tiring when it seems to be the only feasible option to take, leaving great opportunities behind.
Comment by Denizen — June 12, 2008 @ 15:54
I was wondering in the past eps. it mostly the victims brain they see in the manga on the other hand (vol2) they scan the brain of the murder & there were some theories. So do you think there come a time that the anime will show a brain of a killer?
Comment by marie — June 13, 2008 @ 0:33