Question Kyoukai no Kanata

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  1. jafdn

    jafdn Member

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    I just rewatch this old anime and questions are popping up again. Is the novel the same as the anime? I can barely find any information about the LN. It only listed as 3 volumes, that short?

    There are still some glaring questions like:
    1. Who/what is Kanbara Yayoi?
    2. Who actually is Kanbara Akihito father?
    3. Why Mirai and Akihito mother know each other?
    4. Yayoi and Izumi seem to have a past together too.
    5. Why is Mirai mother gone?

    Any spoiler from the novel? Or the novel just as confusing as the anime is?
     
  2. Marvin

    Marvin The Man who realize love

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    The moment you took the anime seriously you already got lost...

    In the end the story is just an imagination of a delusional kid in the mental asylum, thats the twist... all characters are either the doctors or patients around the autistic kid in the hospital
     
  3. jafdn

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    Really? Like seriously? The anime doesn't show that indication, so I thought it's purely supernatural fantasy anime.

    His imagination is interesting tho, so do the questions above explained in his imagination?
     
  4. astralmech

    astralmech [ ✨ ~ snooze ] [ kr translator ] [ jpn native ]

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    This blog post details some of the differences between the novel and the anime adaptation if that's helpful to you: https://yamanashirei.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1688.html

    You can also find some loose spoilers for each volume here:
    Volume 1: https://38078027.seesaa.net/article/201504article_11.html
    Volume 2: https://38078027.seesaa.net/article/201504article_12.html
    Volume 3: https://38078027.seesaa.net/article/201504article_16.html

    General consensus is that the novel is way better, which is unsurprising since a 12 episode adaptation is inevitably going to mean cut content. I don't know how the novel ends, but nothing indicates the above statement is correct.
     
  5. jafdn

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    Thank you so much.

    The anime got two movies also, the 2nd movie is the series/1st movie continuation, but the questions are still unanswered.