@Darkkenshii You are largely correct, but I want to offer one adjustment.
Subaru IS powerful. He cannot die & he carries a Pride authority which grants nearly unmatched strength. (I could spend pages backing this up).
Yet, this solves none of his problems.
Only his mindset & approach does.
@JosephPossum@Byuuukk I'll give you that one /seems/ platonic. Yet Echidna shows tongue-kissing as a form of mana-drain near contract time.
Plus every loli is sexualized: Petra is thirsty, Meili raised by seductress, Lilliana's a FREAK, Typhon's sheer skirt, BDSM Daphne, etc.
Hints are everywhere.
@JosephPossum@Byuuukk The protagonist is called the lolimancer, it is his actual nickname throughout the land, and he gets into a lifetime contract with a perma-loli requiring daily physical touch or they both die.. Be for real.
@fubukitweets Emilia willing to fight for it, but she doesn't dig at Subaru over his feelings. (The way the anime framed this is evil.)
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@AndrewDaArtist1@vomitkitties That is incorrect. Pedophilia diagnosis requires persistent feelings about a real, actual child.
Loli is a broad umbrella, and the drawing of such does not involve kids, literally it involves adults & cats. Taboo FSM is not indiciative of taboo behavior, as many studies confirm.
@AndrewDaArtist1@vomitkitties Using abuse materiel terminology for fiction, drastically inflates reportable content to the point it starves real, living victims of police resources they desperately need.
It helps exactly zero people & also criminalizes useful C/SA therapy strategies. Taboo fiction is fine.
@RezVance@leangarnero@4lyfeklover@vomitkitties Do you think rape fiction is okay?
Hint: All fiction, so long as it is fiction, is okay. Exploring not okay things in fiction is exactly what fiction is for.
Abuse terminology is about identifying victims, abusers, and materiel referencing an incident of abuse or exploitation.
@Not_Reflection Unironically, she would have exacerbated the issues 10x-100x.
The full-committment love & support from Emilia/Beako is already something his mind cannot square against the image he holds of himself.
Subaru's gone from living in his Dad's shadow, to living in his own.. in hours.
@fubukitweets <non-anime>
In the WN & LN both she extracts promises from him to make her his 2nd wife. The anime does not cut this romance out entirely, but it does heavily push it down into implication territory instead of outright stated.
@fubukitweets That is the Subaru she was trying to bring back, it's why she rejected the happy life he offered to start with.
That said, the way the anime delivers his response is diabolical. Cutting several later dialogues that directly reference his romantic feelings for Rem.. is just mean.
@ptilopsis123@Muzan_Tamago Forbidden Romance & Time loop stories, by formula require a bittersweet ending. Tappei has always said he intends to write a happy ending.
The torture blender on the way is payment up front.
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Parent situation is tragic but meta info.
Only permaloss is Priscilla, right?
@Blue__Storm11 I think Rem staying without memories is very low odds, though not completely impossible to resolve.
I think Rem waking up w/o memories originally was very necessary, for both her & Subaru.
@Blue__Storm11 It's not about want, from me at least. Creating intimacy from shared hardship is as easy as Arc2.
Authorial payoff is what matters, wasting that foundation & leaving Ram never remembering her sister doesn't work. Endgame needs kill/merge Satella, or create third option w/allies.
@Blue__Storm11 It seems unlikely he'll avoid that entirely. It's served as a primary character motivator & persistent authorial tease for too much of the story.
It could be done in epilogue w/Spica, but enough major problems are in play for Final Arc he might choose to resolve everyone first.
@FredyEs20834716@sabi_list That seems to be the indicator from Betelgeuse's lines when taking in SlothWF.
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Pandora serves as a corrupting influence, so the original 'plan' may no longer be on track.
Al & Hoshin seem to both be isekai red-herrings.
Subaru / Flugel may be the ONLY outworlder(s).
@Blue__Storm11 There are a few different ways to handle it structurally, that mostly depend on if/where Tappei wants to create a heavy schism between Subaru & Emilia in the run up to the final arc/loop.
Basic BP is same as Arc6: regrow trust in force shifted roles (in process), restore, profit
@Hashbrownthe3th@Lust_If_Peak It relates to how authorities work mechanistically, and Gluttony in specific. I don't want to say any more since a lot of people will be learning more in the current season.
I will mention that several of the lines from Emilia's Trial of Tragic Futures also come from IF routes.
@oTohsakaRin On a rewatch, they make it so obvious that I almost suspect bait and switch. Yet there's plenty of stuff Tappei only obliquely hints at or deliberately obfuscates.
I'm currently giving it 70-80% odds.