Saki has no idea what Kumon-mi is, and yet she lived with Akira in the old district, didn't she? I don't think Yuu, Saki and Miu moved to another city after school either.
I can't recall if their world was TERMINAL21 or 22, but that she has no idea about the name of the city they are supposed to live in is certainly telling. I mean, it's not surprising that Kumon-mi is fake, but this is certainly another evidence of it.
Edit: It is also a bit weird that Akira can simply meet his mom and be super okay with it.
The Saki he's meeting is presumably substantially younger than any version he would have known. If I met a 16 year old version of my mother, I wouldn't recognize her at all. He doesn't understand the significance of the encounter until MUCH later in the story. Hell, even by the second dorm war, he couldn't remember her name and had no memory of her.
That's just another random girl to him during this encounter.
Very disappointing to find out that New Nodoka has kept the smirk.
I assume she deliberately got an identical copy of Chika's outfit to fuck with her, but I wonder - if she was able to remember Chika's outfit from the previous Christmas parties, wouldn't that mean she's managed to avoid a full factory reset? New Maya doesn't remember anything from the first three chapters. It would be anticlimactic (but not out of character for Selebus) if she continues acting exactly like she did pre 0.44 and nobody remembers that anything happened.
that or kyrie eleison. Although Yasu singing the battlehymm of the republic would be something else as well (I recommend the wasteland 3 version for that one, as it sounds as an actual battlehymm of people marching to war). Battle Priestess of Fallen Snow Yasu, let's go!
Edit: Random thought: Do we know that the flares aren't actually dust particles being illuminated by the first narrator?
I don't know about lens flares, but with how often Sel has been using them particularly in chapter 4 I'd guess they're just an aesthetic choice. Since you brought up the dust, though, I'll point out that it's another one of the little clues that connect Maya and the narrator.
I've wondered about this book since we first saw it. I'm no expert, but it definitely doesn't look like a standard Koikatsu asset, in which case Selebus might have went out of his way to find one that looks like this in particular. The cover looks consistent with gold-inlaid leather, so could it be the same book that Ami talks about in "On the Count of Three", and if so, what would that even mean?
The way that book was displayed sounds like a religious text. Maybe it's related to Hope or the trinity given that Saki was one of his followers (according to Yasu). Touka mentioned that the Tsukiokas have a book in their library about Yasu's god that is hundreds of years old, which could explain where Tsukasa got it. That doesn't sound like something Futaba would read, though.
A random thinking of mine, but... I muted the music in this game.
Not because it's bad, I never heard any glimpse of it, but because I can't read and «listen» at the same time.
And yeah, that preview with the «despaclito» karaoke scene, make me wonder if that song appear in the game...
A random thinking of mine, but... I muted the music in this game.
Not because it's bad, I never heard any glimpse of it, but because I can't read and «listen» at the same time.
And yeah, that preview with the «despaclito» karaoke scene, make me wonder if that song appear in the game...
Very disappointing to find out that New Nodoka has kept the smirk.
I assume she deliberately got an identical copy of Chika's outfit to fuck with her, but I wonder - if she was able to remember Chika's outfit from the previous Christmas parties, wouldn't that mean she's managed to avoid a full factory reset? New Maya doesn't remember anything from the first three chapters. It would be anticlimactic (but not out of character for Selebus) if she continues acting exactly like she did pre 0.44 and nobody remembers that anything happened.
She's still going to be 'old' nodoka until she has specific events where Akira stops her working on her old notes. She'd basically be the same Nodoka just without the Halloween memories. In fact she's probably noticed she hasn't gone to Halloween this time.
A random thinking of mine, but... I muted the music in this game.
Not because it's bad, I never heard any glimpse of it, but because I can't read and «listen» at the same time.
And yeah, that preview with the «despaclito» karaoke scene, make me wonder if that song appear in the game...
I mean, to each their own, I guess? I'm probably one of the most nurturing and conciliatory voices here, but even I'm struggling with this no music thing
Just imagining playing this game without "good morning" or "little bunny" is like trying to imagine eating without sense of smell.
Furthermore, it's not like every soundtrack for an event carries special meaning other than something playing in the background, but a substancial amount of them do, and at times they communicate so much it's hard to think about the event without them. Like the fireflies event with Maya, or when the same song is played again in the Yumi "cabin during the rainstorm" event. The usage of the same song again communicates things that aren't in the text.
I mean, to each their own, I guess? I'm probably one of the most nurturing and conciliatory voices here, but even I'm struggling with this no music thing
Just imagining playing this game without "good morning" or "little bunny" is like trying to imagine eating without sense of smell.
Edit: (The following is related to the happy event "tick tock tick tock", skippable if not interested in delving into new possible clues of random obscure stuff.)
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Finally, the thing about the two of them making another "hope" kind of fell apart for me, because it's more like it that they just want to say god, but can't say god without saying hope. So it's actually that the both of them can make another god, and teach it to reset the world for them, meaning that they can make another iteration of Maya and having her guide the next Akira along? I mean, a strong theory right now is that Maya is a god anyway, so I guess we have another way to view this scene as well.
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I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.
I arrive way after the battle, I'm sure of it, so, sorry for that.
Maya is friends with literally no one else to the extent of sleeping at their homes. She has no other home either. Where would she go and why? Did she go to sleep at Akira's house? I don't think so, since he returns there after this. Did Ami tell her to leave? Actually, it would be more likely that she has manipulated Maya into leaving since I think Maya doesn't know that Ami knows that she knows about the two of them... Anyway, a lot of questions here too.
Lastly, I think this is the first event where we see Ami's eyes turning into "god's" eyes (out of the breed your niece segment).
I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.
I arrive way after the battle, I'm sure of it, so, sorry for that.
I've always said that gods don't exist, All it takes is for you to stop believing in them.
So if you were a LiL deity, you'd probably want to stay alive, and the way to do that is to get more followers which in turn makes you more powerful. Having only one person believe in you means that you're in the process of dying and powerless, barely hanging by the wires.
Though I might hate her, I know a lot of people like Maya. If she is indeed a deity, she would still be alive by virtue of having multiple people still believe in her prime version. She's just someone's prisoner.
I have a hard time conceive the probability that Maya IS a god. I mean, of course her story about the stars «Vega and Altair» may have some mirror with Sensei and her, but... it sound to simple.
Maya being a god is a theory that has gained power because of the last few updates, have you reached them? If so, it comes basically from evidence that she shouldn't/doesn't exist, her overall function being stolen from someone else, and Akira being able to fish/summon forgotten gods from the bottom of the well to serve his needs. There's obviously a lot more to say about it, I am simply trying to keep it spoiler light if you haven't catched up.
