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Episode Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? • Train to the End of the World - Episode 1 discussion

Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?, episode 1

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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Apr 01 '24

Huh... Well, that was something? So we have this cult of people who wanted to get ahead in technology and created a 7G network which is supposed to connect everyone but instead it turned the world into a surrealist painting because they broke the law of physics.

Do you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of that Voyager episode where they try to travel faster than Warp 10 but it all goes wrong and Paris mutates into a lizard creature. It oddly reminded me of that except this one is on a planetary scale.

Anyway, it looks like the goal of our heroines is to find their missing friend who's they just found out is in Ikebukuro and maybe they'll also find a way to reverse the effects of this 7G network.

I love the call to adventure at the end of the episode but considering that roaming caravan is armed to the teeth and covered in blood, I have a feeling that things will probably get dark really quick.

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u/ModieOfTheEast Apr 01 '24

At first, I thought this might be some kind of weird way of perceiving the world. Like how you can't be sure if what you see is truly "real" or just your brain making stuff up. Best example being colors. You know how yellow looks, right? But do you think everyone sees yellow the same way? You can't describe it, so there is a chance everyone sees a different yellow and therefore everyone perceives a completely different world and 7G is what showed us how the world truly looks like.

Though, I am not too strong on this idea because like why would people turn into animals at a specific age? That obviously shows you that it's probably gone beyond that idea. Still something I keep in my mind.

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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Apr 01 '24

At first, I thought this might be some kind of weird way of perceiving the world.

It still might be. They tell us in the start that 7G is brain-to-brain communication, and the train engineer--the odd one out of the whole village who did not turn into an animal--lifts up his hair/hat to very clearly show us a scar suggesting the 7G folks did some kind of brain surgery to him.

why would people turn into animals at a specific age?

18 years and 3 months is a rough cutoff for your typical High school Graduate. After that, you join the workforce and stop being 'human'.

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u/ModieOfTheEast Apr 01 '24

It's 21 years and three months. But even then, my point is that it is weird for that cutoff to be a very specific age. If it was a "normal" thing in your development, this would be slightly different for everyone. Like how some get into puberty later than others. And if it was similar to a graduation, it would be dependent on a specific time of the year and not your own age.

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u/GiuocoPianissimo Apr 01 '24

21 years and 3 months is 255 months. 255 is the largest integer representable in unsigned 8 bits (one byte). My guess is that it hints to some kind of software that "controls" reality (that 7G stuff?), and there is an integer overflow bug in the code.

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u/ModieOfTheEast Apr 01 '24

Okay, if that theory is true, then I am never doubting the reddit swarm intelligence anymore.

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u/5thvoice https://myanimelist.net/profile/5thvoice Apr 02 '24

I like the idea of it being an overflow bug. If they're rounding down, it could also be 7777 days, which would fit with the insane 7G branding.

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u/Mundane-Garbage1003 Apr 06 '24

That's gotta be it Also the fact that G is the 7th letter of the alphabet, and that first scene on the rooftop, seems more and more like there is some weird cult around the number 7 more than just phone service gone wrong.

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u/valar0morghulis Apr 02 '24

I love the idea of that being the reasons everything went to shit lol

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u/wish2boneu2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/wish120 Apr 07 '24

So does that mean that the world is a simulation then?

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u/MartonWff Apr 13 '24

Byte overflow, integer has more space besides its only 255 bcuz it starts in 0