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In Ghost, after his heart cracked, the mansion Lewis had created disappeared. I'm guessing with how broken Lewis's heart was in Hellbent, the same will happen to the cave. Arthur will fall down, and the apparition will disperse before he's skewered. After that, the plot will likely shift to trying to save Lewis and fleeing from Shiromori, who probably wouldn't be deterred by a gunshot.
Honestly, I think Mystery is the one who's gotten shot. It would be the most dramatic response, and possibly make shiromori more of a threat( cuz of the blood, i'm thinking) forcing Vivi to also step up again and (try to/instinctively)use her powers. As long as He didn't get shot somewhere fatal, it wouldn't take him out of the series, either.
+Deja Kat I mean it could distract her, but she was right at the part of slamming the scissors fatally into Vivi, so it's more a fast reaction I don't think anything would stop her especially something that got her more excited, plus Arthur's uncle I'm guessing knows Mystery even though he's changed forms, and he doesn't see Mystery attacking but Shiromori, he'd be a pretty terrible shot to go attack this random guy in the back rather than the person about to skewer his nephew's friend.
Okay, so everyone is discussing the number of tails Mystery had, but I would like to point out one interesting detail. In Japanese mythology there is a tree demon called Jubokko. Jubokko grows on battlefields where great battles happened. Since it becomes a yōkai tree by sucking up large quantities of blood from the dead, it lives on human blood and usually kills people. But the flower that Shiromori grew from, likely grew from Mystery's blood. That might be the reason why she chases him and seems to be obsessed with his blood.
Something I noticed, could be a hint or not regarding her back story is look at Shiromori's coloring. Her body is the same hue of the trees trunk, and her hair is the same white as the leaves. At the top of her head, it looks like she has a mini tree of it, same flowers included. I think you are right and she grew from Mystery's blood, and felt betrayed since it looks like after the battle with what I take to be Vivi's ancestor, he started to hang around the family as a guardian.
Forget-me-not please either shiromori is after mystery’s blood to get more powerful or judging by the psychotic bloodlust she shows in the video, wants revenge because she was caught up in the battle hundreds of years ago and left as collateral damage. Or both.
Also "It is said that a Jubokko branch could heal and decontaminate an injured person".... they can use her if they kill her. Maybe they can bring back Lewis, or decontaminate Arthur from whatever came over him to kill Lewis. I really do think she is a Jubokko who quite literally found crack in the form of kitsune blood. I also believe that the forest where we met skull Lewy for the first time was the same Jubokko grove as we saw in the flashbacks. The vines came from lewis (you can see them on the coffin) and as she was wandering her dead home she sensed his spirit and was drawn to the place of his death (blood) and coincidentally... Lewis knew Mystery and the chase was on for her crack blood. The size of the flower is equal to the power she would get by consuming their essences. Mystery was the biggest and now that she had the direct link to find him it finally showed in his final flower while she scrying. This is neat too. Because sure Mystery's would be big but the fact that all three of the other flowers corresponding to our heroes are practically the same size. If my idea is correct, they all have equal in power. If Lewis is a powerful ghost and Vivi is a descendant of that warrior, what's Arthur?
@@austinmorrison6953 I think its maybe cause Vivi free's Mystery from Shiromori and at that point on wants to protect him and because Shiromori is furious and wants him. Obviously Mystery having no idea thats the case
Notice that before Lewis throws Arthur into the truck. If you pause correctly you can see Lewis briefly has an expression of regret. He has a worried face while sweating and then throws him to have a cool shot. Lewis always regretted this but still followed through.
That probably wasn't a face of regret. The sweat drop is an anime trope expression that is usually used in comedic situations, considering he's a skeleton/spirit and probably can't sweat. He is probably just a bit exasperated or surprised reacting to Arthur's comical scared face after he comes to. I mean, just look at Arthur XD
Dont blame them, they do this on their spare time! It of course will take a lot of time since they have stuff to do such as work during their life, its hard handling a project that is meant to be done during spare time while having a busy life, so lets wish the best for this team to come up with an amazing 4th part!✨
Probably for the purpose of defeating Vivi's ancestor as well. But after a certain point, only Shiromori still wants to defeat Vivi's ancestor, whilst her creator (Mystery) has become her ally instead. Shiromori probably feels betrayed by Mystery.
Here's a bit of info I saw someone point out. You say that in the logo at the end of the video that it's the ninja woman's scarf at the bottom. However, it may actually be something else: two of Mystery's tails. In the flashbacks to the past, you can see that kitsune Mystery has nine tails, as would be expected. However, when he transforms in the scenes set in the present, he only has seven (or six? it's not clear). This may indicate that the ninja woman managed to cut off a couple of the tails during their fight, which may have reduced Mystery's power and left him in the dog form he's in now. Just speculation, but that's likely what the two tails in the logo are referring to, though why they're important is something that probably won't be revealed until the next video or later.
Kitsune info: blackpawproductions.tripod.com/KitsuneClan/kitinfo.htm Not a primary source, but assuming it and Wikipedia are generally accurate for casual lore crafting here... Kitsune live 900+ years, and gain a tail every 100 years. After reaching nine tails, they generally become too powerful for their own good and will be forced to die and reincarnate. I'm guessing that Mystery going from six to seven tails means he just turned 700 years old in his current life. Thus, the battle with Vivi's ancestor was about 700 years ago, in Mystery's previous incarnation ( I say incarnation because the mythology, plus the nine-tailed fox looks similar but not quite the same as Mystery's current kitsune form.) That said, the logo has the band name surrounded on a background of white, pointy fur. The red eye in the R resembles the kitsune eyes. There is blood dripping from the fur, and the tails have turned the spiritual blue of Vivi/Vivi's ancestor. The kitsune was defeated by cutting two tails, and the spirit bound to Vivi's family (or at least the reincarnations of the warrior, including Vivi) as protector now.
Did you notice that in the first shot of the female swordsman, that the blue tree branches are holding her the warrior down? This shows maybe Shiromori is working with Mystery. Another reason I think Shiromori blushes, is because she feels like Mystery ditched her to hang out with the warrior they were supposed to fight against. In fact, Mystery shrugs to Shirimori to say "I don't know if she's really a descendant/reincarnation."
Evy Kun I doubt it. In the official profile of Shorimori the words in the background say “You can run, mutt” or something like that. You also notice how aggressive Shiromori is to Mystery and goes even more crazy when she sees Mystery’s blood and tried to stab him with her scissors during the car chase.
In the previous episode freaking out I just wanted to input that I noticed that on Arthurs's laptop Lewis face is on certain points on the map with x marks on some which suggests that they were all searching for him and the reason for Arthur's shock when Lewis revels his true form in this episode is that he wasn't aware of what was happening when he was possessed and thought that he had just gone missing. Side note I believe Lewis heart is yellow as that is Arthur in his heart and when Lewis threw Arthur off the edge that symbolized him losing his best friend and that's the reason why it lost its colour and shattered, such as what happened in ghost when Vivi didn't take his heart it cracked and this was the last straw.
Pretty sure Shiromori was born from Mystery's blood that he dripped on the magical flower. As time past he must have kept giving the flower blood until it became a tree, the one he's sitting on when he faces the warrior. Vivi is either a descendent or reincarnation of that blue warrior. The warrior was either sent to kill Mystery or something close to it which resulted in a fight and more of Mystery's blood to spill on Shiromori. Eventually all that blood turned Shiromori into a conscience humaniod plant being who wants more of Mystery's blood to achieve a final form or something close to it. I'm not sure but this is just a theory
I think that lance may have found the right moment to jump in the opening of the truck and shot lewis after he threw arthur...I think that would shock lewis and the illusion of the cave would disappear just like the mansion from the first video.Arthur would hit the floor of the truck and safe..... I sure do hope so.
Just a hint for ya Vivi's bat has a talisman so either it is her own power or the glow is from the talisman from her grand mother. And I did some research and it's possible that Vivi is a long line of fox Maidens and those marrying into said families can leave a curse.
And to add on it seems that with swordswoman she has a cross shaped eye. Just as has been shown in mystery's silhouettes. So it can be that the swordswoman bested mystery without his blood and in doing so gave her his blood becoming a fox maiden. Allowing her to have magic. And by doing so he became bonded to her bloodline and became benevolent while passing blood to shiromori who became malevolent. And gained some of his power as he has 7 tails in ghost and freaking out.
I think that Shiromori, just like how Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi's relationship, is jealous of Vivi and Mystery's relationship. She is the flower that Mystery bled on (like another commentor said), she was the tree he was sitting in, and I think that they were friends, cause if you look at the shot of mystery in the tree with the blue warrior, the warriors arms are being held by vines/roots. So I think they just had a lot of fun together and when Mystery was losing to that warrior, maybe Shiromori gave herself a human form to help him, and the warrior wasnt necessarily protecting Mystery but just turned her back on him to fight Shiromori, so probably at some point Mystery and Shiromori have a falling out and are no longer friends. Or Shiromori turned her back on Mystery and just wanted his blood before he died? And so in the present when now the "rivals" (the warrior and mystery) are now friends and shiromori is the enemy, plus mystery just shrugs at her, maybe that's why she gets so flustered and angry. So it's like a parallel to Arthur and Lewis's situation. Hopefully that made sense I'm not the best at articulating like what exactly I'm trying to say.
