The labyrinth outside the labyrinth, and other mysteries

AraleKurashiki said:
MAL forums aren't the greatest place for legit anime discussion, but I have no idea where else to talk about this.

It seems I got a lot out of the final episodes that most people just threw up their hands at. In this case I'd like to talk about the the world the series takes place in being the "true labyrinth" in itself, something mentioned a few times but doesn't explicitly come up again... right?

Well, I think the final battle - between Bocca and Solomon above the sea - is the only scene that takes place in the "real" world outside of the labyrinth. Bear with me here!

First, let's get some facts straight. The explosion that killed the Youth Melos League was in the close vicinity of the cowgirl farm. That explosion could also be seen from space, which the warriors went up to directly in a spaceship. I'm doing all this to establish that the cowgirl farm exists in the same "world" as the rest of the series.

Now let's go to the battle between Bocca and Solo in the finale. They're down in the center of the earth, having gone there through a hole that lead to a red space. Bocca takes Sayoko and races back up through that red space to take her to the surface. But when Bocca and Solo reach the cowgirl farm, they keep going and enter ANOTHER red space, which leads to a realistic (live-action!?) oceanbed, and emerge above the water! They went an additional layer up from the world the series takes place in, and thus must have escaped the labyrinth.

What I'm not sure about is the epilogue afterwards. Why would Bocca go back into the labyrinth and place himself in the narrative/system that had been called seriously into question? Honestly, the epilogue is so standard compared to how abstract the series had gotten that it feels like it was forced in there by executive decision or something.

AraleKurashiki said:
The cowgirl farm is absolutely in the same world, as I explained. The explosion could be seen from the cowgirl farm and from space, and the characters never enter red space in order to get there.

They go from tokyo -> space -> cowgirl farm -> red space -> center of the world -> red space -> cowgirl farm -> red space -> real ocean.

AraleKurashiki said:
On Earth???

I'm not sure why it would be in a different world when I am given no reason to believe that in the show. Should I assume that every place the characters go is in a different world somehow?