eh, kinda lame tbh. tried so hard to be shocking but was actually just predictable.
Without actually agreeing with the “lame” part, I don’t see how, given the way the story was told, the “predictable” part wasn’t inevitable.
Visual storytelling is virtually built on shots where either both participants in a conversation are seen in a single shot or (far more commonly) where the focus shifts back and forth from one to other. As soon as we didn’t see the person the MC was talking to, there had to be one of a small array of explanations:
- Senpai was in the back seat bound and gagged.
- Senpai wasn’t there, and the MC is delusional (or rather, a different kind of delusional than they are).
- Senpai was in the back, dead. (In some form).
The more panels we didn’t switch to the other person, the more the question became “How horrible is the reveal going to be?”
Pretty darned horrible, I’d say.
