Sakurada Reset Episode 2 Discussion

Leap250 said:


Souma called Kei the night before, but not the night following the reset. What could have influenced that change? There's also the question of Souma's fall that we see in the first episode. Was that prior to the reset, or after (since there was no real indication)?

Seeing as even outlandish abilities of "creating life" exist in Sagrada, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to assume that Souma also has some sort of ability that transcends, or at the very least, resists Haruki's reset and at the same time almost functions on par with Kei's perfect recall of the past.

And then something clicked in my thoughts. Souma says something about not being compatible with Haruki, to a level that "[Kei] wouldn't believe". At first I thought it was a personality thing, which the episode alludes to and even directly addresses. But then I thought about abilities. What ability wouldn't be compatible with being able to relive the past? At the same time, what ability would function similarly to Kei's memory?

My guess is Souma can see the future/s to a certain extent.
^And going off the far-end of this theory, Souma doesn't contact Kei the second time because (1) she had affirmed Kei's motivations the first tiime, and (2) she saw the events at the rooftop the next day.

karmenmeghan said:


I agree, you explained that really well!
I can't shake off the idea that Soma orchestrated the entire thing, she sparked the introduction between Kei & Haruki, clearly because she wanted to set off a chain of events to change ...what? I don't know. (not just to prevent Maki's mum from leaving I feel)

She knows something about the future that everyone else doesn't. I doubt she killed herself because of her feelings for Kei (or her supposed feelings for him. I guess it was implied) ...but I really don't think that Soma is as infatuated & petty as that? I mean, she was the one who introduced them in the first place right? It's kinda counterintuitive for a person to push your crush to be closer to someone else.

There should be an obscure reason to why she felt like she needed to remove herself from the timeline. Or maybe she leapt through time and she needed others to believe she died. She could've used the help of Mari's mum's cloning ability... and the one who died was a clone. It's odd that she knew so much about people's abilities and their lives. I wonder if a clone could possess the same ability as the original person?

But leaping through time is too common yet farfetched at this point. I came to that from seeing the skipping-stone that Soma had at ED, like you know skipping from time to time. But I don't think they would use it here again though, that's like a common overly-used power in anime in general.

Assuming* that Soma has an ability that is time-related, Haruki's constant resets would mean Soma's ability would be affected because she wouldn't have a clear time-point to work with (e.g. leap to) That brings to question of why she the hell she wanted Haruki & Kei to cooperate in the first place. If she left them alone, Haruki's resets would technically change nothing & Soma's ability would not be affected in the least. This is fking confusing bc she did instigate their partnership which means she knew it would affect her own ability to use her powers lol. Since there would be too much ambiguity from resetted timelines.

I really don't understand why she didn't visit Kei the second time round. Did she die the first time?

But I really like what you said about Soma alluding to their abilities being incompatible, as opposed to their personalities. Because Soma & Haruki get along fine. I love Haruki, as much as she looks deadpan I think she's really interesting. Even more so than Kei and the mystery of Soma.

Kylegregs05 said:
But Sumire's death was shown in the end of episode one where she lets go of the red umbrella and just falls off the bridge I think it's because she's disappointed that Kei didn't like him anymore

bittersweetlove said:
I don't like Haruki's new hair...

Atavistic said:
Well, talk about a substantial improvement compared to the first episode. Sure, the presentation still isn't exactly exciting, but as I had hoped the narrative was able to shine through regardless, and to be fair there was some improvement on the presentation front anyway. Also, it caught me by surprise how sad I was about Soma's death - despite it being very abrupt - and the fact that they couldn't do anything about it seeing as Haruki had already reset. In fact, that only made it more painful considering things were fine first time around and she only reset at all cos Kei told her to, and as he admitted that was for a massively trivial reason.

Also, this seems a fairly conclusive end to this particular arc, so why is it only part 2 of 3?

Lelouch0202 said:

Totally did not expect Sumire's death, it came out of nowhere and I actually find the conversations she has with Kei interesting at times. Though I don't see why they couldn't have reset? Isn't the cooldown on Haruki's ability only day and she can reset to 3 days in the past, so why couldn't they have just waited a day and then reset? There was definitely a save point as well since they reset before this event happened.