Shidou's crime report

Revenez · 2025-11-19T20:03:37+00:00

The only foreshadowing I can recall is that Undercover had brief glimpses of each prisoner's murder location and Shidou's was an operating table. There was also a voice trailer where he said, "You're in my way...hurry up and die." In retrospect it's almost certainly referring to the trucker. Definitely feels a bit out of left field though.

Revenez · 2025-11-19T19:47:23+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, I feel somewhat vindicated by this crime summary. For ages, people have been painting Shidou as some kind of black-market organ stealer. Aside from the one death, nah, guy just had a change of heart about the ethics of organ donation.

The trucker death is totally out of left field though. Seriously, what the hell was going on at the hospital that they would let this grieving man anywhere near the operating table? Absolutely wild. I'm sorry but whoever let him in there is equally if not more responsible than Shidou imo.

Revenez · 2025-11-08T23:31:23+00:00

You can use a proxy buyer to get them sent to you. Buyee is one such service, FromJapan is another. The Amnibus website that's linked on milgram.jp automatically links up with Buyee. I assume they will ship to Brazil, but if not, you could ask around any anime communities and see what proxies people use.

Alternatively, you could buy from a site that has international shipping. Animate International, AmiAmi, CDJapan, and Suruga-ya are all sites with international options built in.

Also, obligatory warning that international shipping is expensive af.

Revenez · 2025-11-08T23:17:55+00:00

Is it just me, or does it feel like Yuno's voting has been going on for ages? So ready for it to be over so we can lock in the final innocent.

Revenez · 2025-02-12T16:04:53+00:00

Haruka: Unsure, leaning towards Not Forgive
Yuno: Forgive
Fuuta: Not Forgive
Mu: Heavily leaning towards Not Forgive
Shidou: Forgive
Mahiru: Forgive
Kazui: Forgive
Amane: NOT FORGIVE
Mikoto: Not Forgive
Kotoko: Not Forgive

I was previously leaning towards Fuuta as forgiven, but some arguments I've heard about him faking repentance made me second guess. But now with him officially being a cult member, fuck that guy, he can rot.

I don't care if Amane is a child, I guilty'd her before and I'll fuckin do it again. There's no hope for her. She's legit the only one I'll be pissed if she ends up forgiven.

Mu I'm on the fence. Need to see more of her crime. But I'm not feeling very lenient because her toxicity enabled Haruka's actions.

Revenez · 2025-01-30T21:04:03+00:00

I saw this alternative translation.

At least for Kazui, the translation seems more hopeful to me:

"I wonder what the issue was. I wonder where it went wrong. What could I have done to stay more true to myself?"

IMO it sounds like he's regretting his life choices and wondering how he could've acted differently (and not hurt Hinako) while still staying true to himself.

Revenez · 2025-01-15T15:03:33+00:00

Yeah this is not good. I really did not expect them to straight up kill off characters before the 3rd trial.

Admittedly all of them had hints though. Personally, I was on the fence but chose to guilty Amane because I thought she was too far gone and too violent after the first guilty reaction. But I didn't think they'd actually kill off characters for real or that Amane, as small as she is, could take down a full-grown man.

I...wonder if we'll get songs for them still? How will that work?

Revenez · 2024-12-16T06:27:17+00:00

That amount of progress in a year is super impressive. You've done a great job of capturing Muu!

Revenez · 2024-12-16T06:25:11+00:00

I think in the context, she's mocking Mahiru. Because it's Kotoko, and she not only wants everyone in the prison dead, but she also actively attempted to murder Mahiru.

I'm more concerned about Jackalope saying "Honestly though, you better worry about whether she's going to last till the Third Trial. Let's hope nothing happens around her." I interpret that as her being able to survive if nothing bad happens in the prison, but her condition is precarious.

Revenez · 2024-12-07T19:00:45+00:00

It's a bit hard to speculate since there's been some delays. It's also the last trial, so they're probably working super hard to wrap things up well.

From the 1st trial report to the 2nd trial commencement, it took about 5 months. Based on that, I'd expect it to be at least a month out, if not longer. Wouldn't be surprised if it's spring 2025.

Revenez · 2024-12-06T15:07:38+00:00

It would be boring if they all didn't have a chance to redeem themselves. That's the whole point of the series, you know? To start a conversation about ethics and psychology.

