Kagerou Project Analysis: Hibiya (& Hiyori) Encountering Momo Kisaragi Before “the Daze”
[ How, When, Where, & Why do Hibiya (& Hiyori)
encounter Momo before the Kagerou Daze song happens ? ]
[ also: The Daze itself. ]
( continued from here ! )
Friendly reminder the official order of the Routes / timelines goes, like so:
Music Route -> Manga Route -> Novels Route [as of 2014] and/or MCA Route
MCA: ‘closest to the latter’ (but now we may have more Routes coming so .....)
Music Route:
(keeping in mind what’s been recapped so far from previous posts!)
- Momo Kisaragi hasn’t even been created at the time Kagerou Days was.
- Kagerou Days happens.
- Hibiya wakes up inside the Daze.
- “What time is it now?”
- Repeat (two verses/choruses/loops)
- Third loop:
- “Ah!” “Yume [dream]”?
- Repeat final time; Hibiya switches ? the timelines.
- Momo Kisaragi does not yet exist in the real world (our world).
- Momo Kisaragi is later created / designed by Wannyanpuu.
- Wannyanpuu: possibly contributed to inspirations for the storyline
(especially re: Hiyori Asahina’s design / concept.)
- Wannyanpuu’s Hibiya: has phone. (phone: has time)
- Jin’s Hibiya, still: “what time is it now?”
[ all Routes after ]
[ Hibiya: /no phone ( until possibly novel 8′s end ) ]
[ Hiyori: /has phone ]
[ Ayano: doesn’t even bother mentioning ‘the phone’ ]
Manga Route:
- Shintaro & Momo encounter Hibiya & Hiyori very very early on.
- The entire course of the Routes changes almost immediately.
- Hibiya: “the boy who doesn’t have a wish” [to “save the girl” (yet)] - Saeru
- Hibiya & Hiyori don’t know about “The Park”
- The Park: the initial spot where the Kagerou Daze first begins / traps them.
- Momo: tells them about “The Park”. (MOMO NO) (MOMO STOP)
- Hibiya & Hiyori: encounter truck.
- Hibiya & Hiyori: dies / encounters Daze?
- Hibiya (& Hiyori, but not shown until later on): revives (with Snakes ? ?? )
- Saeru (Snake of Clearing Eyes) forms in Hibiya sometime before
- Hibiya meets (Manga Route) Ayano.
- Hibiya meets Ayano at “The Park”, while trying to remember what happened to him & Hiyori.
- Hibiya can’t recall everything that happened to him.
- Hibiya notably glances towards the swingset
[prominent in Wannyanpuu’s Kagerou Days and indirectly seen in MCA.]
[Hibiya & Hiyori often sit there having heart-to-hearts before the Daze happens.]
- Ayano: tells Hibiya about Azami’s past.
- Saeru: [ possibly: hearing all of this. ]
- Hibiya later winds up in the care of Momo & Shintaro as they all try to search for Hiyori.
- In between, them all encountering various members of the Dan, Konoha (Hibiya encounters Konoha), etc. [ will come back to Konoha later ]
- Saeru: possessed Hibiya at some point before meeting Ayano.
- everything else: happens
- Hiyori: [seemingly] has Focusing Eyes.
- Hiyori: hasn’t had an “Otsukimi Recital” type solo encounter with Momo.
- Hiyori: will probably fail no matter what she does.
- it can only be Hibiya [ ?? ?? ? ]
- Hibiya: “i’m sorry” - to Hiyori
- Hibiya: dead. (no thanks Saeru)
- Konoha: also dead, trying to save Hibiya. (again no thanks Saeru)
- Saeru: duped everyone into thinking Hibiya had Focusing Eyes.
- (ok but what if ..... Saeru’s still duping everyone .....)
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- HOW WOULD (COULD?) HIBIYA REVIVE WITHOUT THE SNAKE OF FOCUSING EYES ???
- IS IT (HIM REVIVING) JUST BECAUSE OF SAERU ???
- IS IT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING ELSE ????? ???
- HOW LONG WAS MANGA ROUTE SAERU THERE FOR ???
- SAERU: “FROM THE VERY BEGINNING” - DIRECT QUOTE FROM SAERU
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- IS IT POSSIBLE FOR TWO SAERUS TO BE POSSESSING HIBIYA AT ONCE ?????
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- Manga Route’s New Form Saeru (literally the most recent chapter as of the initial writing of this post):
“ Hello ! ”
Novels Route:
- Momo Kisaragi exists design-wise and “in real life”-wise (our world), but .....
- Hibiya & Hiyori do not encounter her before The Daze.
- Hibiya & Hiyori wake up inside The Daze.
- Hibiya has various monologues while inside The Daze, Hiyori does too (to Hibiya).
- some monologues may be happening in alternative timelines / spoken to a different character (Hibiya -> Ayano in the Daze from here appears in MCA 04) (still curious about another one exactly [I’ll get back to later]).
