About the Gate

kyled00m said:
They touched on this ever so slightly in the 2nd season of the anime and since they never went in depth, and I was curious, I figured I'd ask people who read the LN.

.. Although I don't know if it's the same in the LN, I thought I'd ask anyways..
How long does the gate stay connected between 2 worlds? The gate that connects Japan to the other world is the same one that explains why the numerous races exist on the planet. It makes me wonder if the gate will close and the JSDF there would get stuck, never able to return home.

m3g4k4z1 said:
I love the anime and the manga, but I didn't read the LN, so I don't understand one thing:
how was the Empire so well prepared when the GATE appeared? Informing their allies and gathering a whole army, normally this would take days I guess! And yet, in Japan, the GATE suddenly appeared, and even before anyone had the chance to check it out, out of it comes a whole medival fantasy army...
Did Hardy inform the Empire that the GATE will appear? Were they aware of it, because it appears at an exact time every xxx years? Was the GATE in Tokyo for a couple of days with no one checking it out? Is it just a plot hole? lol

TheSilverPhantom said:


Correct me if I'm wrong.
In the manga when they meet Hardy, she said that she create a way for both world to be connected, but it was to small. Sometime after that The Empire notice it, but since it was to small they need to build a gate so their army can pass it. While their "worker" build the gate, The Empire assemble an expeditionary force, not whole army and they also don't inform any of their allies, this explain how they so well prepare.

This is just my assumption, but when the gate complete they make the gate as some sort of medium to enlarge the hole and in the same time in Tokyo the hole that once so small that no one notice transform into a gate make it look like it just suddenly appeared, while it actually been there for some time.

m3g4k4z1 said:

Yes, in chapter 58 she said that the Empire's magicians actually made the gate so big. I wonder how small it was that no one in Tokyo noticed it... so you're probably right: since the empire actually activated the gate, they could've prepared an expedition-army. And since they were wiped out, they couldn't close it again and the JSDF took it. (btw, that magical device is the gate itself I guess)

Hmm, so the gate was actually open before that, I wonder if someone noticed it before - maybe later they will meet someone who entered the gate weeks or months before anyone else...?