I think Lewis didn't mean to drop Arthur, i think that the sheer shock of hearing Arthur speak his name in such a tone that wouldn't be used by a jealous killer, Arthur would be surprised, perhaps even happy.. In Freaking out, the map Arthur was looking at shows that he was searching for Lewis, crosses over Lewis's face being where he searched had no sign of him, there was even a picture of Lewis's head with question marks as if he saw a sign there or maybe where he went missing, he didn't know this ghost figure was Lewis, thus finally seeing his old friend, the sadness/ happiness of reuniting, even if it was cut short. Lewis's heart breaks because all his hate for Arthur was for nothing, instead he has attempted to kill his best friend, maybe even someone he once saw as his brother, it would ruin anyone.. I think Lewis will save Arthur, even if it means sacrificing himself to correct the wrong.. Either that or there will be two skull ghosts, only time will tell :P
Maybe after figuring out that Arthur was surprised after seeing Lewis's face and realizing that it could've been a huge misunderstanding. His heart figure break at the last cut scene was a sign of a sudden change of heart which would lead him to save him, that is, by sending the sad ghost to do that on his behalf.
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I have a theory I think the flashbacks where In an order first of the flashbacks was the “at the beginning” flashbacks the next two flashbacks showed what drove their goals currently. louis was driven with his love for vivi, shiromori was driven and grew into a forest because of mystery’s blood that he gave in order to escape the past incarnation of vivi, in the next two other flashbacks I think where the what killed them flashbacks because it showed Louis getting pushed by aurthor for shiromori’s I think after mystery (in his kitsune form ) grew the white woods/forest depending wether you are Japanese or Chinese on shiromori’s what destroyed them” flashback it shows kitsune mystery on shiromori grinning as if he was laughing at the past incarnation of vivi because she could not escape the branches that was wrapped around her wrist so maybe the past incarnation of vivi was hunting him down either way after she probably sliced her way out of the branches he was so angry she sliced down shiromori and then they battled it out but in the process took down the entire white woods/forest but during their fight kitsune mystery bled and probably got the past incarnation of vivi killed. The final two flashbacks where the “what brought them back” flashbacks for Louis he was resurrected by the green fog possibly from the possessed arm For shiromori’s flashback it was the blood from kitsune mystery during his battle with the past incarnation of vivi.
Shiromori was that warrior(notice identical hair and posture habits between the warrior and her current form as with lewis alive compared to dead) and likely realizing vivi is her descendant who is now defending mystery the creature she fought and was slain by with his blood turning her into the spirit she is now by him bleeding on her death flower. Notice how she looks at mystery with a 'really my own descendant?' of which mystery is like "yeah things happened..."
the mystery flashback sequence is 1. mystery finding and being happy about a flower that has Shiromori's colors 2. bleeding on flower 3. confrontation in a forest that has the same color scheme is Shiromori (who's name means white forest) 4. fight where mystery looks much more injured than the ninjagirl implying he's losing 5. ninja girl defending mystery I think mystery created the "Shiromori" (white forest) out of that flower and was basically the demon of the forest until he was defeated and driven off / had his power sealed, and since then the Shiromori he created either already was self aware or became so and has been looking for him. He has since switched sides and is no longer a malevolent demon, so the forest is his enemy now rather than an ally. Either way it seems likely that Shiromori wants to bleed him.
I saw a fan-animated video of a sample of Mystery Skull's "Losing My Mind" which I saw as Arthur, dead, dealing with his demons. I mean it kinda fits but eh.
Idk if anyone else noticed or thought this. But the flower that had mystery’s blood dropped onto it remind me of shiromori. I have a little theory that mystery gave life through his blood. Which is why at first he was fighting with her. But then something happened and he started to fight against her. I believe this has to do with his blood, like maybe she learned that she could become stronger with his blood. He did have a lot of cuts on him when he was fighting with her. Perhaps she tried to bandage him and got some on her. She seems like the blood thirsty (pun intended) for power type of person.
That's probably not the scarf but the ninetails tails (only 2 shown) yes they're blue but have an obvious fur design. Lance most likely interrupts shiromori, vivi, and mystery's fight as for it's right outside the garage. Lewis most likely saves Arthur after feeling guilt. Just an idea ya know :/
I think shiromori is the flower from the flashback and grew into a tree then when kitsune mystery was attack by past vivi (or something) shiromori must have transform into what we see her now and tries to protect mystery but failed? After that I guess she wanted mystery to her self because...idk maybe she has a crush on the guy or maybe she’s thirsty...for his magic blood so that she can grow again?? Idk it’s just a theory I just came up with
Lets not blame the team for taking way too much time on doing Mystery Skulls animated material, they do this on their spare time! Animation is hard and takes lots of time but also It of course will take a lot of time since they have stuff to do such as work during their life, its hard handling a project that is meant to be done during spare time while having a busy life, so lets just wish the best for this team to come up with an amazing 4th part of Mystery Skulls!✨❤
3:30 I think he noticed that he didn't kill Louis on purpose because before he dropped him Arthur was alarmed and didn't know who he (Louis in ghost form) really was and Louis didn't know that so now that he does know that he had actually done wrong and that Arthur didn't deserve this death so it breaks his heart knowing that he just killed a friend over a misunderstanding (this is my theory and I don't really know much about the backstory much so if something is off about my theory please tell me)
An observation! The tree (and flower) that Mystery is resting on when confronted by the warrior is of identical palette to Shiromori. It likely IS Shiromori, from a time when she was a massive tree. My own speculation is that she's chasing after him (and his blood) because he already used it once to make her what she once was, and she wants that former glory. Also, the way she looks at Mystery upon realizing that 'the warrior' is here again very much looks to me like she's been dumped. My guess is that the warrior fought both Shiromori and Mystery back then, but Shiromori was either defeated or turned on Mystery before the warrior intervened. If defeated, this would be the first time that she's seen Mystery siding with 'the warrior', upon which she likely feels betrayed after their very intimate relationship of creator/creation, or potentially even more, that she had with Mystery. Potentially, Shiromori 'died' in that initial fight, which left Mystery to defeat or escape from Vivi's former incarnation. Now Mystery ended up with the reincarnation (perhaps even to keep his kitsune form under control?) and that's what has Shiromori flustered. As for the EXACT order of events as I see them: Yukino refers to the ancestor. Mystery created Shiromori, they did some questionable stuff while Shiromori was still non-humanoid. Yukino confronted them, Mystery played it against Shiromori (or Shiromori lost it and became violent) and Mystery worked with Yukino to defeat her. Centuries later, Shiromori has a new weakened body and wishes to take revenge on Mystery for 'betraying' her (whether that's legitimate or not). The rest is as we've seen it, with the blush being a 'So I see you've REALLY chosen her in the end?' sort of jealousy. The way I explain Mystery and Yukino fighting here is that that took place before Shiromori crossed some line Mystery wasn't willing to cross with her, and he was just defending himself. Also, a fair point: Why would Shiromori be remembering Yukino attacking Mystery with glee? Perhaps she was a part of Yukino's weapon in that encounter? Or was manipulating them?
Not a theory of mine just match up some of them but I think to summarize everything, Shiromori is a flower born from Mystery blood. You can’t tell they were friends judging from the fact she seemed to grown into a big tree (the one mystery was laying on at 2:02), which is probably due from the fact Mystery kept feeding his blood and also from the fact she was holding the warrior from attacking Mystery (you can tell at 2:02 that greenish blue roots are holding the warrior as Mystery seemed to snicker). During the fight I think Shiromori attempted to protect Mystery who somewhat fell from the warrior and decide to stay at her side instead of Shiromori’s which made her upset because her friend and source of blood was being stolen. When they meet again Shiromori is afraid of the ‘warrior’ (Vivi) thinking she’s there to fight her only to realize that Mystery stayed at her side of her reincarnation, feeling stupid for still being jealous of their relationship she snapped and attack Vivi to get rid of her. By the way maybe the warrior attacked Mystery because ‘he’ killed other samurai (we see a corpse at 2:02). Maybe the one that killed the samurai was in fact Shiromori who was protecting Mystery because they were friends
Mystery didn't save Arthur's arm, he ripped it off to prevent whatever was taking over him to take him completely. What I always loved about that scene is how as Arthur starts to get possessed he starts to turn green which is the color of envy. Also what I can't stop thinking about and I've been trying to figure out is why Mystery chooses to disguise himself as a dog. According to Japanese folklore kitsunes are extremely afraid of dogs, actually one of the ways they had to ward off kitsunes was with you guessed it, dogs. Also gotta say awesome video, I had no idea of the names of the characters, nor I was able to see the images on the background when shiamori and Lewis start approaching their target.
You can see ghosts through out the series with sad faces or faces of regret my guess is they save arthur and as for shinomori i think the kitsunes blood has power as when he poured it on the flower it grew into a tree and gave life to her
If you are REALLY quick, you can see a couple frames of Mystery actually cringing as his transformation takes hold. I think that’s his attempt to keep ahold of himself as his rage comes to the surface. And another thing I note, is that the backstory of Shiromori has Mystery in a giant forest of the blue trees and red blossoms. I believe that the entire forest was associated with Shiromori somehow, that she is probably a sprite or spirit of that forest after “joining” with Nine-Tailed Mystery.
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I believe that creating the plant yokai was a deliberate act on Mystery part. He wanted a ally to help keeping him safe form attackers that would hunt and try to kill him. She is basically a Alura une a blood eating flower. However unlike other Alura une she can only get food form her master Mystery thus she is hungry.
