Rewrite - plot questions and answers (spoilers)

Ol-Hybrius said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understood well, the Earth used all his energy once and could'nt ensure re-evolution, so life (Aurora) went to the moon, where there was still energy left. That's when the game start, and all routes are re-evolution after the "moon's salvation" but like the Earth, the moon finished by dry out (that's when Moon route takes place) but the earth recovered a bit, just enough to ensure one try. Then, Aurora came back to Earth and that's where Terra route takes place. At the end of this one, Kotarou became a familiar, made contract with the girls and take them to the moon (by the way, is there a reason for that ?).

Why is Kotarou much older than the girls in Terra ? Also, the bad end seems to lead to the common route, but he's already twenty years old at this time so how could he go to highschool with Kotori ?

What is the difference between Kagari (Moon) and Kagari (Earth) ? Is there one for each ? Then which one did Kotarou love ?

This may have been explicated but if so, I don't remember, how could Kotarou "summon" everyone to the moon in Moon route ?

What are exactly the good memories brought by Kotarou in Terra ? The possibility for life to continue ?

Ol-Hybrius said:
A few other things, Kotarou is the one summoned by Kagari in Moon route because he is the Rewriter and that makes him the better choice to help her out with the theory, right ?

And there can't be two of them at the same time, that's it ? Following that logic, now that Kotarou is a tree (xD)... a familiar, another Rewriter will appear eventually, like before (Sakuya became a familiar and then Kotarou appear as the new Rewriter) ?

Ah, and can you explain (or try to) why Sakuya could'nt be anymore after Moon Route ? This is kinda complicated too. ^^'

Ol-Hybrius said:
And there can't be two of them at the same time, that's it ? Following that logic, now that Kotarou is a tree (xD)... a familiar, another Rewriter will appear eventually, like before (Sakuya became a familiar and then Kotarou appear as the new Rewriter) ?

Ol-Hybrius said:

Ah, and can you explain (or try to) why Sakuya could'nt be anymore after Moon Route ? This is kinda complicated too. ^^'

Ol-Hybrius said:
. Anyway, do you think the happy Kagari we see at the end is the Earth's one or the Moon's one ?

Ol-Hybrius said:
Earth Kagari has been destroyed, but that's not true for the other, so why did she become a seed ?

Tennouji_ said:


... I'll just let Naoki-Saten answer that.

Naoki-Saten said:
btw, this Thread should be re-named into something like "Rewrite - plot questions and answers (spoilers)". That way, everyone will know where to post their questions.

Kitsu-nee said:

Akane route: why during it we don't hear ANYTHING about Chihaya? At some point Akane says even that she doesn't know where she is, or something like that. What the hell happened with her and Sakuya? In other routes she just sticks with Akane, huh.

masterfxx1 said:
They were implied to still have the "will" of their human selves. This is why they even had a dialogue before going to battle. So basically, what i got from that is that familiars made of humans probably retain a very weak portion of their former selves, that doesnt usually show up, so I guess you can say it was the "power of love" bullshit. Chibi I really cant explain, since Pero wasnt loyal at all to Kotori when he was alive, so the fact that it saved Kotarou and Kotori in her route is kinda weird. However, he definitely had Pero´s traits, as seen by his death scene, where he actually barked.

masterfxx1 said:
Terra Kotarou didnt have the memories from past routes, but because of how Moon played out, Kotarou DID know (unconsciously) that her parents were going to die in that trip, which they did anyway, hence why the only choice there was to "Stop them". All of Terra´s choices are locked because of Kotarou having been "programmed" by Moon Kagari to make those choices, and ofc because of Kotarou´s unconscious memories from the other routes.

masterfxx1 said:
This I cant explain really, Chihaya was part of Gaia in the other 4 routes, but she was never mentioned in this route as a Gaia summoner. I guess it was just because they felt like she would only get in a way of this route, since it was a quite different one from the others, regarding not only Kotarou, but also the events that happened. However, its probably a plot hole, or somehow, in that branch, things didnt play out as they did in the others.

