In relation to Akira's parents and their seemingly unknown fate (and also Sekai):
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My guess would be that the timeline goes something like:
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In regards to the rest of your post, though, I fully agree.
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This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this. Akira's not exactly hyper-masculine himself (i.e in the over-the-top way one may expect from someone struggling with repressed sexuality or gender identity), I find the first line here more accurate in regards to his actual personality. As far as his reactions to being prodded about it go they're generally banterous, he doesn't lash out over it or devote any real time thinking about it or being sour about it in any instance I can think of. Even the Yuki bike scene doesn't stand out to me that much - if anything I'd say the opposite, the fact that he straight up told Yuki he felt emasculated instead of obfuscating or overcompensating in some way is the opposite of how you'd expect a character with a deep seated complex to act.
The only thing that really stands out to me is him dressing up in Sekai's clothes but on its own that seems more like a grief response.
Buuuuut like Moon said we still know essentially fuck all about his childhood and parents - or even really his brother - so I certainly don't rule any of these ideas out, but personally I don't think the groundwork is there right now. The idea that his sensitivity in regards to his masculinity is just the result of his childhood trauma makes the most sense given what we know about said trauma. I'm not saying they're insignificant or not worth looking at but at the same time none of the reactions he gives that I can think of really feel particularly out of the norm for any cis straight guy either.
My favourite is Yasu's adorable little rendition but the first song I think of would probably be Good Morning or 10C depending on what type of miserable I am that day lol
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is the first one to come to my mind most of the time, it feels like most events with this song leave a lasting impact on me.
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just after because of how much of a bop it is, and lastly
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for their sort of melancholic/nostalgic feel? and Yasu's song, we love Yasu
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That could be interesting... perhaps Akira is about to get more invasive questions about his trauma...
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Oh yeah, Memories is soo good! It doesn’t play often, but when it does, you just know you’re in for a crucial and emotional moment. It was honestly between Ichiyarakka and that one for me.
Memories first played in “Stray Cat” when Maya Prime got the green scarf, then in Chapter 2 during “Spotless Mind” where Akira remembered his first true memory about his past.
I’ll definitely never forget seeing either of those events for the first time. I knew Lessons in Love was a damn good game up to that point, but those moments in particular are when I knew I had stumbled across something special.
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If we're talking about non-LiL songs, whenever I think about LiL, I pretty much have
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playing in my mind because I always try to come up with a grand unified theory of LiL, and that shit feels like a hey, you, you're finally awake moment but with the dragon teleporting to your location due to all the new lore being dropped which either kills all my theories or obfuscates them enough I drop them without realizing.For LiL ones, I'd go with
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, but maybe due to recency bias HER song to him has been living rent free in my mind since the previous update.
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She went from being the character who tried to talk him out of hooking up with anyone because she didn't want anyone to be hurt to....this.
Either she was fully aware of the darkness inside her and didn't want it to have a chance to come out, or a switch flipped so severely one of the genuinely good characters suffered a moral inversion.
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If we go from the assumption that nothing happened to her, this is just who she always was, then she wants him all to herself and she hoped he'd molest/rape her... that's supposedly what she wanted him to do...
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ERM ACKSHUALLY the second time it plays is during Chapter 2's "What Could Have Been" when Noriko walks into class randomly and finds Sensei, before Maya flips out and changes into a cuter uniform.
It changes all the time for me. Recently I'm on a bit of a All that's left are stars binge, if I want to turn it off I need to make it to the "and oh my GOD, I need you back" part first.
Before that, I'd say the top contenders are Memories and Sensei. If I had to pick one it'd probably be memories because I really like melancholic music and it has enough strength on its own to make me like it, before the scenes I sometimes rewatch with it. The chapter 4 events where Akira is in the endless ocean are pretty good, that one image of Akira crying, begging his hallucinations to be Maya again is stuck in my mind.
Sensei climbs up in rank due to where it's used. In particular I have such a soft spot for 0.46's Post Nut Clarity and Akira roasting Prime about what she was so scared to do (Though I'm hoping Chapter 4 ends with her return and Akira blacking out, proving her right). The other spots that sensei is used are pretty great too.
