23 September

Study of Re:CREATORS 43: Lecture 7 continued

Lecture 7 continued

I use the Book of a Thousand Truths, which shines light throughout the world, to perform various types of magic. And also. not to brag, a beautiful and talented magnificent magician of the highest abilities.

“This is how, I the treasure of the entire universe, saved the world from destruction. Humankind will celebrate this day for all eternity, sell souvenirs with my image, and create holidays in my name. Congratulations, congratulations. This is the end of Re:CREATORS. Time to go home.”

“No. For me, this would be a good ending, but this is no good overall. All the foreshadowing’s unresolved. It sounds like a serialized story that was cancelled in the middle. This is not what I intended to do, but for the sake of the audience, I’ll restore it back to the original.”

A failed example of fanfiction featuring Meteora, representing the abruptness of a cancelled serial’s final episode. Concrete instance of non-acceptance is shown in metafictional presentation.

Resumed again:
“Is that you, Meteora?”

“I feel better now.”

“Let’s try that again. Introducing the amazing great magician Meteora and her jolly followers… Oh, sorry. I mean, her friends.

“Rui Kanoya, 16 years old. The hero of Monomagia: The Infinite Over Machine. In the year 2124, in the new virtual city Energia Ichihara, the lone suddenly invaded. He is the pilot of a giant robot that was created to fight against them, the Gigas Machina.

Retold, but still modified reflecting Meteora’s preferences.

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Each character is supplemented with more detailed background information and their past is reviewed.
“And he likes little girls.”

“Yuya Mirokuji. The last boss from Exclusive Underground, and the ex-captain of a military outpost of Team Stray dogs. He used to be the best friend of Syo Hakua, the hero of this story, but he murdered their friend Rokkaku Araki and Syo’s sister, Kokonoka, and deserted the team. He established the association Arajin and conquered Sacred Tree Kuronagimaru and the spirit Hangaku. In order to gain control of the territory of Adachi ward, which had turned into a lawless land after a huge natural disaster, he fights against Syo.

This excerpt was taken from the manga synopsis. To put it simply, he’s one of those guys who hangs out in front of convenience stores in the spring. And he’s very impolite.”
“Just make sure I don’t get bored. Right, Metchin?”
“Shut up, Grasshopper Glasses!”

“By the way, in the battle in the parking garage the other day, Hangaku got stolen by Magane Chikujoin. So careless of him, Grasshopper Glasses.”

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It might look like Selesia is a failure, but like I explained before, it isn’t Selesia’s fault. She’s doing her best, under the circumstances. Selesia isn’t weak. Really.”

Blitz Talker. A character from Code Babylon. A middle-aged ex-detective, and the partner of the main character. He works for the Flashlight Detective Office, which specializes in hunting down demi-humans and synthetic monsters.

“He talks like he thinks he’s a tough guy and likes to appear out of the darkness. From the hard-boiled genre. … A Gravity Bomb. He uses bullets made for cyborgs. This is a strong attack. For a moment, I saw a beautiful river and a field of flowers. I thought, ‘This is really bad!’”

Alicetaria February. From the fantasy genre. The heroine from Alicetaria of the Scarlet. The princess of the Holy Ulterstein kingdom. In order to save the world from the forces of Unterwelt summoned by the sorcerer Peeping Eternity, she fights using the Gauntlet of Gotz von Berlichingen, passed down through the royal family.

It can be inferred that Meteora understands that each character carries the internal setting of the work as fictional characters.
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“Since she’s all muscle and no brains, she easily falls for Magane Chikujoin’s deceptions and mistakenly believes that I’m the one who killed Mamika.”

“Muscle Brains can’t hold a conversation.”

“And this is the character who deceived Grasshopper Glasses and Muscle Brains. Magane Chikujoin. The enemy character in Yasoukiroku. A criminal who murdered the entire student body of Korougamine Academy, in ‘Sougenkyu Murder Case’ in the fifth volume of the original series. Her special power is the ability to reverse cause and effect, the Infinite Deception of Words.”
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Meteora introduces herself, again.
“Meteora is highly praised for being able to withstand provocation.”
“I’m Meteora Osterreich. You’ve come at a good time. Let me take a moment to summarize the situation. These are our allies. And these are our enemies. This girl isn’t on either side. She’s a wild card.”

“And the one who broke through the limitation of this world and transported the eight of us Creations here, is … Altair. A navy-blue military hat and a Spanish-style double-breasted coat.”

Here, Japanese word “kubiki” is translated “limitation”, and “genkai”, “transport” in the subtitle.

“She is the number-one enemy in this story. She’s a character from Eternal Wars Megalosphere. She’s a secondary Creation that Setsuna Shimazaki created, based on Shirotsumekusa. An independent existence without a story. Colorless. That’s why she’s able to absorb unlimited powers from secondary Creations and became a character who is almost invincible. Her plan is to make the worlds collide, to get the characters she transported here, destroy the rationality of this world, and to ultimately bring about the Great Destruction…”

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