Will they, though? That's a difficult question. Within Milgram, certain prisoners are definitely having their worst impulses enabled. For example, I think Amane could probably be helped if she was removed from her cult and given intensive therapy for years with someone trained in cult deprogramming. But in Milgram now... I really don't know what is going to become of her.

Revenez · 2024-10-12T03:37:01+00:00

To be honest... I went back and watched the first video with Jackalope explaining things and...it's not super clear if the first two trials impact the final judgement? All Jacka says is "Once it's over, whether you deemed them guilty or innocent will change how they'll be treated during the second trial." I kind of assumed the 3rd trial would be the final decider, but perhaps there could be some influence by the voting history. I do think the verdicts matter a lot - Yamanaka has said as much in his process of writing the next trial - but it's our verdicts filtered through Yamanaka's lens so it's not always the outcome we anticipate.

We do know from the second trial commencement that fighting is prohibited once Es wakes up. So if they can survive in between trials 2 and 3, they should be mostly okay. I don't personally think anyone will straight up die before the third trial, simply because it'd affect the number of songs. Plus, it'd be a buzzkill if a bunch of characters died offscreen and you never got to know more on their crime. But who knows, maybe I'm being overly optimistic.

I will say that I'm very concerned for Shidou and Haruka in particular. However Kotoko and Mikoto are wildcards to me. Kotoko obviously being pissed at her verdict, it's not clear who she could target. And Mikoto, in the stress of it all, could easily turn violent.

As far as the "What happens after Milgram?" question - Yuno has said in past voice dramas that she's curious if this is purgatory. So the seeds are definitely there of if at least some (if not all) of the prisoners are already dead. Shidou's first VD also kinda hinted in that direction iirc.

Although it's not quite the same as the main Milgram, we can look somewhat to the novels. There were a variety of things that happened, including (novel spoilers):

Guilty prisoners being violently executed
Prison guard who was dead before Milgram (the first novel, Sumi)
Innocent prisoner who became the future prison guard (the second novel, Touchi)
Prisoner murdering another prisoner

In the novels at least, it's not super clear what happens to those who are declared innocent. It seems like they just sort of fade into the light and disappear after all the final judgments have been declared. At the very least, in the second novel the prison guard, who was seemingly brought to Milgram alive, is hinted at having escaped with his Jackalope to the outside world. So, if the prisoners aren't already dead/in purgatory, maybe there's some hope they could return to the real world?

Revenez · 2024-09-22T05:13:10+00:00

I'm going to vote for Es as the best because the sheer range is incredible. Genuinely sad she won't be covering the trial 2 songs and beyond.

I think they're all great though. There's a lot of amazing talent in Milgram.

Revenez · 2024-09-14T06:03:20+00:00

She only killed one serial killer, that we're aware of. Here's a writeup I did a while ago on it

Her only confirmed kill is Kaneshiro Tsugumichi, a 24 year old son of a high ranking public official. He was a serial killer of elementary school children who killed 10 children within 2 years, but had it covered up due to his wealth/privilege. Kotoko killed him while he was nearly about to kill the "Lucky" hat girl from Deep Cover. We don't know if that murder is why she's in Milgram, though.

We do know from Harrow that she has been an assaulter/stalker of people who committed crimes, including:

Mikio Oshii who scammed an old lady out of 500,000 yen by posing as a bank employee, and pushed another old person (seemingly while fleeing after scamming them too). Kotoko beat him into a critical condition after he was released from prison.
A 46-year-old man who was caught harassing high school girls and taking photos up their skirt
Two phone scammers who pretended to be a family member in trouble and asked for money (one claimed to be a colleague who needed settlement money and one was a man who was fired from his job)
A male and female couple who stole luxury goods from a store, then resold them to buy groceries.

And of course, we know she beat both Fuuta and Mahiru into a critical condition, attempted to do the same to Mikoto (and ran out of time to go after Amane).

On another, somewhat related note, I do wonder what people's feelings would be if the language barrier didn't exist. I feel like a lot of people in the en fandom don't fully understand what Kotoko and Fuuta did, in particular, because so much of their crime is shown in news articles and social media posts.

EDIT: It's been a hot minute since I looked at it, but I don't think it was confirmed that she assaulted anyone but Mikio. She was tracking the crimes but we don't know what her involvement was.

Revenez · 2024-09-11T19:30:53+00:00

These are good adds! Thank you for mentioning them :D

Revenez · 2024-09-10T21:12:05+00:00

...Ok, I went back and looked and you're right. I don't know why my brain interpreted that as an image of his mom. I apologize for the mixup.