Something I noticed throughout the video, is that when you look at the little ghosts that accompany Lewis, not all of them are mad. So, throughout the video there’s been a couple of sad ghosts. Perhaps this shows that, even while getting revenge, Lewis didn’t really mean it, and had simply let his rage take over. This is also backed up by Lewis’s heart breaking at the end, he’s heartbroken because he just killed his best friend, and he finally realized that.
I don't think Lewis intentionally revealed his true self, a bit of his purple energy surged through Arthur's arm when he reached out and grabbed Lewis and that allowed his eyes to see Lewis as he was, to recognize him
also it's been confirmed by mysteryben *i think that's their name* on tumblr that in the logo it's Mystery's missing tails in the logo, not the ancestor's scarf~
- Someone proposed that Shiromori was a "jubokko", which is a yokai with a very on-the-nose MO: when fed blood, they become a blood-drinking demon. Only problem is that it's supposed to be HUMAN blood, so either Mystery killed humans as a kitsune to feed Shiromori (which now that I think about it makes a lot of sense; perhaps Vivi's ancestor was sent to save the townspeople from the evil kitsune?), or Ben took some creative liberties and that's Mystery's own blood. The more detailed post here: squigglydigglydoo.tumblr.com/post/179047564257/shiromori-mystery-ive-got-a-theory - Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi's relationship, but probably not out of any romantic attraction to Vivi. Outside of flashbacks of him looking sad whenever his friends act all lovey-dovey, there's basically no indication that he cares for her as anything other than a friend-he never gives longing glances at her when she's not looking, never blushes or makes ANY move towards her even when he has ample opportunity to do so. I think it's more likely that he felt neglected for being the third wheel and worried that his friends didn't need him anymore. (Others speculate that he could've been pining after LEWIS instead, which IMO would be good plot twist that wouldn't out of left field. ) - Lance may have shot either Shiromori or Mystery. If it's the latter, Lance may not have recognized him in his kitsune and thought he wanted to hurt Vivi. :( Also Vivi's hand may have been sliced off by Shiro's shears... it's out of frame in the ending group shot and she looks pretty beat up. And the Mystery Skulls logo being shot gray does NOT help ease concerns lol
Nice vid! One thing. Pay attention to the color theory in Shiramori's Backstory. the flower, the tree/forest and her share color themes. Pair this with some knowledge of Japanese mythos and you get this; Kitsune (like many Japanese Youkai) are Animals that have lived for thousands of years and gained magic powers from it (interestingly NOT the other way around) as such why their body parts are filled with magic. As such, Mystery, a Kitsune at the time, likely fleeing from some encounter with humans, as it usually goes, finds himself in a forest, bleeding he stops to view a flower, and in doing so decides to impart some of his magic into it. Fast forward and you see Mystery, lazing in a tree the same color as the flower, with similar trees around, chances are the flower became these trees and in turn turned into a Youkai (ala the Juboko in GeGeGe no Kitaro ep 1) as the Swordwoman comes up, clearly ready to fight. Things turn around somehow as you mention, involving the Swordwoman now protecting Mystery for some reason. One can parse this makes Shiramori as the spirit youkai of the forest, usually a protector, but since getting magic powers from the kitsune, it would seem (paired with her eyes after cutting Mystery) that the forest either needs or more likely lusts for more blood to gain more power and do what a Forest is meant to do; GROW. (Likely bigger, stronger... and worst; More dangerous)
I always thought flower lady was the reincarnation of the flower mystery bled on in the flashback. I was like "Oh no Arthur doesn't know it's him" when I watch 'Ghost'. Also you're turning into awesome ness helped me connect the dots between the videos. And let me not forget about the gunshot! I think Lance will shoot her shoulder and then mystery jumps on her(as in kick her ass). Great vid my dude!!
I just rewatched the first animation again and realized that the dark silhouette that appears right before you see Arthur's eyes turn green, signifying his possession, looks just like Mystery. But I thought Mystery went with Vivi. Why is he being seen there?
I was guessing it has to do with Mystery sneaking up on him to rip his arm off. We can see him having a “I don’t like the vibes of this place” when they first enter. Then we see him looking in the guys direction when they were splitting up. When it shows the cliff you can see Mystery barely peaking out from the entrance of that area as the guys are gawking at the cave. Then of course you see him directly behind him as Arthur gets possessed and bam. He rips his arm off because good doggo instincts. So TL;DR: he never actually left the guys. He felt nervous about the place, more so the guys route than Vivi’s so he went with them to be sure. I think this also contributes to Arthur Anxiously reaching to pet Mystery in Hellbent. He’s been with him for years he doesn’t need to be so careful, like he’s petting a pissed of stray cat. But he’s likely anxious from arm ptsd. I love my dog but I’m going to be careful as hell to if my dog ripped my arm of suddenly.
That's true. That also means that Vivi went alone but I noticed Mystery peaking his head out slightly. Also, wouldn't Arthur have been possessed while Mystery was biting off the possessed arm so Arthur wouldn't have much memory of it? Also, what does it mean when Arthur is a dark silhouette? Is he another being or something?
Shadow Spector I think that Arthur has memory akin to “mystery bit my arm off” but not necessarily “crazy demon kitsune bit my arm off”. But he doesn’t remember the even it’s. I think (just guessing here) that vivi explained what “happened” to him. Because you can’t just lose and arm and go “welp.” He probably asked Vivi what happened and the only evidence she might have had could be Mystery going with them. Which of course brings up to question if there was a bloody mess when the arm was bitten off or was it a clean cut because weird zombie possession stuff. So that’s mainly theory for me on that part tbh. I can’t think of any other reason Arthur would be nervous to pet Mystery. He a rather nice dog. They don’t know he has a kitsune form nor does he seem malicious to them. That’s why I proposed the arm ptsd theory. For the silhouette thing. I’m assuming you mean the one in the flashback image? I think that silhouetting shows how he doesn’t have control. Like he’s a “husk” in this situation. It can also show how Lewis likely didn’t see the guilty side of his face when he died. Just the cruel grin of the possessed side of his body. I think that’s what that silhouetting means... this one is a bit challenging because it breaks the rule of things being shaded out being threatening since it’s the other way around in the image. But that’s assuming you are talking about that part lol.
In the video, it showed how Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi so could it be possible that he wasn't possessed at all and that the dark eyes was him finally realizing his hatred of Lewis so he pushed him off the side. And then the arm being bitten off could be symbolism of the evil inside Arthur finally being cast from him as he is regretting what he did to Lewis? Also, I am referring to the silhouette at 3:00 in the original video but I guess it could just be that it was dark and the scene wasn't focusing on Mystery considering the silhouette is his exact shape.
This was great! Thank you so much for making it. I never knew their names before. Did you make videos on the other two too? I would love to see videos on them!
If you noticed in freaking out Shiromori had a grey flower, or a dead/dying flower. So i believe mystery's blood is what heals the flowers/powers to do this correctly.
My mind keeps wrapping around chimori being the flower given life or power somehow cause the forest that mystery kitsune also has the same color scheme as the flower and chimori
I just noticed, when Shiromori saw Vivi as the warrior Mystery has 9 tails. But Mystery currently has 6/7 tails as of the time that the animation takes place. Was this accidental, or did Mystery in a way betray Shiromori?
Kitsune gain a tail every one hundred years. Mystery went from six to seven tails between Ghost and Freaking Out, meaning he is about 700 years old. Coincidentally, ninjas flourished in the 15th century, with some stories dating back as early as the 12th century. Mystery is at least as old as the 14th century. I believe that Mystery was killed or otherwise defeated by Vivi's ancestor, and lost all his power in the process. He had to restart/be reincarnated at that time. Don't know if Mystery explicitly "betrayed" Shiromori, she basically lusts for power from his blood anyway.
You can also notice that in "Freaking out" during the scene with the van, you can briefly see a laptop with a map on it and Lewis's face crossed out on it. Maybe Arthur doesn't remember what happened in the cave and that is the reason why he is so shocked during the scene in "Hellbent" where he gets thrown onto the spikes. Maybe he thought that Lewis ran away or went missing in general and didn't know that he was dead, so maybe Arthur is so shocked because he doesn't know why Lewis did this to him and that he was dead.
wait there was a shot of arthur being possessed but in looked like half of his body was the only one that got taken but the left side of his body was shocked or upset etc even shed a tear. so my question is how come arthur doesn't remember anything? or know that luis is the mystery flaming skull dude? also there was a shot of the vivi underneath the cliff were luis was pushed how come she didn't saw that or hear her lover dying?
Arthur likely blocked it out due to the trauma (Vivi also is blocking it out too) of getting possessed and losing his arm. You can see definite PTSD symptoms in Arthur in Freaking Out were he briefly hallucinates Mystery in his kitsune form. He also at the very start of this video is very clearly scared of Mystery but pushes through it.
Did anyone else notice that the trees Mystery was sitting in were the same as Shiromori? the green trunk the white leaves the pink flower Is it possible that those trees were actually her? Could Mystery's blood be what gave her life?
