#also just looked up natsumi (cause she sounded kind of like natsume?) and....

[always-a-joyful-note]

"anzu haunts the narrative/has a shadow in engirls" have you heard about how engirls canonically exists within a timeloop (I think to justify the soft-reboot in-game) caused by the regrets and griefs of the students occupying the academy. And since a lot of the most trouble characters were the ones involved in Paradise, many people safely say that anzu is a major reason for the timeloop since regret towards malice or inaction causing her to leave is a major grief of the cast. And that the timeloop was only able to end by letting all the characters connect and reconnect, and letting their scares heal. Also the timeloop also ends bc Tenn gets a girlfriend (their childhood friend Natsumi who likes him and adores Anzu), that too lol.

maybe it's the power of hindsight or short-sightedness but people don't understand how much anzu there is in engirls. She might not be a student but she's mentioned a lot, the kimisaki word search lists 25+ pages of several anzu namedrops if you combine anzu and angie (her nickname before)

You all, this game is deranged.....

I can't NOT believe in the time loop theory because there is a guy with sentient hair and small implications that magic isn't as unreal as you think it is, even if people laugh it all off.

I remember seeing an enstars tarots post once when i was browsing the tags and calling Anzu "the world". And I know nothing about tarots but just from vibes, yeah...she kind of is the world.

But the timeloop ending when both protagonists have been healed or have found a way to move past their past!!!! I love that so much!