Routes

Kagerou Project contains many Routes (ルート Rūto) that feature alternative plots, endings, and in some cases, beginnings. According to Jin, the story has an established backstory, which segues into the Music , then to the Manga , followed by the Novel  , then Mekakucity Actors. The second route depicted in the manga ("Manga Route 2") has been shown to have taken place before the Music Route. Kagerou Daze -in a day's- is set at an unclear point, though it is after Manga Route 2 due to Shintaro having his eye ability. With every reset, Marry rewinds the world back to its beginning, before Azami becomes aware of her own existence.

Backstory
Portions of the Kagerou Project backstory are meant to be mostly consistent (Manga Route 2 partially differs) throughout the routes. Several songs are included:

xx.xx. (Unknown Month/Day) -xxx (Unknown) Years Before Present

 * Azami comes to existence and creates the Snake of Clearing Eyes and the Snake of Combining Eyes.
 * The Snake of Combining Eyes creates the world as a setting where Azami can learn about herself.
 * Azami creates the Snakes of Awakening Eyes and Stealing Eyes to have a physical body and to understand other living beings, respectively.
 * Azami explores the world and comes in contact with humans, creating the rest of her snakes (excluding the Snake of Favoring Eyes).
 * Azami uses Drawing Eyes and Focusing Eyes to find a spot in a forest in Japan where she can stay away from humans forever.
 * Azami meets and falls in love with Tsukihiko, who creates a cottage for her in the forest, and gives birth to Shion. She then creates the Snake of Favoring Eyes.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes gains sentience and advises Azami how to create the Kagerou Daze so that she can live there with her family forever.
 * After humans attack her family, Azami enters the Kagerou Daze by herself.
 * Shinigami Record
 * Tsukihiko passes, possibly from old age.
 * Shion, who still lives in Azami's cottage, gives birth to Marry. While raising her, she forbids Marry from going outside.
 * Gunjou Rain (visually depicted in an extra chapter).

08.15. -1xx Years

 * Marry and Shion are killed by humans, and, in an attempt to save them, Azami orders the Kagerou Daze to swallow them.
 * Azami gives Marry the Snake of Combining Eyes to act as a surrogate life, and Marry returns to the real world.
 * Azami can no longer control the Kagerou Daze, which will now continue her order to swallow people that die on August 15th.

xx.xx. -5 to 15 Years

 * In their separate backstories, Kido, Seto, Kano, and Momo enter the Kagerou Daze and receive their snakes.
 * Kido, Seto, and Kano are taken in as foster children by Ayaka and Kenjirou Tateyama.
 * Ayano forms the Mekakushi Dan to help Kido, Seto, and Kano feel better about their eye abilities.
 * Seto finds Marry in her cottage and becomes her first friend.
 * Kuusou Forest
 * Shounen Brave
 * Hibiya and Hiyori befriend each other as small children.

Music Route (Music)
According to timeline guides (such as the Perfect Guide), this route has events where Shintaro does not leave his house and kills Ene and himself, as depicted in Route XX of Losstime Memory. The route ultimately ends with a rewind. Children Record and Summertime Record serve as the opening and ending of the series.

08.15. -<5 Years

 * Ayaka and Kenjirou die in a landslide, and the latter receives the Snake of Clearing Eyes.
 * Dead and Seek

Before 08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes, acting towards Kenjirou's wish to see Ayaka again, makes a plan to bring all the snakes to the real world to create a new Medusa that can merge the Kagerou Daze and the real world together.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes begins its plans to kill Takane and Haruka to make them contact the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano and Shintaro meet in middle school as classmates.
 * Ayano learns of the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan and begins to make her own plan to save her friends and family.
 * Ayano no Koufuku Riron
 * Ayano and Shintaro enter high school and befriend Takane and Haruka. Takane starts having feelings for Haruka.
 * Yuukei Yesterday

