Kagerou Daze

This article is about the world of the Kagerou Daze. For other uses, see Kagerou Daze (disambiguation). 

The Kagerou Daze (カゲロウデイズ Kagerō Deizu, lit. "Heat Haze Daze"), also known as simply the Kagerou or the Daze, is a never-ending repeating world created by Azami that swallows up anybody who ends up dying on August 15.

Description

 * The Kagerou Daze is a world where time does not pass. The Snake of Clearing Eyes convinced Azami to create the Kagerou Daze when Azami, an immortal being, realized she was going to outlive her human husband Tsukihiko and their daughter Shion. Tsukihiko wanted them to have a traditional wedding before entering the Kagerou Daze, so he went back to his village to get a wedding dress. However, the villagers detained and tortured him to question him about Azami. The same villagers later attacked Azami and Shion at their cottage. Azami used her eye abilities to kill all but one, whom she used Stealing Eyes on to see what happened to Tsukihiko. Afterwards, she decided to enter into the Kagerou Daze alone to not cause any more suffering to her family. Unfortunately, this world was revealed to be terrible, as Azami had been tricked by the Snake of Clearing Eyes.


 * Centuries later, Azami's daughter, Shion, as well as her granddaughter, Marry, were murdered by humans. Azami ordered the Kagerou Daze to swallow them up. There, the Snake of Clearing Eyes told her that she could return one of them to the real world by giving them her "Queen Snake", the Snake of Combining Eyes, which is also the snake that is ultimately responsible for controlling the Kagerou Daze and all of Azami's other snakes. At Shion's insistence, Azami gave the Queen Snake to Marry. She and Shion remained in the Kagerou Daze, which was now no longer under Azami's control and will now continue to carry out her last command to swallow anyone who died on that day, which was August 15th..


 * The Kagerou Daze will physically swallow anyone who dies on August 15th near the area where Shion and Marry had originally died. If two or more people die together, they will enter the same "area" of the Kagerou Daze and experience the same settings together.
 * Because of the loss of the Queen Snake, the rest of Azami's snakes began to leave the Kagerou Daze by acting as surrogate lives for humans who enter it. If someone who enters the Kagerou Daze has a strong wish that can be fulfilled by a snake's eye abilities, then the snake can enter their body and become a new surrogate life for them. Because of how rare it is for a snake to find a compatible host, many people who were swallowed by Kagerou Daze are unable to escape and are trapped there.
 * Because of the loss of the Queen Snake, the rest of Azami's snakes began to leave the Kagerou Daze by acting as surrogate lives for humans who enter it. If someone who enters the Kagerou Daze has a strong wish that can be fulfilled by a snake's eye abilities, then the snake can enter their body and become a new surrogate life for them. Because of how rare it is for a snake to find a compatible host, many people who were swallowed by Kagerou Daze are unable to escape and are trapped there.


 * Marry can use the Snake of Combining Eyes to gain control the Kagerou Daze with at least five of Azami's ten snakes in her possession.

Appearance

 * The Kagerou Daze has different "areas" that, according to Haruka, are reflections of what is in the hearts and minds of those swallowed by it. People in the Kagerou Daze are able to travel freely between these areas and visit other people who are also trapped there.
 * Haruka also notes that the Kagerou Daze tends to depict people as they picture themselves, no matter how they actually look.

Novels

 * Kano's Daze is a town during nighttime. The sky is described as inky black, with only the moon standing out.
 * Haruka's Daze is an operating room. In the room, there are a vast, almost uncountable number of IV drips, strewn all across a pure white space. The IV drips are each linked to a separate bag filled with a colorless liquid. The other ends are all connected to a single bed with white sheets. The smell of a hospital seems to hang around in this room.
 * Ayano's Daze is a wooden school classroom drenched in the light of the sunset. It's filled like any old classroom with things like desks, seats, windows to the side with curtains, etc. On the other side of the windows, one can see a darkened city.
 * Takane's Daze is a collapsing city that she has to escape from.
 * Shintaro's Daze is the road he took to and from high school.

Trivia

 * The locations where each character is shown for the first time in the anime are the locations of their individual deaths, excluding Marry.
 * Kido named the world.