AIR English FAQ - Overall Story
At the beginning of the game, who are the two people in the dialogue?
The mother of the first Winged Being born on Earth spoke to her child these lines millions of years ago.
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My child... |
Each time the Winged Beings pass their memories from parent to child, the child learns the importance of this task. Furthermore, the skill of sorcery(法術) and the task to save Kanna are also passed down the generations of the family line of those who can use sorcery.
While the Winged Beings travel in the sky, and the sorcerors travel upon the earth, the wishes are passed down from parent to child. It is both a journey that traverses time, and a curse that bounds them together.
The dialogue between the parent and child of the Winged Beings went by too fast in the PS2 version. What did they say?
What does it actually mean?
When does the game AIR take place?
AD 2000.
From the pattern of days of the week, we can narrow it down to 1995 or 2000. We settle on the latter because July 20th is a holiday in the game: this is umi no hi (the Day of the Sea), which was first held as a national holiday in 1996.
What location was AIR's setting modeled after?
Which span of 1000 years does "1000th SUMMER" refer to?
From AD 994, when Kanna was sealed in the sky, until AD 1994.
The significant event in 1994 was the birth of a new pair of incarnations of Ryuuya/Yukito and Kanna/Misuzu, finally free of the endless cycle of reincarnation that they were trapped in for the thousand years. It is this pair whom we see walk away hand in hand at the end.
同じ表現が何度も出てくるような気がするけど？
神奈が観鈴に転生していたのと同じように、往人はそらに転生したの？
インタビューで麻枝は「転生」を否定してるよ？
神奈→観鈴は記憶喪失、往人→そらは人格憑依、と同じ転生でも現れ方が違うのはなぜ？
Is Kanna in the sky or is she not?
What exactly is this soul transfer(転生) thing?
What's the meaning of DREAM having three scenarios?
Does DREAM represent an endless loop?
No. Maeda has denied this explicitly in an interview:
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Finally, this is a question from a player: the way the game is designed so a player has to run through the DREAM scenario several times, is that supposed to represent an actual time loop in a closed world that they're trying to escape from through trial and error? |