Assuming she has any power to begin with, even if she does, it doesn't seem to be that strong if she couldn't do shit to stop the resets and all that. Otherwise, she is just a normal teenage girl and Akira an adult who not only pursued something with Maya willingly, he also willingly went with whatever Maya did to "steal" him; broken or not he has proven to be able to say no when he doesn't want something, so saying Maya did it all is unfair, he is just as guilty.
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Interesting, my interpretation from "but of course she" was that she managed to get off the bus but was stopped by Maya from hugging him.
I guess that she wasn't able to leave the bus is also valid.
I agree, Maya was a child. I think it is relevant that he was broken, and that she acted in bad-faith, and forced/manipulated and even perhaps blackmailed him - since that is also evidenced by her strong refusal to the fact that she was molested. But Akira was still an adult that most likely wanted to "pet the cat" when he first met her. They're both wrong here, or none of them are depending on how the story ends. But we can't in good faith just blame one side (especially not Maya's since, again, a child).
Looking at it from that perspective, yes, she takes it way too well. Like way too well. She either remembers fragments of the cycles, or Akira had this happen other times before the resets (Ami is fully acquainted with his sanity pack and auto-pilot mode). Or maybe both.
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I know I'm a page late (and honestly other people did a very good and detailed dive into it too!) but yeah in addition to all that, the RL stalker this was a big turn off.
Also, to go a little more meta on it, I remember when she was first introduced Sel doing a post somewhere to the effect of "if the perfect girl doesn't exist you create her, meet Noriko", so when she was so unhinged during her intro scenes, I was already on alert. There was also some other Sel comment when someone was asking him about the original plans for the story if the second floor hadn't gotten added, and he said that Niki would've still happened and been (obviously) vital to the story, but I assumed from that point that Noriko was basically shoehorned in. To be fair, this was all quite a while ago and I might be misremembering!
In general though, I feel like most of the characters besides the original 10 are unnecessary and contribute to bloat on an already insanely bloated game, even the ones that I've come to really like. Uta is probably my favorite of the main cast, but her story is pretty much a nothingburger with a crazy amount of stringing along. This is what happens when the author takes so much pride in word count though
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A little while back there was some discussion of gods and trees in relation to Kaori's events in the forest and Wires's possible involvement. It turns out that in Chapter 1 there is some pretty strong evidence that trees are connected to all of the trinity, and probably to gods in general.
On the first beach trip, after Sensei begins to disassociate, his inner monologue starts talking about a tree that represents the trinity.
In "Trinity pt. I" three spotlights that almost certainly represent three gods shine on a tree:
A connection between gods and trees is also made in "Trinity pt. III" when the "narrator" (probably Pareidolia) goes on a rant against Maya. We're told she's not a god at the same time the text on screen says she's not a tree:
The trinity tree is also referenced by the narrator in the final beach event.
One more interesting tree reference is by Tsuneyo when she talks about her dad's love of trees.
Returning to Kaori, it unfortunately seems pretty ambiguous who could be acting through the forest. It also re-raises the question of who sent the treasure maps - I think the original consensus was that it was Wires because of his connection to trees? But given Nao's connection to USER4 and the idea that USER4 could be the tree's trunk, maybe it was them instead?
On the first beach trip, after Sensei begins to disassociate, his inner monologue starts talking about a tree that represents the trinity.
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In "Trinity pt. I" three spotlights that almost certainly represent three gods shine on a tree:
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A connection between gods and trees is also made in "Trinity pt. III" when the "narrator" (probably Pareidolia) goes on a rant against Maya. We're told she's not a god at the same time the text on screen says she's not a tree:
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The trinity tree is also referenced by the narrator in the final beach event.
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One more interesting tree reference is by Tsuneyo when she talks about her dad's love of trees.
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Returning to Kaori, it unfortunately seems pretty ambiguous who could be acting through the forest. It also re-raises the question of who sent the treasure maps - I think the original consensus was that it was Wires because of his connection to trees? But given Nao's connection to USER4 and the idea that USER4 could be the tree's trunk, maybe it was them instead?
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This is a very good analysis. I can't see anything wrong about the conclusion of which parts of the tree each god is. Good job.
On the narrator addressing people, Rin possibily hears the narrator when she's rejected by Chika and is patted by Akira (it's either the narrator or the room with the clocks) - but Ayane for sure hears the narrator on "all for you".
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Yeah, Sensei consoling Rin is the same event that I was talking about. Before she starts hearing the ticking, the narrator talks to her:
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Ayane hearing the narrator in "All For You" is really interesting, thanks for pointing that out. I already thought that narrator was Himawari, and for me that basically confirms it. Seems like she's intentionally raising her voice so that Ayane can hear even though she's talking to Sensei, which makes sense for Himawari because she's doing it "all for [Sensei and Ayane]".
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You'll have to be more specific.
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What's happening is that we're almost reaching page 1900 before the update rolls in.
Keep em theories, silly and appreciation posts coming. Nearly there boys.
Keep em theories, silly and appreciation posts coming. Nearly there boys.
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I always find it mildly amusing when folks reference the page count, you know you can edit how many posts appear on each page yeah? We're on page 633 for me currently, the far more useful and important number is post count and for that, we're a few weeks away from 40,000.
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Let's try to keep things moving then. If you had to adopt one of the girls from the class who would you choose? I'd go with Yasu, something about her activates my protective instinct.
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Sana... for reasons...
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Hey if we're going by those reasons I'll take them all.
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From class? It should come as no surprise, but Ami. Her love would be unconditional, the cleaning and cooking around the house would be more or less handled, and after the trauma she’s endured she really does need someone to hold her together.
This wasn’t asked, but I’m throwing in Chinami and Tsukasa too. Chinami needs stability and Tsukasa just needs new parents in general. Really sad…
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Ami's a strong contender for sure, if only she were a bit less batshit.