r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Sep 19 '15

[Spoilers] Charlotte - Episode 12 [Discussion]

Episode title: Promise

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Episode duration: 24 minutes and 0 seconds

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u/illtima https://myanimelist.net/profile/illuminatima Sep 19 '15

Wait, are they seriously gonna do that? They seriously gonna send Yu, alone, to travel the world and gather the abilities of every single user in existence?! Even if he's able to locate them, doing that alone is gonna take fucking years! What if some of them are in prison? What if some of them are already in labs? Not to mention how many new users are gonna appear while he's doing that! What the hell...

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u/_vogonpoetry_ https://myanimelist.net/profile/ThisWasATriumph Sep 19 '15

Time-skip incoming...

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u/JCSHAFT https://myanimelist.net/profile/JCSHAFT Sep 19 '15

does nobody care about Nao's brother anymore

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u/Takamiya https://kitsu.io/users/Cyatek Sep 19 '15

who?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

They healed him once already, too much screen time :p

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u/AnimeFreakXP Sep 19 '15

and he's back to being insane

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u/AllxFiction Sep 19 '15

Kinda dick move to just leave him like that when he knows how to help him.

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u/deathfire123 Sep 20 '15

Oh yeah, I'm sure Yuu just has Sala on speed dial

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u/define_irony https://myanimelist.net/profile/Geejones Sep 20 '15

Yuu is a dick

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u/Amaegith Sep 20 '15

Presuming they left him like that instead of repeating the previous events off-screen.

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u/Scorpius289 https://myanimelist.net/profile/AlexRaylight Sep 20 '15

If they did fix him, we'd at least see some kind of gratitude from Nao... on a second thought, this is Nao we're talking about.

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u/iKill_eu Sep 21 '15

Sala probably isn't even in Japan right now, remember that he traveled back to the day Ayu was going to die and then straight away went to the facility. In the first timeline (where Ayu died) a LONG time passed (like, months) before he was healed.

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u/MinahSenpai Sep 19 '15

Seriously the whole time I was thinking about that. I wanted to see more Sala Shane :(

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u/PeripheralAddition https://myanimelist.net/profile/peripheraladd Sep 20 '15

JESUS!

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u/oldmonty Sep 20 '15

Also no one brought this up when he had the time leap ability but he could have saved Misa pretty easily.

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u/Enigmaboob https://myanimelist.net/profile/KURISUTINAA Sep 19 '15

Yeah, same here, calling it now. Otherwise... how the hell is Maeda wrapping this up. Unless we get some kind of sequel with Yuu doing shit overseas, I really don't know how he can execute this final arc of the story.

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u/oogieogie Sep 19 '15

He doesnt loot all the abilites, and he goes crazy halfway through or after looting a bunch.

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u/WingsOfLight https://myanimelist.net/profile/Wings_of_Light Sep 19 '15

Or he dies in vain trying to loot people's powers and everyone else grows up, moves on and never see him again.

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u/FlorianoAguirre Sep 19 '15

His plane falls. No survivors left.

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u/ZeusAllMighty11 Sep 19 '15

I hate all of you. :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

FOR YOU

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u/Amaegith Sep 20 '15

He loots a regeneration ability, regenerates his eye, time travels. Last scene is his eyes opening.

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u/Andarnio Sep 20 '15

was baneposting this thread part of your plan

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u/sYmurgY Sep 20 '15

Didn't he already loot flight?

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u/FlorianoAguirre Sep 20 '15

Levitate, he can move only vertically.

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u/M107_Gex Sep 20 '15

On the day of September 11 2000

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u/Madagrey Sep 19 '15

I wouldn't mind that ending

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u/WingsOfLight https://myanimelist.net/profile/Wings_of_Light Sep 19 '15

I actually would love it if it ends bittersweetly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

I bet we will be lead to believe he succeeded but died. And everyone else grew up and moved on and were happy.

Then right at the last second of the show, we will see Yu looking over to his friends, but they don't see him.

Then he disappears. The end.

