Time slip

[Iskandar Taib]

(I've pretty much beaten this show to death on a
couple of mailing lists I'm on, and if you THINK you've
read this before... you probably have.. ^_^;;; )

Anyone else notice the time discontinuities? Episodes
1-3 take place in the fall. So do 4-5 (the Yellow Rose
thing). The elections in episode 6? I always assumed
it happened right after episode 5, but now I'm not so
sure..

Now.. episodes 7, 8 and 9 - these take place when?
February. St. Valentine's Day or thereabouts. If the
preview on episode 11 is to be believed, episode 12
happens the weekend after episode 9 ends. But..
episode 10 and 11? These take place at CHRISTMAS.
Hmmmmmmm....... We went back in time here... ^_^;; And
yes, it's the same school year (Rosa Gigantea hasn't
graduated yet), though, of course, the flashback that
takes up most of episode 11 takes place the previous
year, culminating on the previous Christmas.

So what the heck is going on? ^_^;; They must've
inserted a later chapter in the manga between episodes
9 and 12.. (assuming, of course, that the manga
doesn't suffer from the same malady.. ^_^;;; If so, I
wonder why they did it. Did they think it was better
for the pacing? Or for character development? The St.
Valentine's Day episodes were, if not light, then at
least not as intense as episode 11 was. If episode 6
(the election) actually took place in the Spring,
putting it in earlier tells us something about the
workings of the Yamayurikai that might have needed
explaining before we went on into other matters. (I
found it interesting - it turns out that the Lillian
student body wasn't as undemocratic as I first thought
it was.. ^_^;;; ).

If they're going to do a lot of jumping around in
time, I wonder what they plan in terms of the time
frame for the story. Will we see stories from April,
when Yumi first enters Lillian? Will we see Yumi in
her third year, as Rosa Chinensis? Or will it be
restricted to the time period between the Fall at the
beginning of the series and April the next year, when
the current Roses graduate?

I'm starting to find this series more and more
interesting as I find out more about it. And not just
for the usual reasons, either. It's the sort of thing
you could write entire term papers on. ^_^;;

[atua]

This has already been discussed in the other threads. For some unknown reason, they decided to screen the Valentines Day arc before the Ibara no Mori arc. The correct timeline is:

1-5, 10-11, 6-9, 12-13.

[kj1980]

Originally Posted by atua

This has already been discussed in the other threads. For some unknown reason, they decided to screen the Valentines Day arc before the Ibara no Mori arc. The correct timeline is:

1-5, 10-11, 6-9, 12-13.

Because the Valentine's Day arc coincided with Valentine's Day/week in Japan, they decided to do it that way. What better market commercialism is there when you can do special Valentine's Day seiyuu events and presents from the Marimite staff, why not show market the show to coincide with such a day as well?

[raphaël]

Well, I find it pretty confusing, rather than interesting, as Iskandar said. I can't believe those people didn't think of what would happen after the TV airing. Like DVD release or else... Instead it just looks really weird when you watch it without knowing anything about that fact, or the novels...

[dxanato]

I know the firs time I saw was a bit weird but since than I am use to it.