10 Second Anime - Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi - Episode 12 [END]

Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi - Episode 12 [END]

The snow globe world shatters, and everyone makes it out, even one who wasn't supposed to, thanks to a wish by a special grave keeper. A nice happy end for the show's end.

Everything gets explained, just in time for the end of the series. As I noted for the previous episode, the name of the student in all the news clippings was Alis. He was the student that died, but I thought it was because he would do something to cause too great of a contradiction for the world to exist, and it would be how the magical world resolved itself. And perhaps Dee was trying to prevent that sacrifice as well. But the explanation was neater than that. He actually died 14 years ago, and it was his class' wish to include him in their happy eternal world.

The Alis from the snow globe world is part of the snow globe world. He was the fake, and the other students, and the people he brought in were the real ones. The reason that he had a real body in the outside world was because he was physically part of the membrane of that fake world. Dee, who was the only one to join him outside, was a ghost because her real body was still inside the snow globe world. But because part of the class' wish was to forget the tragedy of Alis' accident in falling out the window to save Dee, she figured that she was the one who died, but she did not remember it. If any of the other students had followed Alis to the outside world, that notion would not have been built.

Dee did a better thing than Alis did when he tried to break the world before, by making other witnesses to the reset. When Alis "killed" his classmates previously, the only one who saw them die without being reset was Dee, who already knew about the artificiality of their world. But by letting the class see one student get reset, the world started to collapse on itself. Perhaps, this is why Alis did not go that route. He did not want the world to break while the observers were still in it.

This is the one secret Alis kept from Dee: that he was not real. Which was why Ai was so mad at him at the end. He wanted to bring in an observer to gently break the fantasy world, but it would mean he would vanish as well. But how to break the world gently? The observers have to know it's fake, and then exit. All of them. It wasn't enough for just Dee to exit. All the original classmates had to, and it had to be done after all the other people that Alis brought in also left. The quick sequence of events from the class remembering that Alis had died to all of them leaving gave everyone enough time as more exits were created during the upheaval. Finally, Ai was the last observer, which was making the fake world smaller and smaller. When she exited, the world would vanish. But she was already a different kind of person who should not have existed in that world that God abandoned. Do the rules apply to her at all?

I was under the impression that everyone got one wish after God left, but how many wishes does a person get if she were born after the time that people couldn't have children anymore? How would it work? Whatever the case, she used her wish, and resurrected Alis, who had died 14 years ago, who had been properly buried by a grave keeper, so he wasn't an undead. We know it was a wish because she appeared very far away from Ostia at Alis' grave. Far enough away that baby Celica could use her special talent of locating grave keepers she knew, and threw her baby arm in a certain direction. Alis seemed a bit annoyed that Ai saved his life too, but Ai just smiled. And then the show ended.

Final Thoughts: This show based upon the light novels might or might not get more seasons. I can't tell. I do know that how the series ended was a little controversial with its fans, and may have been rushed, but I always say "so what, it's an adaptation." The background art, and its use of music was extremely emotionally evocative. The animation style of the characters may have seemed a little too cartoonish, considering how ultrarealistic the rest of the art design was, but I think that was a creative choice to evoke even more emotion. This was a fantasy story, and we the audience, were discovering it through the eyes of a special 12 year old girl who had never left her village before. Things are not supposed to make sense, until they do.

As a personal observation, by one who has no intention of reading the base material, I don't think this world that God abandoned has actually been abandoned. Why would wishes keep working, especially ones that had to incorporate new information, such as the snow globe world that kept getting filled out as more people entered it? What are the origins of the grave keepers? Did someone wish them into being to take care of the dead? If so, why do new and different ones keep coming? That might be the secret of this strange fantasy world: that God decided to actively answer prayers no matter how frivolous, or how contradictory they were to his original creation. Well, it's a nice thought, anyway. Maybe someday I'll become curious enough to find out.