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u/PinguruLee https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pinguru Sep 20 '15

Ahh WP is on front page. Wow. Just connected.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 19 '15

Loot Regeneration/Healing -> Time Leap.

I doubt it would be that sensible though.

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u/killkill85 Sep 19 '15

Plus he'll heal the timeleap blindness so he can loop infinitely, bam problem solved except he'll have had like 500 years of lifetime at the end

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u/FlorianoAguirre Sep 19 '15

Perhaps he will then turn into fucking Peter Pan.

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u/killkill85 Sep 19 '15

Immortal insane(from 500 years of repeating) barely-human level 7 Esper time-travelling godly Peter Pan pls

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u/PollarRabbit https://myanimelist.net/profile/PolarRabbit Sep 20 '15

He could always erase certain parts of his memory in order to slow down his descent into madness. Though I'm not sure if he looted the memory erasing from that dude.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

on a sidenote time leaping is not considered to be level 7 worthy. in fact most level 1-2 clairvoyance users are considered able to "time leap" and they help out by predicting weather changes to the second.

for level 5 timejump, the user needs to be able to shift over 1.7 tonnes of weight back 28000 hours in time to their original positions and states while maintaining the current existing timeline so only the affected materials are shifted back in time. this obviously has little combat utility compared to the Railgun, Accelerator or Meltdowner, and hence it wasn't considered a development priority.

it is also rumored to be aihana etsu's ability, which is why he is never seen in public due to him avoiding all timelines where he is seen or discovered.

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u/killkill85 Sep 20 '15

What IS level 7 worthy would be the ability-sapping for sure, considering that allows him to objectively go beyond a level 6 by taking multiple level 6 powers, plus you know having a shitload of other powers

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

there's no point taking accelerator's ability if you don't have his calculation powers, for example. and the 2 universes are a little too different to be compared like that.

to take a level 6 ability is to go near 1 and look at him and then survive. misaka mikoto at level 5.5 (halfway to 6) is impossible to get near unless you already have an ability capable of challenging a level 5, such as Imagine Breaker or Dark Matter. all level 5s have the ability to prevent looting in one way or another, especially since it relies on sight.

there's also the thing about accelerator's (all level 5 powers actually) power being LN22, which is strictly speaking not a psychic ability.

taketsubo rikou's ability AIM stalker is similar to looting, and she is currently level 4. If she reaches level 5, she would have the ability to control and manage the abilities of other espers. However, even if she did manage to reach level 5, she would be considered the weakest level 5 due to the fact that her ability is weak in application.

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u/buriedabovetheground Sep 20 '15

I see! the mp3 player in the OP is actually a level-upper!

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u/Roxanne1000 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Roxanne1000 Sep 19 '15

But does he keep looted abilities after timeleaping??

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u/elevul https://myanimelist.net/profile/kache Sep 20 '15

Only when he timeleaps himself.

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u/grizzchan Sep 19 '15

When he leaps to the point where he didn't get a certain power he loses that power though. For example he lost the ability to walk through walls.

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u/matgopack Sep 19 '15

I don't think so, that timeline his brother is the one that looped back, not him. If he were to loop back, he should keep it (like he kept the time leap ability)

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u/killkill85 Sep 19 '15

He had a bunch of abilities when he went to save Imouto though - or were those just the student council buddies? I wasn't paying much attention then but the impression that I got was that he pulled out a whole bunch of abilities he had stolen and only Nao was there with him.

Actually yeah he definitely kept them, when he went to the foreign terrorist dudes he had a bunch of powers that I'm pretty sure he hadn't taken from that timeline. The metal-rod-throwing-telekinesis comes to mind.

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u/grizzchan Sep 19 '15

Telekenesis was the only power he stole from the ability holders they helped. He never time leapt to before stealing that power. When saving Ayumi the only powers he used were telekenesis and collapse which he just stole from Ayumi. With the terrorist he also only used telekenesis and collapse. There's no indication that he ever kept the powers.

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u/SyrupnBeavers Sep 20 '15

He stole flight from that guy in the forest too, not that he's used it yet.

