Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.176.7.225-20140520182401/@comment-108.35.150.55-20141228125646

To me, Shiina's existence in the afterlife basically states that the afterlife completely ignores time. According to her, I can infer that she comes from Feudal Japan. So. when people die, their souls get flung around a bit and enter the afterlife, regardless of time. So, Kanade and Otonashi could have arrived at different times due to time being nonexistent.