Naoki-Saten said:
She might have left Gaia.
In Shizuru's and Chihaya's route, Chihaya left Gaia in order to not fight her friends. She might have made a similar decision here.
She might have heard about Kotarou joining Gaia (as there were rumors about "Senri brought her lover into the organization") and she either didn't want to intrude or she was kinda shocked when she heard how he killed several people during the Key capture mission.
It's all pure speculation, though.

masterfxx1 said:
I guess you´re talking about Akane´s route? If you are talking about Terra, they did remain in the real world. However, if you´re talking about Akane´s route, people would just have to learn to live in the fake world. As mentioned in Kotarou´s dialogues, people were already starting to adapt 4 weeks after they were trapped in that world. and I think that, besides Atonment, Adaptation was also a theme of this route in particular. I don´t think they intended to return to the real world, just because of how it ended, but they did say that the world was enough to contain that quantity of people, as long as the population didnt drastically increase. So yeah, its left to the reader´s imagination what truly happens after, much like most of Rewrite actually.

Kaisos said:
I don't believe it was Akane who woke him up from his coma. He does remember that Akane was there when he initially fell into it though, I think? It's been a while since I've played Moon.
From what I can remember, he just woke up after nine-ten years and was immediately beset upon by Guardian agents.

Also, he attended middle school with Kotori. I'm not sure for how long, since he was definitely in a poor enough condition when entering high school to be given "special treatment" by his classmates, but he did go to middle school.

masterfxx1 said:
As stated in the Rewrite wiki: http://rewrite.wikia.com/wiki/Akane_Senri, "After which he is put into a comma and awaken by Akane, though neither of them seems to remember those events.".

This, as Ol-Hybrius stated, was foreshadowed in some routes and finally confirmed in Moon route.

Ol-Hybrius said:


Not sure about Akane doesn't remembering anything about it. She seems to hide a lot of things from Kotarou during common route.

masterfxx1 said:
in Chihaya´s route (I think) there was a dialogue between Akane and a "?" person, and she was talking about Kotarou "remembering" everything.

Kaisos said:
They're pictured with Jasmine in Terra's ED, and I believe they're stated to be from a "war-torn country" at some point or another. Midou being a child soldier is also mentioned in his friend entry.
That's all the hints we have though.

Verumir said:
Okay, I just finished playing and this thread cleared my doubts, but I still have a question:

Regarding Sakuya and Tennouji last dialogue, what was that all about?, Why did him had to be substitute of Sakuya? Is there some deep meaning that I'm missing?

Tennouji_ said:


I don't think there's a deep meaning of it. It's simply just predecessor-successor thing. Just like(F/SN spoiler)

Ruben_Jb said:

Hey guys,

I´ve finished Rewrite a couple of days ago. I've read every post in this topic and read the Tennouji Kotarou page on MAL, but I don't quite get everything what is said there. I've got some questions, some which are similar to the questions asked earlier here. I would highly appreciate it if you would try to answer these.

Ruben_Jb said:
First of all, in the Moon route, I understand that the footnote Kotarou made in the theory caused a new possibility for earth to be saved. But WHY? Why did the footnote "I hope to see you again, someday" cause a whole new possibility?

In Terra:
Can anyone give me a bigger explanation about the good memories?
I see Naoki-Saten answered it with: conflicts between Guardian and Gaia stopped, Kotarou who helped the children, Secrets of life were made public.
But is that everything? I'm confused because Kagari multiple times said that stopping the war between Guardian and Gaia wouldn't stop salvation. Well yeah, salvation must be stopped by Kotarou killing Kagari in the end of Terra.
And is saving some children really such a good memory that it would affect Kagari?

Kotarou had to kill Kagari because of salvation but why did salvation even occur when the good memories were approved by Kagari?

At the end of Terra, why did Kotarou and Kagari end up to be a big tree? Why didn't Kotarou just "live" on as a full rewritten person, a familiar? This must have something to do with Chihaya/Sakuya's route and Sakuya also turning into a tree after his full rewritten body occured.

Then, after the girls summoned Kotarou after he became a tree, what was the exact meaning and importance of them going to the Moon, to see Kagari (moon)? Only because of his wish to let everyone see the girl on the moon? Why did he wish that? I won't ask something about Kagari being a plant in the end. guess it has something to do with the answer in earlier posts.

At last, if it has anything to do with the earlier questions, I would like explanation about the whole "aurora couldn't grow on the earth, because the "soil" wasn't good anymore" part in the second post from this topic. I don't

I'm sorry for all of these (vague) questions. I really want to formulate these questions better, but it is so confusing for me I can't. I really want to know more about the answers, because this was my first visual novel ever and I loved it soooooo much! I want to understand the story as best as possible. I'm feeling to miss something if I don't get the end of this story.

