"What have they done to your body" is an interesting part of that quote insofar as the simulation is concerned.
Ooh, all of that sounds interesting. I'm not sure I understand the "Alt Ami" bit (I also saw someone refer to an "Alt Sekai") is that about fanfest stuff or does it have to do with the alternate timelimes from that one recent update?
I'm a little busy to doublecheck if Alt Ami is the Ami that stabbed Nodoka, but when I referenced Alt Sekai I was talking about the Sekai in that world. She's a bit too "I only exist for Ami's happiness" for me to say she's the real Sekai that's so deep Akira had trauma over losing her (Don't stab that girl now the others won't like you
ha ha ha)
One of the fanfest extras was a commentary on the reset event 'Times New Roman' (the one where Sensei is locked inside his house to protect him from the outside world) and Sel basically explains that the event is another timeline where the loops stopped at 'End of the World' (the scene prior where Maya and Ayane find Ami dead in the hall) and Sensei's (almost) completely isolated himself from the rest of the world to avoid being hurt and hurting others.
Ah, thanks for the clarity. I do wonder about what you're saying about Sekai though. I think Akira's trauma over her has more to do with their complex abusive relationship than anything to do with how deep she was, and Alt Sekai felt in line with what I would expect out of Ghost Sekai.I'm a little busy to doublecheck if Alt Ami is the Ami that stabbed Nodoka, but when I referenced Alt Sekai I was talking about the Sekai in that world. She's a bit too "I only exist for Ami's happiness" for me to say she's the real Sekai that's so deep Akira had trauma over losing her (Don't stab that girl now the others won't like you
Fuck now I have to actually read the Fanfest stuff because that's my favorite reset by far. I was contemplating skipping it but now I know that this is a thing I'm locked in, unfortunately.
I agree on Alt Sekai. I am too lazy to find it but aramaug has a post about how Ami rapes Maya is very similar to how Sekai rapes Tsuneyo. Using similar words etc which totally convinces me Sekai can control Ami just like she controls Kaori.I'm a little busy to doublecheck if Alt Ami is the Ami that stabbed Nodoka, but when I referenced Alt Sekai I was talking about the Sekai in that world. She's a bit too "I only exist for Ami's happiness" for me to say she's the real Sekai that's so deep Akira had trauma over losing her (Don't stab that girl now the others won't like you
Yeah, mine too. Lacklustre though fanfest was it's still worth grabbing for the two commentaries in my opinion. Personally I enjoyed Forever Young too lol
It's more that her reaction to Ami stabbing Nodoka makes that Sekai seem too stupid to be real.
This is one of the best things to have come out of fanfest
Maybe, but I honestly think living, main timeline Sekai was also kind of reckless in a dumb way. I get the sense she thought she could get away with anything considering the whole Akira situation and the fact she was publicly writing about it*. I could totally see this being an alternate timeline where Ami wished for an idealized world with Sekai though, so I'm not gonna totally discount this either.
I went back to the conversation and that wasn't exactly what you said (plus you mostly talked about "Paper city", not "Times new roman"). Granted, you said a lot of stuff. Nor did DeSkel say that it was all in Akira's head either. Regardless, Selebus' explanation goes more in the way of "it's all in Akira's head" than "it's all happening in a different timeline" (although it is a mix of the two).
Fair, though for clarity with 'that reset' I mean more all the events tied to it, not just Time New Roman, including paper city and whatever the Ayane fake reset event is called.
I haven't read the fanfest commentaries yet obviously, so maybe I'll change my tune, but for now I'll say I disagree with this pretty vehemently. Hallucinations and mental problems are explicitly tied to the supernatural throughout the entire game. Ghost Sekai, who is most obviously a product of Akira projecting "his traumas into visual imagery" is shown to be able to operate independently of him and have material effects on the world, most notably of course lifting up one of the Angel dolls in front of Yasu. Yasu can't see her, but she sees the doll floating. I think if things were normal in Kumon-Mi you could say this, but I think the supernatural elements of Kumon-Mi literally manifest from people's trauma, from the timeloop to the angels and gods, all of it. Yeah, Akira hallucinates, and probably would without any supernatural influence but he also exists in a supernatural situation that preys on his trauma and mental illness. The supernatural isn't causing people's hallucinations, I think it's the opposite, people's hallucinations are causing the supernatural because the lines between perception and reality are being blurred and reality is to a degree subjective in Kumon-Mi. I also think saying they have no meaning is throwing the baby out with the bathwater way too early, especially considering a lot of them do have clear and obvious meanings, though I will admit a lot seems like random bullshit I can't decipher. There's also stuff that I'm pretty sure is symbolism but I haven't persoanlly figured out (the squid stuff) (in my reading, of course, not trying to state that all as objective fact)
All this real or not real discussion reminds me of Umineko. The fact that it happened to Yasu of all people doesn't help.
At some point you have to ask yourself, why is reality subjective? Is it just a prop, taken for granted and left as is, or is it a part of the setting, one which will come into play at some point?
I'd go with this, but mostly that Maya didn't want to talk about the resets with Ami because she broke down under the weight of remembrance and that got the world reset (e.g. Bluejay, it WAS one, even if it was just a light case of the world moving backwards instead of forwards). But, maybe enough time passed, or maybe it was because Maya was the one talking, when she got infodumped by Makoto and Ayane, she didn't break (at least immediately). She managed to remember everything, or maybe just enough to pretend in front of a confused Maya and an even more confused Sensei.
What if Ami Prime started using this phrase? Then Maya Prime took the phrase, since she is a nerd and found it too cool to not use it.
I don't have any hard ideas, but there's been a bunch of times both have been shown to be equivalent to each other. Copying each other's outfit, copying each other, appearing in events in each other's place.
Don't remember which Happy Event was, but Ami told you to not believe in the Amis that your mind shows you.
Ami Prime has potentially known many Maya Primes:
