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Case wise it makes sense: work stress causing John to form in turn making Mikoto have a blackout amnesiac period when the murders take place. While definitely 12 people being kill very shocking. As well as the fact it wasn't self defense in anyway? I always personally thought it was a case of self defense with maybe 2-3 people being killed, and if it wasn't self defense it would have been a lower kill count still. However despite all that I do think it's easy to realize what his crime was with the MVs and VDs. Nothing unordinary there.

Now DID wise. When it comes to DID rep he was never going to be good rep because of what the Milgram Project is. However, this can be said about any of the characters in this project like Amane or Yuno. I don't think the MVs and VDs show good rep of DID when it comes to the childhood trauma aspect, but I do understand why it was never mentioned as those things are about the murder, not Mikoto's life story. The MVs and VDs do show good representation of switching, how some alters can present themselves, and amnesia.

Any talk of possible childhood trauma before the case file was in the interrogation questions with him talking about how his parents are divorced. Please remember that DID is not a disorder that can only be formed by child abuse, but also any traumatic event(s) in childhood (natural disasters, bullying, isolation, etc). While the file doesn't mention any traumatic event that Mikoto remembers. The case files have been know to have discrepancies between what prisoners say versus the file. Divorce can be devastating in young kids because of the emotional attachments and fear that they caused the divorce. Obviously, not every child of divorce will deal with these issues but it is possible. Outside of divorce there can be many other issues that could arise such as parentification, that is talked about in many theories.

So when it comes to how John acts, and why we never see any other alters present in Milgram. John in Mikoto's system plays the role of some type of protector. While I can't explain why or what specifically triggered John to kill those 12 people, outside of maybe being drunk/tipsy on the night of the killings, and him taking things more seriously than they probably were. I will say John being hostile isn't necessarily bad rep for DID as not everyone with DID is biased towards fawn or flight responses. We are only really seeing it as bad because of the fact that we only see Mikoto and John in MVs and VDs. I do personally think other alters exist in Mikoto's system, but it would make no sense if per-say Mikoto Jr. a little showed up in a VD. This little has nothing to do with the murder, and in a writing sense would be filler information. If this story was more focused on the DID than yes this would make sense to show up. However, this story is about murder so we are probably going to see only the alters involved in said murder.

In all it was okay, even with all the over reactions that have come from it 😭.

I’m not going to act like Milgram is the most awesome literature master piece since Shakespeare. This isn’t anyway a post to convince anyone that the writing is amazing and undeserving of criticism. However, I fear many of y’all see one mistake in a work and treat the whole work as garbage needing to be thrown out.

I am definitely disappointed with Mikoto's case this trial a lot. Not as much with the DID rep (not saying it's good, nor bad just meh). I feel like making him kill 12 people was like kinda crazy you know? 1-3 maybe if they were stalkers or harassing him but just randos is kinda sad to see. I did see a theory on here about how the victims weren't random that was interesting.

I think a lot of people expected t3 to be the climax of the Milgram story compared to it being the falling action. Kinda leading to this constant t3 drama we have been having. In turn for thinking it was going to be the climax of the series y'all are expecting more and more story wise. Creating your own disappointment when it's not up to your theories.

Sometimes, I'm not going to lie were very out the blue. Such as Mahiru being in an arranged marriage. It was in the symbolism just too heavily, but I do think it fits Mahiru to forget such an important detail to talk about her love.

I do think Yamanaka focuses a lot on the characters would actually act or represent in the MVs. Personally, I love it because I just love people and how they act. I do think this character specific focus does take away from how the viewer is able to figure out the crime, especially by t2. I know for Shidou and Mahiru that after their death videos many people were upset with the crimes being overly vague in the MVs. To where they kinda needed a t3 MV to expand the crime details to their specific cases.

Yamanaka also tries to make us as the audience think about the crimes in a wider context. Yuno's case is kinda the first one that comes to mind here, as she was put under the abortion debate when she just has a miscarriage. It does work in many of the cases. In other cases like Mahiru's and Mikoto's it's too wide. Trying to be ambiguous with Mahiru's lead to this out of left field case file. With Mikoto's case being too ambiguous about his DID in the case file and not explaining if John came from childhood trauma or just work stress. Leading to so many more questions than answers.