08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes orchestrates Haruka's and Takane's deaths.
 * Takane receives the Snake of Opening Eyes; her body remains in Kenjirou's lab while her mind becomes Ene and enters the cyberspace.
 * Headphone Actor
 * Ene no Dennou Kikou
 * Haruka's body receives the Snake of Awakening Eyes and becomes Konoha, while Haruka's mind remains in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano falls off her school's rooftop, receives the Snake of Favoring Eyes, and remains in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Additional Memory
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes forces Kano to work for him by threatening Kido, Seto and Kenjirou's lives.
 * Yobanashi Deceive

After 08.15. -2 Years

 * Shintaro, having lost his friends Ayano, Haruka and Takane, drops out of school and becomes a shut-in.
 * Toumei Answer
 * Kido, Seto, and Kano leave the Tateyama household and relocate to their own hideout.
 * Marry leaves her cottage in the forest and joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Momo debuts as an idol.
 * Ene emails herself to Shintaro and begins to live in his computer.

08.14.00 (Present Day)

 * Momo joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Kisaragi Attention
 * Mekakushi Code

08.15.00

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes orchestrates the deaths of Hibiya and Hiyori, while Konoha also enters the Daze with them as an "outsider".
 * Hibiya and Konoha return to the real world, with the former receiving the Snake of Focusing Eyes.
 * Kagerou Daze
 * Konoha no Sekai Jijou
 * Shintaro deletes Ene and commits suicide.
 * Jinzou Enemy
 * Losstime Memory (Route XX)
 * Momo cheers up Hibiya, who is upset after losing Hiyori.
 * Otsukimi Recital
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes moves to Konoha's body, killing Kenjirou, and attacks the rest of the Mekakushi Dan, killing them.
 * Outer Science
 * Marry gathers the snakes of her killed friends, turns the Snake of Clearing Eyes (in Konoha's body) into stone, and rewinds the world.
 * Marry no Kakuu Sekai (visually depicted in an extra chapter)

Route 1
The first route depicted in the manga (also called Manga Route 1 by fans) ends more quickly than other depicted routes in the series. It follows the Novel Route closely until after the Mekakushi Dan leaves the amusement park, when it abruptly ends and Marry is forced to rewind the world.

08.15. -<5 Years

 * Ayaka and Kenjirou die in a landslide, and the latter receives the Snake of Clearing Eyes.

Before 08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes, acting towards Kenjirou's wish to see Ayaka again, makes a plan to bring all the snakes to the real world to create a new Medusa that can merge the Kagerou Daze and the real world together.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes begins its plans to kill Takane and Haruka to make them contact the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano and Shintaro meet in middle school as classmates.
 * Takane and Haruka present their game "Headphone Actor" at their high school's culture festival.
 * Kano and Kido visit their classroom, though they do not introduce themselves.
 * Shintaro beats Takane at the game with a perfect score.
 * Ayano befriends Takane and introduces herself as Kenjirou's daughter and her future schoolmate.
 * Ayano learns of the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.
 * Ayano and Shintaro enter high school and befriend Takane and Haruka. Takane starts having feelings for Haruka.

08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes orchestrates Haruka's and Takane's deaths.
 * Takane receives the Snake of Opening Eyes; her body remains in Kenjirou's lab while her mind becomes Ene and enters the cyberspace.
 * Haruka's body receives the Snake of Awakening Eyes and becomes Konoha, while Haruka's mind remains in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano falls off her school's rooftop, receives the Snake of Favoring Eyes, and remains in the Kagerou Daze.

After 08.15 -2 Years

 * Shintaro, having lost his friends Ayano, Haruka and Takane, drops out of school and becomes a shut-in.
 * Kido, Seto, and Kano leave the Tateyama household and relocate to their own hideout.
 * Marry leaves her cottage in the forest and joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Momo debuts as an idol.
 * Ene emails herself to Shintaro and remains there without telling him her identity.

