So with Anji stealing the Zessen which powered the Japanese Colony's barrier, what does that mean for the colony? Is the barrier fully gone? And has anything significant entailed from that?
GGXtra isn't very specific about what Colony had the barrier, but according to Xrd, the largest Japanese Dimensional Colony is Miyabi.
Around the year 2187, "Former" Pope Ariels issued a decree that the Japanese could leave their colonies for the first time in many years, basically overturning any rules that said the Japanese survivors were quarantined.
Of course, we all know that was a "trap" to try and destroy Humanity.
But even so, it marked the end of the Quarantine, so that Japanese people could finally leave the colony without a sense of worry that they had any disease compared to the rest of the world (though that might not have changed other peoples' opinion of the Japanese people... it still is a step in a better direction).
At any rate, with regards to the Barrier:
1. By the time Ky Kiske went to investigate the Zessen's whereabouts, the Barrier had already been replaced by a substitute. The elderly monk running the temple that held the Zessen was already using an imitation of it.
2. That same monk was the one who permitted Anji to use the Zessen, even though the rest of the world deemed the OutRage Jinki to be stolen.
3. The reason we know that the Barrier was replaced was because Ky still had to use a talisman he obtained from Kliff Undersn in order to enter the currently existing barrier. If the barrier no longer existed, he would not have needed to use the talisman to enter the colony.
So in other words, there's still a Barrier over the Colony now, it's just an imitation of the one the Zessen originally generated.
Since the events of Revelator, there hasn't been any public statement on the current status of the Japanese people, though I'm sure in private chambers there is still the concern about Gear D.N.A. in connection with the Japanese people (i.e. Ki Overflow syndrome), but those who are in the know are slowly working on solving the issue.
Kum Haehyun (and possibly) Faust would be on the case to solve that issue if necessary. Even Chronus appears to be working on atoning for past events, so he might be involved as well.
Lastly, given Nagoriyuki's recent interactions with Baiken and Anji Mito, it appears that there hasn't been any issues having access to the Colony, though instead of Miyabi, their meeting place was the Lap of the Kami.













