Pspsppspspspsp…,. Any weird facts on how sekai works? Specifically wondershow if you can, but from what I know is that in general sekai will kick you out forcibly if your phone dies, school sekai has no daylight cycle, wondershow has a Victorian ages style library, empty sekai is so big you can get lost in it, and street sekai has a city
Okay I'm going 100% Wonderland SEKAI on this because I can and I have some stuff scheduled already about general SEKAI lore. And because holy shit Wonderland SEKAI is interesting.
Without further ado, 8 facts about Wonderland SEKAI...
Under the cut due to length
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Wonderland SEKAI fact #1: KAITO might have been stabbed.
This is all the same magic show, just three different references to it (and a minor inconsistency that Tsukasa gets told about it twice). These are from an area conversation, Miku's Wonderland SEKAI 2* story 1, and KAITO's Wonderland SEKAI 2* story 1. Either KAITO really is that flexible or Virtual Singers cannot die. This probably applies to all SEKAI not just Wonderland but I just wanted everyone to know about KAITO getting stabbed.
Wonderland SEKAI fact #2: Miku seems to be younger than the members of WonderlandsxShowtime.
In an area conversation, KAITO says he thinks Emu would be the oldest if she and Miku were sisters. However, in this conversation he seems to be mainly referring to personality, so there is a possibility that Miku is still her standard age of 16 and just acts younger than she is. That said, the ages of Virtual Singers do vary through other SEKAI (particularly School), which adds a bit more evidence for this fact.
Wonderland SEKAI fact #3: Plants are sentient.
They're alive. They talk. They sing. They have conscious thought. Alice in Wonderland type shit. (Sources: KAITO's Troupe Positions Open 3* card stories, @/pjsekai_eng's translation of 4koma #72)
Wonderland SEKAI fact #4: Wonderland SEKAI is the only SEKAI with distinguishable inhabitants (not counting Virtual Singers)
While the Stage SEKAI has audiences that come and go, we don't know much about them and they don't seem to have any defined personalities or characteristics (it may be an instance of leaning on the 4th wall). Wonderland SEKAI is inhabited by plushies and puppets, all of which have their own individual personalities and free will. KAITO believes that these may be plushies that Tsukasa played with and performed shows with as a kid. You'll see this again in a bit.
Wonderland SEKAI fact #5: Since everything in the SEKAI is pulled from Tsukasa’s psyche, not all the plushies are based on shows he wrote as a kid
For example, Usa-chan. She seems to be based on a younger version of Saki, where she was more sensitive and would need cheering up a lot. Obviously connecting to Tsukasa's main drive being making people (specifically Saki) smile.
One more notable example is the cat and dog plushie from Full Power! Wonder Halloween!. The dog plushie is very obviously meant to be Tsukasa (it even has a star on it), and the cat is Rui (and it has cameoed in his cards a few times). In the event story, Tsukasa and Rui had an argument due to Rui holding himself back after a stunt gone wrong, and the cat and dog plushie have a very similar conflict, albeit the cat plushie representing Rui is much more aware of it's feelings.
KAITO's A Chat With The Lost 4* card story shows him making a different (although possibly the same, the story contradicts itself) pair of dog and cat plushies resolve a conflict and open up to each other. Yet again, the plushies very obviously represent Tsukasa and Rui.
TLDR: Tsukasa's feelings and experiences work their way into the SEKAI in real time through the form of plushies.
Wonderland SEKAI fact #6: Oh yeah literally everything in the SEKAI reflects some aspect of Tsukasa.
I find it interesting how KAITO tells Rui that he should go and talk to Tsukasa about it but then to Emu and Nene he gives a more confident answer. It's a nice little detail that ties into Rui's character (read: he didn't have a lot of friends at this point).
Linking this back to the previous fact, it does seem like the other members of WxS do have some influence in the SEKAI, specifically over their plushie equivalents (since the cat plushie has the exact same internal conflict as Rui that Tsukasa had zero knowledge about at the time). The power of friendship I guess.
Wonderland SEKAI fact #7: Wonderland SEKAI manifests as a response to Saki asking Tsukasa why he wants to be a star.
But that doesn't sound quite right, does it? It's stated constantly that SEKAI are created by strong feelings, and this is true in all other stories (Ichika thinking about how she had drifted apart from her friends, Minori reminding herself to never give up and keep aiming to be an idol, An's declaring her dream while Kohane wished she had one, Mafuyu's depression and longing to find herself). So it really sticks out that Tsukasa's SEKAI is formed by this:
Sorry about the wiki screenshots
There's not really any strong feelings here... In all other instances, the SEKAI are formed by a concious desire for something, and yeah okay, Tsukasa seems to want to remember why he wants to be a star, but at the same time it doesn't seem hugely important to him (not pictured but he drops the train of thought just after this) and the SEKAI isn't born from that anyway. The SEKAI is born from the feelings that he was trying to remember, which implies that the SEKAI was formed by his subconscious.