08.14.00 (Present Day)

 * Shintaro spills soda on his computer, so he and Ene go out to buy a new one in the mall and get caught in a terrorist plot.
 * Momo meets Kido, Kano, and Marry and joins the Mekakushi Dan. The four go to the mall and get involved in the terrorist plot.
 * The two groups solve the terrorist incident together.
 * Shintaro gets grazed by a bullet, collapses, and is taken to the Mekakushi Dan hideout.
 * Ene joins the Mekakushi Dan.

08.15.00

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes moves to Konoha's body, killing Kenjirou.
 * Shintaro wakes up in the Mekakushi Dan hideout, meets Kido, Seto, Kano and Marry and is forced to join.
 * The Mekakushi Dan goes to the amusement park.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes appears while the Mekakushi Dan is leaving the amusement park and kills Kano, Seto, Kido, Ene, and Shintaro (and probably Momo).
 * Marry uses Combining Eyes and the snakes of her slain friends to rewind the world.

Route 2
The second route depicted in the manga (commonly called Manga Route 2 by fans) is significantly different than most routes; several characters have different backstories and even eye abilities. This route takes place before the Music and Novel routes. This route expands on the Snake of Clearing Eyes's motivations and shows how Shintaro gains the Snake of Retaining Eyes.

xx.xx -5 to 15 Years

 * Marry finds about the snakes and their abilities from Azami's journal.
 * Kido, Seto, and Kano meet at the orphanage and are taken in by the Tateyama family.
 * Ayano forms the Mekakushi Dan to help Kido, Seto, and Kano feel better about their eye abilities.
 * Guided by a hamster, Seto finds Marry in her cottage and takes her to the Tateyama household. Marry then joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Ayaka finds Azami's journal in Marry's backpack and concludes that Azami is real and that Marry is related to her.

Before 08.15 -2 Years

 * Ayano enters her first year of high school.


 * Haruka and Takane meet and become friends at a hospital.
 * Takane is discharged.
 * Shintaro, who injured his arms and legs while slipping, is admitted into the hospital as Haruka's roommate.
 * Shintaro and Haruka quickly become friends before Shintaro is discharged. Takane, seeing their friendship, avoids visiting Haruka.

08.15. -2 Years

 * Ayaka, Kenjirou, Ayano, and Marry decide to go to Marry's cottage to find more about her and Azami only to be caught in a landslide.
 * Kenjirou, Ayaka, and Ayano die, while Marry survives.
 * Only Ayano enters the Kagerou Daze.
 * Because of Ayano's wish to understand the origins of the Medusa and Marry, the Snake of Favoring Eyes shows her Azami's memories from "birth" to present on repeat in the Kagerou Daze.
 * She also learns of the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan to create a new Medusa in the real world so that "the wish will never end".
 * Ayano returns from the Kagerou Daze, sees her parents' bodies, and blames Marry for their misfortune.
 * Ayano and Marry return to Kido, Kano, and Seto. Ayano tells them that Marry must be killed to save them, causing Kido, Seto, Kano, and Marry to leave.
 * Haruka dies by his illness and enters the Kagerou Daze.
 * Like in other routes, he rejects the body that the Snake of Awakening Eyes made for him, causing him to stay in the Kagerou Daze while his body and the snake leave as Konoha.
 * Takane learns of Haruka's death and commits suicide by jumping out his hospital room's window.
 * She enters the Kagerou Daze and gains the Snake of Opening Eyes.
 * Her body returns to the hospital in an injured and comatose state while her mind, as Ene, ends up lost in cyberspace.

After 08.15. -2 Years

 * Shintaro learns about Haruka's death and becomes a shut-in.
 * He also heard about Takane's death, but he did not fully know her at the time.
 * Ayano finds Konoha alone on a street and befriends him.
 * Momo debuts as an idol.
 * Ene emails herself to Shintaro, recognizes him, and decides to stay with him.