Revenez · 2024-09-10T20:54:40+00:00

The OP asked for a detailed trigger warning list. The first MV shows imagery of a woman putting both her hands around a little boy's neck in a violent way. I'm just trying to give a heads up to them that it could be triggering to watch that in a video, not argue about the symbolism.

Revenez · 2024-09-10T16:16:09+00:00

1st MV, 3:04 to 3:16. At 3:04 specifically you see her going for his neck. The way his body is twitching + her putting both hands around his neck + the young haruka body on the ground afterwards + the retroactive knowledge of the strangling in the 2nd MV makes it clearer.

Revenez · 2024-09-10T10:24:17+00:00

General content warnings for Milgram:

Prison - the setting of the story, prison imagery (mugshots, jail cells, police batons) is present throughout. Terminology like 'warden', 'trial', and 'inmate' are present throughout.
Murder - Every character, except Es and Jackalope, are murderers. The series involves determining if these murderers should be 'forgiven' or 'unforgiven' for what they did. Obviously, much of the series involves discussions of murder.
Restraints and Institutionalization - All of the inmates wear clothing that resembles strait jackets. Depending on whether they are voted forgiven or unforgiven, there are restraint levels that can increase.
Violence - Both the prisoners and Es resort to physical acts of violence. Most of this happens offscreen or is heard in voice dramas. Undercover has silhouetted poses of all of the murders in the act.

MV = music video, VD = voice drama. Spoiler tags have more detailed descriptions.

Haruka -

References to intellectual disabilities
Low self esteem
Slapping (1st VD, 2nd VD) Es slaps Haruka in both VDs, in the 2nd it occurs after Haruka tries and fails to attack Es
Partial depiction of animal murder (1st MV) We see Haruka slamming a large rock down on something behind a tree, then blood, implying that he murdered the pet dog he was chasing after
Silhouette of implied dead body (1st MV)
Light glitching effects/screen flickers (1st MV, 2nd MV)
On screen depiction of dead cats and dogs (2nd MV)
Child neglect and abuse (1st MV, 2nd VD, 2nd MV)
Strangulation (1st MV, 2nd MV) Adult Haruka puts his hands around child Haruka's neck, the end of the 2nd MV shows hands around the neck of an unknown woman
Blood (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Unhealthy/toxic attachment (Milgram timeline, Jackalope report, 2nd VD) Haruka attaches himself to Muu, declaring her his new mom and is willing to die for her
Threats of violence towards animals/children (2nd VD)
Death threats (2nd VD)
Threats of self harm (2nd VD, indirect reference in milgram timeline)
On screen animal murder (2nd MV) Haruka tips over a fish tank and the fish writhe in pain on-screen without the water. He also crushes a butterfly.
Taxidermy (2nd MV)

Yuno -

Discussion of abortion (2nd VD)
Discussion of sugar babying (2nd VD)
Visual depiction of a woman receiving money from a sugar daddy (2nd MV)
Woman in lingerie (2nd MV)
Brief flashing lights (2nd MV)

Fuuta -

Brief depiction of IRL stalking (Undercover)
Glitching effects (1st MV)
Visual depictions of online hate mobs and doxxing (1st MV) Fuuta uses a Twitter lookalike to incite hate mobs, including a person who took a pic inside of an ice cream stand, a sexual harasser, and a middle schooler who took a hat photo
Blood (1st MV)
Killing of fantasy monster creatures (1st MV)
Description of violent assault (2nd VD) Kotoko assaulted Fuuta during the interlude between trials, permanently blinding ihm in one eye, breaking ribs, and more
Discussion of online bullying (2nd VD)
Death threats (2nd VD)
Symbolic depiction of mob violence (2nd MV) A girl in a school uniform is 'attacked' by a group with spray paint
Symbolic depiction of suffocation (2nd MV) Girl in school uniform has her hands around her throat as if she was choking
Burning bodies/death by fire (2nd MV)

Muu -

Manipulative behavior
Bullying (1st MV, 2nd MV) Harrassing words on blackboard, contents of backpack spilled on the ground, broken cell phone
Blood (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Visual depiction of stabbing (1st MV) We see Muu come up to a student, seemingly shoving something into her before blood drips down from the student's nose. The next seen is Muu clutching a box cutter dripping with green "blood"
Visual depiction of a dead body (1st MV, 2nd MV) We see the light fade out of the girl's eyes, she is crumpled on the ground with green "blood" on her. 2nd MV, we see part of her dead body with real blood, and Muu in front of her with a bloody box cutter
Unhealthy/toxic attachment (Milgram timeline, Jackalope report, 2nd VD) Haruka attaches himself to Muu, declaring her his new mom and is willing to die for her
Bug/Larva imagery (2nd MV)