Naoki-Saten said:
As far as I know, Terra route was the ONLY instance where Kotarou ever decided to NOT attack the Key when it first emerged in the Kazamatsuri forest. Because usually, his training in Guardian urged him to try and destroy the key,

http://puu.sh/6Edfy.jpg

which resulted in him getting his head bashed in, saved by Kotori by getting turned into a half-familiar, getting amnesia coma pills and waking up almost 10 years later.
However, that note of "I hope to see you again, someday" pretty much programmed Terra Kotarou to love Kagari. Therefore, he could resist his Hunter instincts and let her go instead, because he felt she's something precious to him.

http://puu.sh/6Edss.jpg

Also, he later on chose to cooperate with the Key for the same reason. Somewhere around the end of Terra, I believe Kotarou looks back on his accomplishments and thinks about what made him fight so hard and do the things he's done. And he arrives at the answer that he did not do it for grand goals like saving the world. Instead, he did it all for Kagari's sake because he loved her.

All I can add to the explanations I've already given in previous posts would be something like this:
Probably, the memories that Kotarou provided either came too late or they were good enough for Kagari but not good enough for the earth, so salvation triggered anyway.
I'm not 100% sure about what "good memories" are, but maybe it helps thinking about what "bad memories" would be defined as? "Bad memories" would be something that urges the earth on to reset all life on the planet. In other words, something is going wrong. Something like Aurora/Life energy being wasted. Two examples come to my mind:

- Humans greedily exploiting the planet's resources (destroying forests, causing climate changes) faster than Aurora can regenerate (eventually causing Aurora to dry up until no more life is possible on earth)
- wasting life as in creating conflicts where many people die pointlessly and bring sadness and suffering to the living

The first point would be explained by the explanations I previously posted. But if you think about the second one, you'll notice that the conflict between Gaia and Guardian was not the only war on earth. There were many more war zones where people suffered and died (Kotarou experienced all that first-hand). Maybe the Earth demanded either all of those wars to cease OR it wished for some kind of proof or, say, a token of HOPE, a reason to believe that all those wars might end someday and humanity won't go on pointlessly killing itself (and dragging the Earth along on its road of doom)

Lastly, when I mentioned the children Kotarou saved, I pointed out that the group of those children "It's comprised of both summoners and superhumans who work together." In other words: It's a group of people who have the knowledge and skills to manipulate Aurora BUT they are not using it for killing and harming people and not for their own gain - in other words they don't create "bad memories". Maybe if there were MORE groups like that one, the Earth could have accepted their existence as a "good memory".

...actually, scratch all that. These screenshots say that Kotarou was merely too late:
http://puu.sh/6EgeW.jpg
http://puu.sh/6EgfP.jpg

also, regarding what a "good memory" might be, apart from stopping Gaia and Guardian and all that:
http://puu.sh/6EgqM.jpg
http://puu.sh/6EgAk.jpg
Kotarou mentions "An ideal memory for Kagari... Wouldn't that be the will and the power to carve out a new future? Something the people lost sight of when they started caring for the planet"

At that point, Kotarou could not live on for much longer because he had exhausted his own life force by Rewriting himself so many times.
http://puu.sh/6EfK7.jpg
If he did not turn into that tree, he would have simply died due to lack of life force.
He COULD live on as a familiar BUT only if there was a summoner to provide him life force. But as we know from Kotori and Shizuru routes, Kotarou, as a familiar needs about as much life force as a normal human. So neither him nor his summoner would be living for long.

I actually think it really was just his wish to see Moon Kagari again as well as his wish for her to not be lonely anymore. After all, she performed the thankless task of developing that theory and finding a path for life to continue. All by herself. She was never rewarded for her work.
As for why she reverted to a flower, I think it's because her task is already finished. There's nothing more she can do on the moon. There isn't even any Aurora left there, because it all got sent back to earth.

Imagine Aurora as certain kind of a plant. It needs soil to grow on(obviously).
Now imagine a field of those plants. That's the Earth. The plant (Aurora) can grow and thrive because there's "fresh" soil on the field (earth).
However, agriculture taught us that if you continue growing the same kind of plant on the same field, it loses minerals that are essential for that plant (since the plant itself consumes them). The plant won't be growing as well anymore and eventually, it won't be able to grow at all. That's the state of the Earth after the 5 girl routes and before Moon route.
Agriculture also teaches us that if you occasionally don't plant anything on that field, the soil recovers and you'll be able to plant your plants there again. That's the Earth during Moon route: While there was nothing growing on it, the soil has recovered a bit, so Aurora can grow there again. Notice the "a bit" part. There's only room for one more try, a last chance. There won't be any parallel worlds this time.

