Is it really even Nanno?
I commonly see people say that original Nanno was karma. But I have always disagreed. Because like, what is the karma of the mom that found out the man she loved was actually a monster and then had to watch her daughter die? Or all of the innocent kids that were killed in the school shooting by the teacher Nanno pushed into going crazy? Or the artist that had her work stolen that had to hear the audience side with the plagiarist over her?
I think every episode was done in a way that it can be enjoyed at surface level but also at a deeper level its presenting a thought experiment to the audience. And Nanno's role is always just to set up a scenario to leave the audience thinking about it. She often went too far, but that is just one more thing left for the viewers to consider. Which is why there is so much fourth wall breaking where the audience is spoken to or questioned. It's also why each episode almost takes place in it's own universe (hence the ones that ended with everyone but one person disappearing and the world of greyscale).
HOWEVER, in this version, Nanno feels like karma. She is brought in by a victim. And unlike original Nanno, who was typically not sympathetic and was sometimes even dismissive of the "victim", this Nanno comforts them and even works with them directly in getting their revenge. She even stops when one asks her to. And she only goes after the perpetrator. In the first episode, she didn't even go after the main bully's two henchmen. In the second episode, only three boys that took the photos and enabler mom were punished, even though all the boys in the school seemed to be involved in buying the photos.
She also oddly seems both more and less supernatural. Original Nanno often times didn't show her abilities though she had a sort of omnipotent/immortal being of chaos feel, she was just there to set up scenarios and let the chaos fall where it may leaving most of the onus on what happens on the person she is there to use as a lesson. In this, she directly uses her abilities to disappear in front of people, causes cameras to not work, that weird hand thing, etc. in every episode to more directly influence the people around her. And yet, the way she was talked about in the first episode wasn't like an urban legend, but more like a vigilante. And the guy from the first episode seems to be following her like a guy with a crush.
AFTER WATCHING EP 3&4:
Alright, well...these episodes feel like a different Nanno as well. She's not coming in to help victims. It feels more like original Nanno (at least season 2), but more heavy-handed. Less thought-provoking, more this is what we want you to think.
And the guy from episode 1 showing up each time and even taking her on a date is weird. Like Yuri stalking original Nanno set up an interesting juxtaposition between their two styles. I also fully believe Yuri's existence was intentional Nanno was made to be to omnipotent to slip up like that and with how often she gets murdered in bloody ways, seems unlikely that no one got her blood in their mouth before. Like I feel like that was leading up to something, even if it was just part of Yuri's message/lesson as someone who went from victim to accomplice to perpetrator.
But this guy feels like it's about to turn into a K-Drama romance. Like I just don't know where they can go with it that makes sense for either original or this version of Nanno. Maybe he follows her and like sees a little too much of the chaos she leaves behind and decides it's too dark for him. He is the one that pulled back and showed his victim mercy afterall. If he dies, it'd have to be some kind of epic ending for it to make sense. She's bent like the very existence of time and the universe to suit her purposes. She's died and come back, she's had others die and come back. It wouldn't make sense she couldn't bring him back. Oh, unless she isn't really Nanno. That could potentially be an interesting twist. She already isn't original Nanno, but have it be that she isn't even really "Nanno" at all. She could be the daughter from 'Judgement' (final episode of season 2) that Yuri gave Nanno's blood to just using Nanno's name and schtick. Then even her appearance on social media could be a way of undermining the original Nanno.
I think every episode was done in a way that it can be enjoyed at surface level but also at a deeper level its presenting a thought experiment to the audience. And Nanno's role is always just to set up a scenario to leave the audience thinking about it. She often went too far, but that is just one more thing left for the viewers to consider. Which is why there is so much fourth wall breaking where the audience is spoken to or questioned. It's also why each episode almost takes place in it's own universe (hence the ones that ended with everyone but one person disappearing and the world of greyscale).
HOWEVER, in this version, Nanno feels like karma. She is brought in by a victim. And unlike original Nanno, who was typically not sympathetic and was sometimes even dismissive of the "victim", this Nanno comforts them and even works with them directly in getting their revenge. She even stops when one asks her to. And she only goes after the perpetrator. In the first episode, she didn't even go after the main bully's two henchmen. In the second episode, only three boys that took the photos and enabler mom were punished, even though all the boys in the school seemed to be involved in buying the photos.
She also oddly seems both more and less supernatural. Original Nanno often times didn't show her abilities though she had a sort of omnipotent/immortal being of chaos feel, she was just there to set up scenarios and let the chaos fall where it may leaving most of the onus on what happens on the person she is there to use as a lesson. In this, she directly uses her abilities to disappear in front of people, causes cameras to not work, that weird hand thing, etc. in every episode to more directly influence the people around her. And yet, the way she was talked about in the first episode wasn't like an urban legend, but more like a vigilante. And the guy from the first episode seems to be following her like a guy with a crush.
AFTER WATCHING EP 3&4:
Alright, well...these episodes feel like a different Nanno as well. She's not coming in to help victims. It feels more like original Nanno (at least season 2), but more heavy-handed. Less thought-provoking, more this is what we want you to think.
And the guy from episode 1 showing up each time and even taking her on a date is weird. Like Yuri stalking original Nanno set up an interesting juxtaposition between their two styles. I also fully believe Yuri's existence was intentional Nanno was made to be to omnipotent to slip up like that and with how often she gets murdered in bloody ways, seems unlikely that no one got her blood in their mouth before. Like I feel like that was leading up to something, even if it was just part of Yuri's message/lesson as someone who went from victim to accomplice to perpetrator.
But this guy feels like it's about to turn into a K-Drama romance. Like I just don't know where they can go with it that makes sense for either original or this version of Nanno. Maybe he follows her and like sees a little too much of the chaos she leaves behind and decides it's too dark for him. He is the one that pulled back and showed his victim mercy afterall. If he dies, it'd have to be some kind of epic ending for it to make sense. She's bent like the very existence of time and the universe to suit her purposes. She's died and come back, she's had others die and come back. It wouldn't make sense she couldn't bring him back. Oh, unless she isn't really Nanno. That could potentially be an interesting twist. She already isn't original Nanno, but have it be that she isn't even really "Nanno" at all. She could be the daughter from 'Judgement' (final episode of season 2) that Yuri gave Nanno's blood to just using Nanno's name and schtick. Then even her appearance on social media could be a way of undermining the original Nanno.
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