This made his sacrifice worth itHe lost a few years, but he saved a life
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>>290359565the pizza girl was better
>THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY WISH FULFILLMENT
>>290359565YABBA DABBA DOOOO
>>290359565>He lost a few years, but he saved a lifeSo you're saying, in a sense, he is the father?
>>290359885NTR cope, he explicitly loved her
>>290359641Airi is love. This mangaka is a fucking cuck and a degen though, if he made this manga again today he'd make the baby dark.
>>290359629>>290362061>>290362405He got with a cute JK girl tho. Women age like milk so he won
>>290359565Saved more than one.
Airi is better. She trusted him, put herself at risk and helped the MC hide from the policeAnd it's okay to help a girl without expecting romantic favors in return. Also, he was an adult in a child body hanging out with them
>>290359565you know what the most humiliating thing about this is?the baby is only 1 year old or even youngerwhich means if she waited a little bit more she could've break up with the other guy and marry him and having kids with him instead.the author really loves NTR huh?
>>290364940forgot to add, Kayo finally has a home and a loving family. That's is beautiful and based
>>290362061>>290359629Why are you like this?
Some people seem to miss the pointWhat is the purpose of saving Kayo?1) To rescue her from her abusive home and the murderer, giving her a chance at life, or2) To get her as a girlfriend? There's a beautiful bird. If you only love yourself, you put it in a cage, But if you love the bird, you set it free
>>290365394>What is the purpose of saving Kayo?my dude at the end of the day every male is only nice to a female because they're expecting to MAYBE get access to their holes.maybe not consciously every time but atleast subconsciously.that's just how the male brain works it's within our DNA.>do a mating dance(by helping them)>they like you for helping them>mate with them
>>290359565Can't believe Erased is 10 years old. Where did time go?
>>290359565The fact the pedo serial killer teacher waited for him while he was in coma while Kayo got dicked by his friend in that time will never not be comedy gold.
>>290365394>>290365758Altruism was always a cope mechanism
>>290366043*coping mechanismesl
>>290366138It is. Thank you anyway
>>290365797>Where did time go?It was Erased
>>290359565Never has a show shit the bed towards the end harder than Erased. At least not that I've seen.
Most of the shitposting still surrounding this series is made by people who didn't read/watch it. It's not surprising since that's what shitposters do, but it's hilarious to see people who did experience it stuck in the same mentality.This was never a romance, it has always been a supernatural murder mystery. There was never a promise of them getting together. It was made up by people because they saw a male with a female, remove that preconception and you'll get it.>>290359565Two lives actually, and they created another one as a result.
>>290365758so you are getting cucked if the girl you helped at something doesn't suck your dick?
>>290366431I have never once agreed with the shitposters, but the MC clearly had feelings for her, and those were at least the initial motivation for him to try and save her. You can try to argue that those feelings stopped mattering at some point, but I can understand someone feeling a little upset that the story pretends those feelings never existed.
>>290366562Whatever feelings he might have had towards her were passing at best. At least from what I remember, since I don't think there is a defining moment where he admits his feelings.He was always aware that he was an adult and placed saving his mom at the forefront. Saving Kayo was ultimately a part of the quest to achieve that, it was never a romantic motivation towards the girl. It's also the reason why he saves Hiromi.Anyone who read into all of this and thought this means he wants to be with her is just setting themselves up for disappointment.
>>290359565the point is that the two people who died to the killer actually came back and got together. Everybody got to live their life fully because his coma just resumed his life to the point before he got timelooped. Also imagine preferring her hag form instead of that JK
>>290366562Let him be. He didn't read/watch it
>>290359565If this aired like 5+ years later, nothing would have come out of itThe sheer number of 2DPD in modern anime is staggering, back then studios are deathly afraid of releasing 2DPD and 2DPDs like Nagi were rightfully shamed and burned at the stakeIf they're used goods they better be wormed like wormslut or if they're a true blue whore/normoids like 80s heroines
>>290366346Well, I was asking for it.
>>290366431>made by people who didn't read/watch it.Made by self inserts who feel in love with a broken little girl who "NTR'd" the main character that was LITERALLY THEM.
>>290359565Reminder that it was the mom that made her move on.
>>290368975Goated anime mom
>>290364940Self-destructive selflessness isn't a good thing. It's a very christian way of thinking about things.Having the mc have romantic feelings for the girl at all is where it fails.
>>290365833It turns out best girl was pedo serial killer teacher all along.
>>290366431>he thinks there wasn't reaction from japanese viewers Retard
>>290370758Yes, they have their own brand of idiots over there who also complain. Got anything else to add?
>>290366478nah if your mating dance wasn't good enough to impress her then you didn't even make it into the top 3.can't be cucked if you were never a choice.
>>290372173Faggot it was controversial even among their normalfags too. You claim there was nothing romance but the fact they did added element of that was why there was disappointment and backlash. Not saying that it's their overreaction dating culture but it did hurt a lot of viewers like it normally would.
>>290369326> self-destructiveThe MC did it to save himself and his mother. Try reading or watching before commenting
>>290372524Should add that anime fans aren't used to things developing early on until the end so as a side affect they didn't take it well.
