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I finished AI:Somnium files. As I grew to fear, the solution to the mystery was very unsatisfying. It's a real shame too because the actual mystery as well as the characters were very interesting. The somniums were also a very cool storytelling device.

Here's whats wrong with the ending. Hitomi and Renju both know Saito killed Manaka. They know what he looks like, who he is, and they hate him. He is the object of their revenge. Somehow though, they don't recognize that Date is Saito (bodywise). This is a giant plot hole. Neither of them knew about Psyncing either as evidenced by Hitomi still visiting #89 who wasn't even the person she thought it was. This right here is plot ruining, however, theres more, much more.

Hitomi's plan to blackmail So doesn't make sense because Renju is also rich. Renju almost certainly would have paid for the treatment. Theres no way that it was too expensive with how many armed guards he can afford to hire. She also had a terrible plan. By bringing So to the actual body, she gives him an easy chance to dispose of it and as mentioned in the ending, he didn't even really commit a crime. Saito who is missing did and he had the leverage to have it covered it up. Would have never worked. But wait, the worst is yet to come.

Boss and Pewter both know that Saito is in Rohan's body. The second Rohan dies, they should be suspicious. As soon as Shoko shows up missing an eye, that should all but confirm their suspicions. Saito using the prototype should have been the primary suspect from the beginning. You would have to be so freaking stupid to not piece that together, especially as detectives.

While they gloss over just how stupid Saito's plan actually is, it's pretty dumb. He does all this to make Date suffer? He didn't even know Iris before the investigation, he didn't really give a shit about Shoko. In fact, he had no idea about Aiba dosing him so he should have assumed that Date was a sociopath and thus cared for no one. Ultimately Saito want's his body back so why not just do that first? You could swap with him easy and then use that to lure out all the people he cares about and kill them 1 by 1 in front of Date. Better revenge, more joy from the killings. Date isn't a hard guy to get to either since Shoko had access already.

The only person who really suffered from the murders was Mizuki. The plan targets her way more than Date.

Boss also behaves strangely. She easily tells Yagyu about the top secret sync machine and body swapping and keeps his murders a secret but then for some reason won't tell Date because of orders. Where the hell was that sense of duty earlier in the story?

Theres also a few things that aren't quite plot holes but are dumb. How has no one pieced together that the Psync machine grants immortality? You can just keep transferring to a younger host and never die. Thats huge! Additionally, that could be used to save Iris by swapping her to another body. Also, the wadjet system generates real consciousness, theres no reason you couldn't implant Aiba in a human body using the Psync machine. Not really important but that concept would have been way cooler than what they did.

Basically the whole story is an idiot plot. A plot that only works if all the characters are unreasonably stupid. If the voice acting, humor, and somnuims weren't so cool, I'd be pretty pissed.

Oh and one of the characters had the same symptoms I have and then died of a brain tumor. Kinda spooky.
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