Ruben_Jb said:
Ahl, I see! To be clear, you are talking about Kotarou being in Guardian BEFORE the routes? So if I understand right: The common route (and after that the route of the heroines) is AFTER the events of Kotarou being in Guardian. Then Kotarou get's in a coma because of the Key/Kotori and after almost 10 years you can say the common route starts.

But! Because of the footnote in Moon, Kotarou get's a feeling of something precious when he sees Kagari. So this is the only time he hesitates, and stops attacking her right away. And THATS (!!!???) why a possibility is made for him to save the earth.

I agree with you. I thought the same thing that the good memories came because Kagari saw all the hard work Kotarou did (Theory about the children working together, Kotarou making Guardian and Gaia stop the war etc.). Kagari was confinced, but as I recall, Kagari can't change the way the Earth feels. She may be confinced, but the Earth may not yet see the changes. An argument for that could be that the changes Kotarou made would take more than a few years to really see what the world would be because of them. It's a longterm sollution and the results can't be seen in a couple of days. In short: Kagari was confinced, but the Earth not (yet), so salvation still happened. That's why Kotarou had to kill Kagari.

Thanks for the reminder!
Another question regarding this part of your post: Kotarou changed into a tree, it's like "saving" himself from fully dissapearing, the same as Sakuya did. You can say it's the last possible way to save themselves (talking about the rare people who can Rewrite themself). Sakuya also became some kind of tree. I guess that there is some connection between them.

Then why did Kagari (Earth) also fused together with Kotarou in the tree after she died? Is that something just for the feels for the readers. Something like the lovers finally being together, bittersweet?

Thanks! Now I think she reverted back to a flower because she was done and reverted back to the most innocent thing on the Earth, a plant/tree (trees stand for live on earth, because of the oxygen they provide). It's like something metaphorical too! Besides that, the small plant was the only life on the Moon. She wanted to use as little aurora on the Moon as possible, because it was as good as out of aurora, so she became a small plant, which doesn't need so much aurora. Earth or the Moon always has some aurora left, just minimal for something like a plant for example. Just like a battery, even if it's out of charge, there is always that small power inside of it after you use it again after a few days/weeks.

I understand what you are saying, but now this: During the Moon route, it is said that Kotarou has no clue anymore what the definition of time is. He even says like million years pass, but it's subjective time ofcourse. But still... what is happening OUTSIDE of the "Moon area" Kagari and Kotarou "live" in during Moon on the SAME time?
You say the Earths needs rest, after that there would be enough aurora (or soil) to do one more re-evolution. Does that mean that the Earth during Moon is empty of life? Because, how else could the Earth "rest", if the worldlines would be still used for living?

Now my last question (for this post haha), and probably one of my biggest issues:
WHY is Earth saved in the end of Terra? Even the changes Kotarou made which made humanity make good use of aurora and stop using as much recources from the Earth as before, than still the earth's energy (aurora) would deplete in the end? Which sollution did Kotarou make to keep that from happening in the future?

And the verrry verry last question for now is a very blunt question which you probably can't answer... Is there a possibility for another Key to appear in the future? If so... that would make Kotarou's hard work for nothing, but that would also mean that Earth's energy is almost depleted. So I guess both last questions could be combined as one.

Take your time, I'm not in a rush.

Yes, pretty much. Have you tried going for the options of trying to "Destroy" or "Capture" the key? The narration that follows is pretty obvious.

Yes. It's actually something that's sometimes criticized about Terra route, because some of Terra Kotarou's acts are 'programmed' rather than derived from his own free will.

<- Guardian or Gaia were solely centered around the existence of the Key (in other words, the planet's will). Neither of them thought about how to solve the problem, as in, finding a way for humanity to somehow live on. For example, do something that would prevent the Earth from wanting to wipe out all humans.

On the other hand, what Kagari herself wants is not the survival of the earth. It's the survival of humanity, even if the earth itself dies in the process.

