Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5513888-20130903031231/@comment-24.87.76.151-20160714030250

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I'm not sure I follow some of what you are proposing, for one the Otonashi X Shiina thing is just way over my head. The idea with base souls and what not assumes that every incarnation it going to be human but we need to remember that is false, initially they avoided moving on due to fear of a non human incarnation. Based on that train of thought one can assume that the chance of another human incarnation could be miniscule as the religous beliefs of the characters that we assume is the correct religion in the show is that all living things have souls. Thus we can assume that chances are one would only be born as a human once every 400 years or something, so im just going to address your alternate alternate alternate timeline

1. Sure but again i would like to point out that we need too look at purgatory at a non linear chronological prospective, while time flows in the forward direction, it does not run concurrent to nor at the same speed as IRL.

2-6 While these points are completly valid as we don't have further information, based on what we do know I would personally scrap this idea. If Otonashi has had multiple incarnations as a human being in this version of reality than it would only make sense that he would remember either the most recent or recieve leaks of all previous lives. I get that this could be explained by the Program he "wrote" but im just not going to go with this theory as it unneccasarily complicates things.

7. because purgatory is not affected by IRL time one would have to assume that multiple purgatories exist to accomodate the infinite number of potential souls. ones that reflect different era's, life styles, countries ect... as not everyone would be fullfilled by a normal Japanese highschool experience. So he while I belive he had influenced purgatory I doubt he could have changed it much as this version would have been for semi modern incarnations of souls to inhabit.

8. Going off what we know again the chances are that they move on but not as new human incarnations so lets assume that the original "human heart" kanade is the only one we are dealing with, the next incarnation could potentially be from 2552 for all we know.

9. entirely accurate as seen in show

10. again we can probably assume that he did not have another human incarnation so im going to default back to the waking up from NPC mode theory

11. yup start of the feels train

Sorry if it sounds like im just shooting down ideas here but im just going off the facts that we do know with as little "fan-fic" as possible. Part of my Cycle theory based of shinto is that human incarnations are rare, either we have one every for hundred years or once per cycle. As human population grows we are also destroying local habitats and lowering animal populations and deforesting so it makes sense to have more souls cycled into human form as time progresses. I wish this site would notify when you reply but I'll be waiting!