True ending explained

thank you for the clarification because i was so lost that raffal was very clearly an adult because he was so fkin tall in every scene, after somehow escaping prison making everyone think he was dead off screen (we see him on the cross towards the end so my initial thinking of events is wrong xd) he just shows up kills a man and goes to prison, this felt so random and underwhelming for a character who had such meaning, but with this being the first real time the character shows up it make sense.

the 3rd one seems like its wrong, like it would make sense if the sun was rising as he found his father dead, but there wasnt any of that.
its probably would be schmit especially since lev (who was the priest, which was confirmed by him talking about simons death)was talking about the natural world and how miracoulous it was that the would existed, and if you go to the scene of him stepping out of the carriage its literally him taking a deep breath and having his arms wide for the world, draka got it from him, so they do they same thing but the parallel with the murder of their father and the sun rise isnt there.

this"it was all a dream" sht actually ruined the anime for me
like yea, its really clever how its connected.
but like you gain such a bond with the characters because theyre so goated and the goal that theyre so desperately trying to show to the world.
then this ending comes out and just spits in ur face... lul just a dream

fiction being fiction as an ending just tilts me personally, it would be different if there was some doubt hidden throughtout the show or something that made the ending actually make sense of being the ending rather than it feeling like a rushed last resort the author made as an ending

(just for character limit sake)

If everything was fiction then what about the letter shown in episode 25?

@NegativeRei

Here comes author's original intention to tell a "strange lie". It is a personality trait in albert brudzewski which made him a fictionalist in real life. A make-believe story from a random event that happened because of hearing a very random conversation between two stranger. It stayed in his mind and later converted into a story. I highly recommend Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Uoto San, the mangaka blurs reality and fictions and believes one influences another to materialize. Its a chicken or egg first situation. Tenet also reflects something similar in story telling. Not everything is 100 percent rationalized.






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Thanks for this explanation it's so necessary for me LOL
But I still don't really understand why in the last episode, there already was a letter sent to Potocki with the title of the book ... was that just something completely unrelated then? @.@

@Lunipu @Dami-Echertal I think the letter served as an inspiration for Albert to start writing the story. I think it was explained, no?
So basically it becomes a full circle..
Albert hears a about a letter -> Writes a story about it, in the story it explains how the letter came to be until it reaches him-> Albert hears about a letter -> ...

Like in the end you don't know who those people were who initiated it all, might have been some other people but might have been the exact characters themselves.. open for interpretation. Very philosophical, I know.

Ah yes, it's basically same as OP said:

thank you for the clarification because i was so lost that raffal was very clearly an adult because he was so fkin tall in every scene, after somehow escaping prison making everyone think he was dead off screen (we see him on the cross towards the end so my initial thinking of events is wrong xd) he just shows up kills a man and goes to prison, this felt so random and underwhelming for a character who had such meaning, but with this being the first real time the character shows up it make sense.

the 3rd one seems like its wrong, like it would make sense if the sun was rising as he found his father dead, but there wasnt any of that.
its probably would be schmit especially since lev (who was the priest, which was confirmed by him talking about simons death)was talking about the natural world and how miracoulous it was that the would existed, and if you go to the scene of him stepping out of the carriage its literally him taking a deep breath and having his arms wide for the world, draka got it from him, so they do they same thing but the parallel with the murder of their father and the sun rise isnt there.

this"it was all a dream" sht actually ruined the anime for me
like yea, its really clever how its connected.
but like you gain such a bond with the characters because theyre so goated and the goal that theyre so desperately trying to show to the world.
then this ending comes out and just spits in ur face... lul just a dream

fiction being fiction as an ending just tilts me personally, it would be different if there was some doubt hidden throughtout the show or something that made the ending actually make sense of being the ending rather than it feeling like a rushed last resort the author made as an ending

Love the theory. At first I was very dissapointed with the ending, but now I think it's cool that we can make our own connections trying to find what's true and what's fictional. Just like Albert's father said "you must doubt". Although imo they could've made a clearer ending with the same idea.

