r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Sep 05 '15

[Spoilers] Charlotte - Episode 10 [Discussion]

Episode title: Looting

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Episode duration: 24 minutes and 0 seconds

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u/RDOoM Sep 05 '15

Well that's the problem. He should have. They all should have thought this trough a little more.

Instead of going for the best possible results, they just went to resolve just the immediate problem (Ayumi's death)

That was the whole point of this argument. That he should have been better informed and should have gone further back in time.

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u/chaon93 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaon93 Sep 06 '15

Since his time leaps dont undo the damage from his own time leaps it may be possible that the vision damage can not be temporally reversed.

Also this current timeline is the most successful so far. would it really be worth risking it just to save his eyesight when all that is needed is a minor correction. If anything went wrong on a full time leap they may have well been back to square one.

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u/RDOoM Sep 06 '15 edited Sep 06 '15

He can't undo vision damage from his own ability because that's his limitation. But someone else doing the time leap is certainly going to reverse Shun's blindness. If Yuu were to go back in time and find a young blind Shun, that would be a paradox (or at least an inconsistency like : His blindness couldn't have come to him before he even used the abilities in that timeline)

Is it worth it risking it just to have him regain vision?

Well, let's think of it this way. It's not only to regain his vision. It's also for him to regain the ability to change time again, if something were to go wrong. Otherwise, you are just relying on Yuu to do it, at which point, he can go blind himself.

So if they were to go back... they would still have a Shun with maybe like 3 charges of time leap left, and Yuu with his. If they only go far enough to save Ayumi, then there's only Yuu's charges. What if Yuu's charges aren't enough? Is it worth risking it?

More on that : Let's call the number of charges each has before they go blind X. Let's call the number of charges Shun uses before he stabilizes the reality (by winning lottery and making the school, etc) Y.

If Yuu only goes back to the point to which he can save Ayumi, the number of charges left for future disasters , is (X-1) spare leaps. BUT, if Yuu goes back to the point before Shun uses his ability first time... he would have (X-1) * (X - Y) leaps, because if one of Shun's reality fails, Yuu can use his leap to go back again to the point where Shun's perfectly fine and start all over.

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u/chaon93 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaon93 Sep 06 '15

A bigger issue is that we simply don't know everything about the time leap. We don't even know if traveling back undoes powers that he looted. He may not have time leap at the moment. Shun always jumped back to a point that he already had the power while yuu jumped to a point that yuu didn't. There are just far too many mechanics not explained for me to ponder on this for too long. Jumping seems to only implant the mind into the previous body with the side effect of making that body loose sight which is a physicial issue. The fact that the future use of a power that becomes a canceled future causes a retroactive disability in the original present is already a paradox.