Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.219.185.91-20140105042639/@comment-72.10.203.22-20140306014023

There's obviously been some humans grouped together in the afterlife. How else would the Programmer have met the girl that he fell in love with? Yes, it was a glitch, but it shows that at the very least, it's happened before. In addition, in episode six, in the flashback with Kanade, if you consider it valid, there were three students besides her. Also, in the manga, the principal of the school has said that violence has happened before. If people are willing to resort to violence against innocent people, do you really think that they'd move on so easily? I would imagine that something extra ordinary would have happened in order for them to move on. And in the epilogue, Otonashi and Kanade meet. They appear to be about the same age, so Otonashi couldn't have stayed in the afterlife for more than a few months. If time didn't run about the same in both worlds, then how do they appear about the same age? And let's assume that in fact, time doesn't run even. Then how did Otonashi and Kanade arrive in the afterlife at about the same time? Yes, there was some difference, but they're from the same time period, and if time runs different, then it would be extremely unlikely. And yes, you could argue that the donor for Kanade wasn't Otonashi, but it was in the show and, as such, is the most valid explanation so far. As for Shiina, it's likely that she's after the Programmer's time. He understood that people needed to move on, and I don't think that he would have left loose ends before he turned himself into an NPC. Sure, he was crazy, but he was smart enough to create Angel Player. In which case, it may be possible for her to have remained in the afterlife for however long she was there for.