Hey! Just heads up- don’t know if you just misspoke but mystery skulls isn’t just the name of the animated series, it’s the name of the actual band! I don’t know if they planned on having this animated series after the first music video but it took off so they continued it :) the rest of their music is awesome too
What ifshirimori is the past warrior?, it shows us a flash back of the warrior fighting mystery, and mystery having a cut on the cheek like how shirimori did with dog form mystery, and then was revived due to mystery’s blood doping on the flower, and in some way vivid is a dependent of shirimori, just didn’t know about it
I dont know if anyone mentioned this but the image where the tree is holding the warrior down and leaving flowerpower and mystery to do as they please with her... shes missing bandages/bracelet on (her right our left) arm. Just like she has currently because of her fight earlier in Freaking Out. I have a feeling it's a shot from the future, no the past. Seems too convenient that BOTH times by TWO different people her arm was destroyed and regenerated. I think Mystery served Shiro in the past and he's fighting/running to prevent it from happening again.
crowned cryptid, i don't know if you saw my post in freaking out but i want to know your opinion on my theory about lewis. "So Lewis is a special kind of ghost, he repurposed his corpses heart upon death into a horcrux, gaining the abilities of a lich while still being a ghost. The key difference is that, his "physical body" is phaseable because of it. The horcrux can also briefly phase in and out but only temporarily it seems. Its durability is weak as it is hollow. seeming to crack with minimal force like glass. Since he has a horcrux, his time in the world is also not limited by his resentment or "unfinished business" . He has the ability to "take in" or "create" more weaker ghosts as well, abit limited however. He can create a limbo dimension (Ghost mansion, disappears after he hibernates). He can possess not only living things but also machines as well, and repurpose them to his desire, displaying great intelligence. He has an extremely fast reaction time and can adapt to almost any situation on the fly (walking out while thinking, getting hit by a truck and deciding to use it for his goals). The lich side of him allows him his great intelligence and magical ability. He can wield a special kind of ghost fire, it can burn hot, cold or be lukewarm. The fire can be physical or incorporeal. It can also be explosive or docile. He can float and manifest his physical body from and to the horcrux. He can control his ghosts as if they are him and use them as his eyes and ears. He can use illusion magic to show his "alive" body and overlay it with his current one, or use it to project a part of his memories. He can also transform himself into the ghostfire he creates. Due to the unique nature of his "ghostification", he is immune to water (part lich) and fire (Pure heart + Has the fire element) and holy power (Pure Heart/Not evil). If lewis is badly damaged or weakened, he can return himself to his horcrux to heal."
The blue Warrior is actually an Alive shiromori but mystery kills her so the now shiromori is now a zombie tree this is why when Luis rips her Head off she can grow back body parts
You can also tell that Lewis feel remorseful from the shot of him tossing Arthur in the van. His eyes are at first still filled with hatred as normal, but when Arthur wakes up & freaks out (heh), Lewis's eyes change to a more concerned & thoughtful look. Which is indicative that he's double thinking about what he's about to do, like he's saying to himself "should I do this...maybe I shouldn't..." Also, one of the three ghosts that are most seen with him has a frown on his face in not only the end of Freaking Out, but all of Hellbent. If you subscribe to the theory that these ghost represent his emotions, & the others are all his rage & resentment, that this one is his regret & his conscious. Lewis's embodiment of guilt. But that's only from a certain perspective, even if that could easily be construed as evidence supporting it.
Something interesting about the whole thing, Lewis's heart is broken way worse then when Vivi accidentally dropped it in Ghost. Its faded, the cracks run all over. Plus his expression becomes far softer than anything we've ever seen when he interacts with even the thought of Arthur (he grows enraged when he sees the flower tied to Arthur in "Freaking Out"). I think it has something to do with how Arthur recognizes him, and his expressions after. Theres something just... shocked or broken in his expression as he falls. Perhaps because of the realization that Lewis is a Ghost, and is so angry with him. Based on Arthur's computer in the vid "freaking out", Arthur was looking for Lewis. Whatever magic last-wish thing Lewis made that made Vivi forget (the pink in her eyes in Ghost after his death) could have made Arthur forget as well. Or maybe the whole experience was so traumatic that he couldn't remember what happened to Arthur, only that his friend was missing. A third option is the green entity that possessed him also messed up his memory, made it fuzzy or unreliable, making it seem as though Lewis simply vanished. All around... damn I'm not even sure, I only remembered and watched the whole series recently. Hellbent I'd never seen, and it was both fantastic and tugging at my heartstrings. I hope they find a way to resolve things, or Arthur is gonna wind up dead too :/ they don't need two ghosts on the Mystery Skulla
I think Lewis' heart cracked because he realized that Arthur didn't know it was him. All this time he thought "He's running away because he knows it's me and he's scared of facing consequences" but in that moment, where Arthur said his name, SHOCKED, Lewis finally understood that he didn't know. Though, he already released his grip and dropped Arthur, which is why the shock hit him a bit too late.
There's a small detail that people keep missing. (Likely because they didn't bother looking very closely at Arthur's laptop in Freaking Out...) While it's true that Arthur didn't know that Lewis was the titular Ghost, he *did* suspect that it might be possible, or he wouldn't have added the Ghost to the Arthur search map that he was secretly working on.
Lewis's ghosts are an extension of himself the sad looking deadbeat that's seen many times during the video may represent his reluctance guilt and sadness that he cast out in order to focus in revenge that deadbeat (the cute ghostie) will be the one to save arthur
something i found out about mystery is that as soon as he is shown transforming, there is a second after it with normal mystery. It implies that he did not transform
I saw a pretty solid theory on Shiromori and her connection to Mystery. Here’s a link: squigglydigglydoo.tumblr.com/post/179047564257/shiromori-mystery-ive-got-a-theory Basically, the main idea is that Shiromori is a jubokko - a tree monster with a thirst for blood - that was inadvertently(?) created by Mystery.
I don't know if anybody else has seen it, but on the handle of the bat (after ViVi drops it facing off with Shiromori), there is a snowflake design on it and some (I assume Japanese) characters on the snowflake. Further supporting the ViVi is a descendant of the ice Ninja warrior girl?
I questioning if you overlooked the one ghost who constantly has a sad/concerned face... dont know if thats a detail but i saw that it appeared more than 3 times durring the video
Vivi is a relative of the blue samurai, not a reincarnation. When the bat gets knocked out of Vivi’s hands, and lands in front Mystery, you can see a protection charm on the hand of the bat. The kanji on the charm are 「家内安全」(かないあんぜん)[kanaiannzenn] which mean “Safety in The Family”. Perhaps the blue samurai knew that Shiromori (whose name translates as “white forest”) will return.
Before I saw this video I was watching a random video with voice over's of hell bent and when Lewis drooped Arthur he said "He didn't do it" So what if when he threw him he somehow figured out Arthur is innocence? I don't know it just got me thinking
In the cliff hanger shot I believe it is likely that Lewis realized he may have made a mistake resulting from the fact that he gave in to his anger, It may also stem from the fact that Arthur dying will cause ViVi pain and sadness for the loss of a friend at the hands of her former lover.
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How did you know the characters names?
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Same Thing i thought myself... Just Not so specific with the Part of vivi
Also when he is about to throw Arthur in the van you can see regret in his eyes knowing what he is about to do.
In Ghost, after his heart cracked, the mansion Lewis had created disappeared. I'm guessing with how broken Lewis's heart was in Hellbent, the same will happen to the cave. Arthur will fall down, and the apparition will disperse before he's skewered. After that, the plot will likely shift to trying to save Lewis and fleeing from Shiromori, who probably wouldn't be deterred by a gunshot.
You're right that is what happens in ghosts so that theory makes a lot of sense!
Honestly, I think Mystery is the one who's gotten shot. It would be the most dramatic response, and possibly make shiromori more of a threat( cuz of the blood, i'm thinking) forcing Vivi to also step up again and (try to/instinctively)use her powers. As long as He didn't get shot somewhere fatal, it wouldn't take him out of the series, either.
+Deja Kat I mean it could distract her, but she was right at the part of slamming the scissors fatally into Vivi, so it's more a fast reaction I don't think anything would stop her especially something that got her more excited, plus Arthur's uncle I'm guessing knows Mystery even though he's changed forms, and he doesn't see Mystery attacking but Shiromori, he'd be a pretty terrible shot to go attack this random guy in the back rather than the person about to skewer his nephew's friend.
Okay, so everyone is discussing the number of tails Mystery had, but I would like to point out one interesting detail. In Japanese mythology there is a tree demon called Jubokko. Jubokko grows on battlefields where great battles happened. Since it becomes a yōkai tree by sucking up large quantities of blood from the dead, it lives on human blood and usually kills people. But the flower that Shiromori grew from, likely grew from Mystery's blood. That might be the reason why she chases him and seems to be obsessed with his blood.
Yeah! Very interesting!
Something I noticed, could be a hint or not regarding her back story is look at Shiromori's coloring. Her body is the same hue of the trees trunk, and her hair is the same white as the leaves. At the top of her head, it looks like she has a mini tree of it, same flowers included. I think you are right and she grew from Mystery's blood, and felt betrayed since it looks like after the battle with what I take to be Vivi's ancestor, he started to hang around the family as a guardian.
Forget-me-not please either shiromori is after mystery’s blood to get more powerful or judging by the psychotic bloodlust she shows in the video, wants revenge because she was caught up in the battle hundreds of years ago and left as collateral damage. Or both.
Also "It is said that a Jubokko branch could heal and decontaminate an injured person".... they can use her if they kill her. Maybe they can bring back Lewis, or decontaminate Arthur from whatever came over him to kill Lewis. I really do think she is a Jubokko who quite literally found crack in the form of kitsune blood.
