Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5513888-20130903031231/@comment-24.87.76.151-20160605080529

IMO everyone seems to be fixated in the concept that time is linear, nothing makes sense and people point out inconsistencies due to time or they make up stories because that way linear time makes sense. But what if time does not function on a linear scale? Personally I am convinced that Yuzuru is infact the original programmer and here is why:

1. When Yuzuru enters the realm in ep 1 he has amnesia, and its explained that its common because of possible head injury during death. But we know that he died of internal bleeding, and showed no signs of concusion after the initial crash. Yet he was still missing memories? when you look at time in a linear perspective one can only assume that he arrived before Kanade and this was him after a reset to PC after being an NPC, but when Takamatsu was recovered he had his memories intact. When you look at it in a non linear perspective this theory still fits but that still doesn't explain the memory loss, and here is where my theory starts to apply. Yuzuru was not awaken by strong emotions but rather a preprogramed alarm that activated from the proximity to Kanade or some shit like that, thus he had memory loss.

2. The show mentioned recarnation based of shinto buddhism, or just buddhism in general. Following that train of thought I came to the conclusion that while a linear time line is irrelevant, that may actually be what we are seeing. What if angel beats in not just on insignificant story that happened that one time, but rather an infinite cycle of birth and rebirth just like reincarnation. Yuzuru and Kanade are trapped in an eternal game of cat and mouse, only meeting once every cycle or something along those lines.

3. But if Yuzuru is the programmer how would this be a cycle if he just never reincarnates you ask? simple the theory of reincarnation is based on the fact that souls are a finite reasource in the universe, thus unlike in christianity where souls are sent to one of 2 locations for enternity they are recycled. If the Shadow program Yuzuru wrote simply dominated the souls and forced them to become NPC's it would halt the soul train, I propose that they force reincarnation. The only difference being that because it is forced they are still tied to purgatory from their past lives, thus leaving a shell in the form of an NPC to hold their place in line if you will

4.The epilogue is not the real ending, in order for my theory to function the epilogue where Yuzuru meets Kanade in irl must be fake or a simple fan service type thing. The extra bit with Yuzuru as student council prez MUST be the only and true ending to the story, or rather the prologue to the story if you are following me.

5. After staying in purgatory alone guiding others to reincarnation for way too long Yuzuru begins to understand the flow of time and the secrets of the universe or some other mystic crap. But essentially become enlightened, he either writes a version of the angel OS that Kanade uses just cause why not hes probably bored af, or plays with it. but that later would leave the creation of angel OS a plot hole so lets say he invents it based on his memory of the OS he saw on Kanade's pc. Eventually he snaps because waiting all of eternity is going to make anyone snap, and invents the shadows and a way to forcibly become NPC again based on his memory of what he had previously experienced or maybe not cause he could have forgotten everything as eternity is a long af time.

6. This doesn't matter but if its true it would make me chuckle, Yuzuru understands the infinite cycle and names the perfected OS, Angel OS after kanade cause they called her tenshi in the beggining, and lulz hard.

7. Yuzuru programs the AI to manage the shadows so that nobody will ever fall in love and become trapped like he did, then turns himself into NPC to wait for the next cycle.

8. Yuzuru's NPC makes contact with SSS and Kanade thus is awaken or rather his soul is forcibly yanked into purgatory as per his program and the cycle starts anew from ep1.