The Favourite is a recently aired romance suspense drama starring Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hoshira Matsushita, and Shin Iura. Director Ayuko Tsukahara is also the director of dramas such as "Unnatural Death" and "For N". At present, Douban has a rating of 9.0 and has broadcast four episodes. The theme song was sung by Hikaru Utada and is titled "Jun に夢中". Here, I sincerely recommend everyone to come and watch.
After the greeting, I went straight to the point, and if I wanted to talk about the disappearance of Kosuke Watanabe, I had to explain some details first.
The first is what Li Yang saw in the washing machine. From the picture, you can see the yellow edges, the white body and the blue-purple words. Yes, it's the flag of the White Mountain University Athletics Club. In the second episode, after Kosuke was stabbed, he knelt down to get his mobile phone before he pulled the flag off the wall and held it to the wound, thus staining it with blood. Flags are such things, there is no way to temporarily rush the work, it is estimated that it has to be customized. Therefore, Li Yang's father Daxiong chose to take it back and wash it and take the opportunity to put it back, but he could not lose anything.
Third column from left: Flag of White Mountain University
Then there are the scars on kosuke's bones after his death. The scratch is located on the right side of the hip bone, which matches the location of the elongated cylindrical iron that you stabbed Kosuke with in your memory. But there is a problem, the scar on the bone is a scratch of about 3cm, showing the characteristics of one end deep and one end shallow. And the iron front end is a slightly sharp cone does not conform. It can be basically determined that the scar on Kosuke's bone was not caused by a good stab wound, but should have been pierced by other sharp weapons, which looked like a fruit knife or the like.
The party on the second floor that night was known to Kosuke Watanabe, the manager, Nauna Aoki, and Toru Nagashima, who was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt. Unknown ones are: the man who does not leak the face in the rolling leaves (hereinafter referred to as the leaf man), the girl with the head of the ball, and the man wearing a yellow T-shirt. Nagashima and Kana are suspicious in the first episode: When Kosuke's father, Akira Watanabe, comes to their dormitory, Nagashima lies, claiming that Kosuke is here and leaves immediately after he arrives. And Cai Nai also looked nervous next to him; when they went to Daxiong's funeral, the two of them also looked frightened and frightened, which was really abnormal.
But if you ignore these for a moment, ask a more critical question: What is their motivation? You might say that Kosuke once violated Nao. This reason holds true for Cai Nai. But that night, when Li Yang asked why Nagashima did not go to dinner that night, he replied that a friend was coming, and his tone was still a little excited. It can be seen that Kosuke and Nagashima have a good relationship. Looking at the dish that night, I drank very happily, talked and laughed with my friends, and didn't look like I was planning to commit a crime.
Bottom right: Naina is talking and laughing with her friends
So the killer is more likely to be among the other three. But the man in the yellow t-shirt is not mentioned at all in the latest content, and it is not considered here. The remaining two will first talk about Ye Nan. You can see that at that time, Ye Nan was different from the group of people who were drinking happily next to him, and he rolled the leaves very diligently. It can be assumed that he was not too conscious that night. And only one person from Long Island was taken away from the follow-up anti-drug team. It can be considered that he alone made a mistake in the Athletics Club of Hakusan University. Who is that Ye Nan?
The answer can be obtained from the preview of the fifth episode: Hodo University was practicing with Hakusan University in 2006, the year of the crime. Therefore, Ye Nan should be a member of the athletics club of Fadu University. In the fourth episode, Li Yang and Dahui discuss the team of Fadu University in the hotel, and Li Yang says that he has never heard of it before. Dahui explained that it was because of a change of coach. Change coaches to become powerful? It cannot be denied that the new coach has good guidance, but will it be more likely: in the Athletics Club of Fadu University, the atmosphere of rolling leaves was very serious, and after the incident, the coach changed the atmosphere. Only then did he win the championship eight times, and most recently three times in a row.