I also believe that the forest where we met skull Lewy for the first time was the same Jubokko grove as we saw in the flashbacks. The vines came from lewis (you can see them on the coffin) and as she was wandering her dead home she sensed his spirit and was drawn to the place of his death (blood) and coincidentally... Lewis knew Mystery and the chase was on for her crack blood.
The size of the flower is equal to the power she would get by consuming their essences. Mystery was the biggest and now that she had the direct link to find him it finally showed in his final flower while she scrying.
This is neat too. Because sure Mystery's would be big but the fact that all three of the other flowers corresponding to our heroes are practically the same size. If my idea is correct, they all have equal in power. If Lewis is a powerful ghost and Vivi is a descendant of that warrior, what's Arthur?
@@austinmorrison6953 I think its maybe cause Vivi free's Mystery from Shiromori and at that point on wants to protect him and because Shiromori is furious and wants him. Obviously Mystery having no idea thats the case
Notice that before Lewis throws Arthur into the truck. If you pause correctly you can see Lewis briefly has an expression of regret. He has a worried face while sweating and then throws him to have a cool shot. Lewis always regretted this but still followed through.
Interesting!
That probably wasn't a face of regret. The sweat drop is an anime trope expression that is usually used in comedic situations, considering he's a skeleton/spirit and probably can't sweat. He is probably just a bit exasperated or surprised reacting to Arthur's comical scared face after he comes to.
I mean, just look at Arthur XD
That wasn't regret, it has him reacting to Arthur being scared of him. Comic relief.
His hearts us also all broken unlike when artur grabbed vivi
I don't think it's regret as much as sadness as he only gets that expression after Arthur starts screaming. He's hurt that his friend fears him.
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Dont blame them, they do this on their spare time! It of course will take a lot of time since they have stuff to do such as work during their life, its hard handling a project that is meant to be done during spare time while having a busy life, so lets wish the best for this team to come up with an amazing 4th part!✨
Maybe, Shiromori WAS the flower. And Mystery's blood brought her to life. So she wants more of his blood to become more powerful.
Probably for the purpose of defeating Vivi's ancestor as well. But after a certain point, only Shiromori still wants to defeat Vivi's ancestor, whilst her creator (Mystery) has become her ally instead. Shiromori probably feels betrayed by Mystery.
Here's a bit of info I saw someone point out. You say that in the logo at the end of the video that it's the ninja woman's scarf at the bottom. However, it may actually be something else: two of Mystery's tails.
In the flashbacks to the past, you can see that kitsune Mystery has nine tails, as would be expected. However, when he transforms in the scenes set in the present, he only has seven (or six? it's not clear). This may indicate that the ninja woman managed to cut off a couple of the tails during their fight, which may have reduced Mystery's power and left him in the dog form he's in now.
Just speculation, but that's likely what the two tails in the logo are referring to, though why they're important is something that probably won't be revealed until the next video or later.
Oh great point! I just thought it was the scarf since it's blue in the logo but you're idea sounds a lot more likely!
Kitsune info: blackpawproductions.tripod.com/KitsuneClan/kitinfo.htm Not a primary source, but assuming it and Wikipedia are generally accurate for casual lore crafting here...
Kitsune live 900+ years, and gain a tail every 100 years. After reaching nine tails, they generally become too powerful for their own good and will be forced to die and reincarnate. I'm guessing that Mystery going from six to seven tails means he just turned 700 years old in his current life. Thus, the battle with Vivi's ancestor was about 700 years ago, in Mystery's previous incarnation ( I say incarnation because the mythology, plus the nine-tailed fox looks similar but not quite the same as Mystery's current kitsune form.)
That said, the logo has the band name surrounded on a background of white, pointy fur. The red eye in the R resembles the kitsune eyes. There is blood dripping from the fur, and the tails have turned the spiritual blue of Vivi/Vivi's ancestor. The kitsune was defeated by cutting two tails, and the spirit bound to Vivi's family (or at least the reincarnations of the warrior, including Vivi) as protector now.
Did you notice that in the first shot of the female swordsman, that the blue tree branches are holding her the warrior down? This shows maybe Shiromori is working with Mystery. Another reason I think Shiromori blushes, is because she feels like Mystery ditched her to hang out with the warrior they were supposed to fight against. In fact, Mystery shrugs to Shirimori to say "I don't know if she's really a descendant/reincarnation."
Evy Kun I doubt it. In the official profile of Shorimori the words in the background say “You can run, mutt” or something like that. You also notice how aggressive Shiromori is to Mystery and goes even more crazy when she sees Mystery’s blood and tried to stab him with her scissors during the car chase.
Shiromori is clearly against Mystery but if he sided with an enemy that was both their enemy at one point, she'd feel jealous.
Aren't those ribbons?
In the previous episode freaking out I just wanted to input that I noticed that on Arthurs's laptop Lewis face is on certain points on the map with x marks on some which suggests that they were all searching for him and the reason for Arthur's shock when Lewis revels his true form in this episode is that he wasn't aware of what was happening when he was possessed and thought that he had just gone missing.
Side note I believe Lewis heart is yellow as that is Arthur in his heart and when Lewis threw Arthur off the edge that symbolized him losing his best friend and that's the reason why it lost its colour and shattered, such as what happened in ghost when Vivi didn't take his heart it cracked and this was the last straw.
Oh yeah great points! Thank you!
Pretty sure Shiromori was born from Mystery's blood that he dripped on the magical flower. As time past he must have kept giving the flower blood until it became a tree, the one he's sitting on when he faces the warrior. Vivi is either a descendent or reincarnation of that blue warrior. The warrior was either sent to kill Mystery or something close to it which resulted in a fight and more of Mystery's blood to spill on Shiromori. Eventually all that blood turned Shiromori into a conscience humaniod plant being who wants more of Mystery's blood to achieve a final form or something close to it. I'm not sure but this is just a theory
Shiromori is probably a vampire.
Others have been saying Shiromori may be a type of demon called a jubokko. Nice theory!
I think that lance may have found the right moment to jump in the opening of the truck and shot lewis after he threw arthur...I think that would shock lewis and the illusion of the cave would disappear just like the mansion from the first video.Arthur would hit the floor of the truck and safe..... I sure do hope so.
Yeah I never made the connection between the mansion and the cave that's a really good theory!
Just a hint for ya Vivi's bat has a talisman so either it is her own power or the glow is from the talisman from her grand mother.
And I did some research and it's possible that Vivi is a long line of fox Maidens and those marrying into said families can leave a curse.
And to add on it seems that with swordswoman she has a cross shaped eye. Just as has been shown in mystery's silhouettes.
So it can be that the swordswoman bested mystery without his blood and in doing so gave her his blood becoming a fox maiden. Allowing her to have magic. And by doing so he became bonded to her bloodline and became benevolent while passing blood to shiromori who became malevolent. And gained some of his power as he has 7 tails in ghost and freaking out.
Woah cool! Thanks for sharing!
Interesting!
I think that Shiromori, just like how Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi's relationship, is jealous of Vivi and Mystery's relationship. She is the flower that Mystery bled on (like another commentor said), she was the tree he was sitting in, and I think that they were friends, cause if you look at the shot of mystery in the tree with the blue warrior, the warriors arms are being held by vines/roots. So I think they just had a lot of fun together and when Mystery was losing to that warrior, maybe Shiromori gave herself a human form to help him, and the warrior wasnt necessarily protecting Mystery but just turned her back on him to fight Shiromori, so probably at some point Mystery and Shiromori have a falling out and are no longer friends. Or Shiromori turned her back on Mystery and just wanted his blood before he died? And so in the present when now the "rivals" (the warrior and mystery) are now friends and shiromori is the enemy, plus mystery just shrugs at her, maybe that's why she gets so flustered and angry. So it's like a parallel to Arthur and Lewis's situation.
Hopefully that made sense I'm not the best at articulating like what exactly I'm trying to say.
I think Lewis didn't mean to drop Arthur, i think that the sheer shock of hearing Arthur speak his name in such a tone that wouldn't be used by a jealous killer, Arthur would be surprised, perhaps even happy.. In Freaking out, the map Arthur was looking at shows that he was searching for Lewis, crosses over Lewis's face being where he searched had no sign of him, there was even a picture of Lewis's head with question marks as if he saw a sign there or maybe where he went missing, he didn't know this ghost figure was Lewis, thus finally seeing his old friend, the sadness/ happiness of reuniting, even if it was cut short.
Lewis's heart breaks because all his hate for Arthur was for nothing, instead he has attempted to kill his best friend, maybe even someone he once saw as his brother, it would ruin anyone.. I think Lewis will save Arthur, even if it means sacrificing himself to correct the wrong..
Either that or there will be two skull ghosts, only time will tell :P
Artificially Paranoid If you look at Arthurs hands, you’ll notice that he let go, he let Lewis kill him.
Maybe after figuring out that Arthur was surprised after seeing Lewis's face and realizing that it could've been a huge misunderstanding. His heart figure break at the last cut scene was a sign of a sudden change of heart which would lead him to save him, that is, by sending the sad ghost to do that on his behalf.
