Prior to the start of the game, I said.
How do you define start of the game? Do you include things that allegedly happened, according to Maya in "the game"?
would cause that retention to have driven them insane by now. The human brain can only handle so much stress and each compounding sense of doing things over and over would add to that stress.
That is, assuming they are human. But consider how Makoto were "fixed" when she got too much out of "character". Also, while they retain memories between RESETS, that is not the case with the LOOPS (although, as I previously said, they may retain and recontextualize some things). Maybe all of them have this nagging deja vu feeling in the back of their minds. We just haven't explored it yet. Or maybe, the effects aren't as obvious. Take Wakana. She doesn't seem to experience deja vu, or glitch, but instead has this overwhelming feeling that everything she does is meaningless, because intuitively, she made a connection: constant resets -> pupils never graduate -> her job is pointless.
Certainly not, no definitive statements should be possible with such little information, only theories.
I originally thought about the isekai thing meaning the different Senseis were separate people, but given things Maya has said, about different versions and not being the correct one, I believe this to actually be a case of split personalities. Old Sensei was the kind Sensei all the girls of the original main cast knew and was the teacher of that class while player Sensei is a newly surfaced, but entirely complete personality that surfaced in response to, potentially, the trauma of the accident.
No, THIS Sensei is one of those split personalities if his personality even split at any point. With split personalities, what is true of one personality is true of all others generally speaking. Not so much when going into the specifics, but when talking about being the same person with a different personality, it doesn't matter which Sensei you talk about. If these are different split personalities, they are still all the same person.
I'm not following you on this one. Do you think that previous iterations of Sensei (from previous loops) were the same guy, just different personalities, or it was always the same guy with two personas of OG Sensei and cynical Sensei?
Him being isekai'd would also imply that he had another life, different from this one, no Nakiyamas, Arakawas, tutoring. I do distinctly remember him saying somewhere at the beginning that he no longer remembers what his life was, implying that at some point at the beginning of LiL he had at least vague memories.
Which makes me think of this:
he had his "real" life -> died -> was put in new body -> lived as Sensei Arakawa, dated Nikki as teenager, were a tutor to Maya -> grow up, something happens -> he's out of the body -> other "dead" people take turns to be "Sensei", while Maya waits all this time through resets for a "real deal" to finally get his turn -> she doesn't want him to "succeed" (she straight up says she wants him to fail to a "certain extent", that stuck with me, just can't find the event), nor to disappear, just to keep on living.
I still think the detentions were before and Yumi happened to retain those memories considering other main cast members have retained some form of memories in other events, such as remembering the first beach trip having happened.
Oh, boy, let's make it more confusing.
What do you mean by "before"? Previous Time Loops or Before Time Loops, aka in "Normal World"?
And they do retain memories between the resets (not loops), they just got all confused when they think about time. As you mention below.
I would say the space war is definitely from before the resets given that it is a war and sounds like it had already been going , but the odd seasons and events happening in what someone perceives as an odd time of year or happening not long after something else, including the same event in a previous reset in some cases, is being questioned to an extent.
They aren't full blown complaining or anything like that, but questions have been raised.
I remember it was more like "isn't it werid, lol?" and not actually questioning things. To my point: they mostly take things as is. So I can easily imagine them accepting a weird guy dropped on them as their homeroom teacher out of nowhere at the very beginning of The Loops, rationalizing it away and then, after several loops all those events and partly forgotten memories formed a proper legend.
I'm pretty sure Wire Tree and HOPE were at odds with each other if I remember the early Yasu events correctly.
I don't remember, need to replay. I do remember a lot of wiring and trees in Yasu's dialogues with Sensei.
