Ah... Heureka? Ah, I think I understand it now, perhaps. The graphic did irritate me. Yuki didnt start a new branch line at point 3a. She 'only' did change the memories for 365 days and the background data for on day. And as she changed it back. She didnt do it right away but three days later, where she changed the background data back and the memories for 3 days. - Hmm, no that cant it be. Since Yuki did the change in the morning of the 18th and the backchange ended with the stairfall in the 18th afternoon, since the backchangers did already arrive with the ambulance. Damn the gap is back. There exists still a different universe three days after the change. So Kyon is still a slider - for three days (he did live in another universe/dimension).
There is no alternate universe, the universe Kyon lives in was just altered. There's no actual gap, other people have confirmed this.
No, there is a gap and an alternate universe. Its irrelevant if they have confirmed it, since Yuki did change or would have changed their memories.
To get the recreation pistol Kyon would have had to go back to the past tanabata after he came out of the coma, because he would still have to change Yuki back - that would be a proper loop. But there is no word that he did. (So [the/an] other earlier Kyon would have to do it, since this Kyon already did it.) - The recreation pistol was still there as he came back to seal his timeline.
AuraTwilight wrote:Fujiwara isn't an Esper, and even still, those same time travellers acknowledge that they're in a loop; nor did Kyon and Mikuru change time. They went back and then froze themselves, and Kyon concludes that he and Mikuru were in Yuki's house when he visited her before, meaning Kyon and Mikuru were just continuing a time loop. There is not actual instance of the timeline ever being changed without Haruhi's powers being responsible.
I didnt say Fujiwara is one, or at least I didnt intend to do so, but he did use the other espers as agents for his attempt to change the time. (His agenda is to create a future without timetraveler (or at least with the timetraveler Asahina).) What Asahina (big) could prevent with the help of Asahina (small) and Kyon.
The timetreaveller do know changes could/can happen , but when they come back to their future and experience that this future is different from the future they did [have known] remember, then they go back to create the future they [did have known [hmm or know
hmm -] remember. [hmpf, couldnt decide which sentence would have been better]. Asahina (big) said something like that herself. Because of that the events are predestined, but only for Asahinas future, without her they wouldnt be. - As far as I know are their timetraveldevices integrated in themself. (So that they do not have to go back to the time they started from, but as long as they live the will do everything what is possible that their future will come true/ stays predetermined for them or more her.
Please don't mind my bad english since I'm german.
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