Going to try and recall what I can remember a couple months ago. as Title implied this quick review will give you the rundown of the whole plot of the story, the implications and messages.
Disclaimer: I just played the english version which somehow is released before the Japanese version, it is only english on steam so I wasn't able to read the original. If there is any opperunity in correcting mistakes in my understanding of the story due to incorrect translation or even possible localization please do. please excuse the menu items, my screenshots are low quality.
So Let's get the plot twists out of the way. Shiona, Tipi, Maddo are all phirroids or these androids with emotions whos campanions have all past away in various ill fates due to the apocalypic wasteland brought out because of war, ideology, and population decline. Rei, is a human who woke up in a cryogenic pod thinking himself to be a robot with no emotions. He scoured the wastelands trying to find a human to be a companion to. He collapsed and woke up in the care of what seemed to be a nun called Shiona. Rei then proceeds to solve the problems of the main characters within the village Shiona lives in.
Shiona who always attempts to be happy, Tipi who is always sad, and Maddo who is always mad. This story is a exploration into what it means to be human, what emotions mean to humanity, and what is it like to lose ones soul without physical death (and how a soul lives beyond memory death). This isn't a christian novel to my knowledge, the scriptwriter is Kai and Tsuzuru, it explores themes that revolves around matters of the heart, post traumatic experiences, and hope appreciation and gratitude in a very cruel world.
Let's tackle the main overaching plot and a big spoiler to the whole story just to put everything in context to begin with. So these phirroids were developed in order to fufill the emotional connections that people would have in life. A Sister to a brother in Shiona's case, a Child to parents in Tipi's case, and a Father to a Son in Maddo's case. Shiona is a later model who knows what death means. It's kind of like plastic memories except without the memory problem defect. The main conflict in the novel is that because these phirroids serve the emotional connection of family members there was less people marrying and there is a surplus of these robots which in turn lead to genral population decline of humans. A group of humans realized this and decided the the only way to solve the percieved problem is to abandon all emotional attachment to people and instigate a global conflict to rid the world of these phirroids and those who support them which caused a nuclear war and a drastic population decline. I guess they didn't really think that through, but too bad, they are set in their ways and there's roaming bands of highwaymen beliveing in the ideology. The moral question is are they really human or because they abandon all emotional connection and feeling that they cease to be human to begin with?
Okay, so we got that out of the way. Clearly they are "based" or "redpilled" or some shit, because clearly violence and death is the answer to all the problems. Anyhow, Let's Get back to the relationship between Rei, Shiona, Tipi, and Maddo. The reason they are constantly in this emotional state is that thier programming shortcircuts when faced with a extreme traumatic episode and the emotion they felt during the episode cannot revert or else they experience death. I think the exception is Shiona. So Rei when he tries to reconcile the emotional damage that the people he meets in life hes inavertently leading him to their death. It's a nice death because their emotional problems are resolved and they are at peace with themselves but it's a death nonetheless.
With Maddo his problem was that he was alway mad, not sure exactly what, but he took out his anger on his son, his son left and now he became mad at himself. He is the first robot to die in the story when Rei solved his problem and showed him the video that his son made for him.
With Tipi it was because her parents left for some place dangerous, maybe it was to get her battery charged but I am not sure, whatever the reason was Tipi's childhood was robbed of her and she never saw her parents again.
With Shiona, she didn't have that problem but she was cursed/blessed with the knowledge of death and had to cope with the death of her brother. She developed memories of certain things her brother loved and preformed various rituals around honoring the death of loved ones and even strangers. This is why she is in such a attire living in a Church even though she was more like a traveling singer circus troop with her brother before his passing.
None of the other Phirroids other than Shiona could understand the concept of death so when Shiona held a funeral for the man that they picked up in the badlands Tipi couldn't understand. There's this heavy implications and portentous considerations when Rei decided to help the man bleeding out on the road. The highwaymen were preying on him to be picked up, but despite that I think the story portays the decision as the right one even though it was executed poorly and Rei was unkowingly tracked.
