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The lyrics to "Twister" make perfect sense, and the Conductor is Mr. Twister himself.
Oh, that Kitaniji. Always...mixing things up. Oh, and the candy cane was a canned recovery pin. What else...Oh yeah, Transformation is a message from the Conductor to the Reapers, Neku, and the Composer.
My interpretation.
The sequel will take place in another city.
This is basically a given; dialogue states that each city's game is completely self-contained, implying that every city has its own Game.
Mr. Mew is a demon.
Shiki points out that she can't really control him at all (presumably, he slashes while she carries him to the target with telekinesis). And apparently, Shiki animated him with a process called "psychomancy"...
Mr. Mew is Shiki's soul
It's not her body she's using, but a psychic shadow of Eri's, therefore the only thing from the Real Ground is Mr. Mew. The psychic connection is so strong, she just thinks the body she's in is the Eri Shadow.
Rhyme's Entry Fee was her own Death
Okay, so Rhyme, in addition to being The Messiah, is also deeply suicidal. Due to the many problems at home, she welcomes death and oblivion open armed. This is the reason why, in spite of being consumed by Noise, which The Secret Reports state will destroy the soul, and the associated imagination forever, she comes back in the end.
Rhyme's death was a suicide, due to an unattainable dream that was her Entry Fee
She had thrown herself into traffic, not intending for Beat to unsuccessfully try to save her. According to the Secret Reports, the original reason for the Entry Fee was to force Imagination to players; her losing her previous Dreams also will hopefully enable her to move on and pick something more attainable.
Neku is a reincarnation of Haruhi Suzumiya.
His past was evidently as someone who thought of other human beings as nothing more than chaff to be discarded - so he forced himself and a few others, those he found it worthwhile to care about, even by proxy, into a Closed Space where most people WERE nothing more than empty, hollow figments. He created both the Composer and Creator, as well as most of the Reapers, as a way to ensure that he would have something to do, and someone to care about, through his trials in that Space.
The Reaper Game is indeed part of Haruhi-sama's plan, but she's not Neku.
The Reaper Game is how Espers are actually made in the Haruhi-verse. When Haruhi-sama's subconscious chooses a follower, you don't think she'd let something as paltry as death excuse them from her service, do you? No! They're put through a grueling training process where they have to fight lesser people's negative emotions; and they have to justify themselves as unique beings in a world Haruhi-sama sees as full of conformity. Should they win, they return to life as an Esper; prepared to deal with the Celestial Beings that are Haruhi's Noise. There is the option of going up the ranks of Reaper/Conductor/Composer/Angels but that's delving into places mortal minds can scarcely comprehend.
Sho Minamimoto is still alive.
Note, Neku and crew see his "body" under a car and vending machine while heading towards the Composer. It seems Everything Fades after dying; so he was just incapacitated, not killed. Despite being such a massive jackass, he's the only Reaper who is really interested in art, which is the supposed reason for the Game; this probably is what saved him.
The current batch of Reapers were corrupt, resulting in the Conductor's interference
They were cheating, essentially. Most Players are killed on the first day by Noise without even being told about the Game and that they had to get Partners. Reapers relied on Noise far too much and their conversations imply they didn't expect any Players to succeed. The Secret Reports imply that normal Games have a more equal Player/Reaper survival rate to ensure Imagination is the cause of survival; to either recruit new Angels or else resurrect Artists. The reason that Shibuya wasn't generating any Candidates lately was because the current Reapers were destroying them.
Joshua is Neku's Best Friend who died in an accident and has since ascended to Godhood
Another Day, Pork City makes it clear that Neku, in that world, had a friend, his only friend who died going to meet him. This mixes well with what Neku says after Rhyme died "I feel terrible, it's just like that one time", plus the whole "You start to care about them and then you get hurt" and then at the end when Neku said that Joshua was a friend he could relate to. So... Neku and Joshua were God Buddies, and when Neku eventually actually dies, they'll both be Angels together, just in time for the Sequel.
