-Aw, Seiko is such a sweetie. Fuck Ruruka for taking advantage of her, and Sonosuke for defending Ruruka.
-Alright, so it appears that the opening does NOT change to reflect how people actually die, which means Kazuo's death is the only one so far that doesn't match. That being the case, currently I'm operating under the assumption that he is not dead. He might be such a badass motherfucker that getting impaled isn't enough to finish him off.
-If Kazuo is alive though does that mean nobody died last episode? Unless I'm forgetting something the only other option is Maiya, and her death in the opening has her getting cut in half the long way, which I'm pretty sure didn't happen. Maybe Seiko actually died from an overdose of her Hulk drug and is only still going on pure willpower despite being medically dead, and she'll stop moving once the drug wears off?
-I've got to start keeping a closer eye on the survivor counter at the beginning to spot discrepancies more easily. This episode says 13 survivors. Which I think means only three deaths since the beginning. Gozu, Daisuku, and
. Not counting Chisa anyway.
-Oh, okay, Kazuo is still explicitly alive for now. I thought he stopped talking and moving last episode, but maybe not. And this might be a slight rewind I guess. And in light of that fact I'm still not really sure how the opening works.
-Why is Juzo such a scumshit? I usually expect a bit more nuance from my Danganronpa characters than just "he's a mindless thug". Backstory incoming I assume.
-I've never liked Asahina before, but I sure like her now. She's not just being counterproductive dead weight and her new look is cool.
-Hmm, I wonder what Kyoko learned? Maybe that Chisa's body isn't actually Chisa and that she's using a fake corpse, Junko-style?
-I am now 90% convinced Chisa is the cause of all of this, but who's the attacker? Kazuo's reveal makes the most sense if he says the attacker was Chisa, but can she be both the culprit
and the attacker? Maybe the aforementioned false corpse, or maybe she set this all up so far in advance that she still counts? I feel like the only other reveal that could have shocked Kyosuke that much is if Kazuo told him that Kyosuke himself is the attacker, and I suppose that's not impossible either through various potential shenanigans.
-Actually Kyosuke being the killer does kind of make thematic sense. If he has a dual identity even he isn't aware of (maybe being hypnotically coerced by Miaya as the Ultimate Therapist or something?) then he sort of resembles Monokuma's split appearance. And if that's the case, he just lost his left eye, which is Monokuma's white eye. Meaning the maybe his good side is dead now and he's going to become the straight-up villain at this point?
-Well, Seiko being the one to die was kind of likely, but I'm sad she is. And again, as of right now it looks like her death doesn't match the opening since she appears to have been shot. Maybe her drugs made her heart explode and she wasn't actually murdered?
-Hmm, the credits sting kind of makes it look like Kyosuke did kill Seiko, but maybe more out of necessity than because he's the killer. Or maybe he had no problem killing her out of necessity since he now knows he killed Gozu? Not like he's been hesitant to try to murder people up to now.