So what happened was that the group pillaged the town, murdered some of the phirrods that consume nutrient blocks, and enslave the others. Shiona, Tipi and Rei escaped back to the church but they encountered lone sentry and had to escape, there was some weird stuff going on with Shiona and the husk that was known to be human tthat wanted to kill them, Shiona was apparently veery against killing people even when they are devoid of what makes a person.
Around this part of the story is when I really symapthize with this trio and Rei's thoughts. To escape the cruel world and try and make a life for themselves. The general angst against human nature, unlimited bounds of stupidity and depravity and the general attitude of shielding oneselves off from the danger of human society as it is and persevering in spite of the odds. It's just like real life right now.
Quick rundown, Rei went back to the cryogenic facility and Tipi's battery is dying so they uplaoded all the memory she had of the library and things on a ttablet that has couple years storage life. They decided to give her her wish where she no longer feels sorrow and she passed away. Shiona was damaged from the grenade and the bullet so she passed away, Rei decided to put them in the cryogenic pods and travel somewhere, somewhere to attempt to fix this cursed world. Much the same way he tried finding human life that he found in a way.
Well, surprise Rei was the one who died, or at least we just never knew of his fate. However as you can see Shiona and Tipi lost their memory. I might be hamfisting some of my religious beliefs in but I think the way Shiona reacts to those objects and sounds without having any memory and recollection of it is evidence of a soul, that the soul retains vistiges of a memory long forgotten past. It's a little like Bhuddist reincarnation, and it's a little like Shinto in that these phirroids aren't functionally human but they possess the spirit of a human in contrast to the antagonists who's evidence of a soul had long left their undead remains. Well, this novel is pretty deep and I'm 14 or whatever (it's joke), the concepts explored in it is at the very least thought provoking and I encourage you to take a look at it yourself if you havn't (though you should have already done so, I spoiled it and the impact won't be the same as going in blind). I think I'm writing this for myself, even though I love to share my own thoughts and opinions on this (of which may or may not be a new perspective or the intended one) I don't think any of this would communicate across the indestructable boundries of human misunderstanding and malice, so it's best to serve to detach oneself of the other and truely love oneself and those you love.
Disclaimer: I just played the english version which somehow is released before the Japanese version, it is only english on steam so I wasn't able to read the original. If there is any opperunity in correcting mistakes in my understanding of the story due to incorrect translation or even possible localization please do. please excuse the menu items, my screenshots are low quality.
So Let's get the plot twists out of the way. Shiona, Tipi, Maddo are all phirroids or these androids with emotions whos campanions have all past away in various ill fates due to the apocalypic wasteland brought out because of war, ideology, and population decline. Rei, is a human who woke up in a cryogenic pod thinking himself to be a robot with no emotions. He scoured the wastelands trying to find a human to be a companion to. He collapsed and woke up in the care of what seemed to be a nun called Shiona. Rei then proceeds to solve the problems of the main characters within the village Shiona lives in.
Shiona who always attempts to be happy, Tipi who is always sad, and Maddo who is always mad. This story is a exploration into what it means to be human, what emotions mean to humanity, and what is it like to lose ones soul without physical death (and how a soul lives beyond memory death). This isn't a christian novel to my knowledge, the scriptwriter is Kai and Tsuzuru, it explores themes that revolves around matters of the heart, post traumatic experiences, and hope appreciation and gratitude in a very cruel world.
Let's tackle the main overaching plot and a big spoiler to the whole story just to put everything in context to begin with. So these phirroids were developed in order to fufill the emotional connections that people would have in life. A Sister to a brother in Shiona's case, a Child to parents in Tipi's case, and a Father to a Son in Maddo's case. Shiona is a later model who knows what death means. It's kind of like plastic memories except without the memory problem defect. The main conflict in the novel is that because these phirroids serve the emotional connection of family members there was less people marrying and there is a surplus of these robots which in turn lead to genral population decline of humans. A group of humans realized this and decided the the only way to solve the percieved problem is to abandon all emotional attachment to people and instigate a global conflict to rid the world of these phirroids and those who support them which caused a nuclear war and a drastic population decline. I guess they didn't really think that through, but too bad, they are set in their ways and there's roaming bands of highwaymen beliveing in the ideology. The moral question is are they really human or because they abandon all emotional connection and feeling that they cease to be human to begin with?
