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Chapter 3 Wrap Up And Autopsy
I'm a bit torn right now because I feel like I like the story and I'm really invested in it but also...I kinda don't like the story so far? Part of it was inflated expectations because basically everyone I've talked to was like "yes DR2>>>DR1 for sure" and I don't know if I'm quite there yet. I love the cast and there are parts that are great, but then I get stuff like robot Nekomaru and mysterious wonder disease that does whatever the plot needs to do and I'm kinda annoyed. After case 2 I was like "well ok at least that's over with now case 3 will turn things around" and now I'm like "well ok at least that's over with now case 4 will turn things around" and I'm running out of cases.

The setup up to Case 3 also felt less...joyful? Than the last two cases, at least. Part of it is the cast is shrinking are we're starting to lose fun characters, but part of it was that I didn't like the set up as much, I guess. Like case 2 was about friendship and Kazuichi trying to set up a pervert watch party and the vibe was just kind of fun, up until the murder. Here the despair disease occupied such a huge chunk of the chapter that it kinda got in the way of the character interactions a little bit.

I think I still preferred this over case 2 as at least things weren't immediately obvious. Psycho Mikan was a lot of fun and Nagito was great in the trial as well. Sonia and Chiaki too. And even Akane had her best chapter here, which was nice. I guess I really enjoyed the ride of chapter 3 even if I didn't like the overarching setup. The despair disease was dumb, but the writing was good enough that I was still interested in what was going on, if that makes sense.

I'm still trying to figure out why Mikan killed in the way she did. If you were going to kill a person that would do whatever you told them to, taking her somewhere to strangle yourself seems like not the best idea. Couldn't you have her slit her throat as soon as someone walked in the room? Wouldn't that create the same level of alibi? I don't understand how a person that could be programmed into killing themselves, and who you made it look like had done exactly that, needed a fake replication of her suicide to get a witness. Stay with Hajime the entire morning, tell her to go to the music venue and kill herself as soon the door opened, and boom. Ya got witnesses.

Again though...Mikan you're going to be the top suspect here regardless. She does whatever people tell her to and she's with you the entire time. Even Akane should be able to see the connection there!

My new current pet theory is Mikan is Junko's underling and so is...HAJIME. Her secret boo. Also there was that aside about how "the reserve students helped lead an uprising to cause the most horrible awful poopy gross yucky event in human history this chapter. OH and look how convenient Hajime can't even remember what his ability is. Maybe it is because HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE.

So Mikan and Hajime somehow snuck themselves in? To sabotage things? But then had their memories erased and forgot they were there to sabotage things. Does that...make sense? I feel like that's a major oversight in their plan since they wouldn't remember to do the thing they went there to do. But something is definitely up with Hajime. I just don't know for sure what yet.

I think if I was tiering the characters now it would be:
Great characters who better not die - Sonia, Chiaki, Gundham, Nagito
Good characters who I still don't want to die - Hajime, Kazuichi
Ok characters who are growing on me a little bit - Akane, Fuyuhiko
Used to be good character who is now a weird robot - Nekomaru

So fingers crossed we get some names culled from the bottom next chapter and not the top!

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