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Originally Posted by RedKey

Spoiler for All of Rewrite:

After the five routes, all of the theory-Kotarous get condensed in one single Moon-Kotarou being that meets Moon-Kagari on the Moon. He can't understand her, so he basically rewrites himself into God, losing his individuality, only to be brought back by Kagari herself. They work on the theory tree for aeons, until someday Kotarou writes 'let's meet again' on it and suddenly all makes sense. Kagari is trying to sum up that winning theory, but Kashima sends tons of monsters on the Moon to prevent that, because she's evil and doesn't want life to prevail. Questions time.

Spoiler for Answer:

It should be noted that Kotarou was also one of the demons sent to Moon phase, but he forgot his purpose of assassinating the Kagari there.

Originally Posted by RedKey

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What Kashima was that? Theory-Kashima? Earth-Kashima? How could she know Kagari was on the Moon doing her thing? What about the time frame? How did she send mamono there? How could she sustain summoning all those mamono with just her lifeforce?

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Kashima seems like a sinister, very powerful villain to have been able to reach out from one of the "timelines" to assault the very Moon itself.

Originally Posted by RedKey

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How could Real-Sakuya know what was happening? Again, what about the time frame? It seems millennia have passed while researching that theory, so wth?

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It is implied that out of all the beings summoned there, only Sakuya is the "real" Sakuya summoned directly from the heroine route timelines. That is why his death here is "final" in a sense - though Sakuya being Sakuya he was able to ride the Aurora trails down to the rejuvenated Earth to sleep for eons just to wait for Kotarou in Terra

Originally Posted by RedKey

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[B]What's the deal with 'creating good memories'? How does stopping a war between Guardian and Martel/Gaia by killing yet more people and betraying everyone create 'good memories'?

Spoiler for Answer:

Part of being the being that is Kagari is that it collects all of the memories of sentient beings on the planet. The more negative the memory, the more the planets is led to think that Ruin is necessary. A "good memory" is thus supposedly needed so that she does not go into this phase - and in Terra, there are moments where this very nearly comes to pass. Bad memories come from the secret war between Gaia and Guardian, of which there are many examples in the heroine routes and Terra: Lucia, Akane, Jasmine- heck all of the heroines are shown to have been adversely affected by the constant war. I believe what Kotarou was thus looking for here was the end, which justifies his means.

Originally Posted by RedKey

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Why did Kotarou have to kill Esaka?

Spoiler for Answer:

Because Esaka was also about to kill him; having discovered Kotarou's betrayal firsthand. At the time, his priority was Kagari.

Originally Posted by RedKey

Spoiler for condensing:

At the end Kotarou becomes like Sakuya. Why don't the girls recognize him? Kotori and Akane should, at least.
Are Midou, Tenjin and Tenma the kids Kotarou saved along with Jasmine that we see in the ending?
And, since the girls don't have tragic pasts anymore (well to an extent, Shizuru still got her house burned down, Kotori's parents still died, etc.)
Doesn't the ending imply that the hardships the Occult Club went through in the other routes, or theories, were for nothing?
Did Imamiya, Nishikujou and Esaka just fake not knowing Kotarou in all the routes for the sake of his new life?

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Realistically, only Kotori, Akane and Shizuru could've remembered him - if they still could, considering the trauma they experienced as children. Then again, Guardian Kotarou could also have been using his disguise at the time.
Yes, though the wording makes it seem like there's supposed to be one less child (not including Jasmine)
For the next part, yes, I wrote about it in here on one of the 2011 July posts. It is implied that the heroine routes did indeed happen, and that Terra's outcome is some sort of "Omega route", a new timeline so to speak that directly follows from before. However, this is just my theory and my interpretation. Others feel that it's a loop, and have thus posted at length in these very pages. You can find them, and mine, to look at our points of view. This is also why I have a negative view of the ending - since I interpret it that way, I feel like all the pain and suffering endured had happened, but as they are millions of years in the past, are inconsequential to the greater good. Which to me seems a little off-putting.
For the last one, yes, because that's what's required of Guardian. Recall their treatment of Nagai in Terra.

Final Addendum: It's nice to see some dialogue here, after the Harvest Festa and supposed partial translation I was partly hoping for more than what came about - in particular the fandisc, but apparently only a few people've read it yet. So this helps in a way.