08.14.00 (Present Day)

 * Shintaro goes outside to buy rabbit food for Tono with Ene and Momo.
 * They meet Hibiya and Hiyori and go on a shopping trip with them.
 * Konoha meets the Mekakushi Dan at the mall and stops the terrorists' plot with them before asking them for help to find Hibiya and Hiyori.

08.15.00

 * Several events happen on the 15th after midnight:
 * Hibiya and Hiyori get into an accident and enter the Kagerou Daze. Momo, Shintaro, and Ene were in a phone call with Hiyori right as she got hit.
 * Shintaro orders Ene to stay home and impersonate him as he and Momo go outside to search for Hibiya and Hiyori. Shintaro and Momo separate while searching.
 * Konoha and Kano find a passed-out Hibiya.
 * Shintaro meets Kido, who buys him a soda and is helping Konoha search for Hibiya and Hiyori. Ene joins him.
 * Momo meets Konoha and Kano and runs away from them with Hibiya. Kano learns that she has Drawing Eyes and reports her to Kido.
 * Kido separates from Shintaro and Ene and meets with Konoha and Kano.
 * Momo and Hibiya (literally) run into Shintaro and Ene and the four go to the Kisaragi household for the rest of the night.


 * In the morning, Shintaro, Momo, and Ene drop Hibiya off at a police station and run into Kano.
 * Momo refuses Kano's offer to join the Mekakushi Dan. Kano shortly reports this to Kido, who relays this to Seto and Marry.
 * Shintaro splits from Momo and Ene, and the two groups search for Hiyori.
 * Leaving the police station, Hibiya runs into Konoha and refuses to search for Hiyori with him.
 * At the hideout, Kido and Konoha discuss the Mekakushi Dan's investigation of the "Kagerou Daze".
 * Afterwards, Konoha leaves the hideout by himself to search for Hiyori.
 * Kido soon after leaves the hideout by herself to search for Hiyori.
 * Momo and Ene pass by Konoha, and Ene demands that Momo follows him.
 * Hibiya meets Ayano, who shows him Azami's story with Favoring Eyes and explains the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan to make a new Medusa.
 * Shintaro finds Hibiya, meets Ayano for the first time, and learns of the existence of the eye abilities.
 * Ayano retells him Azami's story and the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.
 * Kano leaves the Mekakushi Dan hideout to find Kido, who has not reported back yet, and runs into Konoha. Momo and Ene arrive shortly after.
 * Konoha, Kano, Momo, and Ene discover Hiyori standing over Kido's corpse, and Hiyori immediately runs away.
 * Konoha takes Kido's corpse back to the Mekakushi Dan hideout.
 * Momo passes out, so Kano has Ene contact Shintaro and starts carrying Momo home. He explains to Ene the story behind the Mekakushi Dan, the Kagerou Daze, and the Snake of Clearing Eyes on the way.
 * Marry absorbs the Snake of Concealing Eyes and collapses in the Mekakushi Dan hideout.
 * Shintaro, Hibiya, and Ayano meet with Kano, Ene, and Momo. Kano hands Momo and Ene to Shintaro and leaves with Hibiya, whom he believes has Focusing Eyes, to find Hiyori.
 * Shintaro, Ayano, Ene, and Momo go to Ayano's residence, where Momo can rest. Ayano tells Shintaro why her siblings distrust her.
 * Kano gets separated from Hibiya, finds Hiyori, and realizes that she has the Snake of Focusing Eyes.
 * Momo wakes up and quickly leaves Ayano's residence with Ene to search for Hiyori. Shintaro leaves to chase after her.
 * Momo finds Hibiya, who takes her to a building's rooftop. There, possessed by the Snake of Clearing Eyes, he pushes her off and kills her.
 * Marry absorbs the Snake of Drawing Eyes and remains unconscious.
 * Shintaro, Ayano, and Konoha all separately arrive at the building to confront the Snake of Clearing Eyes in Hibiya's body.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes kills Hibiya and takes over Konoha's body before disappearing.

