Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.176.7.225-20140520182401/@comment-68.186.144.170-20150221090112

My theory was that Otonashi's soul reincarnated many times. Eventually his soul finally awakened in the afterlife many years after Kanade died in the real world. That theory presents many more questions / problems, though, so I'm just gonna go with the time paradox theory.