CATDOLL: Japanese otakus are discussing the unscientific setting of the white whale in "Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World"!

"Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World" is about the protagonist Natsuki Subaru who travels to another world and gains the ability to "return after death" and makes a living with this ability. The plot subverts the previous setting of "the protagonist is invincible". So far, he can only start over after death by staying in his past memories and try to avoid repeating the same mistakes. However, the latest episode "How to defeat Moby Dick" has become a hot topic. Recently, Japanese otaku discussed the setting and logic of Moby Dick.

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By the way, the setting of the white whale is "if you disappear in its fog, your existence will be wiped out", right? But I always feel that this is a mistake made by the author. From Rem's experience before, we can see that as long as a person is swallowed by a white whale, his entire life will be wiped out. In this way, when counting the number of people in the latest episode, they should not find that our army is missing people, right?

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You didn't watch the plot carefully. From the setting, people know that white whales will wipe out existence. But they don't know who is being wiped out, so they can only count how many people are missing from their team to determine how many people have disappeared. This is exactly reasonable. As for how a white whale can eliminate all traces of human life... I don't know.

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You didn't read the author's explanation. Take the disappearance of Rem's existence as an example. The author said: "The things in Rem's room will not disappear. The reason why Natsuki Subaru found that they were gone when he went there was because Ram had picked them up. When Ram woke up in the morning, she looked at the room and wondered: 'Why is this room so unoccupied, but it seems like someone's room?'" So, what disappeared was only the person himself and people's memories of him, and the things he left behind would not disappear.

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I don't understand it. For example, I like to write a diary. If I disappear, will the diary become a blank page? Or will it remain there? If it remains there, my existence will always be discovered, right? So the author's setting is still very problematic, but anyway, the plot is interesting. It's boring to find bugs all day long.

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The reason why the author designed the white whale in this way was probably mainly to create a sense of shock that "everyone has forgotten Rem". Therefore, he did not consider the bug problem later. I suspect that when he wrote this plot, he was at a bottleneck, so he ignored many contradictions.

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I suddenly have a hypothesis now. Isn't it because of the power of the witch that Natsuki Subaru can die and reincarnate? This is just like the save file in the game. When the white whale wiped out Rem, Subaru was also able to remember things about Rem, as if he had a God's perspective. Does this mean that this work is actually in a game world, and the real BOSS in the future is actually a programmer?