Secondly, the partial salvation has destroyed a lot of technology and killed many people. Humans cannot rely on environment-damaging technology anymore. But it's ok, because the kids Kotarou saved have published the techniques of using Life Force. Life force usage will replace technology. Not only will the humans exhaust far less resources of the earth (and deplete aurora), but they'll use their own lives for the sake of making their lives easier, thereby shortening them, so they'll exhaust even less of the earth's resources. That will delay the Earth's end (notice how the problem is not solved yet).

The Earth might or might not die, at least the chances are way better without humanity around, but Humanity will definitely be able to survive on a whole new planet (with fresh 'soil' for Aurora to thrive!). And that's what matters most to Kagari. For humanity to survive on its own and... be happy, I guess?

Remember how Kagari's theory was not about Earth to survive, but "life to continue". In other words, for some part of the Aurora that would be going back to the Earth to keep expanding and thrive. It does not actually have to take place on Earth!

During Shizuru's and Akane's routes, Kagari also turned into a tree. In Shizuru's route, by the time Kagari turned into a tree, the Salvation was already in its final phase and therefore impossible to prevent even if you destroyed the tree. In Akane's route, Kagari began turning into a tree after being "assassinated" by a Guardian agent. She was "dead", but not destroyed and her corpse, which was the tree, could still be used to activate Salvation, which is what Akane did.

SO, since Kotarou and Kagari can both become trees when "dying", they might as well become trees together, right? And they were hugging just before, so why not?

That's exactly it. The earth had exhausted all Aurora, all life ended. The earth became the life-destroying poison desert pictured during Lucia's route. By the time Moon began, however, the earth has recovered. So it's not poisonous anymore. It's just a planet devoid of life (because there's no Aurora), but life can thrive there as long as the planet gets some Aurora.

As for the "verrry verry last question", I can only speculate. I guess that the Earth won't send another Key, since by the point it'll be time to send a new one, all Aurora might already be gone.
But, after Kotarou takes Humanity to a faraway planet and they expand there, a new Key will emerge if the planet has a reason of sending out a familiar. It may be to enact salvation because stupid humans forgot their lesson and started new wars (lol), but there might also be a whole different reason.
Moon Kagari is the Moon's familiar. Her task was not activating salvation, but developing a theory and finding a path for life to continue. Who knows what task the new planet might give its familiar, if it ever creates one?

You can't imagine the amount of willpower it would take me to resist the urge of jumping at my keyboard and typing away some Texts about Rewrite. Even though I should be doing more important (RL) things right now... xD
I guess discussing interesting stuff is just THAT important to me ^^

Ruben_Jb said:


Take this quote with your picture: http://puu.sh/6EgAk
Kagari says "... you should've done this sooner." Does she mean killing her, or giving her good memories. If it's killing her, than I would say the following:

You are saying that the partial salvation destroyed technology and such, so people use life force to replace it, etc etc. If Kagari says Kotarou should've killed Kagari sooner, than salvation wouldn't have probably even started. Now I'm thinking that it's the best that salvation happened for even a bit so there was a real purpose for the new information about aurora to the people. I'm sorry, do you get what I am saying? I now know that Key really has more depth to it's dialogue, and I want to decipher some. :)

I'm kinda with you in this theory, but something still doesn't feel right in my heart (:P). I'm sure Kagari1 want's humanity to live on, but do you have any more screenshots or prove that implies Kagari wants humanity to move to another planet when the Earth will dry out?

I know that Kotarou has now the ability to take people to a far-away planet, but can you tell me what's the point of traveling to a new planet, if there is almost no aurora on the planet anymore to take to the new planet? HOW can the new planet provide itself with aurora?
Note: Kotarou says that many manyyyyy contracts are needed with Kotarou to let him be able to take humanity to a new place.

I guess this part of my comment is contradicting my own question, a bit.

Now please read this: http://www.universeofsymbolism.com/tree-symbolism.html

I remembered reading something (NOT this link above) about old-Japanese tales about trees being able to contain some sort of life (youkai). That's why in those tales they worshipped trees as Gods. Trees with youkai inside it (The kodama in this case) were VERY LARGE trees and a lot of life (trees, animals, plants) surrounded them. I see very much similarity in what I just told with Kotarou and Kagari being a large tree. You could say Kagari and Kotarou are some kind of kodama (ko = tree and dama = ghost). And around the tree would be more vegitation, I guess. Also, it's really LARGE! Together with the link I just posted, I think we have a very strong case of a deeper meaning about the tree. You could say it's a clear reason why Key chose for a tree, and not something else.