Further supported by Miku immediately picking out the correct reason for him wanting to be a star in chapter 3 of WxS' main story.
And in the Opening chapter of the same story where KAITO explicitly mentions that the SEKAI is nostalgic to Tsukasa, suggesting that he knows exactly what Tsukasa has forgotten. Tsukasa himself had noticed that it seemed nostalgic, although he denies it when KAITO brings it up.
Oh and then he somehow manages to remember everything by the end of the story and like I'm not a psych student but that doesn't seem right? Honestly from what I do know about psychology the situation sounds like a repressed memory but it doesn't sound 100% accurate either? I dunno, maybe it's just fantastical psychology coming into play (it probably is).
Regardless of all of that, it implies that you can somehow form a SEKAI through subconscious/repressed feelings which is really interesting actually.
Anyway they're probably never going to elaborate on any of that in the game because...
Wonderland SEKAI fact #8: the game goes out of its way to not tell you Wonderland SEKAI lore, and if it does tell you, it's usually not clear
For example, this area conversation. KAITO doesn't tell them directly and we never find out if they learnt the answer.
Or this area conversation (very abridged) where KAITO doesn't even know the answer.
Or the fact that Rui still hasn't had that talk with Tsukasa that he said he would have in KAITO's 2* card. Or that KAITO isn't 100% certain about the things he says about SEKAI. How do more plants grow in Spring? Does the Wonderland SEKAI have a plant lifecycle or do they just never die? How is Miku seemingly derived from Emu despite having existed before Tsukasa had ever encountered Emu? (I know Kohane and An hadn't met either but Kohane was at least watching An's performance. Miku actually mentions "others" in the Main Story Opening which means there's some more weird fate shit going on. The power of friendship I guess.)
The other SEKAI have their quirks explained (for the most part) but everything in Wonderland SEKAI kinda just exists and is never really explained beyond "it's something from Tsukasa's psyche". I mean there's stuff from other SEKAI that isn't explained but it just seems like there's a bit more here.
I mean you can infer a fair amount of stuff just from Tsukasa as a character but I want the game to talk about it to make my life easier I have a fact account to run I need evidence. Tsukasa please be less emotionally constipated, sincerely, mod.
If you made it this far I'm sorry.
Love is stored in the WxS KAITO <3
Bonus Wonderland SEKAI Fact #9: this is a mistranslation and KAITO should be calling Tsukasa the top star-to-be and not himself. Poor TLs aside KAITO does seem to be like, Tsukasa's "ideal self" for lack of a better description. Also Len takes traits from Rui while being a foil to him, MEIKO takes some traits from Emu, Rin is a foil to Nene, Miku seems to be a mirror character to Emu but don't ask how that works and Luka is derived from ???
Bungou Stray Dogs proves once again that having allies and relationships with people you can trust is what gives you the upper hand.
Dazai didn’t even know if things would play out exactly in his favor but he took that chance because he knew Ranpo would do what was right. And if Dazai was like Fyodor, playing only by himself, he wouldn’t have stood as much of a chance against him. Ranpo and Chuuya were integral to him winning.
Also, Fyodor telling Dazai he didn’t know how to use Chuuya. And Dazai proving that don’t have to use people in general. You have to work with them.
mostly bc i really wanted to cry in peace (i first watched it in public and had to hold back my tears lol) but also bc i wanted to see if there was anything we missed. i also threw in some random theories (idk if i believe in any of them though lmao)
everything seemed really convenient because everything ended up going according to what fukuchi wrote in the book
dazai said so himself: he didn't plan SHIT—he just put his full trust in the ada and he got lucky
after waking up atsushi, ranpo just straight up passed out. did he get physically injured earlier on? i forgot. if not, then i think ranpo knows something...
if fukuchi and fukuzawa are the same age, then fukuchi has been planning all of this since he was NINE years old
fukuchi's goal was to stop a world war, but why didn't he do anything about the great war?
well to put things into perspective: the war he wanted to stop had a death toll of 210 million. irl, ww2 (which seems to be the inspiration for bsd's great war) had a death toll of 53 million
fukuchi had a condition for his plan: no more than 500 lives would be sacrificed for his plan. what if one more person accidentally got added to the list of sacrificed lives? would that ruin everything? would that explain everything that happened in the "2 hours later" bit?
and what if that accidental additional sacrifice was sigma?
when fukuzawa prepared to execute fukuchi, fukuchi's background was blue but fukuzawa's was red (!!!)
young fukuzawa's wish was to protect those close to him. you could say his ability is his wish come true, but you could also say fukuchi's death negated that wish
HEAR ME OUT....... potential fukuzawa corruption arc (which could also explain the weird "2 hours later" bit)
on a lighter note: chuuya called fyodor an "anemic jackass"
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