Quick question. What's your opinion on Pareidolia? Good, bad, in between? Do you trust them or not? Do you think they will betray Akira or not?
Personal op is that they are in between. They are good for Sensei but will also use bad methods to achieve good things. Personally I trust Pareidolia for now but do think that they will in turn betray Akira in one way or another.
I have a theory where Pareidolia is something like Akira's will.
Talked about it some time ago.
With the last two updates, i was surprised how shitty Pareidolia seems to be, while it pretended to be a "friend" in the past.
But it could go with my theory that it is Akira's will, it might just be an ass because it is parked at Hope's for now, and we might see it move to a better state of mind.
Some more detail:
Imagine the cross, Hope is a station (The Predator/Callous/Whatever), The Wire God is a station (The Calm One/maybe a catatonic Akira)(wonder if it gets a unique name in the future), maybe we get one or two more stations (since it was implied the cross has four), and Pareidolia (Akira's will) can shift between those stations.
Like, how every normal human being can behave differently from time to time, just with Akira, it's more extreme.
And Pareidolia (Akira's will/ (sub) conscious) is trying to move towards a better place, whatever that might be.
I think that would be a pretty cheap twist tbh. The story has built up Maya and Akira's relationship way too much for it to be not genuine. What I think the twist (which is hardly a twist at this point with how many hints we've had) will be Akira realizing that he did the same thing to her that Sekai did to him, which might have been the realization that led him to suicide in the first place.
I have a different opinion here.
I don't think it's about Akira abusing Maya, they are more like bound by the same experience.
I don't remember the exact event(s), but something was narrated that seems to tie to Maya:
"A girl being sexually abused by a distant relative" (PeekABoo event"?)
I think Akira and Maya had that abuse stuff in common, that's why they bonded and fell for each other, dispite the age gap.
Maya even states that they are both fucked up, like mentally.