Lee

Tokyo Debunker really cares about names and meanings. In fact, each house has a certain theme when it comes to names (e.g Hotarubi and the imperial regalia of Japan) of course it’s also related to their designs/appearance.

I decided to share this so you could speculate their roles and designs.

It’s funny for sure, I laughed out loud cuz I didn’t expect it to be kinda confirmed so loudly (from Zenji’s side at least) LOL

dw you’re not being “too bitter”… the backlash made me avoid being active in the fandom for a while haha, even though I’ve had more people that were kind and accepting (some even agreed with the theory and helped prove it) than those who harassed. I appreciate it a lot

Anyways, I’d still love to know what Jiro truly thinks, and why he feels that way…

If anyone has any thoughts, please don’t hesitate to share. I enjoy reading and discussing Kirisaki theories!

I mean this is probably obvious but jiros name (次郎) basically means “next child” (often used for the second child) and taros name (太郎) is for the first sons (ik in Japanese that kanji means fat lol, but since it was derived from Chinese, it probably meant greatest son). There’s a whole name system thingy from 1st son to 10th actually. Saburo (三郎) means third son. You prolly know this lol but I’m js mentioning it for the record. But honestly I’d freak out too if my name was that lolol

Anyways I’ve seen the messages harassing you :( I hope you’re doing okay now. Honestly I didn’t think people would get so worked up over that!! I mean what you said made sense and is very interesting to think about!

Jiro being a younger brother is obvious for sure. At the early days of the game I used to wonder why would he be named Jiro without an Ichiro (or a Taro) around. But in that conversation Jiro immediately assumed Haku was referring to Taro instead of poking at his name.

Honestly that entire scene was ? Strange?? Like Haku has always been careful about Zenji’s existence. In the first Hotarubi episode he explains to MC that he’s recording an anomalous biwa, and around other characters makes it look like he’s just chilling with the doll.

I can’t help but think he alerted Jiro on purpose (hopefully this isn’t also controversial lol) because not only he called him Otouto-kun, but kept responding to Zenji out loud when no one else was talking to him. Didn’t stop until Zenji dragged him away. Why would he do that? Maybe he wants the brothers to resolve their unfinished conflict.

Most of the time i see it more like Jiro being uncomfy and a notice that he dont have an angry sprite like other characters, when he frown his eyebrown seem it is a displeasure sprite. What is sure is that he remember something bad relate to Zenji, maybe is the trauma of losing him or bad feeling that didn't get solve like u say

Jiro usually wears the same default expression. His “frown” isn’t as angry as the rest of characters, but I thought it’s because he’s not as emotional. So when he frowns or expresses something other than his default face, I’m always surprised.

I believe he does have an “uncomfy” sprite (the same one used for his sickness) which he expressed at the sight of Zenji’s birthday date. Being reminded of losing Zenji definitely brings up bad memories and trauma, regardless of the nature of their relationship before the incident. They had a rough childhood.

Guys, please relax. No need to call me slurs and get all that angry. You can disagree and discuss with me why you believe otherwise. I don’t think Jiro necessarily hates Zenji, but maybe they got into a fight and he couldn’t forgive him even after he died, who knows?

Spoilers for the recent EP

I’ve always had my doubts, but the Haku & Jiro interaction basically confirmed it. Jiro always seems angry or disturbed at anything related to his brother (other than his fear of corpses, I assume. But Jiro finds fear amusing anyways)

In the Halloween episode from last year when MC repeats something Zenji told her, Jiro is surprised and furrows his brows, “Where did you hear that from?” then brushes it off like he wants to forget about it. Then in the Waves of Love episode, he destroys the 6/19 date balloons (which happens to be Zenji’s birthday) because “They were in the way”

In this episode when Haku calls Jiro “Otouto-kun” meaning Little Brother in Japanese (Kirisaki Jr in the localization) Jiro clearly gets angry. He starts questioning Haku that he is NOT supposed to be aware of an older Kirisaki. Even the way he referred to him seemed antagonistic to me, “Then you’re not supposed to know about him.” He doesn’t say my brother, or his name, just him. He’s not sad or grieving he just looked pissed off at the mere mention of Zenji.