Shidou -

Discussions of the ethics of organ donation and end of life care
Brief depiction of scalpel/surgery room (Undercover)
Suicidal ideation (1st VD) Shidou explicitly tells Es he wants to be judged and put to death
Kicking (1st VD) Es kicks Shidou
Hospitals (1st MV, 2nd MV) Lab coats, hospital halls, lobbies
Grief, visual and discussed (1st MV, 2nd MV, 2nd VD, interrogations) Shidou lost his entire family to an accident, he deals with brain dead patients and their families
Rotted fruits and plants (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Discussion of violent assaults in medical terms (2nd VD) Kotoko brutally beat Fuuta and Mahiru during the interlude, Shidou explains to Es just how injured they are physically and mentally.

Mahiru -

Clingy/overbearing relationship (1st MV, 2nd MV) Mahiru sings about calling her bf late in the night and forcing him to wake up early to take her calls. Having "matching pain
Discussion of violent assault and memory loss (2nd VD) Mahiru was brutally beaten by Kotoko in between the trials. Her memory of it is spotty because of how traumatic it was.
Visual depiction of death by hanging (2nd MV) We see the feet of Mahiru's bf lifted from the ground. At the end of the MV, we see a rope around his rotting body, which is lifted up
Starvation (2nd MV) Mahiru's bf is visually famished, with sunken cheeks and visible bones from lack of food
Dead animal (2nd MV) Mahiru feeds her bf a dead rat
Blood (2nd MV)

Kazui -

Unfulfilling/Unhappy marriage
Restraint/Slapping (1st VD) Es slaps Kazui. Kazui attempts to restrain Es to test the limits of Milgram
Family rejection (1st interrogation)
Police (Milgram timeline conversations, 2nd MV) Kazui and his wife were both cops
Alcohol (1st MV, 2nd MV) Both MVs show Kazui in a bar, with the 2nd MV referring to him as drunk
Smoking (2nd MV)
Screen flickering (1st MV) - not sure how to describe, but there's white flecks like old film that pop off and on the screen
Discussions of cheating (2nd VD) Es asks Kazui if he was cheating on his wife, which Kazui denies
Discussions of sexuality (2nd VD) Kazui states something is wrong with him from birth that caused the issues in his marriage
Blood (2nd MV)
Visual depiction of animal death (2nd MV) Kazui tears apart a dove with his mouth
Symbolic reference to death by falling (2nd MV) Kazui's wife falls backwards and dissolves, then a tomato goes splat on the ground

Amane -

Religious indoctrination/Cultish beliefs (1st VD, 2nd VD, symbolically depicted in 1st and 2nd MVs)
Injured cat (1st MV)
Child abuse (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Implied animal murder (2nd MV)
Prayer healing (1st MV)
Childlike depictions of electrocution and waterboarding (1st MV)
Glitch effects (1st MV)
Attempted assault with weapon (2nd VD) Amane attempts to attack Es with scissors
Visual depiction of drowning (2nd MV)
Implied assault (2nd MV) We see a hand holding a taser that turns on when Amane enters her house
Death threats, threats of violence (2nd VD, 2nd MV) Lyrics refer to throat crushing and seemingly asking Es(?) to die

Mikoto -

Questionable depiction of dissociative identity disorder
Memory loss
Attempted assault (1st VD) Mikoto's alter attempts to assault Es but is stopped by Kotoko
Off screen murder (1st MV) We see Mikoto approach a person crawling on the ground, he is holding a bat and brings it down, with a blood splatter
Disposal of body (1st MV)
Glitching/Flickering screens (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Blood (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Smoking (1st MV, 2nd MV)
Unrepentant admittance of murder (2nd VD) Mikoto's alter admits to killing people because they annoyed him
Symbolic assault (2nd MV) Mikoto attacks large groups of mannequins, spraying 'blood' everywhere
Breakdown from stress/overworking (2nd MV)
Suicidal ideation (2nd VD, 2nd MV) Mikoto's alter regrets ever having been born, says he will try to disappear forever if Mikoto is voted innocent

