History Fridge / ShakuganNoShana

* Yuji isn't real. He doesn't exist. Even if his MacGuffin allowed him to live forever, that just gives the universe more opportunities to take the MacGuffin away. He WILL vanish from the world. No one will remember him. Shana KNOWS that he's not a real person, but just a convincing shadow, and yet she allows herself to forget this. What a fool.

* If any evidence that you ever existed is deleted when your existence is devoured, what happens to any children you may have had?
** They stay, but lose all their memories about you. Except when someone takes your place like Shana does once, which seems a good way to easily get a family.
*** But if everything about you was erased from existence, why are people like Shana or even her enemies able to remember them at all? If you ate someone by wiping them out from existence such that even their past is gone, ''you'd forget that you'd just ate somebody!'' There'd also be nothing left in the universe for you to even BASE a torch on, and people would immediately forget about the person even WITH a torch. It's logical snarls like that that had me call bullshit on the entire series.
*** Knowledge of the Crimson World is apparently enough of a buffer to remember people who've lost their existence. But by all means, get indignant about things you haven't bothered to learn.
* Yuji isn't real. He doesn't exist. Even if his MacGuffin allowed him to live forever, that just gives the universe more opportunities to take the MacGuffin away. He WILL vanish from the world. No one will remember him. Shana KNOWS that he's not a real person, but just a convincing shadow, and yet she allows herself to forget this. What a fool. The series having a central character who isn't even really a person is one of the ''other'' reasons I call bullshit on the whole series.
** The relevance of "isn't really a person" was discussed. ''Very early on.''

* Power of Existence is a metaphor for influence upon reality. Being from another world, the Denizens cannot influence the human world unless they obtain influence from those who exist. Everything has an impact upon reality, so everything has the Power of Existence. Because living things can influence their world more than dead and static objects, living things have more Power of Existence. The Unrestrained Spells accomplish their amazing feats by influencing reality at large. The summoning of a god within the human world requires massive amounts of influence upon reality.

* During Yuji's fight against Shana, he reveals the nature of "Silver" to Margery Daw to stop her from breaking through his barrier. At first it appears as a generic KickTheDog BreakTheHaughty moment, but when you think about it, she would've found about "Silver" later anyway, and her contract would've ended then because she would've been devoid of purpose; that way, she can continue without pursuing Silver. Granted, he still did KickTheDog, and [[BreakTheHaughty break her he did]], but it wasn't really the worst thing he could've done, which reveals the high probability that Snake of the Festival isn't as bad as he appears.

* Yuji isn't real. He doesn't exist. Even if his MacGuffin allowed him to live forever, that just gives the universe more opportunities to take the MacGuffin away. He WILL vanish from the world. No one will remember him. Shana KNOWS that he's not a real person, but just a convincing shadow, and yet she allows herself to forget this. What a fool.

* Yuji isn't real. He doesn't exist. Since living forever just gives the universe more opportunities to kill you, eventually something will happe to his MacGuffin and he will vanish from the world. No one will remember him. Shana KNOWS that he's not a real person, but just a convincing shadow, and yet she allows herself to forget this. What a fool.

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