AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO GENUINELY FINDS IT INSANE THAT THEY RANDOMLY REVEALED THAT KANNA IS SHIN SISTER AND NEVER MENTIONED IT AFTER.??????????! 3-1 is actually my enemy dawgs like what is this. (analysis of this whole mess+kanna role in the entire death game )
3-1 pacing was so fast and random that info just went and left, also whta does that mean in general, like genuinely, so kanna was adopted cool. Shin and kanna have aproximately a 8-9 year age difference , whichs means that shin was 8-9 years old when kanna was born, so how in the hell does he not remember her.
At first you can go this way, shin mother birthed the baby but asunaro did some shenanigans and kanna was taken away at birth (lets say they lied by saying she was a stillborn), so therefor makes sense shin doesnt know kanna is alive/his sister because he never knew her..... BUT IN THE MEMORY SHIN MENTIONS THAT HIS PARENTS TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD A SIBLING??? so shin knows and doesnt seem to shock him
then this opens the road that shin is adopted too, but that opens new questions, either shin was adopted at around the 8-9 year old mark and was raised by his bio parents but was seperated from them (my guess would by child protective service) and they had kanna after, who was also seperated from her parents very early on (pre 4 years old concerning everything), which is the more probable posibility i think, or the second that shin and kanna did live together at one point and he simply forgot thanks to either trauma and/or asunaro. But that doesnt answer anything at all actually
what the point of asunaro seperating them in particular if they let the yabusame together, how would shin parents know he has a sibling in that case and didnt just adopt kanna, do they work for asunaro, was kanna existence hidden? And the even bigger question is still just genuinely why
If we follow the very probable memorandum theory, the death game is a projection of the memorandum man current leader of asunaro goal to recreate the death game where this time his """""beloved"""" would win, using sara as a vessel for this wickeness. Shin was meant to emulate the memorandum man himself, but this time he will die, and the girl (so sara) would survive. But the thing is that neither sara or shin are those people at all, so like every single participants were molded to fit those standards. Sara its easy, she lives with her dad a member of asunaro/possibly the leader actually. Shin they needed to make him tougher/less fragile, so they sent midori to "rough him up" a """""""littlle"""""" (he probably had some creative liberties). But how does kanna fit into any of this actually ?
kanna was brought to the death game, for singular reason, to be a martyr. To be a fuel for shin descent, to be a stepping tool towards asunaro goal, if the non candidates were borught to boost other candidates survival, kanna is here to actually lower shin chances of survival by dying. Lets see the two routes, in logic sara slowly becomes despite her not wanting to like asunaro wished of her ruthless and selfish (she fights agaisnt it but still). I do think that midori was right, bringing joe was a mistake, they would have gotten better results by simply letting sara succomb to darkness.
Have any of you wondered how shin even got the joe ai? isnt it kinda strange that shin suddenly accessed the joe ai, a person who isnt a candidates And therefore shouldnt even HAVE an ai?
Its simple, asunaro betted that sara would vote for kanna, thats what they wanted, thats what they predicted, and that shin would lose his shit, and decide to do that horrid torture sequence with the joe ai. That was the plan, they know them how their brains works they studied them since they were fetuses. This was a planned move, asunaro wanted kanna to die in 2-2.
if we look at kanna executions clear martyr( christ) imagery is utilised, she is the one who forgave the sinners (sara and everyone who voted for her) and died to "save" the souls of everyone. At least that is the ploy that asunaro is cooking up because ethics is just the brutal execution of a 14 year old kid.
If Kanna role be to simply be a sacrifice for shin character development, then in that case emotion route is a rebellion, it's fighting back, it's pushing against asunaro wishes. THIS IS NOT A LOGIC ROUTE IS BAD TAKE BTW THIS IS SIMPLY AN ANALYSIS, what it can say is that Kanna surviving in itself is a rebellion on everything asunaro wanted and Is the first path towards their fall, they see them as monolith objects that can be molded and controlled, but her surviving shows that they are wrong. In logic route (for now) they are winning, but will loose thanks to one thing, sara and shin are people, they are people, living breathing smart individuals, and while I think they will both fall to the darkness, I do think they will rise back up, the road will just be harder.
now this is just the textual analysis but this isn't even treating the meta analysis on feminisms and the "fridging trope" that this leads with kanna, asunaro quite litteraly wants Kanna to be fridged off for shin😭, which is why the fandom must never do the mistake of going in that route and only utilising kanna as some extra finger shin as this is litteraly the inverse of what the game wants you to feel guys. I mean I could go on and on, but in conclusion, Kanna and shin are siblings only to further the logic route plot, to make the martyr narrative worse, but in case of emotion route I do think it could have been ,at more developped/ did anything with it, and I truly hope the moral/narrative weight of that revelation will have meaning in 3-2 when that comes out.