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I really like how you explain the video in a simple way and didn’t stretch it to be a 10min video
Thank you! I always try to be as quick and concise as possible 🙂
I have a theory
I think the flashbacks where In an order first of the flashbacks was the “at the beginning” flashbacks the next two flashbacks showed what drove their goals currently.
louis was driven with his love for vivi, shiromori was driven and grew into a forest because of mystery’s blood that he gave in order to escape the past incarnation of vivi, in the next two other flashbacks I think where the what killed them flashbacks because it showed Louis getting pushed by aurthor for shiromori’s I think after mystery (in his kitsune form ) grew the white woods/forest depending wether you are Japanese or Chinese
on shiromori’s what destroyed them” flashback it shows kitsune mystery on shiromori grinning as if he was laughing at the past incarnation of vivi because she could not escape the branches that was wrapped around her wrist so maybe the past incarnation of vivi was hunting him down either way after she probably sliced her way out of the branches he was so angry she sliced down shiromori and then they battled it out but in the process took down the entire white woods/forest but during their fight kitsune mystery bled and probably got the past incarnation of vivi killed.
The final two flashbacks where the “what brought them back” flashbacks for Louis he was resurrected by the green fog possibly from the possessed arm
For shiromori’s flashback it was the blood from kitsune mystery during his battle with the past incarnation of vivi.
Using one of my favorite songs as the outro while discussing another great musical video.... 10/10
Thank you! Glad you liked the outro music. 🙂
Shiromori was that warrior(notice identical hair and posture habits between the warrior and her current form as with lewis alive compared to dead) and likely realizing vivi is her descendant who is now defending mystery the creature she fought and was slain by with his blood turning her into the spirit she is now by him bleeding on her death flower. Notice how she looks at mystery with a 'really my own descendant?' of which mystery is like "yeah things happened..."
Ooohhh! That's very interesting!
Yeah like you said there are a lot of subtlies easily missed. I didn't notice it until my third viewing. Also nice channel you got here.
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the mystery flashback sequence is
1. mystery finding and being happy about a flower that has Shiromori's colors
2. bleeding on flower
3. confrontation in a forest that has the same color scheme is Shiromori (who's name means white forest)
4. fight where mystery looks much more injured than the ninjagirl implying he's losing
5. ninja girl defending mystery
I think mystery created the "Shiromori" (white forest) out of that flower and was basically the demon of the forest until he was defeated and driven off / had his power sealed, and since then the Shiromori he created either already was self aware or became so and has been looking for him. He has since switched sides and is no longer a malevolent demon, so the forest is his enemy now rather than an ally.
Either way it seems likely that Shiromori wants to bleed him.
I'm really hoping that Lewis decides to save Arthur and then fight Shiromori. That would be an epic showdown!!!
Shiromori's the flowers, there's a detailed theory about this in tumblr including the lore around Vivi's ancestor
3:18 THE CHILLS
I saw a fan-animated video of a sample of Mystery Skull's "Losing My Mind" which I saw as Arthur, dead, dealing with his demons. I mean it kinda fits but eh.
Idk if anyone else noticed or thought this. But the flower that had mystery’s blood dropped onto it remind me of shiromori. I have a little theory that mystery gave life through his blood. Which is why at first he was fighting with her. But then something happened and he started to fight against her. I believe this has to do with his blood, like maybe she learned that she could become stronger with his blood. He did have a lot of cuts on him when he was fighting with her. Perhaps she tried to bandage him and got some on her. She seems like the blood thirsty (pun intended) for power type of person.
The shot of Arthur being throw on the truck and lewis face is awesome
Agreed.
Dude his stuff is so good that my bro thought it was on Netflix!
That's probably not the scarf but the ninetails tails (only 2 shown) yes they're blue but have an obvious fur design. Lance most likely interrupts shiromori, vivi, and mystery's fight as for it's right outside the garage. Lewis most likely saves Arthur after feeling guilt. Just an idea ya know :/
Yeah good ideas! Your probably right that the logo is Mystery's tails, the color threw me off lol
I think shiromori is the flower from the flashback and grew into a tree then when kitsune mystery was attack by past vivi (or something) shiromori must have transform into what we see her now and tries to protect mystery but failed? After that I guess she wanted mystery to her self because...idk maybe she has a crush on the guy or maybe she’s thirsty...for his magic blood so that she can grow again?? Idk it’s just a theory I just came up with
Good theory!
Something about that outro fills me with thoughts of silly dances and tranquility....
"Welcome to the no judgement zone."
Lets not blame the team for taking way too much time on doing Mystery Skulls animated material, they do this on their spare time! Animation is hard and takes lots of time but also It of course will take a lot of time since they have stuff to do such as work during their life, its hard handling a project that is meant to be done during spare time while having a busy life, so lets just wish the best for this team to come up with an amazing 4th part of Mystery Skulls!✨❤
3:30 I think he noticed that he didn't kill Louis on purpose because before he dropped him Arthur was alarmed and didn't know who he (Louis in ghost form) really was and Louis didn't know that so now that he does know that he had actually done wrong and that Arthur didn't deserve this death so it breaks his heart knowing that he just killed a friend over a misunderstanding (this is my theory and I don't really know much about the backstory much so if something is off about my theory please tell me)
Good theory!
An observation! The tree (and flower) that Mystery is resting on when confronted by the warrior is of identical palette to Shiromori. It likely IS Shiromori, from a time when she was a massive tree. My own speculation is that she's chasing after him (and his blood) because he already used it once to make her what she once was, and she wants that former glory.
Also, the way she looks at Mystery upon realizing that 'the warrior' is here again very much looks to me like she's been dumped. My guess is that the warrior fought both Shiromori and Mystery back then, but Shiromori was either defeated or turned on Mystery before the warrior intervened. If defeated, this would be the first time that she's seen Mystery siding with 'the warrior', upon which she likely feels betrayed after their very intimate relationship of creator/creation, or potentially even more, that she had with Mystery.
Potentially, Shiromori 'died' in that initial fight, which left Mystery to defeat or escape from Vivi's former incarnation. Now Mystery ended up with the reincarnation (perhaps even to keep his kitsune form under control?) and that's what has Shiromori flustered.
As for the EXACT order of events as I see them:
Yukino refers to the ancestor.
Mystery created Shiromori, they did some questionable stuff while Shiromori was still non-humanoid. Yukino confronted them, Mystery played it against Shiromori (or Shiromori lost it and became violent) and Mystery worked with Yukino to defeat her. Centuries later, Shiromori has a new weakened body and wishes to take revenge on Mystery for 'betraying' her (whether that's legitimate or not). The rest is as we've seen it, with the blush being a 'So I see you've REALLY chosen her in the end?' sort of jealousy.
The way I explain Mystery and Yukino fighting here is that that took place before Shiromori crossed some line Mystery wasn't willing to cross with her, and he was just defending himself.
Also, a fair point: Why would Shiromori be remembering Yukino attacking Mystery with glee? Perhaps she was a part of Yukino's weapon in that encounter? Or was manipulating them?
Not a theory of mine just match up some of them but I think to summarize everything, Shiromori is a flower born from Mystery blood. You can’t tell they were friends judging from the fact she seemed to grown into a big tree (the one mystery was laying on at 2:02), which is probably due from the fact Mystery kept feeding his blood and also from the fact she was holding the warrior from attacking Mystery (you can tell at 2:02 that greenish blue roots are holding the warrior as Mystery seemed to snicker). During the fight I think Shiromori attempted to protect Mystery who somewhat fell from the warrior and decide to stay at her side instead of Shiromori’s which made her upset because her friend and source of blood was being stolen. When they meet again Shiromori is afraid of the ‘warrior’ (Vivi) thinking she’s there to fight her only to realize that Mystery stayed at her side of her reincarnation, feeling stupid for still being jealous of their relationship she snapped and attack Vivi to get rid of her.
By the way maybe the warrior attacked Mystery because ‘he’ killed other samurai (we see a corpse at 2:02). Maybe the one that killed the samurai was in fact Shiromori who was protecting Mystery because they were friends
Hhahahah the "Lewis?" Made me actually laugh it was so startling.
Mystery didn't save Arthur's arm, he ripped it off to prevent whatever was taking over him to take him completely. What I always loved about that scene is how as Arthur starts to get possessed he starts to turn green which is the color of envy.
Also what I can't stop thinking about and I've been trying to figure out is why Mystery chooses to disguise himself as a dog. According to Japanese folklore kitsunes are extremely afraid of dogs, actually one of the ways they had to ward off kitsunes was with you guessed it, dogs.
Also gotta say awesome video, I had no idea of the names of the characters, nor I was able to see the images on the background when shiamori and Lewis start approaching their target.
You can see ghosts through out the series with sad faces or faces of regret my guess is they save arthur and as for shinomori i think the kitsunes blood has power as when he poured it on the flower it grew into a tree and gave life to her
I perceived the tear through the logo at the end as Arther suffering the same fate as Lewis did with a spike impaling Arther through the heart
If you are REALLY quick, you can see a couple frames of Mystery actually cringing as his transformation takes hold.
I think that’s his attempt to keep ahold of himself as his rage comes to the surface.
And another thing I note, is that the backstory of Shiromori has Mystery in a giant forest of the blue trees and red blossoms. I believe that the entire forest was associated with Shiromori somehow, that she is probably a sprite or spirit of that forest after “joining” with Nine-Tailed Mystery.
