Finished the game, now I have some questions *spoilers*

[Ranshye]

So I finished the game (all routes) and now I have some questions about some stuff that didn't really click with me or I just didn't understand.

1. 20th july 1999- what is the significance of this date? During End Sky II, Ayana is talking about the spirit room (which in itself is quite a big question mark for me) and they talk about that date that appeared there which is 20th july 1999, I don't really understand what that date has to do with the game except the fact it's 13 years before the prophecy.

2. Down the rabbit hole 1 - So what exactly is it? A dream? An Illusion? The fact that Mamiya Takuji got the name "end sky" from there means Yuki did experience it but forgot about it, however, considering Zakuro is alive there means it didn't happen, so Takuji couldn't have gotten the name from there. It just loops around for me. Yuki couldn't have made it up because that didn't happen in reality and Takuji couldn't have gotten it from Yuki because it didn't happen.

3.After the suicide- who sent the first email? Someone sent the first message from Zakuro's phone after her suicide in the same day, however, in the route from Takuji's eyes he sent the first one after a few days and took inspiration from the message that was already sent. No one from the personalities seems to discuss it or acknowledge it.

4. Not really a question but.. about Takashima Zakuro - the fact that in all the 3 main endings she still suffered and killed herself seems rather.. depressing? Seems as one of the messages of the game is "Live Happily!" and one of the protagonists gets blackmailed,drugged and gang ♥♥♥♥♥
to the point her minds start to hallucinate seems a bit... unfitting I guess. What's bothering me even more as that no one except Kimika even gives a ♥♥♥♥ about it, Maybe the new Yuki cares for like 5 minutes.

5. The new route - is it already out? if so then is there any translation/summary that I can read (in English)? If not then when is it coming out?
Edit: Seems there's a YouTube play-through that plays this chapter and translates it with a Deep Learning translator that seems to do a pretty good job all in all.

All in all I liked the game, maybe could've liked it more if understood some of the references they made or some of the really vague conversations they had. Maybe because I'm not a native English speaker but some parts went in one ear and out of the other.

[wuthering20]

About question 3, I came here looking for answer as well. It kind of bugged me since Down the Rabbit Hole 2. Let me know if you have any good luck on this.

About question 1, the date seems a reference to a previous game made by the same studio.

Question 2 is another thing I keep wondering. I don't remember well how Takuji came about the idea of "end sky", but since both Mamiya and Yuki are quite into this "sky/world" thing (from the beginning of chapter 1), is it possible that they both(or should I say one of them) imagined this idea and shared it to other personalities?

[Ranshye]

Originally posted by wuthering20:

About question 3, I came here looking for answer as well. It kind of bugged me since Down the Rabbit Hole 2. Let me know if you have any good luck on this.

About question 1, the date seems a reference to a previous game made by the same studio.

Question 2 is another thing I keep wondering. I don't remember well how Takuji came about the idea of "end sky", but since both Mamiya and Yuki are quite into this "sky/world" thing (from the beginning of chapter 1), is it possible that they both(or should I say one of them) imagined this idea and shared it to other personalities?

Haven't found anything about question 3... honestly 99% of the discussion seems to come from the jp release so nothing new is popping up.

About question 1: oh, thought it had a bit more meaning than that..

And AFAIK they mention the end sky came from the end of the hospital during the first chapter (Ayana said it during End sky 2). So it seems weird if they imagined it without having anything to do with chapter 1.

If they didn't get "End sky" from chapter 1, then you can basically call chapter 1 a dream or something. You are led to believe it was a dream until End Sky 2 when Ayana gives you a connection between chapter 1 and the rest of the story and there is where the problem arises.

If they got something out of chapter 1 then it had to happen. However it contradicts the rest of the chapters at the same time.


Honestly I gave up after a bit. Even the publisher gave up on the western release it seems. they won't even translate the new chapter.

[wuthering20]

So I replayed Down the Rabbit Hole 1 and the answer just lied there. Turns out it's Zakuro herself, after dropping the doll from the rooftop she committed suicide in the original timeline, sent that first email to the 158 members of that message board. She called it her "first and last prank", and even commented on the wrong time (the mail was sent after PM 10:00, yet in this world it's only in the evening when she sent it.) She refused to let Yuki see the mail because she knew it would make Yuki uncomfortable. However, Yuki thought she looked ghastly, like she was cursing someone. Those who completed chapter 3 would know exactly why.

To put it short, it's a revenge of Zakuro's spirit, done in a fantasy world that reflected what happened in the reality, and its influence somehow reached the real world. The logic in this game is really twisted.

There are other unanswered questions: Who wrote the "end of the world" prediction on Zakuro's desk? Who made the first post on the message board using Zakuro's name before her suicide? The game never directly explained. Maybe they were all done by Zakuro's ghost as well. But it kind of contradicted with Zakuro's statement that the mail was her "first and last prank."

And yeah, I'm also waiting for that new chapter. There are translations made by fans but they tend to be incomplete.

[Ranshye]

Originally posted by wuthering20:

So I replayed Down the Rabbit Hole 1 and the answer just lied there. Turns out it's Zakuro herself, after dropping the doll from the rooftop she committed suicide in the original timeline, sent that first email to the 158 members of that message board. She called it her "first and last prank", and even commented on the wrong time (the mail was sent after PM 10:00, yet in this world it's only in the evening when she sent it.) She refused to let Yuki see the mail because she knew it would make Yuki uncomfortable. However, Yuki thought she looked ghastly, like she was cursing someone. Those who completed chapter 3 would know exactly why.

To put it short, it's a revenge of Zakuro's spirit, done in a fantasy world that reflected what happened in the reality, and its influence somehow reached the real world. The logic in this game is really twisted.

There are other unanswered questions: Who wrote the "end of the world" prediction on Zakuro's desk? Who made the first post on the message board using Zakuro's name before her suicide? The game never directly explained. Maybe they were all done by Zakuro's ghost as well. But it kind of contradicted with Zakuro's statement that the mail was her "first and last prank."

And yeah, I'm also waiting for that new chapter. There are translations made by fans but they tend to be incomplete.

I wanted a more logical explanation but I guess with the game being what it is, I shouldn't have hoped for that.

I don't remember exactly but I thought Zakuro herself wrote the things on the desk. Sounds like what an unhinged person getting sucked into a fantasy world as escapism will do. The game doesn't really tell us that but I don't think they really need to, from the first time we saw that it was implied Zakuro wrote it, we just didn't know why would she. But after her route we can see she kinda broke so no wonder she will do something like that.

The new chapter seems to be a "happy end" continuation of the main ending so I'm not as compelled to see it tbh.

[pupu]

1. as mentioned, 1999 was the year when another game made by the SCA-JI (the creator of Wonderful Everyday) was released. The game is called "End of Sky(終ノ空)", and it shares a similar theme to "Wonderful Everyday" and even characters with the same name.
2. Here is a nice article explaining the prologue and the "End of Sky" ending: https://soratosekai.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/subahibi-narrative/
Basically, the world in the prologue is at a higher dimension, meaning characters in this chapter are god-like creatures. They could see events occurring in the "real world" (as Yuki remembered sunflowers and Tomosane in the end) and impact the reality (as Zakuro sent the suicide message).
Of course, this's just one explanation. You could interpret the prologue whichever way you want.
3. You already knew.
4. Yeah, Zakuro is the most tragic character. It's really hard to read through her chapter and I have to skip most of the torturing scenes... Luckily there's an alternative ending, where she lives happily with Kimika ever after. Hella yuri!
5. The new route is mostly fanservice, but at least the best girl Yuki finally has her own ending.