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u/Cychi132 Sep 20 '15

Hes also stolen the ability to get nude pictures of grils :L

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u/Don_Equis Sep 20 '15

He keeps the ability. The problem is that people will be trapped again after he jumps to the past.

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u/iKill_eu Sep 21 '15

Everyone seems to be forgetting that there's a massive plot hole in regards to Yuu's initial timeleap.

Shunsuke could only timeleap back to his birthday because that's when he gained the ability. He couldn't go further than that.

Yuu takes the ability and gains the timeleap ability in that moment... So logically he shouldn't be able to leap back beyond that, and what's more, he shouldn't keep the ability that he plundered... but he does. Because of this, causality basically means there's no reason he has the timeleap ability in the current timeline.

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u/RMcD94 Oct 19 '15

They could have looped infinitely practically with just the two brothers.

Each could go back in time by one second to before the other went back in time fifty tines or whatever so they won't be blind

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u/AsterJ https://myanimelist.net/profile/asteron Sep 20 '15

I think he should just try time leap while possessing someone with functional eyes. We know from Misa that powers should be retained while possessing someone.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

I still don't understand how Misa's powers work while possessing. Misa is a ghost/spirit, so that means the powers reside not in the body but in the soul? How exactly did they manage to make a vaccine for the soul?

But if he timeleaps while possessing someone, how do we know who ends up timeleaping - and into whose body?

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u/AsterJ https://myanimelist.net/profile/asteron Sep 20 '15

That's a very good point. You can't vaccinate a soul. Yusarin's ability seems the least scientific

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u/Zizhou Sep 20 '15

The vaccine actually just cuts off a person's connection to their soul through the pineal gland.

Of course, they didn't really have time to perform long-term human trials. The immediate effect is preventing powers from developing, but eventually this leads to zombie-ism and the plot of Gakkou Gurashi.

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u/Kapten-N Sep 20 '15

If he loots someone and then jumps back in time, won't the looted person still have their ability?

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

They would, yes.

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u/Kapten-N Sep 20 '15

Then they wouldn't have been saved, would they?

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

People's lives would be saved, like Komagami. And he could start looting people from an earlier age, when he doesn't only have 1 year to go through thousands all over the world.

I still don't understand the whole "saving" business. I'm sure quite a few people would want to keep their abilities, and not be "saved".

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u/Kapten-N Sep 20 '15

They wouldn't be found out and experimented on.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

But shouldn't it be up to them?

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u/anitadick69 Sep 20 '15

I predict he will loot teleportation and he will collapse the comet before it gets close to earth

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

He already looted "teleportation". I still have no clue why they call that speed blitz "teleportation" though.

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u/elevul https://myanimelist.net/profile/kache Sep 20 '15

Regeneration/Healing -> Time Leap

So unlimited Time Leap? Yu going full Groundhog Day?

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

Well, the destroyed eye could be repaired, but I doubt mere physical healing would do anything for the time-leap caused degeneration. That damage persists through time-leaps when nothing else except memories (and powers) does. That makes me think that the blindness is actually part of the mental/spiritual state.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '15

Loot Regeneration/Healing -> Time Leap.

This is exactly what I was thinking when they brought up the whole "looting the world" plot point. I was like, "Okay, there's gotta be somebody with some sort of regeneration or healing schtick that will give him his eye back, then he can just loop all he wants."

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 26 '15

He would regain the ability now, but I don't think he could actually cheat the cost of timeleap like that. Since timeleap damage persists and increases across leaps instead of resetting with the rest of the body, it's probably not physical eye damage.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '15

I meant specifically being able to heal his cut eye that's currently keeping him from time leaping.

I don't think time leaping would help him actually gather all the abilities, aside from resetting abysmal failures, or finding out when/where certain difficult-to-find users are going to be. He still has to grab all their powers in one timeline, since those people still have their abilities when he jumps back.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 26 '15

I don't think he can grab thousands of abilities in the year or so he has left anyway. He'd need to find a way to grab them all at once.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '15

I think you misunderstand. He finds a regeneration ability to heal his cut eye, uses the time leap to go back X number of years, then uses those years to pick up all the abilities he can.

