Hi hi cherry, I saw your answer to this one ask about prisoners dying and I wanted to add my two cents. I personally feel like characters dying would have more than just shock value. One of the core aspect of the series (imho) is how it's a social experiment, meaning that We as an audience and how we react to the events play a huge role in what makes the series what it is. What I'm trying to get at is how, the narrative itself had warned us about events that Will Likely happen if we vote certain ways (Haruka if Mu guilty, Amane if She & Shidou inno which might affect Mahiru) and people decided to ignore them. It'd just put a Lot of Weight behind our actions if the writers decided to go through with what they had warned us, basically subjecting the audience to more than just shock but also guilt and a sense of "dread" over how to vote in the final rounds, and all of this will especially impact Es as a character, since they represent us, and how they interact with the rest of the prisoners.

But a random other thing I've been thinking about is what actually happens when characters Die, because Milgram doesn't really follow Real World logic. When I checked what Jackalope said about how Mahiru would've died, he used the word "Lost" and I found it to be a pretty... interesting way to refer to death. I'm spitballing here without any evidence but what if even if characters die we still have "leftovers" of them, we still get their songs...etc but we can only "bring them back to life" if we vote them Innocent.