Group photo of Tachibana Shiori's co-residence
Ya Nan, who came to Shirakawa-go Ayato from Hotsu University, and Yasuke is not a member of the Athletics Club, they probably haven't seen each other a few times, so Ye Nan's suspicion of committing a crime has basically been eliminated. That suspect only has the most unlikely pill head girl left, who is she? Although not sure, she is likely to be the current freelance journalist , Tachibana Shiori.
Freelance Reporter: Tachibana Shiori
Back in the timeline of 2021, Special Agent Shinsuke Goto asks an informant (aka Yu) to help investigate Tachibana Shiori. The results showed that in 2006, she was a sophomore at Fadu University. In September of the same year, she applied for a one-year suspension. The night of the accident in Liyang, the specific date is September 21, 2006, and the two time matches. Moreover, in the preview of the fifth episode, Tachibana Shiori has a group photo of the year of the joint residence (in the picture above, it is written that the contract is shared by the board, Shirayama Dai), which can confirm that she participated in the joint dormitory that year.
What is Tachibana's motivation? The biggest possibility is that Kosuke once stunned her and committed a violation.
That night, Kangsuke watched everyone else playing very hi. He remembered Li Yang just now, couldn't bear it, got up and went downstairs to talk with Li Yang. Tachibana Shiori casually found a reason to leave the crowd and follow Kosuke behind. After that, it was like the development that everyone saw in the TV series. Li Yang was stunned, and You may have temporarily run away or excitedly forgotten what had just happened. When Kosuke wakes up after a coma for a while, Tachibana Shiori, unable to bear the emotion of revenge, takes the knife in the kitchen and gives him a knife, which is similar to the position that Yu accidentally stabbed into. When Kosuke didn't react, she put the knife in Izuya's hand. Then take advantage of the rainy night to run away.
A group of people playing on the second floor ignored her presence. However, it is getting late, and the people who are worried about the dinner will return soon. So Yamajima took Nai nai through the small door behind the kitchen to send her away. As a result, halfway to see this scene, perhaps at this time, Kosuke was not dead, issued a slight cry for help, but the two were frightened and frightened, did not dare to respond, pretended not to see, and left separately. Finally, Daxiong came to the dormitory to find the child, and when he saw this scene, he instinctively wanted to cover up. Load the body into the trunk, rinse the floor, pick up the flag, and arrange the child in the front seat. Go home first, change the children's clothes and put them away, hide the clothes with blood stains, put away the mobile phone, and put the flag in the washing machine to wash. Then, at night, drive north out of Gifu Prefecture to Toyama Prefecture, find a secluded place, bury the body, and drive away. Leave all the secrets to the forest behind you.
If the story is probably interpreted this way, it can also explain many other problems. For example, after Tatsuo's death, Nana and Nagashima move together and are always nervous. Nai Nai once said to Daiki, "I am not a victim", and when she said this, she may think that she is not saved by death, and is considered an accomplice. Tachibana Shiori applied for suspension from school for killing and being assaulted.
Think about why Tachibana's parents divorced in a similar amount of time. It's easy to think that Tachibana Shiori's suspension from school was the fuse. Logically, taking a break from school is a big deal, and she has to explain the reasons to her parents. Tachibana Shiori may tell her parents about the fact of the assault, but even if you don't say it, the news that Kosuke was reported for sexual assault will definitely know about it. Combined with the fact that her daughter had gone to Baishan University to share a dormitory, parents could probably guess it. However, this does not justify divorce. But what if Kosuke Watanabe and Tachibana, who were prisoners, were half-siblings? Her father wants to get justice, and her mother is caught in the middle and it is difficult to be a person, so she has caused a divorce, which seems to make sense. Moreover, Kosuke is 4 years older than Tachibana Shiori, and there is no problem in time.
If so, Tachibana became another storm center. That is, it is related to the dead father and son, and it has been tracking the Sanada Group black gold clues. That is, he shared a stay with Hakusan University at that time, and graduated from Hodo University, where athletics are the strongest today. There is a lot of content that can be mined, and the relationship between the characters involved is very complicated. So the story is getting more and more interesting, isn't it?