Natsu no Arashi ep. 9 – Time Paradoxes
Anyone who’s been following Natsu no Arashi knows by now that time travel within the show happens on a regular basis, but there’s an important question that Hajime brings up: what happens when you go back in time and change history?
When Hajime and Arashi go back in time to save someone, do the people who are saved just suddenly pop into existence in the present or did they exist even before anyone went back in time?
In the anime, Hajime comes up with several theories. One of which is that time travelling isn’t actually time travelling but moving to a different dimension. Another possibility is that a new world is created when you time travel and the old one is destroyed.
I don’t think anyone will ever be able to find out what really happens when you time travel (if it’s even possible in the first place), but the way the anime explained it (in ep. 10), the people that Hajime and Arashi saved in the past already existed in the present before they went into the past. This of course would make Arashi happy since the people that would’ve existed since someone else didn’t wouldn’t just disappear, but to me it seems like Hajime and Arashi didn’t travel back in time at all. If the people they save already exist, that means they already saved them before they went back in time, but that creates a big problem: how do you save someone from dying if you’ve already saved them?
The only way they could save someone that they’ve already saved is to stop themselves from saving that person. So when they go back in time, they “erase” themselves that already saved the person, but then that means the person ended up dying in the first place and shouldn’t exist in the present…
Well, this time travel stuff is really confusing me, I guess that’s why they call it a paradox. Anyways, it’d be interesting to see if they do any more explainations on time travel in the coming episodes.
And I just thought I’d point out a couple of cameos that appeared in this ep:
I’m sure many of you have heard of the workout anime Training With Hinako.
If you look closely at this screenshot, you’ll see some familiar characters from moeblob anime K-ON.
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