One thing I forgot is that deer are also specifically mentioned as something man can eat and part of the cycle of life, potentially able to be used (tenuously.) I don't have a specific theory, I just think it's an amalgamation of religious influences in which the 'deer' is a messenger, touched by god, a special person, or potentially a fawn that can be used and broken. I wouldn't be too worried about it or think it's definitive. I mainly know about Abrahamic influences, but there's also interpretations where the deer is a symbol of nature and Earth / gods of the Earth. Insert Sekai influence theories.
That's actually kinda big brain. Deer are often seen as skittish and specifically blinded by car lights / unable to understand what's happening, in that example. I don't know enough to say for sure, but I definitely overlooked the "deer in headlights" and easily spooked / aloof and unaware* aspect.
There is no one in this game that was more justified in Akira loving than Maya. She's his one partner (aware of what's happening) from beginning to the factory reset. That one partner is revealed to have been hiding a boundless love with a mask for fear of breaking him - which he discovers bit by bit, while having to work harder on her than on anyone else. He's been shown countless times to choose her over everyone else - most importantly over Sekai's memories (which is how the whole Maya thing started in his past). He's responsible for her "death", in which she professes her undying love for him.
Good rule of thumb: Before playing a new update, copy all of your saves and put them inside a different folder. It can even be inside the saves folder, but make a new folder (named "backup" for instance) for it. That should be enough to protect you from Selebus trying to erase them, since that new folder will not be recognized by LiL.
That's what we're told. I don't see anything about her that would justify it. Apart from Otoha she is the least interesting girl. Her personality is unappealing, both pre- and post-reset. He acts like she's this amazing person and nothing about her actually shows that to be true.
It really bugs me that Akira is going around telling pretty much everyone (except poor Miku) that he loves them now. I don't think he really knows what love is because of what Sekai did to his head. However he clearly does love Maya and has good reason to as you outlined. The others I think he truly loves are Ami, Niki and possibly Sekai if you can call it love and not stockholm syndrome. Him telling Io he loved her seemed completely out of nowhere and felt slimy as fuck. It also shows a complete shift in his perspective on sex, previously he told Yasu "sex has nothing to do with love, it's just an action" and now he's saying sex the only way he knows how to show love.
The first time I played LiL I hated Yasu and the weird ass stuff (when she showed up as a student I was like "oh great, here we go again"), and completely ignored many of the characters. Chika? "meh, that has got to be a generic gyaru". I skipped through every single one of her events, "so she has a sister huh, meh whatever" - and kept skipping. That was the same for a few other charactes.
This might sound off topic but that dialogue with Uta where Sensei acknowledges his problem when he says "When will you hold me accountable!?" is the exact thing I would've wanted from Mushoku Tensei which makes me wonder if Selebus has been watching that anime as he's writing this VN.
It's possible? I have read the entirety of Mushoku's novel a couple of years ago. I... did not like it. Let's just say I consider Selebus a much better writer whose fetishes blend much better in his story than Mushoku's.
