Talk:The Journalist/@comment-27740736-20160205193923

Everyone's wondering about who the Journalist's daughter is, but I'm still stuck on her dead mother. The way the Journalist described him struck me as strange, somehow:

"It was around this point in time that I met my future wife.

I still don't understand what she saw in me.

I was an absolute wreck, not to mention the laughingstock of the entire country.

But as soon as we met, 'she wanted to spend every waking moment with me. She wouldn't let me out of her sight, and got possessive if another woman so much as looked at me.'

I quickly began to depend on her for everything.

It wasn't long before I couldn't live without her.

I certainly wasn't in any state to take care of myself...

''I was like an adult-sized baby. Helpless and vulnerable.''

Who knows...maybe that's what she was attracted to.

Maybe she just wanted to experience the sensation of owning a person.

Maybe she wanted to keep a human pet."

I have bolded the most important parts.

This makes me think that perhaps the Journalist's wife was a yandere as well. Not necessarily the kind that Ryouba and Yandere-chan are - the murderous kind - but perhaps a more manipulative sort. I've also wondered why Ryouba didn't just kill the Journalist right after the court session. As she said, it would be so easy to make it look like a suicide - so why not do it? She should have known that destroying the Journalist's reputation would only throw oil into the flames of his anger, so why not neutralize the threat while it's still easy and causes much less trouble for her in the long run?

Maybe the Journalist's wife was actually another yandere, maybe it was Ryouba's friend or even relative, since apparently differing forms of insanity run in the family. Because the Journalist was so preoccupied with hunting Ryouba he didn't even notice there was someone stalking him.

You'd think that someone as skilled at sneaking around would notice someone's following him around, but one specific sentence by Ryouba in one of the basement tapes("I saw someone who I haven't seen in decades! ...and by that, I mean this is the first time he's seen ME in decades.") implies that Ryouba's been watching him without being seen just fine.

So maybe she and the other yandere had a deal - Ryouba leaves the Journalist alive, but still ruins his life so the other yandere can swoop in and save his poor soul (and so he no longer has the power to expose Ryouba). After the yandere wife died, the Journalist wasn't an active threat anymore/yet so there was no reason for Ryouba to go hunt him down immediately, however, once he started following her again - with no yandere wife to protect him this time - Ryouba decided to live up to her threat and finish him off once and for all.