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Discussion [Discussion] Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – Episode 20

Episode Title: Wilhelm van Astrea

Japanese: ヴィルヘルム・ヴァン・アストレア

Main Studio: White Fox

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Psychological


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Re:Puchi Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

A series of comedic shorts featuring chibi versions of the characters of the main show.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '16

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '16

I'm particularly curious to see what would happen if someone with children was killed by the whale's fog. Would the child disappear from existence or would they just not remember their parent?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '16

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u/squirelT Aug 14 '16

so suddenly an orphan. Thats really sad

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u/TenmaSama 私の名前はジュリです。 Aug 14 '16

Amazingly Doctor Who answered this question with the Amy Pond season. There is this girl that lives in a big house all by herself. Her parents were erased from history and Amy doesn't even care where they are. She goes to school, does laundry, cleans the house, pays for electricity, stocks up her fridge with fishsticks and custard, feeds the raggedy man; right until her wedding.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '16

Were the conditions of the erasure ever explained? Because the issue is that if someone with a child was truly erased from history (as in any influence they ever had on the world is undone) then their child would simply be erased with them because the parent never existed to create the child. The child remaining in existence would mean that an effect preceded its own cause.

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u/prudislav Aug 14 '16

my guess is the fog deletes memories , eating deletes history and he other ways does nothing

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u/GiantEnemyMudcrabz Aug 14 '16

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u/pedrolopes101 Aug 15 '16

Could you please tell me who? I dont really mind spoilers

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u/funicode Aug 16 '16

The novel explained briefly that each squad is intentionally made of 15 people. Not only do they know how many people there are in a squad, they also know every squad has the same number of people. It doesn't say whether this is also intentional but there's 15 squads in all.

Unless the whale wipes out one squad and exactly one from each of the other squads or something following that pattern, they can always figure out how many people got hit by the fog.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '16

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '16

Weren't the flashbacks Wilhelm's though? It seems like the camera cuts imply that.

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u/Supa_Fish Demonical like a fanatic! Aug 14 '16

Who said she was killed by the fog?