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Originally Posted by FirstTwilight
Out of curiosity, what's the general opinion toward kakeras? Do they exist?
Personally, i still believe in them even after ep. VIII.
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As far as individuals on R-Prime are concerned, they might as well not exist.
As Lambda says to Ange in ep4, it wouldn't matter if everybody came home to "an" Ange, because they didn't come home to
her. Rika has a similar revelation in reverse in Higurashi.
Whether they exist as "alternate universes" or "fictions" is pretty much irrelevant. They can influence the "real world" only informationally. We can read about another world, but we can't do anything to that world and it can't do anything to us save by the knowledge of its existence communicated to us; that is, knowing how another reality might play out can influence our behavior, but the people there can't reach out and smack us upside the head. So whether they "really exist" or are "just fictional characters" makes no difference at all.
In the meta-world, they can be whatever they want to be, and ep6 seems to treat them as anything, nothing, and everything all at the same time.
EDIT: On the counterpoint,
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Damn you, Borges!