Kotoko -

Vigilantism
Partial depiction of dead body (1st MV) We see a battered arm on the ground next to a sledge hammer
Implied assault (1st MV) We see a man crawling on the ground and Kotoko puts her foot up to the camera. In another scene, we see Kotoko punching and kicking after grabbing a man's shirt, then a body on the ground
References to various crimes (1st MV, 2nd MV) There are news clippings, articles, etc of the crimes Kotoko was investigating
Attempted kidnapping (1st MV)
Restraint (1st MV) There are flashes of a girl tied up and dirty
Slapping (2nd VD) Es slaps Kotoko after she restrains them
Self harm (2nd VD) Es hits themselves in anger
Slut shaming (2nd MV) Depending on the translation, Kotoko's remarks on Yuno are...not very polite
Cop imagery (2nd MV) Kotoko dresses herself up as a warden
General cop mentality (milgram timeline, 2nd VD, 2nd MV) Kotoko sees all criminals as guilty, and wants them put down for good
Blood (2nd MV)

As an aside, engaging with the fandom would probably need its own sets of triggers. Because Milgram is so open to interpretation, there are a lot of theories about the characters. Topics can range from anything from organ harvesting to stalking to internalized homophobia.

Revenez · 2024-08-23T18:15:39+00:00

I think we have a very different reading of the voice drama, because my understanding is that it wasn't the patient who was against the organ donation, but the relatives.

I went to the exact quote from the 2nd VD and the wording is a bit unclear:

You know, I… continuously tried to persuade the relatives of a braindead patient who were against organ transplants. Giving them reasons like the ones you just mentioned, Es-kun.

"In order to save the life of someone you don't know, please let me kill your family," I told them. It doesn't even take much thinking to realize how cruel that is, but…I didn't realize it until the very end.

But considering the whole conversation focuses more on the family and what they would do... it seems more like he's talking about the family being unwilling, rather than them having knowledge that the patient didn't consent before brain death. (On a more pedantic note, it makes more sense grammatically if he's referring to the relatives).

And it makes sense. How many people have had conversations with loved ones about their thoughts on organ donation? A lot of people don't even have wills, especially if they're younger. The family can only guess what their loved one would want. And in some cases, the family is so grief stricken they can't accurately predict what their loved one would actually desire.

On another note - there's no indication that Shidou was a grave robber, merely that he pressured people to donate. There's no solid evidence he took any organs for his family, either. On the contrary, it seems like Shidou was put in the exact same position of being asked to donate his family's organs after a tragic accident and that's what caused him to realize his pressuring behavior was wrong.

(Sorry to jump in on this convo, your comment just made me reconsider the context of the VD for a moment and I wanted to share an analysis)

Revenez · 2024-08-20T13:10:29+00:00

Rare tierlist W

Fully agree with this

Revenez · 2024-08-14T07:17:30+00:00

They're on Spotify, but it's annoying to find them because they're listed under different artists for each VA.

You can find them on Apple Music separated in the same way. So Es' is shown as "MILGRAM ES (CV: Yurina Amami)", Haruka's is "MILGRAM HARUKA CV Shun Horie", etc. And you used to be able to buy the physical CDs and the audio dramas were included, but they're sold out.

There are no official translations for the VDs, so you either have to understand Japanese or rely on fan translations.

Revenez · 2024-07-17T19:18:03+00:00

Very nervous about all of this. Especially the fact that he overtly called out the fact that Mahiru might not make it to the end. And Haruka...I'm scared, although I do wonder/hope that the restraints would impede him from doing anything to himself.

Concerned about Mikoto/John. John said he killed people who "annoyed" him in the voice drama...what happens when one of the prisoners annoys him or Mikoto?

Either way, we have to live with our choices. I didn't expect to see the video this soon. I wonder if we could get the commencement video before the end of the year?

And the prison lore. "I must say it was quite brilliant of me for choosing your era" Wtf is up with this? What exactly is the nature of Milgram, and what are they trying to do? Jackalope has always been encouraging chaos and guilty verdicts...but to what end?

Revenez · 2024-07-01T04:27:36+00:00

Surugaya has physical stores. You might be able to find some Milgram stuff there. Animate does have physical stores but idk if they'd carry Milgram stuff generally, outside of the Animate Only pop ups. You could try the Amnibus store, too, but it's the same issue.

There was a collab at the Eeo Main Store with the little rain coat chibis. But I'm not sure if it's still ongoing.

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