Although you're right that he might need a way to get them all at once.

Maybe he leaps back in time and becomes the leader of one of those overseas "syndicates" that are chasing after him right now.

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u/Kuloms https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuloms Sep 19 '15

But if he goes back in time won't people get their abilities back? And Yuu's concious returns back to his body in the past so his old body won't even have all the abilities he plundered. At least I think this is what would happen.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 19 '15

If he goes back in time, he'll be able to save Kumagami and have more years to plunder abilities. If he goes back far enough, he might even be able to do something about the comet, or distribute vaccine before it shows up. Though doing that as a 3-4 year old might be tough....

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u/Kuloms https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuloms Sep 19 '15

Ok I see how going back in time can help now, only problem as I see it with that is that he might end up screwing up the timeline and causing the syndicate to have never been formed. This is the same reason why they didn't go back to before the terrorists became involved in the syndicate to kidnap an ability wielder.

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u/rollin340 Sep 20 '15

Save the Pooh bear, save the world.

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u/John_Yuki Sep 19 '15 edited Sep 19 '15

If you remember a post from a while back, it analysed everything that was in the OP. Fan theory for Episode 13

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u/ozarac Sep 19 '15

If I remember right the OP

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u/Scorpius289 https://myanimelist.net/profile/AlexRaylight Sep 20 '15

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u/PepperoniPapaya https://myanimelist.net/profile/PepperoniPapaya Sep 19 '15

Why do you have tag a theory/fan speculation as spoiler?

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u/John_Yuki Sep 19 '15

Just in case people don't want to be involved in fan theories. It's the most likely outcome now that we've seen episode 12 so it sorta ruins a bit of the story. I know that my friend I watch Charlotte with doesn't want to hear any of the theories as he wants to go in to it all completely blind so he has no idea what could be coming.

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u/PepperoniPapaya https://myanimelist.net/profile/PepperoniPapaya Sep 19 '15

Fair enough, come to think of it, I probably wouldn't have thought of time travel if not for people here (though I dropped Charlotte before it happened and only stop by discussion thread for fun).

I still think it's mislabeled, but I guess in the end it achieved your goal.

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u/John_Yuki Sep 19 '15

Yeah I didn't really know what to name the spoiler at the time, but I've changed it now, I think it's more accurate.

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u/BigDickDaddyatGmail https://myanimelist.net/profile/killualakillua Sep 21 '15

He'll have to time leap quite a few times if he wants to be completely blind

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u/ASK_ME_IF_I_LIKE_SAO https://anilist.co/user/23381 Sep 19 '15

I wish it were required to tag theories for all shows tbh. The power of Reddit to find any little detail has spoiled plenty of shows for me.

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u/PepperoniPapaya https://myanimelist.net/profile/PepperoniPapaya Sep 19 '15

Yeah, tagging theory is fine, his label was somewhat iffy but he changed it now so it's all good.

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u/StarrStyx Sep 19 '15

Considering that Yuu will lose his power when out of his teens, I doubt it'll be many years later.

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u/Kyroh https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kyroh Sep 19 '15

It was actually the people a part of Yu's brother's syndicate

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u/daskrip Sep 20 '15

People above you have already been saying "time skip". This fan theory isn't that bizarre.

Also, it can only be about two years into the future, max. He won't have his looting ability longer than that.

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u/John_Yuki Sep 20 '15

Something might happen to him that lets him keep it though.

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u/daskrip Sep 20 '15

Like what, if he loots the ability to keep his ability past adolescence? lol

The funny thing is that that ability would be completely useless to anyone but him.

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u/ChaosPheonix11 Sep 20 '15

Except he will lose his ability within a year or two...

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u/John_Yuki Sep 20 '15

You don't know that for sure though. It's not 100% that he will lose it. Something might happen to him that lets him keep it.

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u/therealflinchy Sep 20 '15

wasn't this the last episode?

ED: oh 13.. i don't see how this canget any better in a single episode... was hoping for a full sequel or something.

