KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE : Episode 10
Current Episode Score: 7
Well ok, I feel like we have made some actual progress with this episode that will be important. Between the time traveling glasses, 2nd Xiaohei and, the memory restoring chocolate, and finally looking into those odd error messages.
There is just so much going on, much of which still doesn’t mean a ton but still feels pretty important for figuring things out. If I was to take a guess at this point, the gene terra is creating some limited simulation bubble around Kowloon that as we know only effects some people. And it is essentially a computer simulation, but it isn’t perfect. It didn’t have all the data when it created it, stuff was missing or incomplete. Maybe the system itself wasn’t even meant to be turned on and used yet, so this is like an alpha test of sorts. Which would explain why the city isn’t a perfect replica with missing hallways, why books would contain garbled text, the odd error messages they got before with the computers, and the error messages on the back of the kowloon talismans. Something important was originally written on those talismans that Kujirai B was hunting down, she was following some trail that lead to her death from those. But that data didn’t get uploaded in the data that the simulation has, so it just knows that something is missing but doesn’t know what. Or perhaps whatever is controlling the simulation is blocking that data from being shown to keep Kujiari from tracking it down again. Which may work better, if the “admin” of the program is watching over it and wants to stop her from looking into it, directly modifying the output of the text may be possible. IDK, I think there is still a lot to learn here but getting closer to some idea about what is happening, the why and who is still a complete mystery though.
As for the second Xiaohei, which I had assumed was just a similar name. But I’m going to guess the program doesn’t look too deeply into comparing the original and the clone. Maybe just a simple visual check, so when the two versions weren’t super similar it just ignored it and moved on.
The chocolate and Youmei is interesting, I guess the memory issues are pretty firmly related to food. I guess when you ingest food from outside whatever block the program places on your memory gets wiped for whatever reason. And I’m excited to see what happens with this in the next episode, will Youmei get the concept quickly and share what she has learned. More interesting though, what happens if she perhaps shares food from outside with Reiko.