The events of The World Ends With You are simply part of a pen and paper RPG cooked up by a sufficiently clever GM
The Reapers keep referring to one of them running that week's Game as the Gamemaster. The Reapers also speak about the various rules of the game (and being constrained by them), even though they themselves dangerously powerful, can live lives in both the RG and UG, and supposedly rule over life and death itself. Even though the game should last 7 days, many missions refer to having a 60 minute time limit, suggesting that time is as flexible as needed by the Game. All these facts are also common features of pen and paper RPGs! Neku and the other main characters (Beat, Rhyme, Shiki, Joshua) are all P Cs, and Mr. Hanekoma is the GM. Obviously the system they're using has some form of permanent death system (Rhyme's death); Mr. Hanekoma setting up the Rhyme Pin was just the GM creating a clever workaround for the pact rule; Beat's defection to the Reapers was just character development and a way to avoid the problem of what would happen to the Beat/Rhyme pair for the next week; Shiki winning the Game and later returning was simply due to her player bowing out of the group and later coming back. Neku's ability to use so many pins is a result of NOT min-maxing: all the other P Cs did and as a result reduced the number of pins/abilities they could use, in return for more power for the attacks they COULD use. Co-incidentally, this actually sounds like an awesome pen and paper RPG, and this troper would actually like to play it...
The Conductor's entry fee is his life in Shibuya.
Dialogue never establishes what Megumi Kitaniji lost in order to play the 30-day game against the Composer. However, it makes sense. An entry fee was paid. Kitaniji says several times how much Shibuya means to him, and that's why he's competing against the Composer in the first place. And yet, of all the Reapers in the story, he is the only one who is never seen on the streets of Shibuya. At no point does he cross "the river". For someone who cares about the district so much to never set foot in it, the most likely explanation is that he can't. Because it truly was the most valuable thing to him...
Neku's Composer-induced amnesia results in feedback when meeting with similarly powerful individuals.
This is bizarre, but hear it out. Almost every time Neku talks to the Conductor or Producer, he blacks out and can't remember the details of the conversation until the next day. This doesn't happen when he talks to any other people. And the only times this doesn't happen, the Composer happens to be nearby. The same Composer who is forcibly keeping him from remembering certain important details. There has to be a connection.
Joshua possessed Mr. Mew during Week 1
Shiki says that she's not really controlling Mr. Mew, and Neku wonders if it's possessed. How else would Joshua, hiding out in the RG, be able to watch Neku? Plus, when first reaching the Statue of Hachiko, you see in the background, but once the pact is made, he vanishes.
The Composer was really just trying to get a worthy successor and quit.
Joshua never really intended to destroy Shibuya; that was just a goad to get Kitaniji involved. Being who he is, Joshua framed it so one of two things would happen: (1.) Kitaniji would erase Neku and— because Joshua became Neku's partner— end up erasing Joshua, as well, and so become Composer, or (2.) Neku would win, at which point Joshua would hand him a gun and challenge him to one last game. Neku would shoot and so become Composer.
His plans derailed when Neku didn't shoot, and he somehow ended up changing his mind on the matter, probably by Hanekoma talking and/or knocking some sense into him.
And why he didn't just let Minamimoto shoot him? He probably liked Neku better, or else just wanted to see how the game he'd set up would play out.
The Music that plays is actually what Neku is listening to at the time.
...On his headphones.
Neku isn't listening to music on his headphones.
It's my theory that Neku only wears the headphones so that people will leave him alone. Why would he toss them away in the ending if they had good music on them? Also, have you ever tried to talk to someone while wearing headphones like Neku's? It's not easy.
Joshua and Near are brothers separated at birth.
I want you to think really hard about this one. Joshua and Near are too much alike for it to be pure coincidence. Both of them are young, white-haired, insufferable genius pretty boys who nine times out of ten will refuse to give a straight answer, enjoy using people as tools to get what they want, have girly voices, and enjoy toying with their easily-pissed off partner. Don't you dare try and tell me it's a coincidence! They could actually be twins, considering we don't know Joshua's real age.
Minamimoto is actually a Heartless.
It would explain a lot about him. Comparing him to Xehanort's Heartless: He has the golden eyes, the dark skin, the tattoos on his chest, the insanity. He summons the Taboo Noise because they attack anyone, similar to regular Heartless, and when he came back through the Noise refinery, his appearance changed because he became a purer form of Heartless. That would also explain why he didn't fade away when trapped under the scrap heap. He wasn't destroyed by a Keyblade.
The world Neku and friends inhabit is a parallel to Sora's world.
Considering the general premise (battling creatures that exist solely because of the negative emotions people feel) and the similarities between the protagonists and antagonists (Neku=Sora, Shiki=Kairi, Sho=Heartless, etc.) not to mention the game and the series were made by the same devs...
Shiki is a Bount
Mr. Mew is her doll. She's just too nice to suck the souls out of people. Among other things, it explains Mr. Mew "doing his own thing" in fights.