- Hibiya escapes The Daze / revives. [w/Focusing Eyes]
- Hibiya meets Momo.
- Otsukimi Recital: later happens.
- Hibiya drops Momo’s “oba-san” (auntie/old hag etc.) and “Aun” cheeky rudeness from him.
- Hibiya -> Momo: “Momo”. (no honorifics.)
[ Momo & Hibiya have become closer ! ? Congratulations, “Momo” & Hibiya-kun! ]
[ .... at the very, very least, he’s a bit more polite now. ]
(... there’s some other fun things in between Hibiya meeting Momo and that)
(I’ll come back to those in a later mini analysis!)
MCA Route:
- starts off very similar to Novels Route re: Hibi+Hiyo’s weirder dynamic.
- Kisaragi Attention (Episode 02) happens
- Kisaragi Attention in Music Route: Momo meeting Mekakushi Trio + Mary only.
- ‘Kisaragi Attention’ here: Momo meeting Hibiya. only
- (Momo would later meet MekaTrio+Mary in Mekakushi Code ep 03 instead.)
- Hibiya: still calling her oba-san
- Momo: let this kind onee-san show you the way! [or: I’M NOT OLD]
[ ^ this: happens only once in all forms of the canon iirc. ]
- Hibiya: NO WAY OBA-SAN --
- Momo: attracts the crowds with her Eyes.
- Momo & Hibiya: “shit”
- Momo & Hibiya: RUNS [cue Kisaragi Attention playing]
- Hibiya: gets overrun by crowds in between, escapes
- Momo: doesn’t get any chance to tell Hibiya about “THE PARK”. (... would she have?)
- Momo: doesn’t get to even meet Hiyori, only Hibiya.
- Momo: doesn’t even make it to the Department store she wanted to go to.
( more on that recurring theme later too )
- Momo: SIGHS
- everything else: happens
- (including Otsukimi Recital towards end of anime)
[ MCA 04 ] (compare: this dumb old amv I made once) [i’m sorry]
( because screencapping everything would take way too long, ok ;; )
( but it has most Daze scenes in it while trying to line them up with Wannyanpuu’s version thematic wise )
- Hibiya & Hiyori: [ inside the Daze. waking up ]
- Hibiya: /NO PHONE (IN ANY OF THEM)
- Hiyori: /has phone
- Hibiya: [ probably thinking it’s like a “dream” / “yume?” ]
- Repeat four or so Daze loops, getting progressively worse each time.
- Hiyori in between: saying things Hibiya can’t hear while smiling / crying
- Hiyori: (”i’m sorry”?) (”I love you”?) - possible
- Hibiya: [ final loop happens ]
- Hibiya: SCREW YOU CAT “Serves you right !!”
- (Cat in Novels timeline: Kano interference.) (Cat anywhere else: ???? ??)
- (Kano interference: by means of Saeru forcing him.)
- Hibiya: SWITCHES THE TIMELINES.
- Hibiya: receives the Snake of Focusing Eyes from the Daze and revives.
- everything else: happens
[ considering new Routes incoming ]
[ MCA: also Reset ? (maybe / likely ) ]
BONUS (from Kisaragi Attention, Ep 02:
( ^ listen. I am not the one writing this series. It’s doing it on its own.)
( Friendly reminder: Hibiya & Momo - closer in age than not )
( ok but seriously it’s more like
Hibiya: just entering junior high school as of Mekakucity Talkers; with conflicting age in canon [still closer to his birthday during loops [August 15th]; Hibiya’s birthday: November 4th].
Momo: just leaving/left junior high school as of MCA, but also with conflicting age. taking supplementary classes; hasn’t yet taken re-do exams.
- She SHOULD be closer to ‘15′ by this point of the timeline.
- her birthday is literally right before the Japanese school year begins.
February 14th -> April [school year begins] -> August 15th [loops / timelines] -> March [school year ends]
- MCA Kenjirou too (I realized): “if you [Momo] fail these [supplementary classes] you’ll go back to being a first year [in high school]!”
- Kenjirou / as Saeru: manipulating the entire freaking city. INCLUDING MOMO’S SCHOOL. INCLUDING MOMO (?)
- loops: happening (probably?: screwing up even more timing re: conflicting ages)
- ... friendly reminder Hibiya has another birthday only a few months after escaping loops. then he’s taking junior high school entrance exams ?. )
- Momo: still has to wait until her next birthday (February 14th) to age another year regardless.
- closer than not ?
- look I’m just saying -
- anyway look I seriously doubt Jin would intend for a serious relationship at all at this stage ok at most it’s friendship / fluff / developing
- even the anthologies imply this with older!HibiMomo comics / manga
- Wannyanpuu and Sidu (Kagepro’s official artists) have contributed to various official anthologies too
- Jin certainly approves of the materials or they wouldn’t be published
- literally .....
- my opinion aside, literally.
