Rascal does not dream series: can someone help me understand these ideas? The og sub keeps auto removing my posts.
THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT WATCHED SEASON 1 OF THE SHOW
I just finished watching season 1 after many people recommended it to me, and overall I love the story and am gonna watch the movie tomorrow, but there’s certain things I’m either overthinking or just genuinely curious about. Btw I have a lot of questions so bear with me I’m still new to this.
EVERYTHING BELOW THIS IS A POTENTIAL SPOILER
For starters, I have not read the manga, I don’t have the money to buy the manga of every series I enjoy nor the patience to wait for them, so all my info is based off of the anime itself. If you plan to help me with this at all please correct me if my problem could be solved with info that’s in the manga but not the anime.
>!Alright, so the biggest fish imo is the fact that they can be physically hurt and scarred just by going through with traumatic things, like Sakutas chest marks and Kaede’s bruises and cuts. Are these scars and bruises visible to all or is it more of a metaphorical thing portrayed in a physical way, and does this tie into the whole “puberty syndrome”?!<
>!The second thing is Mai being invisible. This idea just baffles me. I’m still not fully registering the fact she can interact with things and be world famous but at the same time invisible to everyone. I also don’t get how their memories fade of Mai once they slept through. The last part is how does it be one of the most climactic things in the beginning but never seem to occur again or be brought up? I like the concept, it just confuses me.!<
>!Third is the Laplace’s demon concept with Tomoe. Is she consciously controlling the time and resetting it to be with Sakuta or is it coincidental. I know rio addresses it as “rolling the dice” but it still doesn’t register to me how she controls it. Is she an actual demon? Is she human? IS THIS STORY EVEN ON EARTH? I have no idea.!<
>!Fourthly, what is the situation with Shoko. I can’t tell if she is supposed to be a real person or like a coping mechanism for Sakuta to get over the grief of not being able to help Kaede when she was being bullied. She always comes back through his imagination with the whole “horizon past four kilometers” and everything, but besides the middle school version visiting the cat and the high school version “coincidentally” appearing with Sakuta after Kaede regains her memory I can’t entirely believe she is a true person. I feel like I make a decent point.!<
>!Lastly, but definitely not least. What is this world? Is this set in like an alternate universe where puberty can rewrite people’s lives instantaneously? I mean we’ve had invisibility and memory loss, the Laplace’s demon theory, physical (maybe visible I’m not sure) wounds inflicted by non physical actions, swapping bodies and time control. Are all of the things that are happening a figment of imagination in Sakuta or someone’s eyes that are used as like a metaphor to some of the situations they go through, or is it literally happening as it is being shown? That is all I have question wise.!<
Btw if you know some of the answers to this, but you’re informed on it later on in the anime, please just tell me to watch the anime and udon’t spoil it. This is one of the only anime’s I enjoy that hasn’t been spoiled yet and I plan to enjoy the potential plot twists. But if you do have an answer that is from the manga and is addressed somewhere along the part of the story I have covered please tell me.