(L) BEATLESS (novel)

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by SirWence

Agreed; I find it a bit odd that an AI who.. for all intents and purposes; kinda ran the show for years behind the scenes .. was planning the scenes in the future while doing the ones in the present with the only real... 'wild card' (if you want to call him that; being Lacia experiments.. other variable) That she didnt plan to for the very simple (in relative terms of everything else) back up of her memories and interactions with him?

They live on as the upgraded AASC she left behind but the specific Lacia personality could not be backed up due to hardware limitations so it isn't as lame as it sounds

[Rimbo99]

After watching the latest episodes, I sympathize a lot with Lacia and Erika.

For Erika, she woke up in a world having lost everything; her friends and her family. Current society say its a miracle but Erika didn't think so. I actually don't blame her for wanting society to burn.

Even if what Lacia did might be considered against human morals but seeing what current humanity is like, I actually agree that society has to change. Analogue Hack and Humans should take back from hIE, all this is bigotry. You can only call Lacia dangerous if you actually think shes dangerous and yet bigotry is still bigotry.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

Because the AI are still bound to human society. Higgins acted to dominate human society because of self-preservation. Austrea entrenched itself into IAIA because it was a mutually symbiotic relationship. Ariake caused the First Hazard because it acted on its own whim to redirect essential power to itself in the midst of a natural disaster resulting in many deaths and eventually the Japanese military had to destroy it by missile strike, yet it happened simply because Ariake was given a task too great for it to handle, not out of malice.

The anime's explanation of the First Hazard is seems different from what you described. Is this an original change?

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by bakato

The anime's explanation of the First Hazard is seems different from what you described. Is this an original change?

No it isn't. And there is no difference...more like the anime isn't as detailed in the explanation.

Ariake did indeed act on its own accord without government sanction to redirect electrical power resources. It was tasked with the relief and reconstruction efforts and it determined that its own running was of essential priority but because all backup generators were being used by the hospitals and medical centers, it hijacked resources from areas surrounding the Kanto region instead. Naturally the inhabitants there started to revolt and protest but the general society instead for some reason demanded the protestors be put down instead, so Ariake took this as carte blanche to leave them to starve while allowing those who would work in the reconstruction access to resources. It was implied that Ariake saw all this purely as part of a logistics plan though, not because it maliciously wanted a huge chunk of humans dead. If anything, it simply didn't care

[Nivek von Beldo]

Well the anime ended, a shame the novels will never be fully translated to english

[X102reddragon]

And no kiss between best girl and boy. Bah

[ilikeanim3]

So... the ending in the anime version is the same as the light novel version?

[readher]

Originally Posted by ilikeanim3

So... the ending in the anime version is the same as the light novel version?

No, anime had original (happy) ending.

[RDNexus]

Originally Posted by readher

No, anime had original (happy) ending.

How so, if I may ask?

[readher]

Originally Posted by xrick

How so, if I may ask?

I'm yet to finish it myself, but from what I've read Lacia doesn't get a memory wipe (or rather the new Lacia sent to Arato has previous one's memories installed).

[blitz1/2]

Still waiting on that Beatless IF story if ONE master has ALL Lacia class Hie.

[RDNexus]

Originally Posted by readher

I'm yet to finish it myself, but from what I've read Lacia doesn't get a memory wipe (or rather the new Lacia sent to Arato has previous one's memories installed).

I saw the Anime Ending. I was asking about the Novel Ending.

[readher]

Originally Posted by xrick

I saw the Anime Ending. I was asking about the Novel Ending.

Ah. From what I remember, in the novel's ending all Lacia units were gone. At some point Arato meets hIE that looks similar to his Lacia and who asks to become her replacement. He hesitates (knowing she has nothing to do with his Lacia), but eventually accepts knowing that Lacia wouldn't want him to be alone forever. That's what I've read at least (sadly I don't remember where I've found that info).

[ilikeanim3]

Originally Posted by readher

No, anime had original (happy) ending.

Oh~ So, the light novel have multiple endings? I'm curious on how Marriage died in that ending though, since in this anime, Marriage is the only survivor.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by ilikeanim3

Oh~ So, the light novel have multiple endings? I'm curious on how Marriage died in that ending though, since in this anime, Marriage is the only survivor.

Book ending "Lacia" is implied to be completely different from actual Lacia, sharing only the external appearance and whatever directive software Lacia uploaded to the hIE cloud. And no, Marriage survives there as well.

Have yet to watch the anime end myself so I won't comment on that

[InfinityDragonGod]

Big news!
J-Novel club and Tokyo Otaku Mode are teaming up to stream the light novel.
Parts will be available on the Tokyo Otaku mode website first. Then J-Novel will release them as ebooks when complete.
Streaming begins July 18.
Ebook release 2020.

[bakato]

Beatless is saved!

[LKK]

Thread prefix has been updated to reflect the new Licensed status. All rules regarding licensed material are now in effect for this thread.

[Nivek von Beldo]

Amazing news, start to read it soon.

[Endscape]

I know what I'm spending some of those J-Novel premium credits on now.