@headless_nick That's a clever way to explain it thank you (I edited the original post with your comment and quoted you on this)

Love the theory. At first I was very dissapointed with the ending, but now I think it's cool that we can make our own connections trying to find what's true and what's fictional. Just like Albert's father said "you must doubt". Although imo they could've made a clearer ending with the same idea.

@CrJook Isn't it also creative that the mangaka made audience figure out and be part of the "Thaumazein game" with the ending?

I like to think Albert actually figured out the Heliocentric theory but his backstory and desire to doubt and believe in others made him write the theory in a fictional format - only to be picked up by his student Copernicus in later years. Maybe he chose fiction over theory cause he believed someone will pick it up in the future and prove it. Maybe this time there will actually exist a book " about the movement of earth " if he did not take an extreme path and let it publish. Anyway all of this is also guesswork. Best part is our reality is shaped by what we think. Not by truth. For example-

Suppose In the potochki letter , the title of the book could have been " on the pavement of earth" - and albert mistakenly heard movement instead of pavement, the result would have been the same. He would have gone to explore this research and eventually written the book. So what we believe shapes our reality. So i really like this part- " you must doubt" . Maybe thats what alberts answer is on " what to offer to obtain the truth ?" - its the sacrifice of ego or ability to doubt. After all - cogito ergo sum, dubito ergo sum . I think therefore I exist, I doubt therefore I exist.





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I think is same world for part 1 and 2.

Some characters in "Kingdom of P" said that they will not be remembered in history and that's what happened, nothing and nobody survived to save story about characters from part 1, that why they all are part of "Kingdom o P" 

The book has not been published, Draka sended only letter to Potocki to let him known about possible book and money but letter didn't reach him, but some random guy who doesn't know him and is seems that he don't want to get involved.

Albert Brudzewski is only main character who went down in history and that's why he is part of "Kingdom of Poland", not "Kingdom of P" which is not based on real life.

Mangaka mixed real life story with fiction, show us Albert heard about book "O ruchach Ziemi" what could inspire him and later Mikołaj Kopernik, of course in this story.

So OP thinks that these aren't parallel realities, but rather that the first 23 episodes just never happened? Does that change much? It seems that the only thing that changes is that the multiverse tag can be removed to avoid scaring people. On the other hand, what's better: that almost the entire story was just a dog's dream and had no meaning, or that almost the entire story took place somewhere in a parallel reality and intersected with this one through a letter from Draka?

@OrigamistToo Sorry for you then, I can always suggest you to rewatch the show while keeping in mind that it's a down-to-earth story, with no miracle or deus ex machina out of nowhere.
Maybe this will help you out to understand the meaning and messages behind Albert answer from the chapter 1 priest speech and the "it was a book all along" theory.

P.S: If you think hard enough about the parallel realities theory, you should've understood that's the theory who neglected the most the show's philosophy, the accomplishment made by our fictional protagonist and the reason behind Albert's story introduction.

@Lylaaz Huh? How are you just ignoring that the letter was delivered to Potocki, and only found its way there by the blood and sacrifice of our main cast of characters? This series would be so much worse if it was a barely (if at all) alluded to fictional story rather than an overambitious attempt to mold together two distinctly different realities, the "fictional" one and the one that closely matches our own. Even if naturally uneven, that's a much better story of passing the torch onto a generation that was afforded the opportunities to challenge previously held beliefs, even if they were controversial with religious interpretations of the time.

@Le_Chat_Du_Futur The theory of parallel realities is supported by that seemingly unnecessary transition from 'P' to Poland and the clear hint from the author in the scene where 'Rafal the Second' was telling little Albert about a distant world from which they are being watched, clearly referencing previous episodes.

Whether the author adds Deus Ex Machina to the story or not depends solely on him, and not on your perception of the mundane nature of the story.

How does the theory of parallel realities disregard the plot more than the theory of 'It was all a dream'? Is it because the 'book' is something in the language of the intelligent, while the multiverse is for foolish Rick and Morty fans?

The fact that you skimmed through the manga and found characters standing in the same poses as characters from previous chapters proves absolutely nothing and simply looks like another manifestation of the 'search for deeper meaning syndrome'.

It's funny, of course, that people fall for all this nonsense, but the author of the manga did his vague ending for this very reason.