Okay, so we got that out of the way. Clearly they are "based" or "redpilled" or some shit, because clearly violence and death is the answer to all the problems. Anyhow, Let's Get back to the relationship between Rei, Shiona, Tipi, and Maddo. The reason they are constantly in this emotional state is that thier programming shortcircuts when faced with a extreme traumatic episode and the emotion they felt during the episode cannot revert or else they experience death. I think the exception is Shiona. So Rei when he tries to reconcile the emotional damage that the people he meets in life hes inavertently leading him to their death. It's a nice death because their emotional problems are resolved and they are at peace with themselves but it's a death nonetheless.
With Maddo his problem was that he was alway mad, not sure exactly what, but he took out his anger on his son, his son left and now he became mad at himself. He is the first robot to die in the story when Rei solved his problem and showed him the video that his son made for him.
With Tipi it was because her parents left for some place dangerous, maybe it was to get her battery charged but I am not sure, whatever the reason was Tipi's childhood was robbed of her and she never saw her parents again.
With Shiona, she didn't have that problem but she was cursed/blessed with the knowledge of death and had to cope with the death of her brother. She developed memories of certain things her brother loved and preformed various rituals around honoring the death of loved ones and even strangers. This is why she is in such a attire living in a Church even though she was more like a traveling singer circus troop with her brother before his passing.
None of the other Phirroids other than Shiona could understand the concept of death so when Shiona held a funeral for the man that they picked up in the badlands Tipi couldn't understand. There's this heavy implications and portentous considerations when Rei decided to help the man bleeding out on the road. The highwaymen were preying on him to be picked up, but despite that I think the story portays the decision as the right one even though it was executed poorly and Rei was unkowingly tracked.
So what happened was that the group pillaged the town, murdered some of the phirrods that consume nutrient blocks, and enslave the others. Shiona, Tipi and Rei escaped back to the church but they encountered lone sentry and had to escape, there was some weird stuff going on with Shiona and the husk that was known to be human tthat wanted to kill them, Shiona was apparently veery against killing people even when they are devoid of what makes a person.
Around this part of the story is when I really symapthize with this trio and Rei's thoughts. To escape the cruel world and try and make a life for themselves. The general angst against human nature, unlimited bounds of stupidity and depravity and the general attitude of shielding oneselves off from the danger of human society as it is and persevering in spite of the odds. It's just like real life right now.
Quick rundown, Rei went back to the cryogenic facility and Tipi's battery is dying so they uplaoded all the memory she had of the library and things on a ttablet that has couple years storage life. They decided to give her her wish where she no longer feels sorrow and she passed away. Shiona was damaged from the grenade and the bullet so she passed away, Rei decided to put them in the cryogenic pods and travel somewhere, somewhere to attempt to fix this cursed world. Much the same way he tried finding human life that he found in a way.
Well, surprise Rei was the one who died, or at least we just never knew of his fate. However as you can see Shiona and Tipi lost their memory. I might be hamfisting some of my religious beliefs in but I think the way Shiona reacts to those objects and sounds without having any memory and recollection of it is evidence of a soul, that the soul retains vistiges of a memory long forgotten past. It's a little like Bhuddist reincarnation, and it's a little like Shinto in that these phirroids aren't functionally human but they possess the spirit of a human in contrast to the antagonists who's evidence of a soul had long left their undead remains. Well, this novel is pretty deep and I'm 14 or whatever (it's joke), the concepts explored in it is at the very least thought provoking and I encourage you to take a look at it yourself if you havn't (though you should have already done so, I spoiled it and the impact won't be the same as going in blind). I think I'm writing this for myself, even though I love to share my own thoughts and opinions on this (of which may or may not be a new perspective or the intended one) I don't think any of this would communicate across the indestructable boundries of human misunderstanding and malice, so it's best to serve to detach oneself of the other and truely love oneself and those you love.