Neku's final entry fee
Neku's entry fee for his final shootout with Joshua was his previous three weeks in the Reapers' Game. By revealing that everything had been a set-up to stop the Conductor, and let the Composer destroy Shibuya, Joshua took away everything that those three weeks had meant to Neku - learning to trust people, having that trust broken, finding out the town he pegged as small and stifling and empty wasn’t any of those things. (Because Neku made the right choice in that final Game, his entry fee was repaid in full.)
Joshua's Entry Fees
Everyone who plays the game has to have one. Yet they never talk about Joshuas. He has to have paid them, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to play. And the price had to be what he valued most. Now, what could the fee be, for who is basically God and is planning to destroy the place he's in charge of? His entry fee for the first game was his control of Shibuya. Basically he was no longer the Composer until he won, having grown bored of it all and seeing it all as a waste. The only thing he valued was his power and position. However, the entry fee for his second Game is something he finally found even more valuable. His friendship with Neku. He gave it up to play that final game. That's why he's so sad in main/The Stinger because, having lost his final game, he can never interact with his friend again.
The entire game is one massive jab/cheap shot at fashion trends.
Shiki committed suicide.
I think this is kind of a given. Consider Shiki's lines about hating herself. Consider Eri's pauses around the word 'accident' when talking about her death- they seem to indicate that there's something more to it. After finding herself in the UG as Eri, she may have decided that life was worth living after all and set out after a partner.
Joshua is Haruhi Suzumiya
Haruhi finally had it and destroyed her univerese, only rebuilding Shibuya, complete with people comeing back from the dead, a lot of espers and psychos, alternate universes, death-gods, angles, ect. ect.
Of course, she set herself in the center of everything as the great, almighty Composer, who everybody envys and knows. (Thous restoring her own world back to what it was like, before the baseball-stadion incident)
She made herself a boy, since she didn't want anymore male admirers, they just annoyed her. Neku is Kyon, but Haruhi/Joshua made him indifferent and sociopathic, so he wouldn't fall in love with noone else, because he/she wanted him for her/himself, but undid this via character-development, when his/her uncounciousness realized, that he/she liked him better when he was still normal. Shiki is Mikuru, he/she made her unatractiv and plain, so nobody would ever fall in love with her again ( exspecially not Neku/Kyon), but that was pretty much blown by the entry-fee thing. Notice that Mikuru loved to buy clothes SHE(not Haruhi's cosplay-madness) liked, as much as Shiki does. Probably the trauma of Haruhi's forced cosplaying with her is still there and this is, why she pays such deep attention to trends, never to be embarrased again. Where the other characters ended up? That's still open for speculation!
Neku played the Reaper's Game for four weeks.
After Joshua shot him in the ending, there's a seven-day delay before we see Neku again. There's also a seven-day delay between the end of the third Game and the point when Neku finally goes to meet Beat, Rhyme, and Shiki. The Reaper's Game lasts... yep, seven days. This is probably to allow for Neku to appear in the inevitable sequel to provide a tutorial, and take the first Game's come-back-to-life-free card so that the new lead gets stuck in a similar series of multiple Games.
Yuuko Ichihara has something to do with the Reaper's Game.
The whole business with the entry fees sounds suspiciously similar to her 'price equal to the wish' thing. Perhaps she's the one who takes the entry fee (along with any memory of her involvement from Reapers and Players alike, as her price for the Reapers hiring her). Or maybe it's just that whoever invented the Reaper's Game in the first place knew her and modeled the entry fee after her way of doing business.
Hanekoma and Joshua are related.
Hanekoma is in fact Joshua's older brother, and they staged a coup of Shibuya UG as partners a long time ago. In addition, this would make The Mormons right.
Neku becomes a famous author or artist by the sequel.
His "fiction" series The Reapers' Game was a smash hit. The main character loves his work. Alternatively, he could go into art like Mr. Hanekoma.
"Players" of the Game are in a coma.
This would explain how they can come back to life without everyone in the real world getting all confused by dead people being resurrected, and why Eri talks about Shiki having had an "accident", as opposed to having died. While their souls are playing the game in the UG, their bodies are lying in a hospital somewhere, unconscious. If they're erased, they die for real.
Multiple Reapers' Games are run each week
The reason Beat and Neku fall asleep before completing the mission in Week 3 is to prevent them from getting involved in other games.