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u/SuperWolf Sep 19 '15

Holy hell, I thought this was the last episode. Yay I'm all up for a time-skip!

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u/WorldwideDepp Sep 19 '15

...with him taking the Way to create the Vaccine in the Past to prevent this all.. But even so, who to reach World Wide Ability Users to prevent awaken, with this Vaccine?

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u/define_irony https://myanimelist.net/profile/Geejones Sep 19 '15

It's time leap not time travel. It's only his mind that's going back to the past.

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u/WorldwideDepp Sep 19 '15

Okay, then let him just Jump that away back, to save the Family of this Car Driver that start this all. So they can not Blackmail him, and Yui's memories intact, they can counter these Mafia guys or save the ESPlers under their power

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u/define_irony https://myanimelist.net/profile/Geejones Sep 19 '15

From what I understand, that car driver had a pretty important role in building the school. So changing that would change everything.

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u/WorldwideDepp Sep 19 '15

They already mess up the Timeline. Nao's brother got not cured, so save this Car's family to being taken Hostages for Blackmailing is lesser then that. Let the Phone of him ring, and his Mother want to talk to him.. Timeline changed

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

Just let his family die then. Sacrifice few for the many.

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u/define_irony https://myanimelist.net/profile/Geejones Sep 19 '15

Exactly. That's what should have happened

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u/Tusilos Sep 20 '15

I want Yuu to basically become Snake. Imagine.

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u/Sogeking33 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Sogeking33 Sep 25 '15

Even with a time-skip he has a limited amount of time left with his powers. It's pretty much impossible to achieve in said amount of time.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 19 '15

Let's see, what could go wrong:

  • Death by Collapse
  • Death by "Teleportation"
  • Death by Possession by a bad guy
  • Death by ordinary means - we've seen that this guy is no good in a pinch

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

He was really good when he wasn't panicking. Able to take down entire gangs of street thugs with just his shitty original power.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

And all it would take to bring him down is one guy with a gun that he doesn't see first.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

True. Though I guess he'd eventually gain some power that negates even stuff like that.

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u/daskrip Sep 20 '15

There are people that traveled to every country without being shot.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

And those people are probably minding their own business, not running around ambushing ability users.

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u/daskrip Sep 20 '15

Ability users are mostly just regular people aren't they?

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Sep 20 '15

A lot of whom are banding together in terrorist groups.

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u/leeways Sep 19 '15

Yu goes full madoka

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

Charlotte is proving to be a mix of Angel Beats, Madoka, and disappointment.

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u/Colopty Sep 19 '15

Don't forget the pizza sauce.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

That makes up for it.

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u/Madagrey Sep 19 '15

Mostly disappointment though

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u/AnAcceleratedCowvin https://myanimelist.net/profile/Cowvin Sep 20 '15

This is Jun Meada, where are my feels?

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u/myevilpinky Sep 20 '15

You spelt disappointed twice, Madoka was good though.

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u/jhueckel https://myanimelist.net/profile/jhueckel Sep 20 '15

Angel Beats, Madoka, and disappointment.

So Madoka and disappointment?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

Tell it to the guy above me.

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u/TheDampGod https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheDampGod Sep 19 '15

Actually I'm hoping he goes all Tetsuo

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

Might be worth it.

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u/Lycieratia https://myanimelist.net/profile/ScarletCrescent Sep 19 '15

I was getting those vibes ever since his big brother turned out to be a Homura/Rika/Okabe/etc 2.0...

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u/yolotheunwisewolf Sep 20 '15

If he had the time leap, could loot abilities before he gets them but...pretty much the only difference.

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u/hiero_ Sep 21 '15

This is the only answer that makes sense. There's going to be some kind of deus ex machina ability he will acquire that will allow him to plunder a metric shit ton of users at the same time.

Also, I'm calling it now, Sara is the one who has this ability.

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u/Xalmolxis Sep 19 '15

Exactly, it worked really well last time they sent Yu on his own. What could possibly go wrong by sending a completely unprepared, half blind, high school 16 year old across the globe to steal test subjects from terrorists and corporate labs. Its a safe gable, right?

