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[[WMG:Ritsuko and Reika are the same person.]]

[[WMG: Amame Ritsuko and Kagami will all suffer ChuckCunninghamSyndrome]]
I feel like it’s bound to happen. Especially in the case of Kagami since his English VA passed away (like Mayumi)
** Averted big time with Amame, who becomes a major character in Nirvana Initiative, to the point of [[spoiler: being the game's final Somnium, with the most Mental Locks of any character across both games.]]
** Kagami could also just be recast
*** This is indeed what ended up happening, with a honorable mention in Kagami's profile honoring his previous voice actor.

[[WMG:The sequel will involve an EvilKnockoff of Aiba]]
Because that'd be a logical escalation, and will lead to new action scenes as Aiba and her counterpart [[DuelingHackers try to outwit each other]]. My guess is that in a flip of Saito, Mizuki's nemesis is someone she knows from the start, but is unable to stop because his AI can hack Aiba and threaten to blow her and Mizuki up - the case is discovering his motives and how he got his hands on an AI.

[[WMG: The sequel will explain how Mizuki lost her eye, either as a part of a flashback and/or TheReveal.]]
It could be related to the main case, or it was intentionally removed so that Mizuki could use Aiba.

[[WMG: Where the other main characters could be by the time of ''nirvanA Initiative''.]]
Supposing that it’s been at least 12 years since the first game, so that Mizuki would be old enough to join ABIS. This also assumes that the sequel will follow the Resolution route from the original game.

* Date: He’d have settled down with Hitomi and helped to raise Mizuki, while also continuing to work at ABIS. He has either retired or is working on another case by the time the game starts, if he’s going to absent from the sequel.
* Hitomi: Settled down with Date, and was a loving mother to Mizuki. In the present day, she would give Mizuki some advice and there could be sweet moments between the two.
* Boss: Likely still working at ABIS, though now she’s Mizuki’s boss.
* Pewter: May or may not have been released after serving time for his involvement in the second Cyclops Killer case. If he has, then he’s back at ABIS, this time helping Mizuki with the Half Body serial murder case.
* Mayumi: She may have passed away by the start of the game, as she was already suffering from dementia.
* Ota: He’s either a successful author or taken over and reopened Matsushita Diner to honor his parents and all they’ve done for him. May or may not have married Iris.
* Iris: She’s retired from her idol career, and has likely gotten a different job. Depending on if she married Ota or not, she could be helping him run the diner. She and Mizuki would share a closer bond due to them now being adoptive sisters.
* Moma: Still the head of the Kumakura clan, thought it’s not quite certain that Mizuki will go to them for help.
* So: With his political career behind him, he might be spending whatever time he has left in relative peace, supposing he’s still alive by then.

[[WMG: The sequel will take place after the Mizuki ending]]
On the cover of the box, we can see what looks to be Saito's original body, but no sight of Date's body. Since Saito's body was destroyed after the events of the Resolution Route, this probably means Date's still in Saito's body. And since this game is going to have a lot of focus on Mizuki, it might take place after her route. However due to alternate universes converging on one another, characters like Iris and Saito, despite being dead in this timeline, will still appear somehow.
* Jossed; ''nirvanA Initiative'' is after the GoldenEnding.

[[WMG: The motif of nirvanA Initiative will be the Right Brain-Left Brain divide]]
The game's story is going to focus on a series of serial killings where the victim's body is left cut in half. Additionally, the game's box and logo has kind of a "two halves" theme going on, with the logo and the stuff in the background being different colors on both sides. Also, we see what looks like two Aibas on both sides. Since Uchikoshi likes tackling pseudoscientific topics in his games, it's possible he's going with the right brain/left brain divide, and this will somehow play into the psync minigames.
* Pretty on point it turns out, except for the two-Aibas theory and the minigames being half-themed.

[[WMG: nirvanA Initiative takes place after the the GoldenEnding]]
While the latest trailer and the released box art do suggest that it takes place after one of the many alternative endings where Date doesn't get his original body back and remains in Saito's, this could simply be a case of [[NeverTrustATrailer the trailer doing this to cover up the big twist of the first game.]] This can be further corroborated by the fact that, while we do see Date in the trailer, he doesn't say a word in it, likely to cover up how Date's (or more accurately, Saito's) voice actor isn't making a re-appearance.
* Semi-Confirmed. The game does take place after the GoldenEnding and it does feature an option that prevents spoilers for the previous game. However, the actual reason Date looks like Saito is that he decided to wear a mask resembling his face for the sake of undercover work [[ChivalrousPervert and because it's more popular with the ladies]].

[[WMG: nirvanA Initiative will reveal that the Ai games and the ''Zero Escape'' games are in the same canon]]
Multiple timelines are a major part of the "Zero Escape" franchise, with each installment having them be a major plotpoint that allows the protagonists to remember things from one timeline to be used in another one. Ai:Somnium Files has this as a plotpoint too that allows Date to know things that he learned from a different timeline. But unlike the ZE games, it never goes into detail how he is able to remember those things and he is completely baffled by it. Now, in the trailer for nirvanA Initiative, a model that can clearly be seen as the spacesuits from ''VirtualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' appears for a brief moment. On one hand, it could just be reused assets/a fun reference to VLR, but on the other hand it could be a hint leading to a reveal that they both are the same continuity.

The game's story is going to focus on a series of serial killings where the victim's body is left cut in half. Additionally, the game's box and logo has kind of a "two halves" theme going on, with the logo and the stuff in the background being different colors on both sides. Also, we see what looks like two Aibas on both sides. Since Uchikoshi likes tackling pseudoscientific topics in his games, it's possible he's going with the right brain/left brain divide, and this will somehow play into the psynch minigames.

I feel like it’s bound to happen. Especially in the case of Kagami sense his English VA passes away (like Mayumi)