In the link you also see different types of trees with it's meaning. It would be hell awesome if we would be sertain which kind of tree KagariKotarou are in the real world, and it's connection between the meaning and the tree.

Can you give me more of your thoughts about the time where Moon is happening? I can think about different possibilities:
A: It is really like that after the last heroine route, ALL LIFE on Earth is gone, and Moon "starts".

or

B: Moon's route is happening for like already million (or more, or less) years in human time. So I mean, Moon is happening while all other routes are happening at the same time (even timelines which aren't in the VN). But (!!!) Kotarou is summoned by Kagari (Moon) at SOME point in all these years where she is alone to help her.

or

C: Moon's route is happening for like already million (or more, or less) years in human time. BUT (!!!) Kotarou was ALWAYS there, from the beginning, even when he was in all timelines on Earth. Thus this creates some really difficult thought for human people like us to comprehend.

To answer A, B or C I think maybe something has to be said about the "subjective time" they are talking about in the VN, many times. < Trying to help you formulate your thoughts about this.

Great! It's very nice to make things clear more up. I couldn't answer your post earlier, because it takes some time to think about my answers and questions to you and I also have IRL things to do :P

I wanted to say it's really nice to have this discussion with you. First, it was only me giving you questions. It still is now, but it's been rolling more into a discussion and that's really much fun! ^^ Normally, I don't put much heart into asking stuff and discussions on anime-related things, but this is a great exception since I first came here in this topic. Secretly, I even hope that my thoughts even enlighten some of your thoughts and give a new meaning to some aspects of this story. That's what discussions are for, right?

If we are almost done talking about this, we could even have some discussion about the lyrics from songs in Rewrite, to start with the last ED, which has plot inside of it. I think a lot of OST's from Rewrite (like many songs from anime/VN) have a meaning behind it.

I think that while the partial salvation did encourage humans a lot to make use of the life force techniques, it doesn't mean they wouldn't use them if salvation never happened.
If you think back about Akane route, you might remember that at some point, during one of Kotarou's last talks with Suzaki (vice-chief of Gaia), revealed that he had made preparations to develop techniques/technology that used life force and to make them available to all humans one day. He was already working on a way of decreasing the burden on the planet caused by humans.

If they had life force techniques that are more powerful than modern technology (and provides them more luxury), humans would slowly adapt them and make use of them, so the usage of modern technology would decrease.
They wouldn't abandon modern technology altogether, though.

I have yet to find a different screenshot that would support that theory...

Taking humanity to a faraway planet is absolutely neccessary for humanity's survival, since the Earth will eventually run out of Aurora and die. It definitely will if the humans remain there (I said earlier that the earth might have a chance of survival without the humans around, but I'm beginning to doubt it).

(To learn more about the properties of Aurora, consult the memory section articles about Kagari(Earth) and Kagari(Moon) in the game)
As for the Aurora, there's actually no problem. Aurora is like a plant, not a set amount of energy that decreases over time. As long as there is fresh soil, Aurora can thrive and multiply. For the same reason, the amount of Aurora that could form a small garden on the moon had sufficed to "restart" the entire evolution of the earth from the beginning up to the point in time where Terra route began.
If the Earth had THAT much aurora, it could enact salvation and proceed with re-evolution without a second thought. The whole problem was that the earth did NOT have enough for a re-evolution and its "soil" was bad so that no new Aurora could be produced. While the aurora was on the Moon, the earth was "resting" its "soil" just enough for one last try.

So as long as the humans bring some Aurora with them and give it some time to multiply, everything will be fine.

I don't think we could attain absolute certainity, but there is some room for speculation. Also, it's quite possible that they used multiple symbols for the tree.
(I'd say Kotarou's and Kagari's combined tree would be the "tree of life".)
It's pictured in these screenshots:
http://puu.sh/6Itor.jpg
http://puu.sh/6ItQ2.jpg

The tree is situated on an isle of a small lake in the forest. The "forest" and the "water" of the lake both represent life.
The tree grows on top of stone fragments. There are also some stone blocks in the water surrounding it. I think it represents the "resilience" of life, like a plant that grows in the middle of a road, penetrating the concrete.
Also, it's not your everyday tree, either. It doesn't have one single stem but many many stems intertwining.
Also, I'm reminded of a certain something in the game that has a similar shape:
http://puu.sh/6Iu1e.jpg
http://puu.sh/6IuQv.jpg
http://puu.sh/6IuYr.jpg
I think that's enough symbolism to go on for a while with ^^

Ruben_Jb said:
I think it has been mentioned, but why wouldn't the Moon be good soil for aurora and humanity to live on? To answer this question, I think these images will help you and me:
http://i.imgur.com/0JXCGVg.png
http://i.imgur.com/gydi4OZ.jpg

I can't quite understand the meaning of these texts.

