You Huo Giving Qin Jiu A Ring For His Birthday Aaaaaaaaa

The Air Raid Shelter Sucks

…but what if I told you this was on purpose, because it’s a metaphor?

We first find out about the engraving on Tatsuya’s lighter down in the shelter underneath Kasugayama. Tatsuya and Maya can’t settle down, so instead they start to chat and show each each other their comfort objects. Notice that both Tatsuya’s lighter and Maya’s bunny are relics of the past, given to them by someone they cared about but who is now gone.

The first time I played through this part of Innocent Sin, I hated it. It’s just not a fun dungeon, and the reveal about the engraving seemed like an awfully convenient clue. (The exit to the bomb shelter is both important but impossible to see, which gives Maya the idea to try using a mirror to find the exit indirectly.) But then once I thought about this sequence later on with more information, I realized that it was actually pretty brilliant.

Just think about it: the party’s pursuit of Joker brings them to Kasugayama High, a place where Jun should be, yet he’s nowhere to be found. (Eikichi even actively inquires about him, in classroom 3-1.) Once the party descends into the air raid shelter, Tatsuya metaphorically descends into the depths of his grief and trauma-induced depression, represented by an endless loop in the miserable dark. The game then creates empathy for Tatsuya’s emotional state by having the player wander around and around the dungeon, becoming miserable themselves.

The source of Tatsuya’s misery, as we know, is what happened because of the incident at Alaya shrine. He’s spent ten whole years unable to move on from that day, due to his repressed memories and the absence of his friends–but then once Maya, Lisa and Eikichi return to him, he’s still missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: Jun.

However, the truth is that Jun does still exist nearby, in Tatsuya’s heart and memories. It’s no coincidence that Tatsuya can only find the shelter’s exit once he stops looking for it physically and falls asleep, allowing his unconscious mind to find that all important but invisible thing he’s been looking for.

And it is only once Tatsuya remembers Jun, his mirror, that progress even becomes possible.

link click s2 ep11

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qin jiu quoting back you huo's words from the foreign language exam

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excavators

lu guang's gasp after cheng xiaoshi asks about his parents in season 1 makes sm sense now

lu guang reading a magazine with xia fei on it ep 1

All the protagonists give their closing thoughts on the concert.

If anyone can translate this, I’d be grateful.

I believe the order goes: Yu, Akira, Minato, FeMC, Tatsuya, Maya, Naoya, Akira

getting out of the confinement room at seperate times and now NPCs have to go through seperate interrogations

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happy December 7th

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"is it raining outside?" = happy birthday