- this is mainly for analysis ok. i am not writing this series.
Anyway all that aside:
- MCA screencap above:
HIBIYA SWITCHED HANDS WITH MOMO TO RUN IN FRONT OF HER.
[ MANGA ROUTE QUICK RECAP: ]
Hiyori to Momo: “i’ll walk in front”
Momo to Hiyori: “wow” “it’s like you’re always protecting me .....”
“ There is no such thing as coincidence in this world, there is only Hitsuzen [the inevitable]. ”
( ^ oh hi CLAMP, Cardcaptor Sakura & Tsubasa’s Clow Reed & Yuuko Ichihara )
( JIN, WANNYANPUU, SIDU, ETC. PLANNED ALL OF THIS. )
( or at least most of this ) ( storyboarding wise )
( where even is all of this going ?! )
[ ..... ok a short MCA summary follows ]
( ^ loop 1. NO PHONE. only clock [right; top] )
(still) (”what time is it now?” - KageDaze official song lyrics, Hibiya’s POV)
( ^ oh hi swings ) (looking very ominous with Daze colors imagery.)
( friendly reminder: even if the animation was weird in many ... many parts of MCA )
( literally all of this is still storyboarded. )
( ^ waking up. loop 2 / in between loops)
( ^ NO PHONE [only clock] )
( ^ oh hi “The Park” Momo tells them about. ) [ she tells in Manga Route only that is ]
( looking ... even more extremely ominous )
( Hibiya’s awareness ... growing ..... )
( among other thematic parallels: sky, wires, birds, stop signs, blood, etc. )
( adding poles, etc. )
( birds / crows: also in Wannyanpuu’s music video [inside the clocks] )
( ^ [silently saying something] ) (^ “I’m sorry” / “I love you” ?)
(note her tears.)
( ^ red red red sky )
( ^ Hibiya waking up, frantically looking around [as if to check it was a dream])
( ^ RUNNING ) ( ^ NO PHONE [only clock] )
( [silently speaking] ) ( “ I’m sorry ” ? etc.)
(tears flying.)
( ^ final loop ) ( ^ OH NO ) ( ^ waking up. )
( ^ Hibiya: “.......” )
( ^ clock ) ( but still not phone ) ( that he still wants in some Routes )
( ^ no phone ) ( Hibiya: closes door slowly. )
( ^ SWINGS / THE PARK ) ( shit )
( ^ TIMELINE SWITCH ) ( this time it’s me not you - Hibiya probably )
( ^ “SCREW YOU CAT!!!” ) I mean ( “Serves you right!” )
(lit: “look at your own failure / how much of a failure you are”
“look at your pitiful self after failing so hard” etc. [to Cat])
alternatively:
“take that!”
“look at the state of things” etc. etc.
MCA Hibiya: dead
MCA Hibiya: receives the Snake of Focusing Eyes and revives
MCA everything else: happens
Manga Route 2: happens
New Form Saeru even after like 6+ YEARS OF THIS: happens
( JIN )
[ ... also: re Honorifics and progressions of ]
( basically it’s like :
last names: can be more polite; first names without knowing: rude
last or first names used intentionally rudely: rude
last names with -san: very polite; formal; etc.
first names with -san: more polite than not with -san etc.
last names with -kun, -chan, etc.: a bit more informal, but still some politeness ?
-san in general: polite, distance; -kun, -chan, etc: more friendly/informal
-kun: often for boys (but can also be used for younger girls, such as underclassmen / etc.)
-chan: often for girls (but can also be used for younger boys, kids, as a cutesy honorific; etc.)
progression to first names, no honorifics: typically means - becoming closer; can be rude if not )
( it’s kind of hard to explain um ..... )
( if you’ve ever watched the Digimon Adventures series ? )
[ oh hi another of my main fandoms since long before Kagepro ]
( ... I don’t know how many of you have, but this is a very good example video )
( if you watch it, note how they progress from last names -> first names ! )
(literally they go through like 5-10 honorifics changes)
( also: rudeness [in between] -> familiarity/closeness )
(note: Hibiya also calls Hiyori by her first name and first name only.)
(initially: can be rude. Hibiya is often cheeky/rude. Hiyori even notes this in Manga Route - [he’s from the countryside so he doesn’t have / know manners] etc.)
(after: _____ ? ?? )
( also [Digimon spoilers below]:
the canon pairing at the end of 02 [Sorato; Yamato x Sora] also becomes canon through honorifics changing and progression all throughout the first and second series. It was a real surprise to most of the Western / American fanbase at the time because literally all of this gets lost in translation [and very bad, fully Americanized dubs]. )
People there to this day still tend to be confused by it because of things consistently lost in translation and their lack of initial interactions otherwise.
[ there are multiple honorifics issues within Kagepro in general too. ]
[ literally there’s a reason why they’re used as plot points multiple times ]
( ..... don’t say I didn’t warn you. )
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