0.8.16.00-8.17.00

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes uses Awakening Eyes to transform his body to prevent Hiyori from finding him with Focusing Eyes.
 * Shintaro hacks into street cameras to try to find the Snake of Clearing Eyes.
 * Marry does not wake up.
 * Ayano explains to Hiyori the story behind Azami, the Kagerou Daze, and the Snake of Clearing Eyes.

08.18.00

 * Hiyori finds the Mekakushi Dan hideout with Focusing Eyes, demands to join them to defeat the Snake of Clearing Eyes, and asks Kano to talk to Ayano. Kano and Seto decide to forgive her.
 * Shintaro spots Ayano entering the Mekakushi Dan hideout through hacked street camera footage.
 * Ene takes Shintaro to the hospital where her body is, says that her her wish has been granted, and dies, joining with Haruka in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Marry absorbs the Snake of Opening Eyes and momentarily wakes up. She also forgives Ayano.
 * Shintaro goes to the Mekakushi Dan hideout and joins them to defeat the Snake of Clearing Eyes.
 * Marry fully wakes up and welcomes him.
 * The remaining Mekakushi Dan leaves the hideout to another hidden location.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes attacks the Mekakushi Dan hideout, where Marry is able to use Opening, Concealing, and Drawing Eyes to temporarily trap and interrogate him.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes confirms his plans to "rewind" the world because he finds it unfit for Azami's original wish that created him.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes manages to escape and hunts the Dan, killing Kano in the process.
 * Marry opens the Kagerou Daze to talk to Azami.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes kills Seto and knocks out Shintaro and Hiyori while she is there.
 * Marry seals the Snake of Clearing Eyes in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano asks Marry to turn her into the Snake of Retaining Eyes and to be given to Shintaro.
 * Marry rewinds the world.

Notable differences:

 * Marry joins the Mekakushi Dan while both of Ayano's parents are still alive.
 * Kenjirou dies during the landslide and does not gain a snake.
 * Ayano does not commit suicide and is not stuck in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano never knew Shintaro and met him for the first time when he ran into her and Hibiya.
 * After her parents' death, the Mekakushi Dan leaves Ayano.
 * Haruka, Takane, Ayano, and Shintaro don't go to school together.
 * Haruka, Takane, Hibiya, and Hiyori all die and enter the Kagerou Daze without the Snake of Clearing Eyes's influence.
 * Hiyori gains the Snake of Focusing Eyes instead of Hibiya and is not stuck in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Hibiya gains the Snake of Clearing Eyes.

Unknown Route 1
This route was briefly depicted in the manga after the events of Manga Route 2. It is strongly implied to be related to or actually Route XX.
 * Shintaro in a black hoodie wakes up on August 15th at 12:32.

Unknown Route 2
This route was depicted in the extra manga chapter Additional Memory from the Snake of Retaining Eyes's point of view in Shintaro's head.
 * Shintaro meets Ayano by returning her scarf to her.
 * An unknown amount of time later, Shintaro dies and is briefly reunited with the Snake of Retaining Eyes.

Novel Route (Kagerou Daze)
The novel route begins in a very similar way to Manga Route 1, with events between the two routes being very similar up until the Mekakushi Dan leaves the amusement park, diverging from there. It ends with Marry being possessed by Azami and attempting to defeat the Snake of Clearing Eyes, but is only able to trap him, forcing a rewind due to the majority of the Dan being in the Kagerou Daze.

08.15. -5 to 10 Years

 * Kido, Seto and Kano end up in the same orphanage and learn how to control their powers during their stay there.


 * Kido, Seto, and Kano are taken in as foster children by Ayaka and Kenjirou Tateyama.

08.15. -<5 Years

 * Ayaka and Kenjirou die in a landslide, and the latter receives the Snake of Clearing Eyes.

