Charlotte

[NeoCybercoin]

Episode 9 -HS

Okay..gotta admit. Didn't expect this. Makes his power seem a lot more awesome.

[David75]

His power is nice and he can use them at will with probably a limit on energy, if his exhaustion was not caused by the last power only but the accumulation.The time travel plot device is a little cheap after killing the sister and we (at least I) hoped that would not be used.
But they had to show that timeline, so that the mc understands he needs to act to save the ones he cares about, since his power is the solution...

[Kraco]

I guess this story continues in Shin Sekai Yori... Or at least it should considering how the government is treating those poor kids. Only in Japan (or elsewhere in Asia) the kids would go along with it like sheep, all the way to the autopsy table with no resistance.

Unlike David, I'm actually happy they'll use time travel to bring Ayumi back. I think all in all this show did so poor job with her death and the aftermath that even a person like I, who rarely would want the dead to return (except in zombie stories), reverses his usual stance. She's better alive than dead if it's like that.

Another episode where I didn't like Tomori. Seems like that feeling won't change. I wish she had no role in bringing Ayumi back, but I fear she will. This time she might even give a shit about it because Ayumi is also the big brother's little sister, and he's likely the only person in the whole world she respects at all, aside from herself. Naturally this doesn't mean she would respect Yuu any more than a random bug by the roadside.

[shinta|hikari]

Tomori waki <3

I didn't expect the sudden twist at this point, but it's all very interesting. The way this reuses voices from Angel Beats and Little Busters is also very nostalgic. Even the roles are the same.

So Yuu needs to steal his brother's power and go back in time to save Ayumi. Overusing time travel makes you blind, but it's not that hard to prevent Ayumi from getting provoked by cutter girl.

What I'm most curious about is how Yuu will steal Tomori from his brother's charms. He fell for her for saving him, just like how Tomori fell for his brother for saving her. I've always thought Tomori just didn't show her emotions on her face, which is still partially true, but her blush when in front of her savior contradicts that.

[Buffalobiian]

"I don't know if this is good writing, but I'm interested." That's what I'm thinking right now.

@Kraco: This is X-men, now with imouto and waki.

[KrayZ33]

So, he's going to plunder his brothers power because he can't use it anymore after turning blind from using it?

I'm interested in hearing how he managed to get money/change the world as a blind man, or how his power works.
I hope they manage to explain it properly and that it'll make at least some sense..... but I doubt it.

[David75]

It's possible he knew he'd lose his time travel powers and eyesight, so he used some knowledge from his travels to amass money and start to create a counterpower that makes the protected environnement at school possible for example.We're probably in the last timeline he can test and now our mc has to solbe everything at first try...

[shinta|hikari]

Why can't Yuu do it over and over again after he steals the power?

[David75]

I supposed his brother lost his power. It's also possible Yuu can't steal powers from someone blind.

[Buffalobiian]

I supposed his brother lost his power. It's also possible Yuu can't steal powers from someone blind.

But he'll kind of have to here, since that's the whole idea behind saving Ayumi.

My impression was that this aggregation of money came about from multiple time-leaps and changes, with each timeline the "mutants" were better off than the previous.

edit: what you said here:

It's possible he knew he'd lose his time travel powers and eyesight, so he used some knowledge from his travels to amass money and start to create a counterpower that makes the protected environnement at school possible for example.We're probably in the last timeline he can test and now our mc has to solbe everything at first try...

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Why can't Yuu do it over and over again after he steals the power?

Consequences of powers are carried over, including blindness. It'll catch up to him someday.

[shinta|hikari]

I know, I was the first person who mentioned the blindness as the price of power. I was responding to David, who said that Yuu only gets one chance.

[David75]

It's true that I forgot Ayumi. I can be cheap and say we already jumped when Yuu was unconscious and Ayumi is still safe in that timeline, but close to the disaster.

[KrayZ33]

There is also the possibility that his brother doesn't have his power anymore.

Tomori: "Last time I saw him was ages ago" -> They lose their powers ~aprox. end of hight school, they look more than 1 year apart, but that's just a guess.
Maybe him losing his powers and being blind are connected somehow... I mean, maybe it's not because he overused his powers, but more like when he lost his powers from getting older, his eyesight was gone too, since he had to use his eyes for his power in the first place.

[David75]

Do not forget Ayumi, we have to be in a timeline where she's alive.

[Buffalobiian]

When would this end though? If Yuu obtains time-travelling powers and he gets horny with Tomori, he's pretty much obliged to save her brother as well.

I'd want to hear how memory is kept between time-lines. Yuu didn't suddenly remember something he wasn't supposed to, but rather had his memory erased by someone prior to the start of this series. That means keeping your memory is the default state after time travel. That applies to him at least, if to no one else.

[David75]

Or for some reason, Yuu is special like Okarin (Steins Gate)

[shinta|hikari]

Or Yuu already stole (copied?) his brother's power and jumped back in time too.

[David75]

In fact I was about to post that too... It would be a nice move to plunder his brother's powers right before he becomes unable to use them.

[KrayZ33]

When would this end though? If Yuu obtains time-travelling powers and he gets horny with Tomori, he's pretty much obliged to save her brother as well.

Maybe he can't because traveling back in time means he can't use his plundered abilities. In the new timeline, he didn't aquire them "yet", which would of course mean that he'll lose his time travel ability the moment he uses it.

And without powers, I don't see a middle-school kid (I'm guessing he'll switch into his old self with a "new mind", see: butterfly effect) achieving it just like that, which is why I wonder how his brother made things possible in the new timeline, as a kid. Probably won the jackpot a few times.

[David75]

If he can have someone he trust invest in the right firms when they start, it becomes easier to collect huge sums of money later in the timeline...