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What's up with the free-roaming androids? They don't shut down after reaching the mainframe like the Kaiju, but are single-mindedly aggressive toward humans. Ida was making use of them to make false bodies but it doesn't make sense for there to be so many unoccupied bloodthirsty androids roaming the land with no purpose.
Gouto mentions that when they tried to make the sentinels fully automated, they gradually started acting like Deimos (hence why he had to supervise Sentinels 1 through 11 in the battle of 2065). Presumably this applies to the androids as well — leave them alone for too long without someone controlling them directly, and they turn hostile.
So they say that the ship contains the genetic information of many flora and fauna, as well as humanity (Not unlike the Andromeda Initiative from Mass Effect Andromeda funnily enough.), but given we only see Japanese characters does that include any genetic information from Humanity outside Japan, or is it only the DNA of people from Japan (And all the Implications THAT raises.). Also, are there any intentions to use said Genetic Information to attempt to make a race of enhanced humans (And, again, all the implications THAT raises.)?
Shikishima was a Japanese corporation, and all of the survivors on the colony were of Japanese ethnicity, so it would stand to reason that there would be a bias towards Japan. Besides, we don't know what the ethnicities of the remaining donors for the project, so aside from the fifteen, the rest may be anything.
Is the "world" completely virtual, or is it physical to some extent? The strictly limited size of each sector (abruptly ending at the 15km radius and exiting into space at a 2km altitude) and the presence of the mainframe buried underneath wouldn't make much sense if the world is purely virtual, but there also doesn't seem to be any reason to use a physical space, especially since the 15 don't use their physical bodies within the simulation.
It's totally virtual. The limited size is because the previous Okino was noted to cut corners in his programming, and based a huge amount of the simulation on the old Deimos game code. The game itself only featured the city, so the world only features the city as well.
Given that the 13 protagonists are simply clones inside of growth pods, which are apparently spartan enough that they don't even provide clothes, a lot about their appearance makes no sense. How exactly did Tomi, Gouto, and Megumi get glasses? Who is cutting/styling their hair, especially given the rather intensive hairstyles for characters like Tomi's braided twintails or Nenji's pompadour? How did Iori get a decorative flower in there? And how did Miura get a prominent scar if he's never been out of the pod?
If you are talking about the shots we see of them in their cockpits during the kaiju fights, those are still in the virtual world. We don't see any physical bodies until the ending and Megumi doesn't have glasses then.
Since Iori Fuyusaka is a clone of Chihiro Morimura and Tsukasa Okino is the latter’s biological son, wouldn’t that make the two of them siblings?
Cloning makes this more complicated but presuming Iori's DNA wasn't altered from Chihiro's at all that would make her more a genetic twin than a daughter biologically. Which, again biologically, would put her closer to being Okino's aunt.
If Megumi is the only one capable of seeing Fluffy, then how come Sekigahara can see him at Kurabe's house?
Because Juro has already been established to see Kyuta, who is also Fluffy. It's an early clue.
If I recall correctly, Fluffy can appear to anyone with the Nanomachines in their system. It is just easier when Juro is nearby, and Megumi is always near Juro.
At first it seems that the Tamao Kurabe in 1985 is simply the Tamao from one loop ago as evidenced by the fact that it was that Tamao that allowed Megumi to live with Juro. However, the files reveal that this is not the case and that the Tamao from Sector 4 is a completely different character from the Tamao of one loop ago and in fact the Tamao of Sector 4 was deleted upon the Tamao of one loop ago arriving in Sector 4. This of course begs the question: who the hell is the Tamao of Sector 4? The fact that Universal Control is able to delete her seems to imply she's and AI but why the hell is there an AI counterpart of one of the compatible running around when it doesn't seem to be a version from a previous loop? Hell does this mean that there are other older AI versions of other compatible? Is there an AI version of Hijiyama and Miura in Sector 4? Are there AI versions of Ogata, Minami and Takamiya in Sector 3? The fact that there is a Tamao in 1985 seprate from the Tamao of one loop ago raises so many questions.
(this was very hard to parse) In the loop we play through there are two Tamao Kurabes. The AI version from a few loops back and the one current iteration. The AI version has a body resembling her real one that she walks around in, always wearing the modern school unform. The Tamao that disappeared in the 1940s wasn't deleted but pulled into Universal Control for safe keeping. Any in consistencies from that probably arise from the nonlinear storytelling and the fact that 426 took AI Tamao's body for a while and was technically a seperate entity.
My Bad, my question was not regarding either the Tamao from one loop ago or the Tamao from the 1940s but Juro's grandma. My question was: why does she exist? There shouldn't be a Tamao Kurabe in the 1980s even discounting the AI version from one loop ago yet apparently there is?
This is more difficult to answer with any real certainty. Natsuno claims to know a Tamao Kurabe that lives in that house, but there’s no mention on how long she’s known Juro. This could be written off as memory manipulation, but the house is also rather lived in. After examining the game scenes again the most likely options are A. There is an NPC version of Grandmother Tamao but she is, in fact, just out of town but not related to the 1940s Tamao aside from her name. Or B. There was never a Grandmother Tamao and the person Juro talks about is just a byproduct of the fake memories given to him.
This game is so confusing with all the alternate versions but there are 3 Tamaos. The Tamao in Sector 5 (1944) is the "true" Tamao of the current loop and the one who is compatible, she dies in the simulation and Universal Control pulls her out to preserve the life of her real life body. Then there is the older grandma Tamao of Sector 4 (1984) who is an AI a general NPC controlled by Universal Control just like everyone else in the city and deleted when Tamao from 1 loop ago shifted to Sector 4 (honestly a really weird plot point), Universal Control then altered everyone's memories to think she was out of town visiting family. Lastly we have the Tamao of 1 loop ago whose data was stored in Sector 0 and partially recreated in the current loop by Ida who brings her back as an android and Sentinel AI. Yes, this does imply there are older AI versions of all the compatible, but that's all we know we never see them. This also implies that if the compatible shifted around before the kaiju invasions they may have inadvertently deleted those alternate older AI versions.
How does simulated environment of a world war work in the long term? Is there an area that is constantly at war? Are there simulated American planes? Or are Hijiyama and Miura constantly preparing?
Each of the Sectors simulates 20 years of actual history with Sector 5 being the time 1929 to 1949. So real time and events were happening for each of the years, Hijiyama and Miura lived through pre-war Japan as well as the beginning of the Pacific War. If 2188 Shinonome hadn't sabotaged the Project Arc, Miura and Hijiyama presumably were intended to live through the end of WWII and Japan's surrender.