>>290372524Just because some got mad because of their expectations doesn't mean that it was a massive issue, nor that the reaction was negative as a whole. You won't satisfy everyone, especially when it comes to shipping or romance. You just can't do a thing about it but it doesn't mean their anger is justified or that it was the common reaction.The author made multiple series after Erased and he even has one going on now. Whatever "controversary" did happen did nothing.
>>290366431>This was never a romanceThere was and it was about letting go in the end. But certain viewers didn't.
>>290366899>>290372524>>290372865correct>>290373050wrongthe audience was very intentionally lead to fall in love with kayo. her arc received so much love and attention from the production staff that it was unreasonable to expect the audience would consider anyone else best girl. you can separate the intent of the manga and the anime, the mangaka meant it to be a murder mystery but the anime delivered a romance which had a stronger impact than that.the MC wasn't cucked, the audience was.
>>290366562Yeah time moves on and people seperate themselves from their past feeling. I don't know why many here are instead using there was nothing between them to justify the ending.
>>290373723>the audience was very intentionally lead to fall in love with kayoYou're arguing based on your feelings. Just because you felt that way doesn't mean other people did
>>290373798agreed, the MC had his priorities in order and his crush on kayo definitely existed but wasn't as important as saving lives.>>290373870not only on my feelings. they resonate with the feelings of many people. feelings are empirical evidence when the topic of discussion is feelings.
>>290373958>feelings are empirical evidenceyeah, sure
>>290373723Satoru's interest in Kayo was rooted in his desire to save his mom and it progressed into a desire to genuinely help her, not a romantic interest. And as much as I don't like how the anime handled the last part that is something that they translated well before it.So no, it wasn't romantic even there. People just saw a relationship between a male and female and assumed it was romantic without looking at the context.
this was the peak of the anime>>290374141do you even understand what point you're trying to make or are you just parroting buzzwords?>>290374210nigga he was blushing and shit. it was a childish crush based on his childish neurology, which was specifically addressed with him having lower impulse control and saying stuff he meant to keep to himself. despite his intentions he was falling in love with her.
>>290374276Blushing could also be interrupted as embarrassment, doesn't mean you want to be romantic with the person involved.And you said it yourself. It was due to his body, a physical reaction at best. Doesn't mean that the adult inside wanted to get with her.
>>290374276> "Empirical evidence relies on measurable facts rather than guesses, feelings, or abstract ideas"You don't even understand the words you are using. But hey, feelings are empirical evidence, right?
>>290374447yes i said it myself because thats my point. i also said he wasn't cucked, he had his priorities in order, and ignored his very real developing crush on kayo for his adult ideals. im arguing for something in the middle.i am also saying the way the story was presented made kayo best girl and thus her not "winning" is disappointing to the audience.>>290374537if you truly believed that you wouldn't be making your own point. you said other people didn't feel the way i did. you said the same thing i did in reverse.
>>290374635so what DID most people feel? that ERASED started very strong and then fell off. why exactly is debatable, but it is pretty much consensus that the kayo arc was the best part.
>>290359565fact is, this scene became a meme for a reason. it did not pass the vibe check. it can be rationalized away but in practice it caused cognitive dissonance.
>>290374635Look, even if we went with the developing crush narrative it wouldn't have happened. Satoru was an adult inside and his interest in helping Kayo was genuine, there was nothing romantic in his intentions. I still don't think there is a romantic hint but I see no reason to argue that any further.But the disappointment of the people you are talking about is 100% their fault. Kayo's story and her role were great and limiting her to a trophy showing a complete misunderstanding of it.
>>290359565She probably got pregnant with a mating press position.
>>290375040i mean ok but then you're arguing the audience's enjoyment of an anime doesn't matter. the author did what he wanted to do, but that was not what the audience wanted. that's basically the gist. the audience preferred the romance over the heroism, at least a significant portion did.
>>290375400Authors should write what they want. Whether an audience flocks to them or they fail comes afterward. And given that people flocked to Erased and he kept making other series afterward then I guess the audience preferred his works and it is what they wanted.And people can enjoy what they want. It's their own choice. But they shouldn't lie about what they were presented or promised, which is what a lot of people hating on the story are still doing to this day.
>>290375844yeah i have an issue with calling this cucking, everything is cucking, cuck cuck cuck. but i think their negative emotions are empirical evidence of something, most of them just don't understand why they feel like that.i haven't really heard anything about the authors new works though. and to be clear i still recommend ERASED as a whole as worth watching.
>>290376375That I can agree with. Just to be clear I'm not dismissing people's feelings. It's fine to even have an extreme emotional reaction toward something, I'm guilty of that too, but I think after a while cooler heads should prevail and be able to judge things more accurately. It's been years since both the manga and anime ended, the bare minimum is to at least try to understand why you felt like that at the time. Disagreement will occur and people will differ in interpretation but I think facts at the very least should be respectedAnd yes, Erased is genuinely a good story in both of its forms. It's a shame that shitposters keep on dredging the same narrative. It's a good story about altruism and overcoming trauma with an engaging narrative. It deserves more than thatAs for the author's works I haven't tried them myself. I honestly thought he went back to hentai for a while. But most of them seems to have been picked up officially. So I might give them a go one day.
