Anghel Dust

[davidn]

Today's episode is actually quite short, consisting mostly of a large discussion where we're basically reassuring ourselves that what we're seeing is in fact real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLLoCwv33E

0:40 Hoping for no further mutations
1:10 Anghel's weapon
3:00 Haah!
3:15 Anghel dust
3:35 Endangered windows
3:55 DavidN sanity check
4:20 School food
4:55 11 Wisdom (5)
5:05 Anghel highlight
5:50 More post-revelations
7:15 The Kalante family tradition
8:15 Nothing but tests
8:55 More plot verification
13:45 Back to the game/cave doorbell
15:05 Happy new year!
15:45 Hibernation
16:15 Enjoy it while it lasts
17:15 Racism count!

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I was looking at the discrepancies between Nageki and Ryouta's Anghelized names, and Google Translator showed an interesting discrepency.

"Funeris" (Ryouta's title) simply translates to "the funeral," thus making "Textoris Melodia Funeris" into, as I put it, the Weaver of the Song of Death. A rather fitting title considering that, if he'd gotten away at the end of BBL he'd have killed off the entirety of the human race with the Charon virus.
"Funus" (Nageki's title), however, is a bit more specific: "His funeral." I see this as making his title "The Weaver of the Song of His Own Death," which looks like a reference both to his carrying the Charon virus and to how it drove him to kill himself.


For the record, I still stand by my theory that Anghel is the only one with a grasp on reality in this game.

[kjorteo]

Let me just add something to that:

I was wrong about my whole emphasis on the Demon Spores being something in the preparation for the Charon Virus rather than the virus itself (that speech starting at 11:55 in this episode.) I got confused, because Anghel used the Textoris Melodia Funus line in this route, where obviously Ryouta isn't infected yet, forgetting that, um, you know, he's talking to Nageki, Ryouta isn't even in this scene. In BBL, Anghel uses the Textoris Melodia Funeris line on Ryouta when they meet up, which is well into around the 4th class or so, so obviously Ryouta is already infected since Hiyoko is already dead and the whole BBL plot is already underway. Therefore, the Demon Spores probably are the Charon Virus and there is no time-based contradiction in that regard after all. Sorry, don't mind me!

[davidn]

Right. Makes perfect sense now you say it.

I can't believe the extent to which... this all makes sense, compared to the amount we were all laughing at it for being so meaninglessly insane the first time around...