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I thought the ED lyrics were misleading, because the journey from Kotarou and the girls to Kagari (Moon) is showed, but the lyrics are about the journey to the new world! Let's see:
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This lyrics prove even more that the biggest sollution is Kotarou being able to take humanity to a new world. The lyrics are practically a flashforward in the future where it actually happens. So there is NO open end to this story, because they will go to a new world. What happens when they are at the new world, however, remains a secret.

Let's see what you can tell me! :D Have fun ^^

They used the trees from the forest to build a tower so high they could see the horizon in all directions.
Personally, I think the tower represents the very large tree Kotarou and Kagari became, which was constantly expanding in the direction of the Moon so large. You could help me by explaining why the lyrics say that they used the trees from the forest to build it.
I could think the trees represent individuals and the forest is the Earth. But then the earlier asked question still remains.

They achieved it while aiming for an unattainable dream.
The dream for humanity to continue to live was unattainable. You can fill this in please.

His feet were shaking. Was he brave enough? Now he stands at the peak.
Implying Kotarou. Him being a tiny bit insecure about the fact he has to take humanity to a new world.

But something was missing. They needed a mast to hold up the sail. Only one life remained. It was called the mother tree. They cut it down, and began their journey.
A mast is important for a boat. It's needed for a sail to let the boat go forwards. What "something" was missing? Kotarou! Because Kotarou is the methaphorical mast in this story, and he would be the leader to their journey to the new world. He would be the captain of the boat.

I'm only not sure why they say he's the "only life remained". Your thoughts? Because of this line it makes me think they are talking about someone else.

I want to connect this long, long journey to a hope for the future.
Can't think of anything here, because it looks kinde obvious. Maybe you will see something in it.

Basically, Kotarou laments Moon Kagari's cruel fate while pointing out what a virtuous person she is.

There were two twins. Moon Kagari and Earth Kagari (Kotarou likens the Kagaris to the celestial bodies themselves). The Earth was vast and all kinds of life were created there. Earth Kagari had the possibility of witnessing all that life and interacting with its many life forms.
The Moon was tiny and Moon Kagari was the only life it could produce (the soil was bad). She has been always been lonely. You could say she was denied all Joys of life. Even so, Moon Kagari was not envious of Earth Kagari, who had so many things Moon Kagari didn't have.
But even though the Earth was so bountiful, it faced demise. It failed at creating a possibility of life to continue.
Now this is where it gets important:
Actually, Moon Kagari could use the remainder of the Earth's Aurora however the heck she wanted. She could have just summoned Kotarou and the Occult Club and have fun with them there until they run out of Aurora and disappear. There were so many things Moon Kagari missed out on because there was no life on the Moon. There would be nothing wrong about taking this chance to enjoy her life a bit.
But Moon Kagari did none of that. She spent all her time and effort in order to create a new chance for the Earth. And when that possibility was completed, she sent Kotarou and the others back to the Earth. And she stayed behind, all alone.

A wonderful passage ^^

Actually, it seems like I've missed out on something big here. Because I didn't pay much attention to this ending song and its lyrics. The reason being that I don't like songs that aren't really sung, but just rambled on like prosa.
To think it was actually an epilogue to the story...

After reviewing the ending video, I must say I'm quite impressed. You've found many analogies that I couldn't figure out (Like Kotarou being the mast, or humans being the trees that get reduced to stumps). Let's see what I can find...

I think this is referring to Terra route. If I use your analogy of Trees being people, then this passage describes how Kotarou had trampled upon other people's dreams and ideals and spilled lots of blood in order to create a possibility for life to continue (and humanity as a whole to survive). Of course, doing such cruel things wasn't easy for Kotarou.