Anyways, please don't harass Yamanaka or the staff. You are no better than Fuuta who you criticize to bits.

This trial is about to be roughest one in this series. Amane's case is so complex at baseline and just adding new stuff is just about to make it worse. It's not even necessary the writing but the fandom reaction. Unfortunately, I fear that I have some more complex feelings on the matter than the average viewer given personal experiences with having friends in active cults (+ the second hand trauma from that).

Like everyone has valid points from voting either way this trial. The Milgram system is set up to be this corrupt system that we all bought into. For active participates/viewers that's what we bought into. However, the way some in this fandom talk about this case as either: evil child, or angel child. Is beating the point of what some in the fandom want to "defeat" in this system/fandom. The fandom making this out to be a us versus them issue causes this unnecessary debate. As well as insulting others views (please don't do this in any argument btw).

Outside of fandom fighting, some in the fandom need to understand cults can be more than just doomsday cults. I would love to yap more about this but I'll yap about Amane's specific cult only (just for my sanity). As of May 17th 2026, Amane's cult seems to be a religious cult based off of the syncretism of Buddhism and Shinto in Japan. With the cult taking in donations of some kind to fund maybe the leader or cult activities. Physical and or mental abuse could be common among the cult members, but it could also just be Amane's family unit. As we have not seen other members outside of Amane face the extreme abuse we have seen so far. Other abuses have not been shown or implied (and let's hope not be confirmed).

Amane took those ideas from her cult and internalized them because of the abuse she faced. She might not have fully believed all the cults ideas before she went to Milgram. With the cat situation being a tipping point for her tolerance from the abuse. As the cult possibly killing or faked killing the cat and the electro torture we see in Purge March. Making any cult believing parts of Amane equate receiving medical treatment with death on top of on of the cults commandments being not around killing, if I am remembering right. Creating a mix of those ideas, in most likely a spur of the moment decision, she thought killing her mother? as she was the one receiving medical treatments and was an abuser to her (and might have done stuff with the cat). Creating a confirmation of her beliefs, while not fully solid (as you can see some push and pull with her) causing for Shidou's murder to be done so easily.

In no way am I try to sway anyone's vote. This is more a post for me and my feelings if anything. As it's hard to express this in smaller bits. Also, I do plan on expanding more the idea of Amane and the "cult part" through the lens of "Theory of Structural Dissociation." Mostly cause I love explaining dissociation stuff and I think it can help others with processing her story a bit better.

Anyways have a good day everyone.

*Old draft I found that was written before Yuno t3 that I wanted to talk more about

One that sticks out the most to me fandom wise was before Yuno t3 was just being released, I saw a post on here talking about their experience being a sugar baby and ending up pregnant and her thoughts and experiences from that. Being able to understand something that other wise would be this suppressed idea just brings me so much joy. Being able to enjoy someone else's world and eyes even, if those experiences aren't sanitary.

The fact her nails are done still is so nice to see. While it could be just a simple animation error but given Haruka's spine and neck were detailed, I doubt a detail like grown out nails would be forgotten.

Context: I'm a PCT (Personal Care Technician) in-training and this week's lecture we are supposed to be discussing grooming and hygiene for patients. One of the things brought up is nail care. For some patients they prefer to have painted nails to give them a sense of self/autonomy. As it gives patients more agency compared to being just a "patient."

Her nails being painted shows that Yuno or Shidou want to give her some from of agency as person, not just a patient. It's a tiny detail but I thought someone would probably like to know that.

Since the antlers are connected to the hat imagine all the jackalopes are just plain ass bunnies, that can just talk for some reason.

Also, the novel jackalope has it too.

Just coming from a writing perspective, it just makes the deaths in Milgram not matter and just makes them kinda flat? if that makes any sense. If everyone is already dead why does it matter if those prisoners died because of our voting. It just nulls the actual effects of our actions as an audience.

Also, most all the characters don't seem like they would just die randomly. The only ones I could see being dead are Haruka and Amane but even then that doesn't make sense cause Haruka was caught by police and why would Amane's cult kill her when they are against killing. Also, how would someone like Yuno or Kotoko ended up there. Everyone in Milgram seems to be in decent physical health, no one seemed to have it out for any of the characters, and no one seemed ungodly suicidal in the first trial that they would take their own life.