In the Another Day universe, the Reaper's Game is...
You guessed it, Tin Pin Slammer. Because why not.
Neku's final entry fee is his determination to win
That's why he couldn't shoot Joshua; it's similar to the third entry fee in that it makes winning impossible.
Kitaniji was a poor judge of character.
Kitaniji acts as if Joshua is correct in every decision he makes, including erasing him and destroying Shibuya. But really, wasn't Neku's entire character development about learning that Shibuya and the people in it always had potential, he just had to see it? Joshua needed to learn the same lesson as Neku did- neither of them saw worth in the city, while it really wasn't so horrible all along. Even with the powers of the Composer, he still had the maturity of a bratty and isolated teen, and Kitaniji's worshipful attitude was a big mistake.
The sequel will take place in another part of Tokyo, possibly Minato
Why Minato? The Tokyo Tower is there! Also, in the sequel Shiki and Eri will be a famous Desinger-Duo and will have their own brand, called "Sherry" (Notice the pun?), Rhyme will be a famous singer (because of her name, her sweet voice, and how much I think the song "Someday" fits her), Neku will work for Gatito and be married to Shiki. Beat will be dead and has been playing the Reapers game in cycles for almost 20 years (Therefore, an important NPC in the game). Why? Because I like the idea!
The Game works much differently in other regions' UG.
The Composer's position is used to create the rules of the Game. Given unlimited power to change the workings of the world, two different people would probably not decide on identical rulesets. Given the significant differences between the personalities of the named Reapers in Shibuya, there probably isn't a particularly Joshua-esque Composer to every region of the UG, so...
Joshua only shot Neku in the end to remove his last entry fee from him
I think, Joshua wasn't wanting to destory Shibuya anymore, since he made friends with Neku. However, when he revealed that he was the composer and the one who set up this whole chaos, Neku's character-development may not have dropped to zero, but he was so shocked that he probably thought that he should never have trusted anyone and that trusting people is just a way to get hurt over and over again. And THAT'S what Joshua took for Neku's final entry-fee: The experience, that he can't trust anyone on this world. Then, he shot Neku, erasing his entry-fee. Afterwards, he reset Shibuya to the first day of the first week bringing everyone back to life in the process. Notice that Joshua never said "If I win, I erase Shibuya". He says "The winner get's to decide. Of course, I've already decided." He never said, WHAT he decided. In the end, Neku stated that he didn't forgive Joshua, but trusted him. This makes much more sense, if you consider this theory.
Also, many people think that Neku had to play the game again, since he woke up on the scramble in the end. But I think, that he actually woke up in the RG version of the scramble. You should notice how the sounds in the background suddenly decrease, as soon as Neku opens his eyes. I think, that's not a "dramatic pause", but just the people going all like "WTF? Where'd that kid come from?!" Neku himself probably thinks, that he's still in the UG (like the last three times he suddenly woke up in the scramble. Additionally, he's just REALLY confused, giving him a good reason to shout "WHAT THE HELL?!".
Ex-Player are the some for the Shopkeepers
Think about it, Why would sell the Pins all over Shibuya, if the Pin make the Player Psych work (More better), and give clothes that help the Player, Food to feed the Player, tag that No Employee see to remove, and how thay see to be kind to the Player if the Player shop that long enough? I not saying all the Shopkeepers was Player in the Games. I mean Maybe some (like Makoto) are clueless about the games. But Just Think about it.
Rhyme is able to move between the upper and lower Noise Planes
In the first week its established that players can't see each other's battles when their fighting the noise, but Beat claims Rhyme is the one who figured out how his attacks work. Since Beat doesn't appear to have the ability to move between planes when he's your partner Rhyme must be the one with that ability.
The Ministry of Finance and equivalent groups around the world are run by the angels
The various mints exist solely to explain where new currency comes from, when they need to change the amount of currency available they simply ask the Composers to change drop rate and or value of the pins.
Neku and his partner's shared HP is a side effect of the Harmonizer pin.
Thus explaining why Beat didn't get erased when Rhyme did.
The ability to spend any amount of time on a mission is not a case of Gameplay And Story Segregation
It is a side effect of the Composer's absence, which as noted in the Secret Reports makes the rules of the Underground invalid.
This story is backwards.
