To elaborate on this series of panels, I think it highlights one of the deeper themes of the series: looking at boundary between complete freedom of expression and mutual intelligibility.
Shimeji Simulation has a recurring motif of the Old Testament contrasted against This Spake Zarathustra - literally contrasting the ideas of religious social conformity with cultural continuity stretching back millenia vs. a modernist work of philosophy arguing that religious ideas stifle self-actualization and that personal growth depends on the will to seize the opportunities allowing it.
By contrasting these ideas, the story explores the pursuit of self-actualization against our innate needs to have others understand and love us. It takes this problem to it's logical extreme by asking if when humans gain the ability to conceptualize themselves as something completely independent from the human form, is it truly freeing ourselves, or putting up a barrier to others?
Or, to give a more practical example - when we develop an identity label for ourselves, are we giving others a tool for others to recognize and understand us, or are we hypercategorizing ourselves within an experience no one can understand or relate to?
To sketch out a few related thoughts:
The contrasting philosophies deeply shape the worlds at the start and end of the story: it starts in a world that feels stagnant, and ends in a world disintegrating into chaos. Before Shijima's sister initiates the world change, life is strange around the edges and people are discouraged from exploring or attempting to understand it. The wand girl literally hand-waves irregularities away. Afterwards, the world blossoms with creativity until people start wandering further and further way from shared ideas. Eventually, it comes to be dominated by eternal recurrence - never ending cycles of order and chaos. People slowly disappearing as their ideas of self are either subsumed into one another or become so incomprehensible so as to be unobservable. The only way in which stability can be maintained is for individuals to live a lonely existence within their own bubbles in an infinite feedback of their own imaginations.
Shijima and Majime are paired opposites who embody mixed aspects of the religious conformity and nihilism, respectively.
Shijima starts the story as a shut-in. Her character is fundamentally afraid of change, to the point of shutting everyone else out, which could be interpreted as embracing consistency over change. Her first lines in the manga, "Plenty of things happened when I was in my first year of middle school. Things that made me hate it. Ever since then, I shut myself inside my closet for two years. Inside it, there was nothing...it was a world comprised of nothing but myself". Given the story's arc of Shijima reintegrating into society before events banish everyone to their own little worlds, she represents the idea of eternal recurrence. Her telepathic mushrooms represent the composting of other ideas, breaking down and absorbing new ideas - representing the Nietzchean conception of evolution she was exposed to in the penultimate chapter. (As an aside to an aside to an aside, this differs from Darwinian natural selection. It's based on an alternative model by Wilhelm Roux which was influential for a short time in the 1880s, arguing that the competition for resources forces organisms to will their forms into being. This model significantly influenced Nietzsche's ideas about will to power.)
Majime basically wills Shijima into being her friend at the beginning, and most of her character arc is excitedly embracing new ideas and allowing change to shape who she is as a person, which are sort of Nietzchean ideas of self-actualization. Her first line is "Hey, what are you reading?", showing her willingness to be exposed to new ideas. Her fried egg symbolizes consumption of the new. However, she is from a Christian family, seems to be Christian herself. In contrast to Shijima, she never really changes as a character through the story, remaining the same happy-go-lucky person from beginning to end.
Finally, there's the thing about "fish without names" and "fried eggs with names". From the chapter where Majime imitates the creation of the world from Genesis, these are strongly implied to be souls. Fish are associated with Shijima's character, and the idea that "fish without names" suggests a parallel with Nietzche - within a conformist mass, people are not individually distinguished until they will their own self-actualization into being. Fried eggs are associated with Majime's character, so the idea that "fried eggs with names" represents the idea that people are individually recognized by divine fiat.
I think the beauty of Shimeji Simulation is that it recognizes these two philosophies as embodying the extremes of human existence. It does not say one is right or one is wrong, but that we all embody varying aspects of these extremes. Within this parameter space, we find other philosophies that represent a fulfilling middle ground between simply accepting the world as it is, or forcing it to change at our whim and forcing others to accept it. It's a philosophically dense work, disguised as a psychedelic, surreal gag manga.
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