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Jūni Taisen: Zodiac War (TV).

Not only case of the episode character dying again, but also a case that I liked the character. The showing that she is quite the actress and able to like a bird of prey swoop in when her target is most vulnerable. Which in turn makes it all the more weird that she failed to attack monkey, blaming it on the drug, but I like the theory put that monkey's power or something is something used that can neutralise people from being aggressive from her or like. Monkey has actually been at the top of my list of extended main character, but her place as next in the ED and next episode title does seem to hint she will be the next killed. Often times the mystery of who next is supposed to be part of the show, but maybe this one is a bit off that, considering the author, it all seems more as springboards for different characters rather than a focus on mystery of who falls.

So if monkey is likely to fall next, I think rat will be the one to pay attention to. If I remember the story of the zodiac race, it is the rat that won by sneaking onto the ox, and so far we are moving backwards from the supposed rankings, which would imply deaths would be: boar, dog, rooster, monkey, sheep, horse, snake, dragon, rabbit, tiger, ox, and rat. Although, now that I think about it the snake already died, but is a zombie and is placed around the supposed brother of the dragon, where their stories might come around or at the same time for an extra episode in one in twelve. I am thinking ahead to what power the rat would have, which by looking at the tale the rat won by being unnoticed and hitching a ride, which could have a connection to how people think they have seen the rat before but figure out where. Or looking at how he introduces himself as "killing all" makes me think of the rat's reputation as carriers of plague.

But I could make up other theorise that I don't know how much of a stretch. I think that I saw someone say he might have pretended to be the referee or something, but that also gives me an idea. This rat might be the 13th, the animal that did not make the race, the cat. Which I think was from a combination of the cat sleeping, and being lied to by the rat, the sleeping bit could be easily compared to how rat is always sleeping, almost a weird addition. Which along the lines has me theorise along the term of "copy cat", the cat is a master of disguise and or copies abilities, and maybe this is has something to why people have a vague feeling of seeing him somewhere. Interesting animal fact, cats actually do have such a mimicry ability, the sound they make differs depending on their targets, where apparently they have been known to make mouse like sounds to lure them into lowering guard. And the one we mostly hear with humans is actually cats mimicking the sound of human babies, which is why their meows tend to have an emotional response.

Anyway, that will be my theorise for now.

Etotama had it, I don't see why it might exclude this one?

I am just putting a theory forward of what type of twists we could possibly get. And I don't think it is entirely guaranteed that this anime about various super powered killers in Japan is going to purely stick to some 3500 year old story rather than use influences of more modern and well known versions that are used in modern anime. Especially not enough to just straight out tell me that it holds no water.

Talking about influences here, just something I heard recently could explain why the rabbit character is able create zombies. In lore and the like rabbits are associated with the moon, and thus are attached to the moon's theme of rebirth, in a way similar to even western beliefs with Easter, and thus can see the connection of those killed turned into zombies. But the series I was recently watching in talking about this mentioned that older beliefs were of it being clams that were on the moon (supposedly by ancient Chinese), which later became toads, and then became rabbits. So if this is going by 3500 old stories, I don't know if rabbit would have that connection.

On a side note, the rabbit and the moon connection for the ancient Chinese is an old tale that goes back centuries and it's also recognised by the Japanese. I don't see why previous anime series are always taken as gospel when it comes to referring to old cultural legends especially as toads AREN'T involved at all in that particular fairy tale. Not that it matters to a viewer from Australia who has already stated he has no in-depth knowledge of the cultural sphere this series (and others related to it) is based on.

What I can tell thus far from what has been aired to date is the "13th animal" theory doesn't hold water whatsoever simply because Duodecuple is playing the umpire he said he would be. His biography on the official page is also very much shorter than the 12 combatants.

Clearly somebody saw the last episode of Elegant Yokai Apartment Life...

Nishio Ishin even used it for one of his stories Mayoi Jiangshi. And no, a very strong defining trait of a Jiangshi is that they hop, they do otherwise have quite strong similarities, sometimes referred to as hoping vampires, but the vampires in his work are not Jiangshi either.

Anyone who reveals his or her place of origin on the internet has to be prepared for the consequences of releasing such information, a lesson I've learnt the hard way. I make no claim on "superiority" over others on this thread, but I don't think I'm going against the rules by refuting suppositions made by others here with what knowledge I have (none of which is based on spoiler material).

Bullshit. You just said that you are dividing up people into two camps, one being people outside of the cultural sphere (like me), and the other being those with understanding of Japanese word play (you), and that any speculation from the first camp does not need to be taken seriously You just outright said that my opinion is worth less than yours, and you are implying that because I am Australian that my opinion is worth less, regardless you are being an elitist racist and saying your learned hard way about releasing information is just you projecting, and is no way to act in this forum.

Where I live should mean little. As far as you are aware you probably think I live in a desert in Crocodile Dundee country. I said I could be proven wrong too, but regardless it is not cool for you to try and discount my speculation out of the gate.