Kitaniji is The Hero, and Neku is The Dragon, not the other way around. Working under the assumption that destroying Shibuya is BAD, that would mean the person trying to save it— Kitaniji— is the real Hero of the story. Because Neku is— however unwittingly— both protecting and fighting for the Composer, he would be in the role of the Composer's dragon (up until his Heel Face Turn once he understands the situation. However, because (a.) Neku is the viewpoint character and (b.) Kitaniji comes across as a jerk with the limited information the character is given the first time through and (c.) Kitaniji is loyal to the Composer despite the current situation, things come across the other way around.
Shiki's actually played two weeks of the Reaper's Game. Furthermore, the first week playing was with Eri as her partner.
Shiki knows WAY too much about playing the game, even if we assume that of course she'll know more than Neku does thanks to his Laser Guided Amnesia; there's no way she'd understand not only how to use the pins, but also that ONLY Mr. Mew worked, prior to making a pact unless she had already discovered this while in a pact in a previous game. This is why Eri not only refers to Shiki's death as though she could return (because she knows Shiki could still be playing), but also why Shiki gave up her appearance; the first time around, Shiki felt so worthless in comparison to playing beside Eri (who sounds like she'd be a total "psych whiz" like Neku) that she wanted to become Eri in subsequent games rather than admit that she wasn't good enough as herself. The Shiki/Eri week was several weeks if not months before Neku started, as otherwise Eri wouldn't have been able to return to life in the RG otherwise, but everything else fits (including why Eri rocks as a designer — she developed her soul / Imagination while playing the game, thus when she came back, she was an artistic genius!)
Another Day Shiki is ERI
Think about it: If Neku was just seeing her as Eri, Joshua wouldn’t just call her Green because of her Skirt, and she wouldn’t say that her Boots are not made for sewer. Yeah, the real Shiki have Green Shirt, and Sandals are not made for Sewer (or even walking outdoor a lot), But Neku sees her as Eri, I don’t think that he hear what he want to hear too, as for the name well it just a name.
The reason why Joshua didn't erase Shibuya was because he in fact lost the Game.
When I refer to Game, I mean the one between Kitaniji and Joshua. Joshua limited himself to letting a proxy, Neku, play for him, and he himself had no bearing on the Game as far as winning and losing THAT SPECIFIC GAME went. If Neku wins, he wins. If Neku loses, he loses. Since Neku didn't shoot, and therefore lost that final game, Joshua lost his Game with Kitaniji. He might have won the final Game against Neku, which lets him do what he had already decided to do to Shibuya. And so, the next point.
Joshua lied to Neku in "Another Day"
In "Another Day" Joshua claims to have already beaten "you". If he is talking to Neku then this is false because "Another Day" has to take place before Neku's fourth game (when they played Tin Pin Slammer, Neku won). If he is talking to the player its false because both of Neku and Joshua's battles are non-interactive.
Mr. Mew is posessed by the soul of Neku's dead BFF
Even though we learn that Death Is Cheap, we still don't find out whatever happened to Neku's BFF (the one, who caused his trauma) after his road-accident.
If he got erased in his game-run, his soul is eighter still in Shibuya or has become a noise, as the secret reports implie.
And Mr. Mew is a really, REALLY good fighter for a stuffed cat and seems to give his, errmm... very best. Ever seen this determination in his little button-eyes when fighting? And those CLAWS are surely NOT the doing of Shiki's grove-palm pin. At least I have never seen a car growing those when using such a Pin.
Also, Shik said, Mr. Mew was "doing his own thing", she was just lifting him up.
Therefor, Stuffed piggy... errmm, kitty is probably more than just a stuffed kitty.
Since Shiki probably doesn't have any dead friends, it maybe Neku's.
Or it's possesed by the "mean kitty" from Youtube. Eighter way, it would explain the mystery of "Nyan-tan" (Mr. Mew's japanese name)
'Good Omens' is a distant AU of this game and at least one creator of the game has read it.
The End Of The World As We Know It, all on the whim of a young boy, which is narrowly averted! Angels with rarely-opened shops! Snakes who wear shades and black clothing! Although 'Good Omens' has a distinct lack of math fetishists, and TWEWY seems to lack Nice and Accurate Prophecies.
Mr. Mew is possessed by Eri
Specifically, Another Day's Eri, thus explaining why she doesn't appear at all in Another Day.
Wild-Kat is always closed because Hanekoma is avoiding the reapers.
In particular, if Uzuki decided to go there after the first week his cover would be blown since she'd know that he wasn't a player or a reaper.