Thank you for making a video where you don’t spend five minutes introducing yourself and actually analyse the video in a straightforward way unlike every other UA-camr reviewing this vid 😂
I believe that creating the plant yokai was a deliberate act on Mystery part. He wanted a ally to help keeping him safe form attackers that would hunt and try to kill him. She is basically a Alura une a blood eating flower. However unlike other Alura une she can only get food form her master Mystery thus she is hungry.
watcher313 hungry either literally, or power hungry, as mystery's blood gives her power
Something I noticed throughout the video, is that when you look at the little ghosts that accompany Lewis, not all of them are mad. So, throughout the video there’s been a couple of sad ghosts. Perhaps this shows that, even while getting revenge, Lewis didn’t really mean it, and had simply let his rage take over. This is also backed up by Lewis’s heart breaking at the end, he’s heartbroken because he just killed his best friend, and he finally realized that.
You're right! That's a very cool detail.
Aww your little profile guy is so cute. Love it!
Thank you! 😊
I don't think Lewis intentionally revealed his true self, a bit of his purple energy surged through Arthur's arm when he reached out and grabbed Lewis and that allowed his eyes to see Lewis as he was, to recognize him
This was great and straight to the point ! I never knew their names Thank you!
Thank you very much! Glad I could help you understand the story!
they can take as much time as they want , the end product is totally worth it
For a small UA-camr I love your commentary 😩❤️
Thank you very much! I’m happy you enjoyed my video! 😊
also it's been confirmed by mysteryben *i think that's their name* on tumblr that in the logo it's Mystery's missing tails in the logo, not the ancestor's scarf~
- Someone proposed that Shiromori was a "jubokko", which is a yokai with a very on-the-nose MO: when fed blood, they become a blood-drinking demon. Only problem is that it's supposed to be HUMAN blood, so either Mystery killed humans as a kitsune to feed Shiromori (which now that I think about it makes a lot of sense; perhaps Vivi's ancestor was sent to save the townspeople from the evil kitsune?), or Ben took some creative liberties and that's Mystery's own blood. The more detailed post here: squigglydigglydoo.tumblr.com/post/179047564257/shiromori-mystery-ive-got-a-theory
- Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi's relationship, but probably not out of any romantic attraction to Vivi. Outside of flashbacks of him looking sad whenever his friends act all lovey-dovey, there's basically no indication that he cares for her as anything other than a friend-he never gives longing glances at her when she's not looking, never blushes or makes ANY move towards her even when he has ample opportunity to do so. I think it's more likely that he felt neglected for being the third wheel and worried that his friends didn't need him anymore. (Others speculate that he could've been pining after LEWIS instead, which IMO would be good plot twist that wouldn't out of left field. )
- Lance may have shot either Shiromori or Mystery. If it's the latter, Lance may not have recognized him in his kitsune and thought he wanted to hurt Vivi. :( Also Vivi's hand may have been sliced off by Shiro's shears... it's out of frame in the ending group shot and she looks pretty beat up. And the Mystery Skulls logo being shot gray does NOT help ease concerns lol
Good thinking! Arthur's emotions are defiantly open ended so I'm curious if they'll explore his feelings more.
its a good thing im in 2020 and the next mystery skulls is in a few months
Same here! 😂
Nice vid! One thing. Pay attention to the color theory in Shiramori's Backstory. the flower, the tree/forest and her share color themes. Pair this with some knowledge of Japanese mythos and you get this;
Kitsune (like many Japanese Youkai) are Animals that have lived for thousands of years and gained magic powers from it (interestingly NOT the other way around) as such why their body parts are filled with magic. As such, Mystery, a Kitsune at the time, likely fleeing from some encounter with humans, as it usually goes, finds himself in a forest, bleeding he stops to view a flower, and in doing so decides to impart some of his magic into it. Fast forward and you see Mystery, lazing in a tree the same color as the flower, with similar trees around, chances are the flower became these trees and in turn turned into a Youkai (ala the Juboko in GeGeGe no Kitaro ep 1) as the Swordwoman comes up, clearly ready to fight. Things turn around somehow as you mention, involving the Swordwoman now protecting Mystery for some reason.
One can parse this makes Shiramori as the spirit youkai of the forest, usually a protector, but since getting magic powers from the kitsune, it would seem (paired with her eyes after cutting Mystery) that the forest either needs or more likely lusts for more blood to gain more power and do what a Forest is meant to do; GROW. (Likely bigger, stronger... and worst; More dangerous)
I always thought flower lady was the reincarnation of the flower mystery bled on in the flashback. I was like "Oh no Arthur doesn't know it's him" when I watch 'Ghost'. Also you're turning into awesome ness helped me connect the dots between the videos. And let me not forget about the gunshot! I think Lance will shoot her shoulder and then mystery jumps on her(as in kick her ass).
Great vid my dude!!
I just rewatched the first animation again and realized that the dark silhouette that appears right before you see Arthur's eyes turn green, signifying his possession, looks just like Mystery. But I thought Mystery went with Vivi. Why is he being seen there?
Hmmm, that’s still a mystery! (no pun intended)
I was guessing it has to do with Mystery sneaking up on him to rip his arm off. We can see him having a “I don’t like the vibes of this place” when they first enter. Then we see him looking in the guys direction when they were splitting up. When it shows the cliff you can see Mystery barely peaking out from the entrance of that area as the guys are gawking at the cave. Then of course you see him directly behind him as Arthur gets possessed and bam. He rips his arm off because good doggo instincts.
So TL;DR: he never actually left the guys. He felt nervous about the place, more so the guys route than Vivi’s so he went with them to be sure.
I think this also contributes to Arthur Anxiously reaching to pet Mystery in Hellbent. He’s been with him for years he doesn’t need to be so careful, like he’s petting a pissed of stray cat. But he’s likely anxious from arm ptsd. I love my dog but I’m going to be careful as hell to if my dog ripped my arm of suddenly.
That's true. That also means that Vivi went alone but I noticed Mystery peaking his head out slightly. Also, wouldn't Arthur have been possessed while Mystery was biting off the possessed arm so Arthur wouldn't have much memory of it? Also, what does it mean when Arthur is a dark silhouette? Is he another being or something?
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I think that Arthur has memory akin to “mystery bit my arm off” but not necessarily “crazy demon kitsune bit my arm off”. But he doesn’t remember the even it’s. I think (just guessing here) that vivi explained what “happened” to him. Because you can’t just lose and arm and go “welp.” He probably asked Vivi what happened and the only evidence she might have had could be Mystery going with them. Which of course brings up to question if there was a bloody mess when the arm was bitten off or was it a clean cut because weird zombie possession stuff. So that’s mainly theory for me on that part tbh. I can’t think of any other reason Arthur would be nervous to pet Mystery. He a rather nice dog. They don’t know he has a kitsune form nor does he seem malicious to them. That’s why I proposed the arm ptsd theory.
For the silhouette thing. I’m assuming you mean the one in the flashback image? I think that silhouetting shows how he doesn’t have control. Like he’s a “husk” in this situation. It can also show how Lewis likely didn’t see the guilty side of his face when he died. Just the cruel grin of the possessed side of his body.
I think that’s what that silhouetting means... this one is a bit challenging because it breaks the rule of things being shaded out being threatening since it’s the other way around in the image. But that’s assuming you are talking about that part lol.
In the video, it showed how Arthur was jealous of Lewis and Vivi so could it be possible that he wasn't possessed at all and that the dark eyes was him finally realizing his hatred of Lewis so he pushed him off the side. And then the arm being bitten off could be symbolism of the evil inside Arthur finally being cast from him as he is regretting what he did to Lewis? Also, I am referring to the silhouette at 3:00 in the original video but I guess it could just be that it was dark and the scene wasn't focusing on Mystery considering the silhouette is his exact shape.
This was great! Thank you so much for making it. I never knew their names before. Did you make videos on the other two too? I would love to see videos on them!
If you noticed in freaking out Shiromori had a grey flower, or a dead/dying flower. So i believe mystery's blood is what heals the flowers/powers to do this correctly.
The only thing that is actually worth having in 2018 rather than a broken heart
"Louis?!" Killed me so much
My mind keeps wrapping around chimori being the flower given life or power somehow cause the forest that mystery kitsune also has the same color scheme as the flower and chimori
I just noticed, when Shiromori saw Vivi as the warrior Mystery has 9 tails. But Mystery currently has 6/7 tails as of the time that the animation takes place. Was this accidental, or did Mystery in a way betray Shiromori?
Kitsune gain a tail every one hundred years. Mystery went from six to seven tails between Ghost and Freaking Out, meaning he is about 700 years old.
Coincidentally, ninjas flourished in the 15th century, with some stories dating back as early as the 12th century. Mystery is at least as old as the 14th century.
I believe that Mystery was killed or otherwise defeated by Vivi's ancestor, and lost all his power in the process. He had to restart/be reincarnated at that time.
Don't know if Mystery explicitly "betrayed" Shiromori, she basically lusts for power from his blood anyway.
2:45 *That s a very risky way of blocking those scissors*
Two years of work has paid off
It's true every time I watch it or watch someone else watch it I see something new
You can also notice that in "Freaking out" during the scene with the van, you can briefly see a laptop with a map on it and Lewis's face crossed out on it. Maybe Arthur doesn't remember what happened in the cave and that is the reason why he is so shocked during the scene in "Hellbent" where he gets thrown onto the spikes. Maybe he thought that Lewis ran away or went missing in general and didn't know that he was dead, so maybe Arthur is so shocked because he doesn't know why Lewis did this to him and that he was dead.
