I finally got around to rewatching the series and watching this movie for the first and I’m in love. Absolute 9.99/10 if the ending was a little more understandable but it was still tear inducing and just an amazing experience nonetheless.
I think it’s widely accepted that there are a number of parallel timelines with different outcomes. But my question goes back before that. While played off as a bit of a clichéd harem gag at the beginning, it becomes clear that Shoko does indeed love Sakuta. Futuba theorises that the existence of Adolescence Syndrome is due to the contradiction between young Shoko wanting to grow up and older Shoko not wanting to grow up. Assuming Futuba is correct, did older Shoko not want to grow up because she lived in a world where the man she loved dies? The one iffy thing I see in this explanation is the length of time it takes Shoko to feel this way.
Assuming this, I would then think that, even in a world where he lives and they each know each other (aka the one in which Mai dies), she is still not happy with the outcome because the man she loves falls into despair and accepts the fact that Sakuta will always love Mai. Hence, she helps him go to the past where Sakuta saves Mai but ultimately causes her own demise.
But even with Mai alive, Sakuta is never truly happy because he can’t save Shoko and, seeing that he still in this state of despair, she faces the fact that even being in his life would lead to person she loves not being happy. She takes inspiration from the fact that Sakuta is willing to go back in time and possibly forget all the wonderful people that he has met through his life just to save her and makes the difficult decision of going back in time to fix everything, which I’m sure was a difficult decision to make. This assumes that she knows she had this ability the whole time which I am believe she did because she resolved herself to go back and fix everything. The only thing stopping her from doing so was her reluctance of having the man she loved forget her.
She goes back, removes the only reason she would have to meet Sakuta in the first place by not worrying about her future, and, due to the dreams that everyone experiences as a result of her seeing into the future, things happen as did in the original anime but without Shoko being in the mix.
My apologies if I used the words like “past” and “future” too loosely. I hope you understand what I mean when I say them.
I understand that there might be a little bit of a different interpretation as to why Shoko does everything she does between people. But perhaps I’d like a little confirmation to ease my mind with regards to why Shoko does everything she does in this movie or to hear what you all thought about her reasons for doing everything.
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