This one is tough. Kotarou becoming the mast should be pretty accurate. So what would they have to cut down in order to "extract" Kotarou?
I think this one isn't symbolic but rather straightforward. It's what happened in the last scene of Terra:
http://puu.sh/6IWZo.jpg
http://puu.sh/6IX1t.jpg
http://puu.sh/6IXcH.jpg
Basically, the girls used Kotarou's tree as material to create familiar Kotarou. (It still doesn't explain the "only one life remained" part)
...and it's confusing, too. Sakuya was created from a single branch of the tree he turned into to survive Salvation. In the end of Chihaya route, crazy Akane used that same tree in order to turn Sakuya into a giant familiar. I also remember Sakuya mentioning that he would die when the tree he was made of dies. But the important part is that his tree didn't get used up just to summon him for the first time.
This time, however, the girls act like the tree will disappear or somehow be destroyed when they make a familiar out of it. On the other hand, Kotarou said he's been made out of tree shavings (translation error maybe?'), so what happened with the rest of the tree and why were the girls so cautious about it? It's weird.

An alternate explanation would be that the mother tree is Kagari and she needed to be killed in order for humanity to even have the chance of attempting that journey(otherwise they'd be annihilated by salvation). Still weird.

Ruben_Jb said:
Before I will continue, do you agree with me that this really is some kind of epilogue, in the future where they (= humanity) really go to another world? And do you agree that the lyrics are not really displaying the images (Kotarou x 5 girls going to visit Kagari Moon)? I thought that to be pretty confusing.

So do you think the tower kind of symbolizes the "possibility" for life to continue? If you stand on a verrrry large tower, you can see the city (for example) from every point of view. Thus, you can see all different directions you can take = choices = possibilities.

But now, if I think again about those lines, and if Kotarou is the sail and Kagari the mast I would think this:
There was "something" missing. Missing from what? I think the mast was missing from the boat (canoe = songs name). The sail (Kotarou) was needed to move forwards, but you can't move forward with a sail without a mast.

There also was a line in the end of Terra something like "Kagari looked like a mother who saw her children take of into the world". Maybe it will help us with the theory.

Now something else, a question popped up for me. I thought it was right that Kotarou got his power at the moment he first saw Kagari (IN EVERY PARALLEL WORLD) and tried to attack her, which lead to Kotarou being heavingly injured. After that, Kotori healed Kotarou with Kagari's power and he went into a coma for +- 10 years.

But how strange is it that in Terra, Kotarou got his power before attacking Kagari. Hell, he didn't even attack her because this was the only world he didn't attack her but helped her. Which means he shouldn't have his power. I'm confused...

Does it has to do with his many other powers, so only one is missing in Terra's route? Or is this what you call a plothole. I hope not...

EDIT: Just saw this on the trivia parts from Sakuya:
"Like Kotarou, Sakuya's existence is a response to Kagari's existence; when she is born into the world, someone like Sakuya or Kotarou is born to protect or kill her." - Rewrite Wiki

This makes me even more confused and more curious about my earlier question. How did Kotarou exactly aquire his power, and is it true what the lines from the wiki says?

RewriteWiki said:
Shizuru's Past: Shizuru lived in a run-down neighborhood with her mother and father, though they were poor, they lived as a happy family. One day when they were returning home from a resturant dinner, their house exploded (Guardian though the house was vacant and used it at a training facility).

Tennouji_ said:
Irrelevant: Good news that I can finally play Rewrite again!

Okay back on topic. I'm currently replaying Chihaya's route(For the 5th time) and for those who can't remember the very beginning part of Chihaya's route: http://imgur.com/d8F8n1C

Since that's incomplete, I'll type the rest: "... hey, how come... we can't grow... without being tested?"


I wonder if the girl on that story is Chihaya or it has something to do with Chihaya's route so can someone enlighten me?

Naoki-Saten said:

...too little information. And I don't remember that story ever being referenced again. So I really can't tell.

Naoki-Saten said:

Also, gotta be careful with other sources that say "that story might have been from character X past". Rewrite Wiki mentioned that Gen-san and Esaka-san might have been the ones who attacked Chihaya's home village. Gen-san tells that story when he's about to die in Shizuru's route, because back then, he had to kill a child (that was ten years ago). When I went back to that spot and checked, it said they attacked "a Gaia base in middle east". I doubt a village would count as a Gaia base...

Tennouji_ said:
BTW, I'm quite amazed that no one asked about the endless corridor/hallway or maybe someone already asked about it.

Well, if someone might ask it, do you guys think this answers the endless corridor/hallway thing? http://imgur.com/eZC7iYa