History Headscratchers / ChaosHead

* Why is Takumi beaten up by a group of guys in episode 7?\\

** Explained. Rimi is lying. She used her gigalomaniac powers to mind-control the other students into believing she had been there for years, but in actuality she isn't a Suimei student at game start. She explains this in episode 9 of the VN.

[[folder:Di-Swords and Gigalomaniac Abilities]]
* The di-swords are awesome weapons, but do they have any inspiration behind their designs?
** To me they look similar to the swords from Fate.

* Why doesn’t Takumi recognize Rimi when they meet in school in the first or second episode, when she claims that the two are best friends?
** Rimi is lying. She used her gigalomaniac powers to mind-control the other students into believing she had been there for years, but in actuality she isn't a Suimei student at game start. She explains this in episode 9 of the VN.

* The general is really the original Takumi who has grown old from using his powers too much. If he is really living in the same city as Takumi, then they both exist at the same time. So how in the world was he able to send Takumi a picture of the first new gen murder the day before it occurred? And if they do exist at the same time, could the illusion have just walked into the room accidentally and discovered his original self?
** The image sent by Shogun (The General) was likely forged by Shogun's own delusions, in a similar fashion to the Group Diving video which was forged by a different party. He may have had prior knowledge of the incident, including Takumi's "involvement" in it, so he was capable of roughly replicating it before it was actually carried out. And it's unlikely that the delusional Takumi could have just walked into a room in the @Cafe to find the original; later in the story, it's seen that Shogun is hiding in an artificially created hospital wing inaccessible to most people, so it's not unthinkable that he went through the same precautions here.

* We learn Takumi's identity when he tries to find his parents’ house, and discovers only an empty lot. The thing is, this doesn't apply to his sister Nanami, and she has already mentioned their father in the first episode. She also probably lives with her parents, and, since Takumi is a delusion of the original, shouldn’t he know where to find his parents’ house as well?
** Takumi's knowledge of his parents' house's location is artificial, as he was never intended to visit it. Presumably this doesn't apply to Nanami.

** He was created in a similar fashion to every delusion in the story; inserting a false image into a dead spot via a Di-Sword and turning into reality by having it achieve local shared recognition. Naturally, creating a human being is more difficult than most delusions, and as a result the original Takumi was sent into a coma for a while, and the resulting human being was a feeble Otaku. The first episode takes place approximately a year after the delusional Takumi's creation.

* If the original Takumi aged rapidly at 16 or 17 (before the start of the anime), his classmates must have noticed his sudden disappearance or change. Then Takumi is introduced at the start of the anime and no one questions why he’s so different. However, this seems to be HandWaved, since almost no one pays attention to Takumi at his school.
** When he went into hiding, the original Takumi used his powers to make everyone except Rimi forget he existed (we see, at the end of episode 8, Takumi moving through the hospital without anyone except some of the mental patients being able to notice him, and in episode 10 Nanami breaks the memory block). Presumably, he also used them to make the delusionary Takumi's classmates remember him.

* In episode 3, we see a memory of Takumi as a child. He wasn’t allowed to go on a field trip, so he drew a picture of the bus and tore it up. His mother later receives a phone call that his class’s bus crashed, killing everyone. Takumi has reality warping powers? This memory doesn’t even seem to have any effect on Takumi.
** It was a manifestation of his gigalomaniac powers, which are, in fact, a form of reality warping, yes.

** To symbolize how they've come to save Taku, probably.

** This is the female police officer who helped Ban with his investigation. He is seen talking to her about GE rates and the Meiwa party a few times

* What was the point of the Gero Kaerun dolls (Hoppy the frog in the English dub)? They were seen several times (Kozue had a GK band aid, Yua and Nanami liked them, and Ban even investigates them in a store at one point. He asks a lot of questions about them, and they seem to hold some kind of significance to the plot, but I can’t figure out what that might be.
** As near as I can tell, they were part of the Nozomi groups experiments with Noah 2 and gigalomaniac powers. The implication seems to be that they were forcing a delusion on the populace to make them think they really wanted those dolls.

*** They could've been a subtle fourth wall break, since Creator/NitroPlus is know for doing that.

* Why is Sena absolutely ''terrified'' when she sees a puppy in episode 8?\\

** It's also likely that her chuunibyou delusions are actually [[YourMindMakesItReal real-booting]] the events of the plot, whether she's aware of it happening or not.