It's not them but the two radio guys Hani and Laima on left and right (you can see them at the begining of chapter 53).
Do you have a link to this commentary?
there is a.... jar... on her. that's almost certainly where her brain is
The source is an interview Ishiguro gave for the guidebook released last year, you can read a semi-machine translation of the interview here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sv6IKjkEMcJ2eG-0HZ6Iv2thcsK71tKRBo-lHNvGrX0/mobilebasic
Kiruko just had their period at the end of the previous chapter, they literally can’t be pregnant.
Why would they be in Osaka?
Considering how surprised Sawatari/Sakota was at The Director's plan to transplant her brain, I don't think there were necessarily plans for anyone besides The Director to transplant their brains into a student's body.
The asteroid wasn’t an unexpected thing like the mystery disease was, the asteroid hitting Earth was always part of the plan. Like that’s why those synthetic soldiers (the ones that the same gun as Kiruko’s) were created, to sabotage various nations’ attempts to keep the asteroid from impacting Earth.
bleeding during pregnancy can be mistaken for a period while pregnant, and pregnancy bleeding, especially in the first cycle after conception, is more common than you might expect...
It’s still not that common, it only occurs in about 30% of pregnancies. And besides the “it wasn’t a dump” line implying that it was blood, the fact that Kiruko expected more bleeding (and cramping/pain) over the next day or two (hence their request for a towel) indicates that it is indeed menstrual bleeding, and not implantation bleeding (and as we see in this chapter they stayed for another 3 days, which is in the normal range of how long a period lasts).
You’ve mixed up so many things.
It’s still not that common, it only occurs in about 30% of pregnancies. And besides the “it wasn’t a dump” line implying that it was blood, the fact that Kiruko expected more bleeding (and cramping/pain) over the next day or two (hence their request for a towel) indicates that it is indeed menstrual bleeding, and not implantation bleeding (and as we see in this chapter they stayed for another 3 days, which is in the normal range of how long a period lasts).
If Ishiguro wanted to foreshadow pregnancy he would likely use and depict a symptom that’s far more common/universal to pregnancy than implantation bleeding, like he previously did with Tokio’s morning sickness.
Still being worried about Kiruko being pregnant after these chapters is like the equivalent of speculating about, for example, if a main character in a futuristic science-fiction story lost an arm after a big battle/fight, because we haven’t seen them remove their cloak since the big fight. But then when the character finally removes their cloak in the most recent chapter/part of the story and shows the audience they are unwounded and literally has a scene dedicated to showing that they have both arms, it would be like someone then going, “ah but what if they have a convincing prosthetic arm, and they actually did lose an arm?”
Yes, that’s technically possible, but it’s extremely unlikely when the most recent scene/chapter/etc. had just been dedicated to showing that character was unwounded. And that’s when this sort of “speculation” gets annoying.
For anyone who might be interested here are some updated character charts for the series
It's implied by the fact that Mako and the Man-Eater from volume 7 share very similar powers (which is a general rule of thumb for Man-Eaters and their original human selves in general). Also on a Doylistic/meta level Ishiguro tends to introduce Man-Eaters in the 2039 narrative around the same time their original human selves are given focus/introduced in the 2024/past narrative.
