ITT, we explore the depth and hidden meaning behind Kokkoku (the best anime of 2018). Contrary to popular belief, Kokkoku is not merely an anime about the consequences of using time stopping powers. It is also a Lynchean masterpiece.
There are two different ways to interpret the story. The obvious way is to accept it for what it is. A story with sci-fi/fantasy elements where a seemingly random Japanese family happens to have the powers to stop the time and to manipulate with the stopped time world. While the show does elaborate on some aspects of the stopped time world, many things are left unanswered, which is why the adherents of this interpretation of the story usually find the ending lackluster and at least slightly disappointing. Everything seems to be hand-waved by the appearance of "The Founder" in the last episode. "The Founder" just fixes everything with her convenient superpowers.
The other way to interpret the story is to assume that none of the fantasy elements actually happened. This does not mean that "it was all just a dream". Instead, in a Lynchean fashion, the story is a coping mechanism for how the main character, Juri Yukawa, dealt with the reality of what happened to her. When we are introduced to Juri, she is a 22 (28 in the manga) year old down on her luck young woman from a relatively broken family who failed almost 20 job interviews. Although she lacks any outstanding intellectual or personal qualities, she is highly sexually attractive. This is something that we are constantly reminded of throughout the series not just within the episodes themselves, but also in the anime's ending where she appears in sexually suggestive poses, taking off her top and in sexy lingerie. There are multiple instances where male characters talk about her outrageous bust size and wanting to have sex with her - typically by means of rape. All this is no mere coincidence or fan service. It all ties back to the central theme of the entire plot:
Juri Yukawa was raped. Not only that, she was actually gang raped. The gang of troubled youths in the first episode who abducted her brother and her nephew didn't abduct them, they abducted her. Notice how they specifically thought that it was supposed to be a woman - this is a hint that what we're seeing is not actually happening and that this is the point at which the fantasy starts to obfuscate reality. They brought Juri to the same place as where they supposedly held her brother and nephew hostage. However, instead of holding her hostage and asking for a ransom, they just raped her. They had sex with her for days. Every "moment" of the series represents another month where she was violated by these men. The "Herald" creature who notoriously crushes the head of its victims is a metaphor for the biggest and strongest man in the group crushing the skull of one of his partners-in-crime because he ejaculated inside Juri before he could do so first. The teleportation powers of Juri's grandpa and the "Herald" manipulation abilities of her nephew represent Juri's wishful thinking of how Juri believes the two male characters in her family she trusts the most could save her. She is deeply disappointed with her loser brother and her unreliable good for nothing unemployed father, hence they get no special abilities in the alternate story-line. Her older sister is completely absent from the story because Juri did not want her to be threatened with rape either. Shoko Majima was their previous rape victim who was mind broken by the time Juri arrived. Her relationship with Sako portrayed in the anime is a representation of her developed Stockholm Syndrome for the one ugly guy who still cares about her because he's not allowed to fuck the new girl much. Shiomi is a completely fictional character - a non sexual rationally acting male in a story full of rapists - just like the "villain" Sagawa himself - at least as an adult.
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Gavin Howard
The baby Sagawa is in fact the baby she's given birth to after being impregnated by one of the many men who fucked her. Finally, the mystery of "The Founder" is explained easily. Notice how she is the only genuinely blonde haired woman with foreigner-like features. After Juri had given birth to "baby Sagawa" she managed to temporarily escape from her captors. She didn't know where she was and she knew they would find her soon enough, so the only thing she managed to do during her first escape attempt was to leave the baby behind on an abandoned overpass at night (which coincides with the location where she "released the baby from Stasis"). She let's herself get captured again to throw the rapist gang off so that they don't find the baby. Two months later, she loses her mind just like portrayed in the anime, because she finds out that the baby was her only reason to live on and to play it safe during her capture. Her "exorcism" of the monstrous cocooned Sagawa is a representation of Juri gathering her courage and killing one of her captors. She most likely killed him with a dull-edge katana with an unexpectedly sharp point. Just like her father stabbed monster-Sagawa in the fantasy/anime interpretation. Since she killed the man guarding her at night, she manages to run away successfully this time, as it is too late by the time her captors realize she's gone. She runs aimlessly through the night and reaches a downtown area. The murder weighs heavily on her mind so she seems delirious and crazy to all her passers-by who pretend she's not there when she begs for help. But then, she runs into a gaijin woman. The gaijin woman does not conform to the norms of Japanese society, so she treats her claims very seriously. It is thanks to her that Juri finally gets help and finds her way back home to the family. That's why the gaijin woman represents "The Founder" in the fantastic story. She was the only one who helped her.
Nope, it's all 100% original content. I started watching the anime this week and finished it on Friday. I made this thread too .
>While this is true, it's also where I stopped reading. Read it bro, it will make the anime even better for you.
Jordan Perez
Was the guy who was with Sagawa at the start the same guy as his childhood friend whose mother was fucked by Sawaga's father? Or was that a different guy?
Wyatt Brown
How much time did you waste writing this?
Hunter Ward
loved the anime but the ending was retarded
Jaxon Myers
loved the anime all the girls were cute.
Jayden Johnson
I don't know but his mom had huge milkers
Landon Young
Haven't seen this anime since it came out so I don't even remember the ending too well. I wish you would have made it back then.
Joseph Brown
Haven't seen the series, but read your posts on a whim and I don't know. Is there evidence supporting your interpretation, other than "it fits nicely"? Then I might give it a watch. If intentional and not confirmed by the story itself, a storytelling device of that magnitude would surely have been mentioned by at least somebody on the staff, be it director, head writer, or somesuch. Creatives usually love to sing their own praises about their own cleverness, especially if it goes unrecognized. Otherwise, good effort at creative writing, or creative interpretation, superimposed on the story shown at hand. Next up, "Naruto", the story of a cancer patient struggling with his disease and how his mind copes with it.
William Campbell
>Next up, "Naruto", the story of a cancer patient struggling with his disease and how his mind copes with it. Top kek
Colton Powell
holy fucking shit op how do you come up with this shit
Connor Rodriguez
It's 100% fanfic
Christian Rivera
Drugs
Kevin Walker
OP was probably horny as fuck when he wrote all that shit.
Zachary Bell
I also got low key erect when I read it. Are there any non hentai seinen anime with tasteful gangrape?
>Shoko Majima was their previous rape victim who was mind broken by the time Juri arrived. Her relationship with Sako portrayed in the anime is a representation of her developed Stockholm Syndrome for the one ugly guy who still cares about her because he's not allowed to fuck the new girl much.
I actually found it very hard to believe that no one fucked her before that one guy in episode 5-6 asked her to fuck him as a reward for helping her. Sagawa obviously hasn't fucked her either.
But surely she let at least the Sako guy smash, even though he was ugly? I mean as a giri-fukku (obligation fuck) at least.
It took me approximately 20 minutes I think. I thought it would be longer, but when the material is so good you just go with the flow and it writes itself.
That's a bit fucked, lad; so, Stasis is a mental space where Juri goes when she's raped to compartmentalize everything? How do you work in Majima's family being tied into Stasis and rescuing her brother?