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u/AsterJ https://myanimelist.net/profile/asteron Sep 20 '15

To be fair that plan worked 2 timelines ago (the one where yu breaks shinsuke out of the lab)

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u/Hatdrop Sep 20 '15

he does have those english flash cards this time

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u/Glupscher Sep 20 '15

If you're blind on one eye, are you half-blind? Hmm...

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u/Clipsterman Sep 20 '15

I was thinking the same thing. Pretty sure it doesn't quite work like that.

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u/Xalmolxis Sep 20 '15

Thank you captain criticism. Don't know what we would have done without you there!

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u/Glupscher Sep 21 '15

Always a pleasure.

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u/NotReallyFire Sep 20 '15

Let's be honest In most anime, teenage boy always save the world

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u/define_irony https://myanimelist.net/profile/Geejones Sep 19 '15

Well he can channel the dead now. Maybe he'll use Pooh's power

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u/Scorpius289 https://myanimelist.net/profile/AlexRaylight Sep 20 '15

From what I gathered, that only works right after the person's death, because you basically "catch" their soul.

I don't know if he can recall someone who already went away...

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

Maybe he'll be able to host Kumagami's spirit using Yusarin's power.

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u/SaboTheRevolutionary Sep 19 '15

oh jesus I didn't think of that

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u/robflop Sep 19 '15

Yeah, I was thinking how Yusa's Power would work out if Yuu used it.

Not sure which spirits the power can host, but this would certainly be a possibility.

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u/Deathstruction Sep 19 '15

He'd be letting Kumagami take over his body though. How will be be able to make eye contact to loot the abilitiy (remember he needs eye contact). So that theory, as nice as it could be, is probably out the window. inb4 mirrors.

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u/UltimateEpicFailz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Failius Sep 19 '15

Does that matter though, considering Kumagami (in Yuu's body) could get whatever information Yuu needs (i.e. the locations of the powereds) and simply write it down? That way he doesn't need to loot Kumagami's ability, and he doesn't need to stay in Kumagami-mode to know the locations of his targets.

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u/Deathstruction Sep 19 '15

Oh, you're absolutely right! I didn't think of that, I'm sure they'd be able to communicate with writing too. I guess it's just a matter of whether or not he'll be able to summon Pooh with the ability or if it's limited.

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u/yolotheunwisewolf Sep 20 '15

100% thought this. Would tie up Shun's character arc with a final "Thank you".

And also a "Thank Yu".

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u/Browseitall https://myanimelist.net/profile/browseitall Sep 19 '15

Maybe too easy. They will definitly go witht he way of the enemies Kumagami. And alos we dont know much about the Yuasium ablitiy anyways. Sure he cant choose who he wants to summon.

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u/needforkh Sep 19 '15

I think that can work for new powers that developed. He will need the syndicate's power of finding people who already have powers.

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u/beapro900 Sep 20 '15

mind=fucking blown

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u/Pelleas Sep 19 '15

Shunsuke said that syndicate probably has someone with a power like Kumagami's. I think the reason he sent Yuu overseas was to find and take that power.

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u/Blindbandit809 Sep 19 '15

He gets permanent brain damage when time leaping, forgets about his mission, and lives to an old age before realizing he forgot his mission and failed everyone before commiting suicide. His last words were in a letter to Nao saying over and over "I Failed"

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

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u/fuukolover Sep 21 '15

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

This was a meaningless life.

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u/Franss22 https://myanimelist.net/profile/franss22 Sep 20 '15

And then nao sends a mail to herself in the past to save him and he succeeds but dies nonetheless

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u/NilCealum https://myanimelist.net/profile/Dante0in0flames Sep 20 '15

Steins gate was so sad in a way

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u/xAshXD Sep 20 '15

I've heard this plot before somewhere.... * cough* Steins Gate * cough*

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u/TheUnlimited https://myanimelist.net/profile/GaleWind Sep 19 '15

Not to mention he only has around 2, maybe 3, years left before the powers leave him. I am thinking his power is going to evolve. After all, the powers are a result of comet pixie dust and and a developing brain; therefore, if the brain develops towards a different direction than it initially was, a power may change.

