Milgram Rants(mostly Shidou and Mahiru)
With the way Yamanaka had written the story having certain verdicts in mind for characters he doomed himself and the story because he was biased towards certain routes. This becomes apparent when you notice the routes Yamanaka had obviously intended for to happen came about, such as Muu Inno T1 Guilty T2 and Fuuta Guilty T1 but Inno T2.(You could argue he intended for Muu to be more divisive T1, but it never came about.) It becomes especially glaring when Yamanaka was shocked by the idea that Mahiru got Guilty T1, and after that he abandoned her character by making her auxiliary for Shidou and he wrote the plot in such a way where she was so much more injured than Fuuta, another prisoner who was attacked by Kotoko to the point that without Shidou, Mahiru would die. They say as much in the Trial 2 Commencement Video which leads me to believe that this is simply because he saw Mahiru as more expendable than Fuuta who's arc still had an interesting route to go after getting a T1 Guilty whereas Mahiru's did not.
Speaking of Mahiru
Mahiru is a cute character, but as a character her writing doesn't grip my mind and make me think of her often. Nothing in her character arc was used to say anything of substance regarding love and that was her whole theme, so it's a massive let down.
She had the one topic that brings out both the most beautiful and ugliest in humans despite not being the heaviest thing but you mean to tell me that's all they managed? she had the strongest and most relatable base with her yet they couldn't make anything of substance out of it, like...huh? How does the character who's writing revolves around having the most human emotion manage to feel the least human in the cast. Make it make sense.
Once she got that T1 Guilty, there was zero hope for her character.
Shidou's case made me feel completely nothing. I burst out laughing when I read his report due to how nonsensical it was.
One evening, there is a collision between a taxi and a large commercial truck. The victims who were brought into the hospital were his wife and two children. They had been heading to the hospital via taxi to bring a change of clothes for Shidou that he had forgotten that day. It was a devastating accident, and it was clear that both his wife and children would not survive without immediate care. It is generally forbidden for surgeons to perform on their family members. Shidou was put in charge of the surgery for the driver, the very man who had just bulldozed his entire family. Shidou's head was in a panic, but his hands moved automatically. He quietly killed the truck driver, taking care to make it look unintentional. He thought, the sooner he was done with this surgery, the sooner he could take care of his own family.
You really expecting me to believe that the moment the hospital heard of the fact that Shidou's family and the Truck Driver were in a RELATED accident where they both injured eachother, and their first instinct is to make Shidou WORK on the Truck Driver, while also having the same amount of common sense to say:"Yeah, we can't let you work on your family"(understandable), but then they go around and say that Shidou should work on the same guy in the accident with them? What makes this whole case a bigger clown show is the fact that not ONCE do they ever say or imply that the hospital was understaffed, fans can say this, yes, but at the end of the day it's just an excuse from us the fans to fill in holes from LOUSY ass writing. It shouldn't be up to us to fill it in, that's the writer's job. All of this screams poorly thought out for the sake of making the audience sad with artificial tragedy, but I couldn’t care for it at all. If I want to see something like that, I can just watch a soap opera on Tubi or whatever.
I really don't care about Shidou and Mahiru, but going over their cases again multiplied my apathy towards their cases and frustration with Yamanaka for his writing choices.