Uzuki will be the next Conductor
It's established that Uzuki wants to make the game more rewarding for the Reapers and from what we see being the Conductor would be the best way to accomplish that.
Mr. H is possessing Mr. Mew
Isn't everybody?
Everybody is possessing Mr. Mew
Originally, Neku and Shiki was erased in the first week and the red skull pins spread around the world eventually causing all of humanity to merge into one collective mind which decided that the current world was wrong and travelled back in time to possess Mr. Mew so that it could change the future.
Pokemon Mew is possessing Mr. Mew.
Or a demon. Or a cat. Or maybe it's a heartless. Or Axel.
Or the Beldam from Coraline (it is stuffed, after all).
We are possessing Mr. Mew.
After all we are Playing as the Player, and we have a DS, D-pad (or ABXY Button)...
Haruhi Suzumiya is possessing Mr. Mew, as are Shinji Ikari and some random Timelord
And Light Yagami, and Konata and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Danny Phantom....
Spock(!!!!!) is possessing Mr. Mew.
After all those years of bottling up his emotions, they have to come out somewhere. And besides, it makes about as much sense as anyone else who's claimed to be possessing it. On that note...
Darth Vader is possessing Mr. Mew.
Why not?
Kamina is possessing Mr. Mew.
Because he's just that Hot Blooded.
or Geno, Kefka?, or Shiki herself possessing Mr. Mew.
____ is possessing Mr. Mew
Let see:
Mr. Mew is possessing us
Mr. Mew is Shiki's Persona
Mr. Mew, whilst being a physical object, is also posessed by Shiki's facade. From all the evidence avaiable (ie: He's a cat) Mr Mew is clearly a Neko Shogun meaning in a Persona game, Shiki's social link would be of the Star Arcana. This makes sence in a way, because Teddie's Social Link was that of the Star Archana and he has quite a few things to hide about his true self.
Also, Instead of using Personas, players (due to thier current status) are instead like personas and use thier powers directly. The pins just allow a better focus on said attacks.
This also means:
The Noise are Shadows taken from wherever Shadows come from (Tartrus, Midnight Channel, whatever place they'll pop up in in Persona 5) and agitated as to attack any player they see
The sequel will be a fight between angels and demons.
If you fight over 7500 rounds of battles (yes I get it, I'm obsessed)your ESP'r rank is Demon. Seeing as the pervious rank is Angel, Demons probably exist but haven’t come into play yet.
The World Ends With You eventually leads into Disgaea.
Just read the entry above. It all makes sense!!!
Demons are descendants of the Shinigami, Angels are, well... you get the point.
Also, notice the simmilarities in the POINT of the main-characters Character Development!
The overall "personality" of a city is determined by the personality of its current Composer.
And I quote: "As the Composer has changed, so Shibuya itself has metamorphosed." In other words, Shibuya was screwed up... because Joshua was screwed up.
Shiki and Eri are one of the Same.
Just think about it.
Neku's final entry fee was the bullet in his gun.
Joshua had already decided to save Shibuya upon seeing Neku change and obviously wouldn't allow himself to die instead opting for last final mind-screw to see what Neku would do.After all, from Joshua's point of view, the one thing Neku would desire most at that point would be to kill Joshua and become the Composer.
The first tracking application added to Joshua's phone tracks not only the Conductor's Imagination, but any Imagination directed against the Composer.
Hence its reactions to Sho's trash heaps and the Taboo refinery sigil. Relatedly, said trash heaps could possibly be concealing the sigils used to create the ordinary Taboo Noise.
Haruhi Suzumiya is Joshua's mother
Because she's god and he's Jesus....
It's not the clothes themselves that give you stat bonuses.
Instead, they can act as more or less efficient conduits for your Bravery, turning it into raw power that grants you bonuses. Each item has a specific output range, i.e. there's both an upper limit to the amount of bravery it can convert into power, and a minimum amount necessary to make an item work.
Secret reports is all a lie.
Make a Good Discontinuity don't you think? You never know If he was really telling what he is saying, and if the Games was really about Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence them was the Games was about winning a New Live?
Each of the higher-ranked Reapers owns a chain of clothing.
Hanekoma, the Producer, has control of Gatito, which has the best pins and clothing in-game, while the others have less powerful items. Minamimoto has control of Tigre Punks (Note the messy art style and the "2" in one of the pins), Kitaniji owns Dragon Couture, Konishi has Pavo Real, and Higashizawa owns Sunshine Burgers (alright, not clothing, but...).
