{"id":124929,"date":"2025-03-10T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/jibaku-shounen-hanako-kun-2-09\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:35:31","slug":"jibaku-shounen-hanako-kun-2-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=124929","title":{"rendered":"Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun 2 \u2013 09"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u00a0I go back and forth over whether Amane understands more than he\u2019s letting on, which is a testament to Ogata Megumi\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cPicture Perfect\u201d extends its lead as the longest arc so far in Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun<\/em>. And probably as its most \u201cserious\u201d, in the plot sense. There are a lot of fate threads tangled up here, and a lot of hands involved in painting this picture. We know who\u2019s holding the brush \u2013 Shijima-san of the Art Room. But it\u2019s been made pretty clear that she probably wasn\u2019t the instigator of all this, and certainly isn\u2019t the only one manipulating events behind the scenes. The question now is whether the hints dropped about who was<\/em> might in fact have been a misdirection.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first real clue of the eventual turn the story would take comes when Nene tries to run away with Amane-kun<\/a>. He\u2019s hesitant about going \u201coutside\u201d \u2013 leaving the school grounds. At first I thought maybe he would disappear if he did, and that in fact all her creations were self-aware to that extent as a sort of self-preservation mechanism. But no, Amane could leave just fine \u2013 he just didn\u2019t want<\/em> to. That distinction implies a much greater level of self-awareness, and that would certainly turn out to be the case.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At first things seem relatively normal, apart from the runaway bike situation<\/a>. But when Nene tries to drag Amane onto a bus and the driver morphs into Shijima-san<\/a> (though Amane says he can\u2019t see that), it\u2019s pretty clear this isn\u2019t going to be easy. Her idea is sound in a sense \u2013 since they\u2019re in a painting, there theoretically has to an edge, an end of the world. But it gets shaky after that, not that this is ever put to the test. Nene seems to assume they if they go off the end of this fake world, they\u2019ll end up back in the real (to them) one. But what if they just disappear into the void? I mean, there\u2019s really no way to know for sure. Maybe the art girl is doing them a favor.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But no, in the end it goes in a different (though to me not totally unexpected) direction. First, a mysterious floating brush<\/a> appears and starts writing messages, promising to help them escape. Nene is distrustful at first, but as usual easily swayed (slicing one of the Shijimas in half<\/a> does the trick). The brush says that there\u2019s another way out of this world, no killing needed. A secret door. It\u2019s about to tell them where that door is when Hanako-kun (we may as well call him that now) intervenes. And in the process makes it crystal clear<\/a> that he\u2019s no passenger on this ride.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This development answers one big question and raises another (well, several). We know now that \u201cAmane\u201d is in fact Hanako and has, seemingly, been so all along. Like Mitsuba, aware of what\u2019s happening. But who the heck is the brush? That could all have been a Shijima thing, to mess with them or for some other reason. But perhaps there actually is a secret ally out there attempting to help. No obvious candidates spring to mind but it could be several characters we know. As for Hanako, what\u2019s his role here \u2013 when we know the broadcasting club asswipes and Mitsuba were aware of the truth as well?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hanako knocks Nene out and takes her back to the school. There, Mitsuba goes into a panic when he sees him, though Kou is blissfully unaware of why. And then at least part of the truth comes out \u2013 Hanako\u2019s reason for either starting this or playing along. Forget himself (or Mitsuba) coming back to life \u2013 it\u2019s Nene\u2019s lifespan he\u2019s worried about. \u201cLess than a year\u201d is a phrase we\u2019ve heard over and over. Fated and unassailable. But in this fiction, Hanako says, that holds no sway. Nene can live forever in fact \u2013 and maybe, him with her. From his perspective the argument justifying this fiction is pretty strong \u2013 three lives restored where soon there would have been none. But somehow you know it\u2019s really not that simple. And I don\u2019t think Kou is going to be swayed by that argument anyway.<\/p>\n

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