I don’t know about y’all but I would have maybe tried to grab her if I’ve seen her get close to the platform. Just a thought…

''A rare type of photosensitive epilepsy, triggered by specific light patterns present in the video." - This reminds me of some anime that include warnings about epilepsy due to visual effects that can cause seizures in some people. thank you for teaching us, takao-sensei 😁

Well, she’s not wrong… Mafuyu has been cursed to living a life of always being careful about what she watches, potentially potent medications, and a ton of extra oversight and bureaucratic hurdles for things like getting a driver’s license. @rikka@ani.social

I am not sure how much of a mystery this case turned out to be. I pretty much knew what the answer was going to be as the OP was playing. A large part of that is probably due to family members that are prone to photo-induced epileptic seizures. So, this was not a huge surprise. I am by no means an expert in this area though, so I didn’t know that walking or other sophisticated movements could be an effect, but it wasn’t too much of a logical leap. Also, being able to reproduce a seizure at will like what happened at the end of the episode is not how any of this works. That was merely for the dramatics of the show. That doesn’t even get into the ethics of a doctor intentionally producing a seizure in a patient to prove a point.

As a related aside, photo-induced seizures are something that impacts anime and that anime has actually played a large part in helping implement mitigation strategies for broadcast television. If you want to know more, @LiteralGrill@ani.social shared an excellent article (comments thread) about it a while back.