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hey, great after story review. i want to point out that the ending being "a cheap reset" is a common misconception, but i really can't blame you for it.

to explain it would go deep into the lore of the visual novel which you can google anytime, but it stands strong on a thematical level too. the town and its magic work as a metaphor for life, and the entire series is based on tomoya's character and him only. the town made him lose everything to test his character, and the scene towards the end of him meeting nagisa at the bottom of the hill once again depicts a final trial for him to prove if he's worthy of the things he was granted (after all his losses, if he's still able to not regret meeting her after all the pain it caused, because for him to fold to the pain would be selfish, disregarding the blessings he's been given due to personal feelings). he decides to run back to her, embracing her.

"Tomoya-kun, I was really worried you might be thinking that you should never have met me. I'm glad that I met you. I had a wonderful life. So please, don't lose yourself. No matter what may await, please don't regret meeting me. Is that too much to ask?"

*crying* "You're right. Thank you."

what also solidifies the thematical consistency is that he does keep his development in the anime canon too, during the "recap" episode of him telling ushio about his and nagisa's past he seems to remember things from the other timeline too. also, during the "final episode" called Small Palms, he's shown to visit his grandmother, which furthermore strengthens the point of him keeping his development. he most likely would've never met her, if it weren't for in one case or another, forgiving his father (him meeting her in the original timeline meant sanae doing the job of reaching out to her to help him come to an understanding, but now there'd be no need to do so)

so basically, because he never knew how to truly appreciate the things close to him and having an indifferent perspective on life because of basically no upbringing, a divine intervention guided him towards forgiving his father by making him go through the same experiences, and if he "passed", the world resets to where he has a new perspective on life and people close to him stay alive.

funnily enough i think the original writers somewhat accidentally made the story so heavily heartwrenching and "consistent" due to how ass other key adaptations have proven to be lmao. but yeah, the ending's execution should've taken a few more episodes at the very least to not come off as a cheap deus ex machina.

i'm terribly sorry for the wall of yap. i absolutely love talking about fiction that i dearly appreciate.

hi! thx for the fr, btw nice profile and favs

Nice to meet you and thanks for sending me a Friend Request :D

Serial Experiments Lain is barely an 8 on this site how is it overvalued?

Lain can be interpretational, I believe their maybe some hard meaning that the creator Ueda intended, but other than that, there is much that can be enjoyed about Lain. For example, I found that it discussed the power of knowledge and information in a very interesting way, presenting information as a form of power, that being to control everything that happened and will happen, presenting the power to control information as the power to control everything.

This is only one interpretation. Also being "overvalued" isn't an opinion LMAO, that's a statement.

Hey, you should try Arete Hime. I enjoyed it very much, because it resembles Kino no Tabi and Haibane Renmei so much! By the way, Have you read Kino no Tabi light novels? And what do you think about it's manga?

If you liked Kino no Tabi, there's an anime with a similar atmosphere called Serial Experiments Lain you should definitely watch

youve goet some pretty standard selections for your favourites, and then you just got Kino no Tabi and The Tatami Galaxy there. W

Happy birthday

Thank you for the FR! Very nice taste ^^

You seem to have amazing taste in anime

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