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My quick synopsis of every ep in S1, S2/Kai, and S3/OVAs/Rei

posted 14 years ago by ClintJCL
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Enjoy. Sorry about the HTML. I'm too lazy:

S1:
Spirited Away By The Demon: 1=Rena is creepy (wielding axe), 2=murders introduced,Rena is MORE creepy (eavesdropping on call with cop), 3=OMG more creepy girls,needle in cake+van murder attempts, 4=Rena+Mion did it,Keeichi beats them both to death,leaves note behind clock,claws throat out,piece of note was missing,

The Cotton Drifting[not as creepy as Spirited Away By The Demon]: 5=Reset!?!? Mion/Shion(greenhair) is twins?!, 6=going into shrine they aren't supposed to,cotton drifting festival deaths are different this time:2, 7=Mion(but really Shion,see#19,but they hint at it) did it. "Too many walking corpses in this case"

Curse Killing: 9=Reset! Pedo-guy wants Satoko(blonde little girl),Rena was cursed once, 10=Satoko's abuse,pedo-guy's good,cop's bad,vomit in the classroom, 11=Keiichi kills Satoko's uncle (her older bro Satoshi previously killed the aunt), 12=No he didn't, 13=He killed everyone (whole village). Keiichi did it.

Time Wasting: 14=Reset! About cops now,national safety Akasaka("Tamitake #2"),town elders revealed, 15=whole village already died,way past 1983;flashbacks,Rika knew it all.

Eye Opening: 16=Reset! 1981 instead of 1983. Shion has to pretend to be Mion to stay alive,Satoshi introduced(saves Shion from bikers),Shion(Mion?) curses Satoshi+aunt, 17=Shion's fingernails ripped out to save 3 lives;Satoshi disappears anyway, 18=Shion strangles then forgives Mion,time passes,going into shrine they aren't supposed to,cotton drifting festival, 19=Shion switches places with Mion[relates to #7],puts Mion in dungeon w/granny(died),abducts grandad, 20=Shion interrogates grandad,Rika fails to kill Shion,killed, 21=basically #7 again,Sonozaki(Mion) family *didn't* do it all,Shion goes splat,

Atonement: 22=Reset! Rena's parents explained,her father's in the process of being duped by a blackmailing whore, 23=Rena kills whore+pimp, 24=they're after Rena,the curse is simply a virus!,redefining everything, 25=Rena's infected,Keeichi was a serial child shooter,Keeichi remembers Spirited Away By The Demon and recognizes Rena is going through the same thing,Rika is mature and understands,Mion's family not involved but willing to provide lawyer for Rena if they find her, 26=Rena takes schoolkids hostage

S2 (Kai):

Intro: 1=30yrs later(i.e. "now",2008),still in Atonement chronology,Tokyo detective Asaka[i.e. 'Tamatake #2' in S1E14{Time Wasting}],Rena survived,alien theory probably bunk,the 3 families researched an old virus,f'ed up,accidentally killed everybody,creepy Rika is looking for the next Hinimazawa

Disaster Awakening: 2=cutesey,Mion/Shion both present simultaneously always,Rika is still the same Rika aware of multi-worlds, 3=Rika wallowing in her misery,basically,She tells Satoko she's gonna be killed but then denies it, 4=Dr. Irie/Tamitake died,Satoko wants to protect Rika,Rika's noticing new differences in events,creepy men following her,cop killed, 5=Satoko's parents killed,Rika killed,Satoko chased,falls in river,disaster happens again,Satoko survives instead of Keiichi,but can't speak,Rena survived too,Satoko killed(by nurse?)once she could speak,Rena chased by "army" men who killed others,

Massacre: 6=Rika quite aware she's been repeating things for 100 yrs,ghost/demon horn girl(Hanyuu)shows up and it's like she's always been here,Satoko has some weird terminal disease, 7=everyone is remembering alternate lives,Rika must save Tamitake+Takano to save herself,Akasaka thanks Rika for saving his wife[he didn't listen to her in S1:Time Wasting],Rika gets bodyguards that save her from the bikers, 8=must save Satako from abuse,Rika says *beep* it to life,Shion wants to kill abusing uncle but Keiichi stops her,they appeal to child services,Keiichi then says *beep* it but Rika dis-disenheartens him, 9=increasing #s of ppl appeal to child services for Satako,Sonozaki family now aware of this(Satoko's of the Houjou/dam-proponent/cursed family),Rika must convince Satako to confess the abuse, 10=granny convinced to help and now likes Keiichi,protest at main office,they finally give in but Satoko's already bleeding, 11=Satoko saved,back to saving Tamitake+Takano,holy *beep* Takano has been working with the ones who killed the whole village every frickin' time!,24 hour 'walking corpse' from S1E7 explained, 12=Irie being framed,Rika brings everyone in w/best explanation of everything that's happened yet,Oishi killed, 13="Tokyo" trying to kill Rika[+Satako],everyone saves her at first,but then they all get killed,team up for the next world,Takano kills all the villagers,the volcano was just some zyclon-b type *beep*

Festival Accompanying: 14=Reset! Takano nightmareish childhood orphanage mass escape(then she's begging to die in the woods),establishment of Tokyo organization, 15=Worst. Orphanage. Ever. Takano recaptured,Hifumi Takano[her dad's sensei]saves her,has his research rejected,she grows up wanting revenge,now it's Takano vs. Hanyuu, 16=flashing back between the Dam War['78ish] and when Satoshi was around['82ish?]and Satako's abuse has already started,Takano is gonna examine live brain for parasite,Rika finally back in epilogue, 17=Rika gets examined,Satoko dying,govt-sponsored killing of town set up by Takano,Takano kills Rika parents,revealed that Satoko killed her own parents,research project now shut down with 3 yrs left,mysterious woman, 18=Satoshi affected,getting job,quit baseball,Rena no longer Reina,tried to suicide when mom left,origin of gaming club,granny set stage for Keiichi to move in, 19=Hanyuu's real,joins club,everyone's brought in again but only thinking it's manga,govt involved, 20=now they're brought in for real,decide to fake Rika's death,Oishi+Akasaka in, 21=Operation 48 hrs commences:Takano freaking out that 48hrs of passed since Rika's "death",evil ones starting to come out of the woodwork,Oishi+Sonozaki cockblock Tokyo exec trying to identify Rik's body for Takano, 22=things falling apart,Tamitake captured,Irie hurt,Sonozaki safe house,going down to the well,defeat,Akasaka saves the day, 23=attack in the mountains,raid to save Satoshi from clinic but oh hey he's vegetative,enemy starting to realize they're losing, 24=Takano defeated,told to kill self but runs away,arrested,treated for the syndrome,cotton drifting festival finally happens without incident

S3/OVA (Rei):
1: comedy:magic underwear WTF!!!!!!!!!!,

Dice Killing: 2=Rika dies,Reset!,everything the most different ever,no dam war/Tokyo/H-Syndrome/Keiichi/Takano/Irie, 3=Rika must kill mother to return, 4=Rika chooses old world,returns,now appreciates life,Hanyuu made her have the dream out of spite, haha,

Day Crushing: 5=comedy:Demon love charms

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[–] ephemereality 12 years ago

This synopsis is really appreciated as I started to grow a little tired after the climax of the first Answer arc. So the actual answer is that it was all a governmental conspiracy to test some parasite that infects the brain?!

[–] ClintJCL 12 years ago

Glad someone finally commented :)

It's a bit open-ended what with all the alternate realities, but quite likely, yes.

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