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← view full thread · [Spoilers] Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 - Episode 5 Discussion
Simply...roll credits.
I won't complain a single bit if that happened right now
This plot is perfect. Period.(Episode spoilers ahead)
The best inception plot. Alternative timelines inside an isekai, with memory erasing, mystery and strong emotions. Add lovely characters with each having amazing stories and personalities. The result is a perfect recipe that Pecorine herself would love eating. Yabai desu ne!
(Episode + heavy game story spoilers ahead)
For those who played the game, when you reach Bond level 4 with a character, you unlock a story chapter that reveals a small bit of that character in the real world. That's why Kiiri recognizes Yuuki here and calls him "Senpai". In the real world, he knows every character from this world, but something happened that made the world this way and no one remembers anything. I suspect that the story of the game follows this first timeline, and the anime follows the new restarted timeline after the game, making the entire franchise an inception with two timelines shown at once. Simply amazing. I could even call this a "revolutionary" work. Thanks Cygames for making me love this so much
I suspect that the story of the game follows this first timeline, and the anime follows the new restarted timeline after the game, making the entire franchise an inception with two timelines shown at once.
To clarify this further. In the final chapter of part 1 of the game's story, you actually had these two choices presented to you by Akira after you got wounded by Kaiser Insight.
- 今の絆を守る。Protect the bonds you have currently.
- 目を伏せる。Look downwards.
Choosing the second option eventually restarts the prologue of the game. The world basically got reset, like shown in the anime. Afterwards in the game, you're forced to select the other option.
The anime indeed seems to be a follow-up of the second choice, or maybe a follow-up of one of many instances or perhaps the final instance Yuuki chose to restart? The anime played it out really well and I'm curious to see how they're going to move forward with this.
