Island Episode 9 Discussion

beast_regards said:
Did we assume time travel anime is going to make any sense? It rarely does. I have a feeling is VN is actually an eroge, story is never supposed to make any sense and everything is aimed towards cheap time reset for guiltless loli harem shenanigans, anime adaptation just cut out the most important part for not being PG.

However, if anime does make sense ... actually, I have another theory:

Did you noticed any time travel in the anime?

It may sounds like the strange question, anime talks about time travel a lot, but did we noticed any time travel actually happening? And I mean, by time travel, time actually going backward.

Because, time never went backward.

Story establishes that there is reincarnation, cycles and every era is going to have the same girls with very minor, unimportant changes. Rinne died, and she is back in the future, looking and being exactly the same with minor wardrobe change! Sara talks about time travel, but never actually time travells, just as the protagonist.

Rinne spent 5 days on the island while 5 years passed outside. Rinne builds the time machine, Setsuna steps on it, and as a result time actually goes faster in the time machine, while no time passes on the outside for Rinne. Plans for the time machine actually goes from the past, again.

Yes, Setsuna have memories of the girls from before, but since Episode 9 threw continuity from the window (by having Rinne alive), we don't know it is memory of the future.

Time actually never backward! There is only reincarnation cycle and/or sleeping in between those.

Next time Setsuna uses the capsule, he will again meet the girls, regardless of the setting.

Jeemz said:
Rinne's parents is Kuon and Setsuna.Kuon is real Rinne.Every loop Setsuna meet real Rinne in Never Island and they fall in love.Setsuna is an experimenter of a company in Himawari(The VN autuor's another work).Setsuna is more than one hundred years old,he went through six months every 40000 years.
Time never goes back and every loop Rinne always die.But in midsummer Setsuna didn't lose his memory of winter,this time he knew the true of the world so he try to go back to the first loop to save real Rinne.

Alantay11 said:


It's actually not an eroge if you check vndb

Alantay11 said:
It's actually not an eroge if you check vndb

beast_regards said:


It's hard to qualify as many actual eroge has been re-cut to remove the sexual content and be sold to the larger audience, as plot doesn't technically revolve around said sex scenes. And since sex scenes were removed, magic, it's not eroge anymore.

Blackbird said:
This game is all ages, there is no such a thing as 18+ contents anyway LuL .

Atavistic said:
So this being where Setsuna ended up after cryosleep I can understand, but what I don't get is everything else. How far forward has he gone? How did the world end up like that? Why are there apparent reincarnations of Rinne, Sara and Karen in this distant future? And where is the time machine so he can go back and save the original Rinne? Steampunk Rinne seems to just be building the cryosleep pod again, so it likely isn't that, although even that raises the question of who passed that knowledge down so this Rinne could utilise it..

iliyanski89 said:
I've wrote it last week and i'm gonna write it again. This anime is the biggest fuck up this season. Even after nearly 500 watched shows i find this to be the stupid show i've ever watched. Sorry for the rant guys but please if you are gonna make something do it the right way. Sayonara from me and if you plan to watch this please save your time for something better.

John_Max said:
Interesting episode i guess but "new timeline"? not sure about that, i think its just the future.
The thing is, according to the episode, the Setsuna here is actually our Setsuna that has waken up in the future, what i don't understand is why there is a Rinne and Karen here? i mean its like everyone is reborn and the whole world have some sort of cycle aspect to it that after some time, same people will reborn?

Yukito-NII said:
Ok wait guys, there is one thing I don't get - was Setsuna sent to the past or to the future?

Yeah I see how everything is connected, the whole story (I'm good at understanding and connecting stories) even though it was an really unexpected (and quiet good) change of time place and era (like an parallel world) and I really like the steampunky look they've got in there (yeah pretty much steampunk always comes with Dystopia).

Well it's been a while (a long while) since I saw good and one of it's kind (almost, well I bet you couldn't find anything similar to this anime/visual novel) anime like that, I really like the story, the music, the art - well I like everything about it (in my opinion), so I really hope it will continue and I can't wait for the next episode (I think I'm going to purchase the soundtrack and, if available, the DVD as well, and the visual novel (en. Version) cause yah know, yeah.... And really hopefully there will be a manga released (really wanna see something like that - of course I'll buy that too).

And yeah I haven't played the visual novel yet, but I am going to (not gonna play further than the anime continues) - so good luck with it! (really I love this brilliant series - now I must find place for it in my favorites - probably I'll have to purchase MAL membership - wonder why I haven't purchased :D) P.S - I like both steampunk and ocean, so it's quiet a rare coincidence to see such brilliant series - yeah I really like to type :D

sXeblues said:
So, this episode was a complete mindfuck... And, for the first half of it, I really didn’t care for it. But, when Setsuna started to flash back to the island and Rinne we’ve already been following up to this point, I started to have some little hope again. But, it’s still pretty hard to make sense of.

First and foremost, I’d assumed this to be the future. And that Setsuna was found by a future girl named Rinne, and is only now beginning to recall why he was cryogenically frozen and sent to the future; To catch up with technology that could send him back into the past, to undo Rinne proper’s apparent death.

But, Sara showing up, and being so buxom — which coincides with previous Sara’s recollecting her mother having the same appearance — as well as alternate versions of Karen and Rinne, all threw me for a loop. I’d begun to wonder if the syndrome that kills people who are exposed to sunlight, might somehow be connected to these events, based on what the old man had said. And that made me wonder if this was, in fact, the past.

But, based on Setsuna’s own recollection of the former Rinne’s death, we at least know that we’re still following Setsuna proper. And he now seems to believe that he can ‘save the island’ and its people. By which, I think he means, go back in time to save Rinne, and perhaps prevent some catastrophe that entombs the descendants of the island of old, underground in the future.