Watching from the first Akira ocean event(memories), to him waking up from the coma, bringing in Ayane, having him reappear at the school to get slapped then hugged by Wakana, then him explaining to the class why he was gone (sensei) is a regular pilgrimage for me
11c and sleepsong are pretty great to me, Sel has a knack for downpitching several songs and making them bangers in the process. In that same vein, painisreal turns a sex song into a "I can't stop thinking about someone dead" song, and Glasswalker is fantastic to hear on loop, though its origin (which I can't find anymore thanks to shit wiki and the good youtube video being copystriked) normally plays it much faster in a not nice way. Both Nakayamas make it a fantastic experience to listen to (and I guess it's fun watching Ami taken down a peg when she cuts her hair, though she managed to rebound into something worse)
And honestly I could keep going. ihaveto for example. But I'll avoid the text wall unless people say they want it.
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It's very strange. I'm actually replaying from Chapter 2 right now trying to hammer down exactly when the shift happens, because she's still an innocent, naive girl and the reactions seem normal.
(Also, Ami shows absolutely no indication of being aware of time loops at this point so the chapter 4 reveal feels like a hamfisted retcon but this is just my opinion)
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Presumably, Sana just decided to try being Happy in Chapter 4:
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Current Sana seems to just be Happy Sana. Or Sana letting her freak flag fly if you get what I mean:
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Sana has also potentially been into hardcore rape porn since she was around 11, presumably around when her brother died.
So, possibly, like her mother, she handled her trauma using her lust. Just in her case, it was masturbating to rape on a screen. Then probably fantasizing about herself and others being raped...whether statutorily or forcefully.
Perhaps she even replaced herself with her brother in her mind when thinking about the scenario, and believed she'd only have been raped instead of murdered like him? In other words: She may have had years to think that if she was raped, then her brother would still be alive, which snowballed into a fetish... Or not. There's still plenty to learn about the Sakakibaras.
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You may very well know or have considered this already but seeing as Yuu is the protagonist in Nothing Is Beautiful and in Nothing Is Beautiful, Yuu suffers similar psycho-visual and surreal mental difficulties to Akira, I'd figure the line was in reference to that. We've seen other people break from reality in all sorts of ways, but nobody gets quite a show when it happens like Akira does - and Yuu.
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shmurfer already mentioned it, but
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is def pivotal to my LiL experience. It evokes a lot of the feelings I have for Maya's initial arc and how it ended up, which is what initially REALLY hooked me into the gameSo many amazing songs. Selebus does a great job at choosing the song choices to fit the emotional moments. Memories, good morning, glasswalker, hell I even have Paper City saved on a playlist.
But we also can't forget this iconic gem
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From my perspective:
Sana in Ch1 is Young Akira=the cutest thing – evil things we do to boys – realm of Most Holy.
Se calls Younger Akita the same. Sana costume with bat wings when Sara drops hint is similar to Miku’s.
Next hint from Se from Kyoto’s scene: soulmate >> No: And by that I mean we share the same soul and that we are simply one person reincarnated into two separate bodies at the same exact time.
Fun fact:
ia5(Sa+Mi)=Blue Jay
c(Io+Mi)= Blue Jay
Another unproved idea while reading Kyoto’s scene: Sara was the one who sought her long lost son, found out about he can be still alive and went through planes to come him back. And that might incur wrath of highers-up.
Unrelated Fun fact2: Io+Mi= iSea of Tears leads to Waiting room and Gossamer; aMaster Key – Sara’s and Ami’s Skeleton key made from humans bones by gods to climb on top of ladder also made from humans.
Sana in Ch1 is Young Akira=the cutest thing – evil things we do to boys – realm of Most Holy.
Se calls Younger Akita the same. Sana costume with bat wings when Sara drops hint is similar to Miku’s.
Next hint from Se from Kyoto’s scene: soulmate >> No: And by that I mean we share the same soul and that we are simply one person reincarnated into two separate bodies at the same exact time.
Fun fact:
ia5(Sa+Mi)=Blue Jay
c(Io+Mi)= Blue Jay
Another unproved idea while reading Kyoto’s scene: Sara was the one who sought her long lost son, found out about he can be still alive and went through planes to come him back. And that might incur wrath of highers-up.
Unrelated Fun fact2: Io+Mi= iSea of Tears leads to Waiting room and Gossamer; aMaster Key – Sara’s and Ami’s Skeleton key made from humans bones by gods to climb on top of ladder also made from humans.