Neku's fourth Game did not exist
Endgame: The duel between Neku and Joshua was not a Game, it was a test of Neku's character growth. If Neku could undergo such a dramatic change for the better, there would be hope that the rest of Shibuya could do the same, and there would be reason to spare it from destruction. So if Neku chose not to shoot his killer, or allowed himself to be shot, that would be proof enough that Shibuya was worth saving. Thus Joshua fabricated a situation in which Neku would feel the most pressure to shoot: a Game. The Secret Reports confirm that Neku was defeated. Failing a mission means getting erased, which clearly did not happen, and thus Neku did not lose. But he could not have won, because he did not become the Composer. If he neither failed nor completed the mission, it stands to reason that the mission did not exist. Furthermore, Neku did not have a timer. He had the same trick pulled on him in W 2 D 3; he was so caught up in the prospect of a mission that he didn't bother to verify it.
Neku's Best Friend is Joshua very first partner.
From Neku Friend being Joshua, How about Neku Dead Freidn being Joshua very first partner in the Games?
People disappear in the Bermuda Triangle because there's a game area there.
To be more general, almost every single area on the surface of the earth is in part of a game area, but the Bermuda Triangle area is the only area where there is no land at all. Since no one lives in there, and thus no one dies, the Composer of the BT area has some different rules than Shibuya's Composer, mainly in that Reapers of the Bermuda Triangle area can go into the RG and kill people. Every single disappearance in the Triangle is due to Reapers killing them, and then removing the evidence by wrecking whatever the people were riding in. The only challenge is a week-long challenge, to stay afloat for seven days, by whatever means they can use. After seven days, the GM challenges all those who managed to survive. It's not impossible to fight Noise because there's an island on the Noise plane. If you manage to survive, the Conductor rewards you with a lifeboat; it would be ridiculously sadistic for someone to win, only to drown immediately and have to play over and over until you die.
On a side note, because of the rarity of Players, there are few Reapers, and everyone instantly becomes a Harrier. Points also increase a Reaper's lifespan significantly more there than in Shibuya.
The Composer regularly brings back Reapers who were erased.
IIRC, while thinking about Sho, Konishi mentions that he has an "impeccable player erasure record". Reapers need to erase players to live, so mentioning that about a Reaper who is still... er, alive, is redundant, like saying "he has an impeccable breathing record" about someone who is alive. Therefore, it's possible for a Reaper to be "alive" and not have erased the players they faced, suggesting that the Composer brings back erased Reapers, and frequently enough that someone's perfect erasure record is notable. Kariya and Uzuki are exceptions to defeat=erasure because Neku holds back before they're erased, which is more than can be said for the other Reapers faced.
The Game is real.
Or at least it would be, if the Reapers hadn't put up that pesky fourth wall.
Neku was talking to the player in the ending, and has always had Partial Awarness.
He trusts you. He trusted you to take him to where he had to go, and he trusts you to be able to figure out the ending and thus 'fix everything'. But he can't forgive you for almost inadvertently destroying Shibuya, and he can't forgive you for everything that's happening. The line 'You can't see it, but those three weeks were very hard for me' is actually a slam at the player's apathy. But still, without you he could not move outside of cutscenes. So he trusts you, he has to. He want's to see you there, when he meets up with Beat and Rhyme and Shiki. And you are there. He says "Did I mention? I've got friends now" because he never truly acknowledged them as his friends during the rest of the game. He want's you to know that he's got other important people in his life now.
We have three elements to people in both stories.
Body=Body
Mind= Imagination The Psychs work by using Imagination. The Imaginations manipulates Dust into creating different effects on the world.
Soul= Deamons When Uzuki explained how to create Noise she explicitly stated that Noise are made out of Soul. If the body was lost when a Player Dies. And Imagination (as described by the Secret Reports) is destroyed upon Erasure. That simply leaves the Soul taking on a deamonlike form.
Erasure is simply dissolving peacfully into the universe which Word Of God (ironic isn't it?) confirms is what most souls want. However those who have the will (Imagination) to keep existing play the Game. Like in His Dark Materials the best get turned into Angels. Like in His Dark Materials Angels are complicated in structure but look humanoid to humans and can travel through universes.
Shiki is an Alternate Universe incarnation of Mine.
