Episode 22
It's 16 days later and Himeka's still wearing the necklace. Prepare yourselves.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- This is the first time we get a clear shot of the junk on the shelf by the Hand of Zeus. See analysis for more.
- Karin begs for god or someone, anyone to help... and here comes Suzune and future!Kazune. The tick-tick-tick sound effect is heard as we see them standing atop the Clocktower.
- Future Kazune is wearing a necklace that looks like the circle-and-crescent of his staff... most of the time. It's inconsistent between shots, but it usually looks like that.
- F!Kazune somehow gets into Kazune's room without opening the window or, given that Himeka and Micchi definitely can't have noticed him, coming in through the door. Karin, overjoyed to see him awake, fails to notice that he's actually still right there in bed. Kazune opens the window into space at about Clocktower height and drags Karin out into it. She freaks out over jumping from that crazy height, but not, you know, the rest of it- the arbitrary weirdness censor at work. Kazune is left behind, sleeping in bed. The closed part of the window still seems to show the normal scenery, and the entire room is lit by the sunset rather than the moon. We aren't shown how Karin and f!Kazune get from space to the festival.
- Suzune picks up the red pinwheel he carries around for the rest of the episode.
- Karin remembers Suzune, even though she thought the time she met him was just a dream. This applies to later on when she's "awake" as well.
- Kazune gets out a battered bunny keychain we'll be seeing in new form in the next few minutes and looks at it wistfully. (Karin takes no notice.)
- "From now on, there will be lots of tough times, but... if it's you, I'm sure you'll be fine." Then this time's Kazune shows up and he and Karin freak out. While they're distracted by the fireworks, the future characters vanish. The last we see of them is Suzune's red pinwheel...
- ... And then Kazune and Karin wake up back in Kazune's room, like nothing happened. The window is closed. They both realise they had the same dream, but brush it off.
- Among the masks is a Di Gi Charat one, which is the one Kazune ends up buying. There might be a couple of other recognisable faces in there as well.
- Karin has the moon dropped on her head to represent shock; Kirio gets the moon and what seems to be earth. But what does it mean??
- Kazune wins the blue bunny in a shooting game and gets the pink one as a bonus. The bunnies are handed out to their respective owners.
- Kazune leaves Karin for a moment... and future!Kazune and Suzune appear. Kazune hands the Luna Dimidi to Karin. "There's important stuff in there. Let the light guide you. We'll definitely meet again." Karin has another flashback to the Tower Bridge...
- "It's to protect you." "I have faith... that even when we're far apart... I will definitely not forget you."
- Karin remembers having seen this before... When she snaps out of it, Kazune and Suzune are gone. The two leave on the Clocktower.
- The explanation Karin gives Kazune over why she has the book is skipped over, so we don't know if the dream was brought up or not. Kazune identifies it as his father's book, but doesn't mention having used it for research before.
- Once the clouds completely clear from the moon, Karin's ring lights up, and the light falls on the book, causing it to spawn some glowy text- and I mean actual words this time, not the equation gibberish (though that shows up too). Kazune jumps in surprise and drops the book from his lap- the entire background changes. There's a bunch of spiral galaxies, and Jupiter and Saturn can be seen (the latter twice).
- "The light of the moon is reflected from the sun... The light is disappeared [sic]... Jupiter is preventing the light from reaching the moon and the two halves cannot reunite." The sun god is singled out as giving the Himekas power via this metaphor, though Kazune then says all the rings do. "That's all I can understand." Apparently the rest is in more complicated latin, or something- we aren't shown anything but those three lines. The scene of the Himekas being split replays over the background as Kazune reviews the lines... When he shuts the book, the lightshow shuts off as well.
- Kazune's hand is in the way of his father's signature, even though it just seems to be "kujyou" and wouldn't have revealed anything. ?
Analysis and speculah[edit | edit source]
The text Kazune translates seems to be:
- Cum sol vanescit luna obirat
- Deus conciprit lunae dimidia
- Frangis arulum resumis logam
- The moon is shown to be about half full during start of the "dream sequence", and a crescent otherwise (a slightly fuller crescent in one shot). The crescent would about right for 16 days after the full moon (episode 21).
- The different moon phase during the "dream" may indicate that it took place during a different time, or that the Clocktower can change moon phases just by showing up. It may also be artistic license or just an error.
- The different moon phase may also indicate that the "dream" took place in a pocket timeline (something I've theorised applies to the whole anime minus the first and last scenes, to some success). At the very least, it starts out of a recreation of Kazune's room- hence the window-in-space thing. The half moon is only seen in that scene, after all. This would allow Suzune's pinwheel to be completely real still. Karin and Kazune's sleeping selves were transported there (physically or mentally); eventually Kazune woke up in the pocket dimension room, went out the open window and found Karin and f!Kazune.
- Or the window is just a portal into the pocket timeline, or they just pass through the pocket timeline into normal time to go to the festival, meaning present!Kazune doesn't leave normal time at all.
- This apparent pocket alternate timeline effect is seen in episode 08 as well, where important events of that day as seen in episode 09, like Micchi transferring in, simply don't happen.
- If Kazune's reason for coming to the present was to deliver the Luna Dimidi and make sure Karin and Kazune found that particular passage, there was no reason for him to show up before, especially when he couldn't leave the book with them if it was a "dream"... I think he just wanted to see Karin again, really. The scene with him staring at his bunny prize, as well as some of his lines, makes it feel like he hadn't seen her in a long while. This would mean that he and the other guys were trying to get her back for probably quite a while, even though the end scene seems to take place in the same place as and right after the opening scene.
- He may also have been planning to hand over the book before present Kazune showed up and he was forced to leave, though he didn't seem to have it on him.
Future!Kazune acts notably different from his present self- much more mature, mainly. This can most clearly be seen when Karin throws a punch at him and he just catches it and pulls her into a hug, not even bothering to get mad. And then of couse our Kazune shows up yelling and being brash, as he usually does... I imagine that if he's missing Karin badly, that would tie into how he acts as well.
Even though everyone looks like a year older in the opening and ending scenes, future!Kazune looks the same age as his present self, at least while he's with Karin. Most likely he used the Chronos Clock to alter his appearance- we already know this is possible, though it's only used in the manga to accidentally turn people into little kids.
Suzune's Chronos Clock glows pink, rather than yellow as it has previously, perhaps indicating that it's a "different" Suzune (one from a different part of time). Perhaps starting Karin and the Noble Gods off worked some change on the Clock... or maybe it's just an inconsistency.
Since Kazune never came across those lines before, even though he apparently read at least part of the Luna Dimidi before, they might have been hidden. Karin's ring activating them under the right conditions would imply that Kazuto set it up to only be revealed when the book was in the right hands, such as those of his wife. Those three lines were the only text seen flying around during the lightshow thing, so they were possibly the only information hidden with this method.
- It may have been a different book from the one seen previously in the library, which is why Kazune didn't mention having seen it before, just that it was his father's.
For that matter, did future!Kazune get the LD from the library in the present and bring it over, or did he bring his copy from the future, meaning there's now two copies in this point in time? If it's the latter, they may not even be quite the same book- f!Kazune may have modified the book himself to add that message, for example.
The junk on Himeka Karasuma's shelf that isn't the "Hand of Zeus":
- The blue thing: This may be a reference to a couple of other greek gods- the snake snaking around it a nod to the rod of Asclepius, the grapes to Doinysus, the god of grape harvests and wine. The shape may be a mountain, perhaps Olympus.
- The bugs in amber... perhaps H2 has a bit of fondness for creepy-crawlies as well?