Certainly there was quite a bit of confusion and worries expressed in this chapter.
One or two. I think Kohachi did quite well to recover her balance, all told, especially considering how little we actually told her. More than what was literally in the chapter — I didn't want to recap the entire anime — but much less than she would've preferred.
Oh, you mean Mato, Rock and Yomi. Yes, I suppose they might be a little off balance as well. That might be happening.
I mean uh, this feels right but I am not at all certain.
It's a valid vote. Will it, um, work...?
...Yuu is Mato's best friend, bar none, and that friendship isn't going to fray over something like this. It
hurts being pushed away, no doubt, but just about any genuine attempt by Mato to make amends will suffice. Honesty is going to be appreciated.
This isn't really a vote you can fail; I want to make that clear. It's about how, precisely, you want to succeed. Status quo is a possible outcome, but yours isn't going to do that. Make a careful choice, and Yuu might find herself spending the next few weeks figuring out just what makes Rock tick... or perhaps simply getting to know them again, without any further secrets hanging between the group, would suffice.
It might be obvious already, but... I wouldn't be spending this much time on her friends if they weren't going to stay in the story.
There we go, a vote for every option.
I
will bap you. No, just kidding, but if it ends up in a tie then Mato gets the casting vote.
No idea on tactics here though (I should really watch BRS)
You should!
There's an OVA, a TV series, and a... new TV series coming up this spring. The latter is obviously not relevant, except perhaps by happenstance. In general, they're all set in different timelines. There's also a game, at least two manga, and a
song...
The song came first.
Anyhow, while I think the OVA has better characterization, this story is based on the anime. The characters are... flatter, there, which can be off-putting up front but turns out to be deliberate. You'll get a perfectly good feel for the characters from just the OVA, so I'd suggest starting there.
Mato is doing much better now.
The main advantages of waiting are Mato that it gives Mato more time to mentally prepare herself, and hopefully she'll be in less trouble with the teachers, but I think any preparations will go out the window when they come face to face, and there's 0% chance Mato won't be in trouble after all this.
I don't believe Mato is seen as a troublemaker, so they'll likely let this slide—once. Whether or not 'once' will be enough is largely up to you.
Yeah, that sentence would make someone double-take, being as Yuu is in middle school with 'em now, lol. Forgot that was part of her whole situation - mainly as I last saw this anime in 2010.
We double-checked that before posting, and to be clear, Mato and the others are in high-school. They were in middle school during the OVA, which is likely where that confusion came from.
When Yuu met Saya, Yuu was in middle school while Saya was in high school. That's
why Yuu is as small as she is, as... unfortunately, while she's reasonably alive and non-ghost-like, the fact is she's... well. A ghost. She hasn't grown a millimeter in the last decade, and I doubt she ever will.
Or, as Kohachi puts it, she's "Underfoot".
The world's toast in a few days anyway, so it's not like getting in trouble at school shall matter here, mostly. Let's try and patch up relationships as quick as possible.
Beware of assumptions.
Just found this quest and it seems interesting.
Hoping to keep it that way! It'll take a little while before the mechanics all come together, so thus far it's mostly character introductions.
Feel like we need time to put together our thoughts and rushing to do it during school wouldn't help since we're going to have to talk about both Mato's issue with Yuu not being Strength issue and BRS is now our 'real' sister and going to school. Both which I feel need time to be gone over and not having to worry about school issues
As the update states, urgency has a certain value all of its own. I'm not trying to talk you into anything, just pointing out that Yuu doesn't care how well put-together Mato acts. She just wants her to be there.
The probable consequences of skipping half a class, then barging into the neighbouring classroom only to kidnap one of your friends, on the other hand, could be quite amusing. For us, I mean; not so much for Mato. She'd certainly be grounded.
Huh so BRS and the otherselves seem to work off Persona Shadow rules a bit. Makes sense since Shadows are the darker side of people that they hide away which is basically the definition for what the otherselves are. Does that mean Mako via the anime story basically made BRS into a persona?
From what Rock has said so far and what I remember from the previous Quest, it looks to me like BRS and the Otherselves work on reverse Shadow rules, in the sense that the "I am Thou and Thou art I" routine is the wrong answer in much the same way denying a Shadow is part of you is the wrong answer when confronting them.
Plus, the way Rock said it, it looks like Otherselves are different from Shadows on some fundamental level.
Rock herself is weird by any standards. The only other example we have of an otherself appearing in the Real World and acting like a human being, in the BRS anime, is Strength, and she did that by switching places with Yuu. The way Rock manifested and how she talks about being nearly complete on her own sort of reminds me of Teddie as well, but he's also a very special case.
I love this line of speculation, and it's a pity I can't add much to it. Perhaps some baselines to go off...
This is a crossover with SMT:Nocturne, as you already know. Nocturne itself is an (SMT-internal) fusion of several timelines, among them Devil Survivors 2 and Persona 1 through 4. 5 would likely be included, I'm just not aware of any evidence that it exists in the same setting.
Midori from Devil Survivors 1 doesn't show up in Nocturne itself, but one of her 'pets' does, so we've got that as well. Essentially, Nocturne is Atlus' attempt at creating a single unified cosmology for their universe, although it's a cosmology consisting of multiple reality bubbles.
For the most part you don't need to care about this. Yes, the Persona characters are in some manner around; no, they won't be showing up, with one significant exception it would be best to ignore
as long as possible. It's safer that way. However, when it comes to worlds like this–
I try my best to construct a unified,
simple set of rules, which I can then go off of for the rest of the story. Fortunately, I've been gestating this set for the last decade or so. So Occam's Razor applies, although perhaps not in the way you might hope for. There
is an explanation for everything you're seeing, even if the explanation might sometimes be "Nyarlathotep did it for reasons of his own".
...
All of that being said? Rock isn't operating on 'reverse shadow rules'. That would be
this girl, who right at present is trying to boil a can of water.
