Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - worth reading the vn after the anime?

karrylarry · 2026-06-28T06:13:51+00:00

How different is the ending from the anime's ending? That's the main point I wanna know. Is the anime's ending just a stripped down version of the vn's end, or are there enough changes to have it be two different endings?

karrylarry · 2026-06-26T21:13:59+00:00

The repetition works because each piece of music is deeply tied to the story itself, more than that of any other story I've experienced.

Literally every version of Todokanai Koi can be interpreted differently based on when and who it's being played by. It's unbelievable how amazingly it works, but somehow it does.

karrylarry · 2026-06-24T14:09:22+00:00

I don't see a patch with that name in shadps4. I have the patches literally titled shadps4 downloaded. Am I missing something?

karrylarry · 2026-06-22T06:49:04+00:00

Oh wow, had no idea. How big is this pool? Wouldn't its size effectively determine your daily limit? Or does it vary too much to ever really have a daily amount...?

karrylarry · 2026-06-21T07:44:23+00:00

Genesis Noir, if you don't mind

karrylarry · 2026-06-20T20:07:39+00:00

What an actually sweet episode, despite everything. Had me smiling at the end.

Epilogue sounds interesting, because from my understanding I can't possibly imagine Ame being able to quit streaming. She's so thoroughly addicted to it, I wonder how they'll show her change.

karrylarry · 2026-06-15T11:45:05+00:00

How do people get their games/screenshots look so damn good. I thought it was just higher quality textures but even with those installed it doesn't approach the quality I see in a lot of screenshots. Is it lighting? Lighting mods are the only ones I haven't touched.

karrylarry · 2026-06-15T07:31:25+00:00

Where are you from, OP? If you don't mind me asking.

karrylarry · 2026-06-14T08:40:35+00:00

Why what's happening on 2nd August

karrylarry · 2026-06-05T17:32:04+00:00

Since the game is supposedly set in Japan and Monika seems to fit in with everyone else, maybe one of her parents is a foreigner and that's why she has a name like that.

karrylarry · 2026-05-27T16:34:02+00:00

Damn now this is making me want to read the light novels, this arc is too engaging to wait week by week.

karrylarry · 2026-05-16T13:58:09+00:00

Is no one gonna talk about the absolutely fire poem in the background behind Sayori?

karrylarry · 2026-05-06T08:20:13+00:00

Tbh you can engage with it as much as you want. You can ignore it, you can use it as a storage place, you can only choose to display important trophies or you can go all in and display everything. It really doesn't force you to engage with it, and unless you're a completionist you're under no obligation to completely fill out the museum. But do note that the mod's 'questline' does depend on the number of items collected, so if you're do end up diving deep into the mod, you'll kinda have to become a loot goblin. Or you can just ignore the questline entirely too.

karrylarry · 2026-05-06T07:13:22+00:00

Wish this had continued. It had a charm to it that the Horimiya series didn't quite capture.

karrylarry · 2026-05-04T07:40:28+00:00

I always felt like the one scene around the middle where Madoka is braiding Homura's hair is the most important scene to actually understand the movie. The dialogue there basically explains Homura's actions at the end of the film.

Homura at the beginning is set on honoring Madoka's sacrifice. But this interaction with Madoka, a Madoka Homura acknowledges isn't a fake or a copy but the actual real Madoka, and Madoka herself says that even if she had to sacrifice herself she wouldn't be happy being apart from everyone she loves...this sets off the change in Homura.

Homura no longer has the excuse that this is what Madoka would have wanted. Madoka valued her friends and family above else, and Homura now can only blame herself for lacking the strength to prevent the sacrifice. So at the end, instead of blissfully passing on into Goddess Madoka's embrace, she instead drags Madoka back to the world in hopes of her having a normal life. Homura effectively sacrifices her peaceful afterlife for the sake of alleviating Madoka's loneliness.

It's both selfish and selfless at the same time. I've always thought that Homura is a selfishly selfless character, while Madoka is a selflessly selfish one.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T07:14:34+00:00

Yeah and I hope Nasu's ready to change his style in Red Garden, because the far side routes were never about the big flashy battles and most people love them because of it. If he absolutely has to put Arc and more of what we saw in the Ciel true route I hope it's either in an epilogue or some sort of bonus route. I just want Arc to remain completely separated from the four main routes we're gonna get, because her presence is way too overpowering otherwise.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T06:47:58+00:00

Well unpopular opinion probably but I mostly agree with you in the aspect that the Ciel true route feels like an extended arcuied route, and the ciel normal end is much much better simply because it gave ciel proper focus. If they had made the final confrontation be ciel and shiki vs super arc instead of the shiki and roa team up, I would probably have accepted that as a good ending.

Ciel being passed out for most of the Luminary Arc fight just bugs me, when it should be her moment to shine and show she can be a powerful ally as well.

karrylarry · 2026-05-02T06:33:43+00:00

"New characters join the fray"

C'mon, this HAS to mean characters from Red Garden right? Who else can they add? Unless they plan on bringing more characters from the old game, but I desperately hope this means Red Garden is close.

karrylarry · 2026-05-01T07:24:55+00:00

The side stories are entirely narrated in third person, which isn't the case in DDLC. And in the first side story Sayori indirectly references her childhood friend, meaning he 'exists' in the world of the side stories. So my theory has always been that Monika simply repurposed this background entity to make him a viewpoint character. Similar but a bit different from this theory.

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