So both Riku and Ryoku are still alive and for some reason they prefer to keep that a secret from Rin, Rina, and Ritsu. Why? And what are they two of them investigating? Also Riku being alive kills my theory that she is related or has something to do with Wakaba.
New theory though! It seems that Wakaba might be related or is a part of the First Person. That diary kemurikusa seems to have two owners. First is Ryoku who wrote everything in hiragana and has left a lot of instructions on how this world works, and the Second is the First Person who wrote his/her entry with obviously an understanding of the Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji. And it seems that those entries are for Wakaba. I am curious why was the last part changed though.
No, those entries are NOT for Wakaba, they were for the sisters after the split. The First Person says that one of them must be able to read but was we can see it was Ryoku. It took a bit of time to decipher the ideograms but she did and started to question the First Person because of the mission that was omitted.
The mission was something good or bad after all, and for whom?
It was something that the First Person had to do but refused, why?
I figured that since Ryoku's entries are all hiragana, that she couldn't actually read the first person's message. If they were to know about the missions etc, it'd be from the memory leaf.
Story-wise, I'd bet good money that Rin's leaf is the unawakened memory one, what with Wakaba getting drawn to it over and over.
However, I'd say that the information wasn't specifically for the memory leaf self, as the instructions were left there in kanji for whoever was reading it to be able to awaken the memory self. That implies that the First Person expected at least one capable reader in the group who wasn't the memory holder.
So a seventh sister is memory, Riku is touch, Rin is sight, Ritsu is hearing, Rina is taste.
Ryou was the fighter and Ryoku was the intellectual. What concepts do they represent?
Riku touch, Ritsu hearing, Rina taste, correct.
Ryo was smell, Ryouku was sight.
Rin has sight also, why? We don't know.
At first I couldn't agree with Rin being "unawakened memory leaf" but... "though unlikely, if the memory leaf doesn't work, open it a few times."
There's a chance that Rin is the memory leaf, this would explain why she was so aimless and why her leaf was shown so many times already.
I'm thinking more about the possibility that Rin is the Memory Leaf.
When Rinako died, her clothes vanished with her body. Meaning that the clothes are born with the body? When Rin lost her arm the sleeve and glove got restored when her arm grew back, like they're part of one single thing. Which led me to suspect that Rin didn't "picked" mementos of her sisters, instead it just "materialized" automatically in her body, to not forget them.
There are subs for it too, as well as for the more recent 0.X shorts for the current show that were posted on Twitter. Check out one of the posts on r/Kemurikusa for the link to that.
The shorts are very helpful, establishing the sisters' personalities, special traits and the "meaning" each of them sees in life. They also sprinkle some hints regarding the lore.
It would be interesting if the First Person was actually responsible for whatever the ongoing apocalypse is, and the mission was to somehow complete that. But, upon awakening, the fragment of her that was tasked with remembering decided that it was unacceptable and killed herself(and possibly obscured the log) to both prevent the completion, and free her sisters from this carrying out this rather grisly task.
I assume the memory leaf could give the ability to read, among other things, but who knows how it works. Ryoku didn't seem to know Kanji at the time of writing those entries, but maybe she can now.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Feb 13 '19
Again so much more info this episode!
So both Riku and Ryoku are still alive and for some reason they prefer to keep that a secret from Rin, Rina, and Ritsu. Why? And what are they two of them investigating? Also Riku being alive kills my theory that she is related or has something to do with Wakaba.
New theory though! It seems that Wakaba might be related or is a part of the First Person. That diary kemurikusa seems to have two owners. First is Ryoku who wrote everything in hiragana and has left a lot of instructions on how this world works, and the Second is the First Person who wrote his/her entry with obviously an understanding of the Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji. And it seems that those entries are for Wakaba. I am curious why was the last part changed though.