Ohh, so the Io thing was her trying to push the boundaries of reality like she was doing with Nodokathon? That actually makes more sense than Nodokathon if she's actively testing how accurate her intuitions are, still a bitch move as you said. That said, I wouldn't put it past her to keep her true motives a secret and my theory could still explain why she chose to do that to Io specifically.
I don't know about Nodoka *knowing* stuff exactly, as she seems to be less in control of what she knows than say Yasu. She also seems to genuinely care for Akira (not that it matters much since she also "cares" about Futaba) - thing is though, as AmIOkay pointed out during that one event I'm yet to figure out what she meant (in which she calls Akira Sekai), Nodoka cares for the Akira that is a product of Sekai. I get the feeling that she respects and cares for him insofar that he is a sprouted seed of that which she wants to be as well.
I think Ami might be the last person Akira wants to have a serious conversation about Sekai with.
Those are some very good points overall. I'd just like to add that it doesn't require Akira to convince Ami that her mother was a monster for him to conclude and face that she was one (in his thoughts). What's most important imo is that he talks about her with someone.
I kinda thought Io was probably just asexual, trauma or no. Like she just seems completely uninterested in it and would rather just build furniture, I'm not sure she's even mentioned masturbating. And there's also the meds, speaking from personal experience as someone who was on a shitload of those drugs as a teenager (and still is at...oh god, a year younger than Sensei), they can have weird side-effects on libido and all that shit.
I would assume everything Nodoka does is to achieve some goal, so probably. This seemed to upset the natural order of things. Now everyone will probably feel differently about Io to some degree, and she'll have to deal with that as well. A few words, and reality was altered, even if slightly, and by her, instead of say, Sensei.
And that's how it should be!
You're all wankers! it's about time we get that kind of scene and IO is the best target.
The Ayane naming event worries me because it reminds me of an event where the player had to input a name himself (my memory is very vague since it was a long time ago) and basically, somewhere in the game files there is a custom input, unique to every player and their version of the game that Selebus might or might not force you to remember in a future reset wall. Not only am I never going to remember any of these but the save I am playing from isn't even my original game, since I had to download someone else's file because of the care package bullshit.
