9-nine-ここのつここのかここのいろ 9️⃣ Week 9 (Visual Novel Book Club)

[rikaiwisdom]

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Was certainly a chill week for the most part! The dates with Miyako were fun, loved the chibi bits These are officially my favourite thing of the VN so far. Not much to mention about the whole cuteness of the dates, but afterwards Sophie’s appearance mentioning this timeline’s Miyako being alive… I was like, well there it is, the thing we were waiting for to be mentioned or something related. My mind automatically thought that not being a time travel thing that means in the other timeline there’s a Kakeru absolutely wrecked and traumatised after the events of 5/06 :c feels bad.

@AzusaChan

They finally worked up the nerve to start calling each other by their first name too.

And then unconsciously revert to using surnames for a moment .

@AzusaChan

The next day was more interesting though. So the time control theory wasn’t exactly right but Sophie has the power to look at parallel worlds? I’m not sure if I need to reread the section or if Sophie didn’t give a great explanation. It sounded like Sophie can see what occurred in the parallel worlds but limited to only what they could experience there. Surely in one of the other parallel worlds Sophie would have seen the 魔眼 user and could rely that information to everyone in the current world? Maybe we find out Sophie’s power ends up being tied to Kakeru later and he needs to “experience” the branch first before Sophie can rely the information.

世界の眼 , I understood it as being able to travel there and see what happens much like she’s doing in our timeline. I suppose none of the timelines she’s visited have had our characters figure out who the user is. But now I’m confused, I wonder if the timeline right now happens in parallel to the bad end one and the rest, and while apparently we didn’t jump back in time we certainly started the game from the beginning, just as the bad end timeline is developing. Sophie mentioned Miyako died in the other timeline in past tense, but then again she dies in 5/06 and we were in 5/08 here so could just be that she died two days prior in the other timeline. That’s at least my understanding, and I guess Sophie going in and out dimensions is her travelling to other timelines to see if there’s any relevant development. If they happen at different points in time, well then that’s a different story.

@AzusaChan

With this new information, I wonder if the next few games will be different parallel worlds and have us “start over”? I think each game focuses on a new heroine so outside of that, I’m not sure how else it’d work.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Perhaps they play with this whole timeline thing for that, a timeline where Kakeru doesn’t get close to Miyako but to the other heroines, and so on. This would mean that the plot won’t develop in a substantial way for the whole saga though . If this is the case, I’m wondering that perhaps at some point Kakeru develops the ability to peep into other timelines too, or perhaps they use Sophie for that and they operate with the new info resulting in a different development each time. If this is the case I’m not particularly hyped about replaying the same setting or story constantly but I’m also sure that if it was like this then people wouldn’t have rated it as high. Surely they would’ve gotten bored of it, and the rest of the chapters are apparently rated higher than this one, especially the last one, so hopefully it does deliver.

@ccookf

It now makes sense seeing and enforcing the bad end as it’s probably part of the canonical story through Sophie’s power, but we still had that bit about fixing things when replaying the game that sticks out. Who was that referring to?

I’m not sure I follow, what do you mean by this?

@ccookf

I’m curious to what degree we’re going to experience changes in the timeline. Right now it feels like Kakeru has written off Kousaka and has been written off by Noa, but those also feel like relatively small outcomes based on what we’ve seen so far. I’m wondering if we’ll have part of this timeline get reverted, or if maybe episode 2 with (yosuga no) Sora will bridge the gap into fixing those relationships.

Oh, right. We either restart the timeline or keep moving forward, and if there’s no other bad end ahead for now I suppose the only option is to move forward (unless it’s not specifically triggered by bad ends). Then I guess we either get an early bad end in Episode 2 and go back to the beginning or just keep going forward in time, it wouldn’t make sense to replay the exact same days for the whole four games, would it? Will it ever be April and May? Will it always start at the shrine? (rhetorical question, not one I want answered)

Welcome back btw

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Edit: Also now that the dates are over and we’re back to plot, it’s looking more and more like we’re finally reaching the conclusion of this Episode. We probably should start thinking about how we want to go for the next Episodes relatively soonish ^^ .