They're both dark-haired, bespectacled girls who beautifully sew clothes that were designed by their much flashier partners. Both get rather... excited when it comes to their field (Shiki and Neku's loose button; Mine and wanting to dress every cute girl she meets in frilly dresses), and both have the Chinese Zodiac as a major presence in their lives. The key difference between them is Shiki's low self-esteem and envy; after making it through the Game, it's quite possible that she'll grow up to be much like Mine is now.
Shibuya is still screwed.
In The Stinger, Hanekoma tells Joshua that it's "their" world and "they" decide what to do with it. The "they" that Hanekoma is referring to isn't Neku and his friends, but rather the Higher Powers That Be, who were actually backing up Joshua's plan all along. Even though Joshua changed his mind, the Plan's still in full swing but now without his consent, setting us up for the above mentioned sequel against the Angels.
Hanekoma controls all of Japan
Think about it. Joshua, as the Composer controls all of Shibuya. Since the only rank above that which has been firmly established is Producer, it is likely that he controls Japan and every city within. This of course would mean that the next rank up controls all of Asia, and the next rank is God.
Joshua played the game before he became the composer, but his partner didn't make it and was erased.
That's why his perception of people is just as negativ as Neku's. His partner had probably become his best (or possibly only) friend ever and he was so upset when this person, whom he shared his dream of escaping this hell of a game with, was just finally and completly gone, that he didn't take the offer to be revived. He was then instead made composer. Maybe he killed the current composer in an outburst of rage about the demise of his partner. Just like Neku was traumatized by the car-accident of his best friend, Joshua decided never to have such a close relationship again and hide himself under a mask of intrigues whenever he's talking to people, which is why we never actually saw Joshua's true personality.
Diego Armando is an incarnation of Hanekoma.
They both love coffee and speaking in cryptic aphorisms. They both have that scruffy-cool look. They both know far, far more about the plot than they first appear to. Armando is ostensibly Hispanic and calls his girlfriend "kitten", while Hanekoma's brand is Gatito, the Spanish word for kitten. Think about it.
Neku's final entry fee was his status as the Conductor.
Assuming that you become Conductor the same way you become Composer (via the Klingon Promotion), Neku defeating Kitanji made Neku the new Conductor. Joshua either did not want Neku to be his Conductor or did not feel that Neku wanted or was ready for the job. The entry fee he collected, therefore, was Neku's status as the Conductor.
Mitsuki Konishi is an Alternate Universe incarnation of Jihl Nabaat.
Every new piece of information we learn about Jihl matches up. First, there's their appearance (same general fashion sense, once you allow for the different settings, same glasses, just give Jihl a haircut and they've got the same hair, too...) Then there's their shared "cool, calculating" type of intelligence. Both of them hold ranking positions on the antagonist's side, and both of them trap a protagonist's beloved family member in an inanimate form and gloat about it. Finally, there's one of Jihl's lines from the trailer: "for every task, there's a perfect tool." Sounds like it fits Konishi's preferred method of letting others carry out her schemes for her, doesn't it?
May Kurokawa is Joshua's mother/sister.
Either or, depending on how old you imagine each of them is, but tell me you don't see the family resemblance. ◊
They have a very similar faces, from the jaw, nose, and brow, and the same hair colour. They carry themselves with the same posture, and May's hands seem to be more feminine versions of Joshua's. Depending on your view of Joshua's relationship with Neku, May's crush on Neku when the Friendship Gauge is full could be construed as meaningfully connecting their characters.
Joshua is Sho Minamimoto's older brother.
They're far from close, but Joshua displays an uncanny personal understanding of Sho. He often shows off his knowledge of math and science, which is clearly equal or superior to Sho's, and there's a rather obvious connection between Sho's obsession with math and Joshua's math-related fusion combos. As for being older, Joshua only appears to be younger because his vibe must be reduced so much when he tunes down. On occasion he has patronized Sho as he only does with Neku, his proxy or subordinate figure. Sho has always resented Joshua and felt that he's been stuck in his shadow, and thus strives for personal victory by trying to dethrone him as Composer through any means necessary. As the older, responsible sibling, Joshua still has a sense of duty towards Sho, so while he still toys with him he spares him from erasure. (Elaborated on from an idea I wrote over here .)
Prince won the reaper's game at one point.
On Secret Report 7, a really good winning player will "soon make their mark upon society. His art, music, and other output become a part of culture, spreading and persisting through time, refining peoples' Imagination even without personal contact with the Player." It reminds me that sometimes people will think something like even though his voice isn't that great, he's still a big influence. And his blog gets about 100,000 hits a day!
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