Moonflare

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Is "Billy Pilgrim" a play on Scott Pilgrim, I wonder? It could be a reference to Akira's life being a game, or that he has angry ex-girlfriends? "Second Haunting" can mean anything, even just the fact that New Maya isn't Maya. Also there's a "dark maya" that only ever appears in "frankincense" who is literally haunting him.

"My perfect world" is the most interesting one.
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Regardless, we're likely to get a lot of lore on the original Maya, and I can't wait for that.
 

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Is "Billy Pilgrim" a play on Scott Pilgrim, I wonder? It could be a reference to Akira's life being a game, or that he has angry ex-girlfriends? "
From deepseek
Billy pilgrim is main character from slaughter five.
Billy becomes "unstuck in time" as a result of the psychological trauma he suffers. This means he experiences moments from his life out of chronological order — jumping randomly between his past, present, and future. This non-linear structure is used to highlight the absurdity of war and the fragmented mental state of someone who has endured its horrors.

Additionally, Billy is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who see all of time simultaneously and teach him their philosophy: that all moments in time are fixed and inevitable. According to them, free will is an illusion. This outlook is reflected in the novel’s famous repeated phrase, “So it goes,” which appears every time death is mentioned — emphasizing the inevitability and constancy of death.

Which suits the game well.
 

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i dont know why but my mind goes for Zelda-Kirin and Link-Miku, like Miku with absolute no fucking idea what she's doing and Kirin behind supporting her like that
I didn't picture Miku but Kirin was my first thought too. She seems like the kind of girl who would get her boyfriends ass kicked lmao

Earlier Kirin does, at least, maybe not as much recently
 
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Is "Billy Pilgrim" a play on Scott Pilgrim, I wonder?
Clarifying/expanding on what fasoaga said: Billy Pilgrim is the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. After traumatic experiences as a POW in WWII he becomes "unstuck in time", which means he experiences moments from his life in an arbitrary, non-chronological order which he has no control over.

Sel has referenced this phrase before: in "Infinity House" the narrator described how people trapped there become "unstuck in eternity". As for Maya, she became unstuck in time during Halloween, living through moments from her past as if they were happening in the present. With an event title referencing that, I hope it means she's going to start telling Sensei about Halloween, though I'm sure she'll leave the Ami part out (the story won't allow him to learn about her yet).

My first thought with "A Second Haunting" is that it refers to Sekai's ghost (especially since she's in one of the Maya previews), in which case a second haunting could be Sensei seeing another ghost. Maybe there will just be multiple Sekais again, but the (very unrealistic) ideal scenario is that the ghost of Maya Prime shows up to snarkily comment on his passivity and indecision since her death.
 

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I want to ask anyone/whoever please,
Is the scene where Ayane bj sensei under the table removed in 0.48-0.49V?
If not, how to get there again?

Tried to look for it again but can't see again

kind of missed out like it went direct to other stuff and to the segg scene with sensei like it wasn't exist to begin with.
 

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I want to ask anyone/whoever please,
Is the scene where Ayane bj sensei under the table removed in 0.48-0.49V?
If not, how to get there again?

Tried to look for it again but can't see again

kind of missed out like it went direct to other stuff and to the segg scene with sensei like it wasn't exist to begin with.
It's on the computer, under Deleted Scenes.
 
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Detective Dc345

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Our previews stopped earlier than normal right? One can only hope that the rest of the update is so visually spoilery that any more than what we've seen would undermine the update.
I can't be bothered to go back and count. But the number of previews feels about right. Sel is more than half way done with the update. So right now were in the "event name" stage. Unless Sel did what he did last update and drop one last preview after the main event titles came out. But we've pretty much seen every character in this update. Some to a lesser extent for obvious reasons.
 
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