SO MANY QUESTIONS AND NO ANSWERS! So now we wait another 2 years for another part which will likely also end with another cliffhanger. Goddammit.
wait there was a shot of arthur being possessed but in looked like half of his body was the only one that got taken but the left side of his body was shocked or upset etc even shed a tear. so my question is how come arthur doesn't remember anything? or know that luis is the mystery flaming skull dude?
also there was a shot of the vivi underneath the cliff were luis was pushed how come she didn't saw that or hear her lover dying?
Arthur likely blocked it out due to the trauma (Vivi also is blocking it out too) of getting possessed and losing his arm. You can see definite PTSD symptoms in Arthur in Freaking Out were he briefly hallucinates Mystery in his kitsune form. He also at the very start of this video is very clearly scared of Mystery but pushes through it.
I hope some group of animators work with this project so they can finish it at 1 year!
Yeeey?
I think Lewis' heart breaks when he realizes Arthur had no idea it was him all this time
Well actually in the beginning of one of the music videos (I forgot which one) Arthur says Lewis in a surprised and confused way
Did anyone else notice that the trees Mystery was sitting in were the same as Shiromori?
the green trunk
the white leaves
the pink flower
Is it possible that those trees were actually her? Could Mystery's blood be what gave her life?
Hey! Just heads up- don’t know if you just misspoke but mystery skulls isn’t just the name of the animated series, it’s the name of the actual band! I don’t know if they planned on having this animated series after the first music video but it took off so they continued it :) the rest of their music is awesome too
What ifshirimori is the past warrior?, it shows us a flash back of the warrior fighting mystery, and mystery having a cut on the cheek like how shirimori did with dog form mystery, and then was revived due to mystery’s blood doping on the flower, and in some way vivid is a dependent of shirimori, just didn’t know about it
I dont know if anyone mentioned this but the image where the tree is holding the warrior down and leaving flowerpower and mystery to do as they please with her... shes missing bandages/bracelet on (her right our left) arm. Just like she has currently because of her fight earlier in Freaking Out. I have a feeling it's a shot from the future, no the past. Seems too convenient that BOTH times by TWO different people her arm was destroyed and regenerated. I think Mystery served Shiro in the past and he's fighting/running to prevent it from happening again.
Recently found this, and it's amazing!
Thank you for making this video :3
Thank you for watching!
you'll notice arthurs ar starts working after he is grabbed.
thank, this video helped, i didn't know their names and it may be cool to see what happens to aurther
1:39 If you look closely on warrior's hands, you can clearly see, that the tree's roots hold her hands tight.
crowned cryptid, i don't know if you saw my post in freaking out but i want to know your opinion on my theory about lewis. "So Lewis is a special kind of ghost, he repurposed his corpses heart upon death into a horcrux, gaining the abilities of a lich while still being a ghost. The key difference is that, his "physical body" is phaseable because of it. The horcrux can also briefly phase in and out but only temporarily it seems. Its durability is weak as it is hollow. seeming to crack with minimal force like glass. Since he has a horcrux, his time in the world is also not limited by his resentment or "unfinished business" . He has the ability to "take in" or "create" more weaker ghosts as well, abit limited however. He can create a limbo dimension (Ghost mansion, disappears after he hibernates). He can possess not only living things but also machines as well, and repurpose them to his desire, displaying great intelligence. He has an extremely fast reaction time and can adapt to almost any situation on the fly (walking out while thinking, getting hit by a truck and deciding to use it for his goals). The lich side of him allows him his great intelligence and magical ability. He can wield a special kind of ghost fire, it can burn hot, cold or be lukewarm. The fire can be physical or incorporeal. It can also be explosive or docile. He can float and manifest his physical body from and to the horcrux. He can control his ghosts as if they are him and use them as his eyes and ears. He can use illusion magic to show his "alive" body and overlay it with his current one, or use it to project a part of his memories. He can also transform himself into the ghostfire he creates. Due to the unique nature of his "ghostification", he is immune to water (part lich) and fire (Pure heart + Has the fire element) and holy power (Pure Heart/Not evil). If lewis is badly damaged or weakened, he can return himself to his horcrux to heal."
Woah very interesting! I never would've thought his powers have so much depth! Thank you for sharing!
The blue Warrior is actually an Alive shiromori but mystery kills her so the now shiromori is now a zombie tree this is why when Luis rips her Head off she can grow back body parts
You can also tell that Lewis feel remorseful from the shot of him tossing Arthur in the van. His eyes are at first still filled with hatred as normal, but when Arthur wakes up & freaks out (heh), Lewis's eyes change to a more concerned & thoughtful look. Which is indicative that he's double thinking about what he's about to do, like he's saying to himself "should I do this...maybe I shouldn't..." Also, one of the three ghosts that are most seen with him has a frown on his face in not only the end of Freaking Out, but all of Hellbent. If you subscribe to the theory that these ghost represent his emotions, & the others are all his rage & resentment, that this one is his regret & his conscious. Lewis's embodiment of guilt. But that's only from a certain perspective, even if that could easily be construed as evidence supporting it.
Something interesting about the whole thing, Lewis's heart is broken way worse then when Vivi accidentally dropped it in Ghost. Its faded, the cracks run all over. Plus his expression becomes far softer than anything we've ever seen when he interacts with even the thought of Arthur (he grows enraged when he sees the flower tied to Arthur in "Freaking Out").
I think it has something to do with how Arthur recognizes him, and his expressions after. Theres something just... shocked or broken in his expression as he falls. Perhaps because of the realization that Lewis is a Ghost, and is so angry with him.
Based on Arthur's computer in the vid "freaking out", Arthur was looking for Lewis. Whatever magic last-wish thing Lewis made that made Vivi forget (the pink in her eyes in Ghost after his death) could have made Arthur forget as well. Or maybe the whole experience was so traumatic that he couldn't remember what happened to Arthur, only that his friend was missing. A third option is the green entity that possessed him also messed up his memory, made it fuzzy or unreliable, making it seem as though Lewis simply vanished.
All around... damn I'm not even sure, I only remembered and watched the whole series recently. Hellbent I'd never seen, and it was both fantastic and tugging at my heartstrings. I hope they find a way to resolve things, or Arthur is gonna wind up dead too :/ they don't need two ghosts on the Mystery Skulla
I think Lewis' heart cracked because he realized that Arthur didn't know it was him. All this time he thought "He's running away because he knows it's me and he's scared of facing consequences" but in that moment, where Arthur said his name, SHOCKED, Lewis finally understood that he didn't know. Though, he already released his grip and dropped Arthur, which is why the shock hit him a bit too late.
OAO His arm is possesed? I knew there was something that was suspicious about Athur when he pushed Lewis from the Cliff!
Wait, is the logo of the scarf, or a pair of mystery's tails? If it's the latter, that could imply that Mystery gets shot...
Goldie Tamamo probably. And tbh I wouldn’t blame Lance. I would shoot the demon dog looking creature too.
thank you for this analysis my good sir
There's a small detail that people keep missing. (Likely because they didn't bother looking very closely at Arthur's laptop in Freaking Out...) While it's true that Arthur didn't know that Lewis was the titular Ghost, he *did* suspect that it might be possible, or he wouldn't have added the Ghost to the Arthur search map that he was secretly working on.
Damn two years 2020 is a long time well guess it's worth it
Oh, I think that shiromori is the trees grow from the flower to which misteri gave her blood
By the time the fourth one comes out, I'll be able to legally drink.
Lewis's ghosts are an extension of himself the sad looking deadbeat that's seen many times during the video may represent his reluctance guilt and sadness that he cast out in order to focus in revenge that deadbeat (the cute ghostie) will be the one to save arthur
something i found out about mystery is that as soon as he is shown transforming, there is a second after it with normal mystery. It implies that he did not transform
We need a complete serie on UA-cam or Netflix.... Plz make it real!
I saw a pretty solid theory on Shiromori and her connection to Mystery. Here’s a link: squigglydigglydoo.tumblr.com/post/179047564257/shiromori-mystery-ive-got-a-theory
Basically, the main idea is that Shiromori is a jubokko - a tree monster with a thirst for blood - that was inadvertently(?) created by Mystery.
Oh interesting! Thanks for sharing!
I don't know if anybody else has seen it, but on the handle of the bat (after ViVi drops it facing off with Shiromori), there is a snowflake design on it and some (I assume Japanese) characters on the snowflake. Further supporting the ViVi is a descendant of the ice Ninja warrior girl?
I questioning if you overlooked the one ghost who constantly has a sad/concerned face... dont know if thats a detail but i saw that it appeared more than 3 times durring the video
i think blood dripping of the flover was birth of shiromori, and she hounts our doggo to steal rest of his powers.
Vivi is a relative of the blue samurai, not a reincarnation. When the bat gets knocked out of Vivi’s hands, and lands in front Mystery, you can see a protection charm on the hand of the bat. The kanji on the charm are 「家内安全」(かないあんぜん)[kanaiannzenn] which mean “Safety in The Family”. Perhaps the blue samurai knew that Shiromori (whose name translates as “white forest”) will return.
I have a feeling Lance shot Mystery and now we're gonna find out why Shiromori is so damn obsessed with Mystery's blood.
Before I saw this video I was watching a random video with voice over's of hell bent and when Lewis drooped Arthur he said "He didn't do it" So what if when he threw him he somehow figured out Arthur is innocence? I don't know it just got me thinking
In the cliff hanger shot I believe it is likely that Lewis realized he may have made a mistake resulting from the fact that he gave in to his anger, It may also stem from the fact that Arthur dying will cause ViVi pain and sadness for the loss of a friend at the hands of her former lover.