Anime Discussion Thread - Page 286

Kyon, you sly bastard.

No word yet on when Yuri or Tachibana appeared in the world or when the world was created, but we do know that the second member of the squad was Ooyama, and the third was Hinata (that we know of at least). Hinata was the second member of the squad to join up with Yuri, and Ooyama was the third. Chaa (the guy from Guild if you don't remember him), was the fourth, and once he appeared in the world, he apparently already knew how to generate guns from what appears to be thin air (no reference to dirt yet).

Something else to note is that apparently Yuri and Tachibana had no contact with each other prior to Hinata appearing in the World (obvious reference, but I think it fits ). Yuri merely considered Tachibana another NPC in the World. She also had no inkling of Tachibana's Guard Skills prior to Chaa appearing in the World, which occurs in Chapter 2. The only Guard Skill we've had a name attached to so far is Hand Sonic, but Yuri mentioned Tachibana "moving strangely" in Chapter 3, so I'll assume that that's a reference to the dodge skill that Tachibana displays in Episode 2 of the anime (name escapes me).

We also discover that Hinata was not killed by drug OD, but rather by a truck running him over. Rather anti-climatic if you ask me, but whatever. No reference to drugs or baseball in the light novel yet.

As for dialogue, the only interesting tidbit that I picked up is a strange line that Tachibana speaks in Chapter 2, when Chaa appears:

The principal, when assaulted by Yuri and Hinata, also mentions that this is not the first time that an assault on him has occurred, and it apparently predates Yuri's appearance into the world since she had no knowledge of any other assaults. Anyway, Tachibana's line is rather mechanical in nature, and implies that she has a connection to the world, though she denies this fact right after.

Another slightly interesting bit of dialogue is when Hinata asks Tachibana some questions about the world, to which Tachibana's standard answer is "I don't know". Hinata also tried to hit on Tachibana and ask her out, but Yuri killed him before we could see Tachibana's response.

The only thing that jumps out to me right now is the fact that Yuri is much, much, much more bitchy and cruel in the light novel. There's no real ambiguity as to who is clearly in the wrong here, as the novels portray her as a selfish and cruel person. At one point she suggests killing the entirety of the school population to try to draw God out, and she repeatedly abuses Hinata, to the point that he's become rather well acquainted with the nurse's office.

Anyway I gotta go to class now, but I think I hit all the essentials.