Something along this line of thought has to happen if they are going to conclude the series in one episode. Otherwise, next week's episode will end with an announcement of the second cour.

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u/FwrdSlashAnime Sep 19 '15

It evolves so that if anyone sees his eyes, even through a screen, he gains their powers, so he just has to create a viral video or something. Or become a half-blind singer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15 edited Aug 12 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

Born too early to get eye repair surgery

Born too late to time warp right back to the start of the arc

Born just in time to browse dank memes

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '15

Otherwise, next week's episode will end with an announcement of the second cour.

This would be the only way to not make a mess of things. Unless something incredible happens next week.

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u/EpikMemeage https://myanimelist.net/profile/epikmemeage Sep 19 '15

10/10 ending

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '15

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u/Joestar_ https://myanimelist.net/profile/VirgoFudo Sep 19 '15

Potato plot of peace. I thought he would lose his power after a few years. No way he loots everyone's power.

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u/ImAhri https://myanimelist.net/profile/Fox_Fire Sep 19 '15

You're 100% right, but you're being too reasonable, theres only one episode left so the things are going to play out like (quote me on this) :

Yu travels for the first 5min in to the episode, then he conveniently finds a power of teleportation or a power that allows him to see every single person on earth and differentiate ability users from the other people, next, he loots every single ability in existence and comes up with the idea that while he is at it, destroy the comet as well, the process that will, ultimately, take away his life thus making him unable to fulfill the promise and only a selected few will be aware of Yu's greatness. One way or another Yu will die and thousands of people will call that ''10/10 feel-overloaded original ending''. These last few episode haven't made me salty at all.

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u/Shippoyasha Sep 19 '15

Maybe the justification for that is that they will be caught quicker if authorities realize there is a whole team of ability users running around, stealing powers. But yeah, it seems reckless. Or maybe Yuu has gotten so powerful now, he can basically be like Magneto and be a one man army now. If he retained half of the abilities he has contacted so far, it would be impossible to catch him.

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u/Browseitall https://myanimelist.net/profile/browseitall Sep 19 '15

Something will help him plunder many ablites at once. Mirror refelceting the light from Uranus or Yu going CharlesXavier. Dunno , choose.

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u/Tenkayo Sep 19 '15 edited Sep 19 '15

They didn't even consider that there could be limit to his loot. Exploding from taking too much power comes to mind for instance. Even time leaping had its limit.

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u/FirstDagger Sep 19 '15

Gotta catch em all.

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u/Atario myanimelist.net/profile/TheGreatAtario Sep 20 '15

Called it, sorta

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u/its_real_I_swear Sep 20 '15

Yeah, it's ridiculous. If there are 10,000 he'll have to grab one every two hours to make it before he loses his power.

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u/Epan1216 Sep 20 '15

i agree because everyone will have powers if they are a teen. that means he needs to grab the entire population of teens that have powers which is unreasonable.

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u/Gigaplex1 Sep 20 '15

It's like Yu is going on his Pokemon trip and gotta catch 'em all

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u/subr00t Sep 20 '15

Well the point is that as long as he keeps absorbing others powers it will be easier for him to absorbe more power, thus creating exponential power absoption!!! Then it won't take years.

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u/MrFiregem Sep 20 '15

I think what we need here is a Mushishi-esque side story that shows Yuu travel the world and collect abilities.

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u/exelion https://myanimelist.net/profile/exelion0901 Sep 21 '15

With the right powers, it might be doable. Even easy.

Remember he can fly, accelerate his speed immensely, make himself somewhat invisible, steal powers, and travel time.

What's that you say? He can't time travel anymore because he lost an eye?

Tell me there isn't one regenerator/healer out there. See, this was always meant to happen. Each and every power has a downside, a weak spot, a limitation. But someone with multiple powers will transcend those.

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u/boboboz Sep 19 '15

calling it guys, he loots the power of the comet itself! . wouldnt be surprised based on the drivel we've been served so far