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Originally Posted by Kansokusha

Spoiler for VN spoilers:

- Astronaut -
Becoming an astronaut was always the dream of Kai, not until Misaki put a burden on him that is Aki. It's also revealed in the drama CD that because of his medical condition after the SS Anemone Incident, Kai could never become an astronaut. Hanada is a moron, he didn't do any research before writing that scene.

- Sawada -
Sawada is the head of Exoskeleton R&D and Misaki's supervisor. His father is a member of the Committee of 300 which he opposes. He secretly founded the Anti-committee to meddle with their plans. Takumi, Kurisu, Daru and Nae are amongst his comrades. Sawada has previously told Kai that they will find a way to eliminate Kimijima. In Daru’s last entry on Twipo, he said he’ll do anything for the sake of his wife and daughter. Like the DG297, the virus AR missile is also a product of Daru. When Kai is battling the KAMINAGI, Sawada personally communicates with Kai and transfers the virus to him.

- Kimijima -
You think uploading one's personality and memory is crazy? In universe, it's originated from the Visual Rebuilding Technology(VR) of the Victor Condria University a decade ago, especially the process of extracting and converting memories into data developed by Kurisu. When Misaki killed Kimijima in his own apartment, he only converted part of himself for the testing of the system. He is "incomplete" in the words of AI Kimijima. Now he's unreasonable, unfeeling and ruthless. But that doesn't effect the project a bit, because personal feeling is unnecessary for its success. Completing the experiment is always the sole intention of Kimijima Kou, and nothing can ever change it. While he could of used the Noah device he built with data scavenged from the fallen project, he can slowly brainwashing others with mere suggestions. kimijima has been studying psychological warfare and brainwashing since he's young. His suggestions exist in Misaki's mind as whispering voices, not that appears on every screens shit in the anime. Also the look and tone of Kimijima are more sinister in the VN. His face is so twisted that you can’t possibly tell whether he’s smiling or crying most of the time, whereas in the anime, he’s just your average bishounen. They even omitted the fact that he killed Airi’s parent for his own amusement and a way to control her in ep 21. Like Norose before him, he's a true mad scientist.

- Misaki -
There are a great deal of times you actually get into the head of Misaki, with all those psychological monologues. At one point she even questions herself if she’s Kimijima fitted with Misaki’s memory. When Aki finally recovered from her coma after the SS Anemone Incident, Misaki said she can die for seeing Aki’s smile again. She isolated herself from the ones she loved so that she can’t hurt them. In those ten years, she was fighting a losing battle against Kimijima alone, trying to kill herself only to be stopped by Kimijima every single time. But fate is so cruel that she intertwines with Kai and Aki again. All she wants is that they can kill her to end this nightmare once and for all. As we all know she got her happy ending in the hands of Kai, which she most deserved.

- Subaru's father -
Subaru and his fatehr had their time in the VN. The father even got some monologues on how he's depressed about his relationship with Subaru. Subaru got his fanaticism of robots from the toy robot that his father gave him at his birthday when he’s a kid. In the prelude novel it's revealed that when one day Subaru’s father met Kimijima, that sicko casually left suggestion in the father’s mind that slowly twisted his view on robots and his own son. He is so afraid that Subaru will eventually leave him due to his love of robots.

- The fate of Frau's mother -
It's still a mystery. Maybe it will be concluded in the on-going spinoff manga of Frau.

- The Committee of 300 -
Cliched evil organization? The Humanity Cattlization Project, to kill off 5 billion people is always their ultimate goal, first revealed in Chaos;head. With 1 billion left, they can easily manage the population and resources, in turn ensured the survival of humanity. Great achievement needs great sacrifices. Compared to Project Atum, the dystopia created by Program Zeta seems way mild. Most surely will see them as cruel monsters, but the Committee must think themselves the savior of humanity.

- Monopoles -
NASA’s Ulysses had already discovered the monopoles around the sun, but that info was concealed by the Committee. Kimijima uses that knowledge and instructs Geji-nee to emit electromagnetic radiation into the geomagnetosphere with the radar tower for many years, trying to pinpoint a perfect coordinate for him to detonate the BHB, and the monopoles are just a byproduct that indicates a success of the experiment. When Kai retrieves the 2nd report on Jul 31, he accidentally adjusted the antenna to the right direction. Monopoles start falling from the sky on Aug 11. It seems that the Committee will have a monoploy on the use of monopoles as a new energy source after the operation.

There are more I want to say. The original material is still decent. It just got fucked up by Hanada's hand of god awful.

This totally reminds me of the hate I have for Star Driver, which would have been 10 times better if they added all the background info that they had in their bible