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Originally Posted by Xcomp

Spoiler for Drama CD - Nakabachi's background story.:

Well, perhaps Nakabachi really did regret it back then (which explains the present and recorded words of regret) but, over the 7 years he grew into a hateful old man and that's why he never tried to make up.

I guess they were trying to show he hasn't always despised Kurisu but the hate grew in him as she made better progress than he did.

Spoiler:

I understand all of that, but my problem wasn't that because he turned into an evil man or that he was once a good person, it was the combined implication that a good man who turned evil is able to somehow instill hope into Kurisu. That is completely illogical.

Spoiler for Drama CD - Why Kurisu returns to the lab.:

I think it is because of her love for Okabe...

After the whole father background story Kurisu thought about what regrets she didn't want to have, she immediately thought of returning to Okabe's side to let him know her feelings; it only happened because Feyris went back to Kurisu to let her hear that old message her father recorded and sparked up hope.

Up until that moment Kurisu was very determined to leave, blocking out thoughts of her love for Okabe out, focusing her thoughts on her father as an excuse to leave and thinking it was all for the best. She even used a Dr. Pepper as a lure in the Anime, lol... So there should have been a reason other than the drama of appearing at the last moment because it was the last chance.

It's also not that odd she would suddenly believe her own words and memories would end up reaching a parallel world where she and Okabe can reunite. She did admit after all, that just like everyone else, she has memories of Okabe trying desperately to save Mayuri and also how she tried to help him too.

Spoiler:

I understand the whole "no regret" angle, that was about the only thing that made sense to me in the drama. I just take issues with the way they executed it by dragging Nakabachi's past into the mix. FWIW I think Feyrius just talking about her own experience with her father would've been a way more convincing story, they could even write about how Feyrius had vague memories of asking Okabe to use D-mail to save her father etc, them trying to tie together Nakabachi, Suzuha and Feyrius father together was just beyond believable. And again, I simply couldn't find how finding out your father being an absolutely terrible person now who just told you to never call and him being a nice person 7 years ago would give Kurisu hope, if anything it would give her more despair because one of the angle of Kurisu's story was that she blames herself for turning her father into a spiteful person. If anything finding that out should make her hate herself even more.

The other problem is that it wasn't Kurisu would believe she would have memories from the different world line - that wasn't even the issue they have and were arguing about, it was that she believes that there would be a different world line where she would survive and that Okabe would find it, out of absolutely no where and no evidence from all of the experiments that had been conducting, well except of course if you have already seen the true ending. Sure you can just chalk it up to "it's love, stupid!", but that's just a coup out and ruins the character they have spend so much time building up.