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GB world assumptions
Jan. 23rd, 2007 12:39 pmCatching up on Getbackers summaries.
I see a lot of people suggesting the manga will end just like the anime. Clearly, it can't end /just/ like, because the characters are dispersed in different ways. I could see a very similar ending, of turning back from power/knowledge in favor of companionship, and basically hitting the world-reset thereby. But one basic point keeps nagging at me.
In the anime, there is an implicit assumption that the world outside Mugenjou is real. In the manga, starting with the card arc and accelerating since, there is an implication that it is not. Whether this will culminate in some kind of statement about what reality is or unravel in a lot of messy loose ends, I don't know. (And if this whole thing turns out to be some kind of virual reality and the 'archive' is the entry/exit point, well that would be consistent but it would also be a total cop out.) So the ending can't be as simple as it was in the anime.
( And some spoilers apropos of reality and Ban )
Also. Really, really want a good translation of issue 80, which seems to have been some explanation of Rai Tei.
I see a lot of people suggesting the manga will end just like the anime. Clearly, it can't end /just/ like, because the characters are dispersed in different ways. I could see a very similar ending, of turning back from power/knowledge in favor of companionship, and basically hitting the world-reset thereby. But one basic point keeps nagging at me.
In the anime, there is an implicit assumption that the world outside Mugenjou is real. In the manga, starting with the card arc and accelerating since, there is an implication that it is not. Whether this will culminate in some kind of statement about what reality is or unravel in a lot of messy loose ends, I don't know. (And if this whole thing turns out to be some kind of virual reality and the 'archive' is the entry/exit point, well that would be consistent but it would also be a total cop out.) So the ending can't be as simple as it was in the anime.
( And some spoilers apropos of reality and Ban )
Also. Really, really want a good translation of issue 80, which seems to have been some explanation of Rai Tei.
