Yeah while there's obviously VERY questionable choices at points of ages, given the sheer amount of times these resets can be going on, most people here might be nearly double their age in terms of "when" they existed before they got stuck in this loop lmao.
... How does Uta know that ...
It's a remnant of the olden days when the game was on Patreon. For it to be viable, Sel had to remove all underage content, such as mentions of high school, wizards, and such. He opted to make a "parallel" game called Legend of the Huggy Boy, where he "hugged" the (university-aged) girls. The 'bonus' flag was for deciding which content to show, if bonus==True you get the actual game, otherwise you get the watered-down version. When Patreon decided to deplatform him (around 0.25, I guess), he stopped doing that. You can select the alternate path in URM to see the weirdness of the Huggy route, where, for example, Ami is not his niece but his accountant.
Oh, they're all probably over 50 years old at least. But in my understanding they all get factory reset as Akira does as well, and what's messing with everyone is that they're just getting "altered" as this cycle goes way over what it was supposed to. And these alterations are progressively not being enough because, well, they're aging.
... do girls age physically ...
I mean, sort of? Many aren't virgins anymore, they do different things with their hair too. I don't know if Futaba's inability to change her weight is a restriction of the universe on what should be her "archetype" - but some physical changes definitely occur. And given that Ami would become a virgin again with every new cycle, it is fair to say that some changes are not reset during a said cycle.
It's possibly more like millions of years at least. The Untitled show is apparently that old:
Himawari's existence might hint at a sort of "loophole" that allows you to avoid the resets entirely.
Well, considering the Wishing Well aspect, how no one important really dies and they just get put back together if they break, etc, these Resets could actually be a gift. However, once the Well dries up, the gift may end.
It could very well be that the resets are contained in a sort of bubble, and that there are beings that exist in a second plane (maybe even one that doesn't follow the same passage of time). Himawari being from the future already makes it clear that there is some time variation in at least one way.
Speaking of time, there was one moment in the Blackout event from chapter 2 (Tsuneyo) where there is the classic flash thing then Akira starts speaking a bunch of nonsense then it cuts back to "normal" Akira and he checks his phone but his phone is conveniently dead at that point. Shortly before checking his phone he said "I feel strange, Kind of like I'm losing track of time."
I don't think you can invite noriko over as a repeatable event at any point, so that would be a no for the unlockable as of the current build. But you could unlock the outfit through activation of the flags I suppose, if they exist at all.
That’s so bizarre… To have a whole pajama outfit in the image files and a headpat variable and everything, yet have it not even be possible. Maybe Noriko is just the next headpat event coming up soon or something? But knowing Sel and his apparent distaste for making headpat events, who knows.
tbh his entire design of headpat events is abysmal, as is most of his game design.
Here's a plot twist, what if every girl Akira plaps is *technically* legal in whatever context you want to portray them?
