Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee

[Buffalobiian]

I had thought Lag could see the memories of other Shindan bullets because of the amber in his eye. Is it the case that anyone can see them, or is Niche special on that front as well? She saw a quick summary of most of who Lag cares about, notably which included herself.

I think the way the Shidan gun works is you shoot a fragment of you heart at the beast, which then resonates with their own heart and explode. The snowflakes are probably even more fragmented remains of Heart, so people who come in contact with it will see whatever memories the shooter used in the attack.

Lag saw Gausche's
Gausche saw Lag's
Niche saw Lag's.

It's not exclusive to Lag's eye.

I don't see it as a shonen power up ability. He's really weak otherwise, which is why he needs such a powerful dingo. It's basically the only thing Lag can do. He can't even defend himself against normal snakes, but he's the only one who can completely defeat a gaichu.

Lag's beam wasn't really the powerup I was talking about, since he shot it before. I was referring to the fact that he couldn't initially release his power with a normal gun, but now he can because he got more emotional.

The very first time he shot with Gausche's gun was when he was out of control, and his stone resonated with that of the gun. In the DVD special, he wields a Shindan gun without a loaded stone, but was still able to shoot, indicating that the conventional stone doesn't need to be there. In both cases however, it was a Shindan gun.

I thought Shindan guns were made differently, and there was some sort of energy transfer mechanism between the barrel and the stone for it to work, rather than a normal gun with a hole cut out simply to house the stone.

Based on all that, plus the fact that it failed to shoot initially, I thought it was physically impossible to shoot a Heart beam. The way a change of Heart could reverse this (assumed) physical impossibility lead to my previous response. I did, however, expect a Shindan beam to kill the bug one way or another.

[Ryllharu]

I think the way the Shidan gun works is you shoot a fragment of you heart at the beast, which then resonates with their own heart and explode. The snowflakes are probably even more fragmented remains of Heart, so people who come in contact with it will see whatever memories the shooter used in the attack.

Lag saw Gausche's
Gausche saw Lag's
Niche saw Lag's.

It's not exclusive to Lag's eye.

I don't think your reasoning is wrong, but why was Gauche so surprised that Lag saw all of his memories in the prologue then?

[Buffalobiian]

I don't think your reasoning is wrong, but why was Gauche so surprised that Lag saw all of his memories in the prologue then?

Is that the DVD?

[Buffalobiian]

I don't think your reasoning is wrong, but why was Gauche so surprised that Lag saw all of his memories in the prologue then?

edit: If you're talking about the latter part of Episode 1, Lag saw Gausche's memories because Gausche used his own Heart to heal Lag's depleted one when he accidentally loaded it ans shot a massive amount.

@ Episode 2, 1:40, Gausche wasn't surprised at all to see Lag knowing some of his past as a side effect of healing.

I haven't seen any other instance where Lag saw Gausche's memories.

In Episode 2 against the Buckers Gaichuu, they saw each other's memories. That can be explained in that they both loaded the shot. Gausche said "Shindan loaded", while Lag was steadying the gun. Then they got separated, Lag's eye resonated and shot the Gaichuu. If Gausche's fragment was loaded already into the gun, then it would explain why both memories were shot.

As for the "surprise", in episode 1 Gausche was scratched by the shot. The look on his face could be attributed to the shock of getting hit, plus the general awe at seeing something spectacular. He was pretty composed after that. He wasn't going "wtf was that??" at least.

In episode 2, he was surprised at Lag's eye, and that Lag's heart resonated with his own while he loaded his own Shindan for the second time, as per his comment after the battle: "You even resonated with my heart."