Before 08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes, acting towards Kenjirou's wish to see Ayaka again, makes a plan to bring all the snakes to the real world to create a new Medusa that can merge the Kagerou Daze and the real world together.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes begins its plans to kill Takane and Haruka to make them contact the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano and Shintaro meet in middle school as classmates.
 * Haruka spends time at the Tateyama residence to help Kenjrou at making the "Headphone Actor" game.
 * He meets Ayano, Seto and Kano during these visits.
 * Takane and Haruka present their game "Headphone Actor" at their high school's culture festival.
 * Kano and Kido visit their classroom, though they do not introduce themselves.
 * Shintaro beats Takane at the game with a perfect score.
 * Ayano befriends Takane and introduces herself as Kenjirou's daughter and her future schoolmate.
 * Haruka offers a can of coke to Shintaro as an extra prize for his victory at the "Headphone Actor" game, introducing Shintaro to the beverage and starting their friendship.
 * Ayano learns of the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.
 * Ayano and Shintaro enter high school and befriend Takane and Haruka. Takane starts having feelings for Haruka.
 * Ayano has Kano go to school while feigning to be her with his eye ability, and uses the opportunity to look for information regarding Azami and her snakes in order to conjure a plan to stop the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.
 * Haruka confesses to Shintaro that he was given only one month left to live.

08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes orchestrates Haruka's and Takane's deaths.
 * Takane receives the Snake of Opening Eyes; her body remains in Kenjirou's lab while her mind becomes Ene and enters the cyberspace.
 * Haruka's body receives the Snake of Awakening Eyes and becomes Konoha, while Haruka's mind remains in the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano falls off her school's rooftop, receives the Snake of Favoring Eyes, and remains in the Kagerou Daze.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes forces Kano to work for him by threatening Kido, Seto and Kenjirou's lives.
 * He forces Kano to use his eye ability to make it seem like Ayano left a corpse in the real world.
 * While going back home, Kano, currently looking like Ayano and unable to return to his true appearance, meets Shintaro, and accuses him of being at fault for Ayano's death.

After 08.15. -2 Years

 * Shintaro, having lost his friends Ayano, Haruka and Takane, drops out of school and becomes a shut-in.
 * Kido, Seto, and Kano leave the Tateyama household and relocate to their own hideout.
 * Marry leaves her cottage in the forest and joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Momo debuts as an idol.
 * Ene emails herself to Shintaro and remains there without telling him her identity.

08.14.00 (Present Day)

 * Shintaro spills soda on his computer, so he and Ene go out to buy a new one in the mall and get caught in a terrorist plot.
 * Momo meets Kido, Kano, and Marry and joins the Mekakushi Dan. The four go to the mall and get involved in the terrorist plot.
 * The two groups solve the terrorist incident together.
 * Shintaro gets grazed by a bullet, collapses, and is taken to the Mekakushi Dan hideout.
 * Ene joins the Mekakushi Dan.

08.15.00

 * Shintaro wakes up in the Mekakushi Dan hideout, meets Kido, Seto, Kano and Marry and is forced to join.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes orchestrates the deaths of Hibiya and Hiyori with Kano's help, while Konoha also enters the Daze with them as an "outsider".
 * Hibiya and Konoha return to the real world, with the former receiving the Snake of Focusing Eyes.
 * The Mekakushi Dan goes to the amusement park.

08.17.00

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes moves to Konoha's body, killing Kenjirou.
 * The Mekakushi Dan, besides Seto, Marry, and Hibiya, are killed by Clearing Eyes or willingly directly enter the Kagerou Daze opened by Azami.
 * Azami's memories are transferred to Marry's body, who uses them to trap Clearing Eyes in the Kagerou Daze, but doesn't defeat him because most of the Dan is dead.
 * The Mekakushi Dan communicate over the phone and decide to rewind the world, implying they'll defeat him next time.

Anime Route (Mekakucity Actors)
The placement of the anime route is set after the Music, Manga, and Novel routes and incorporates them by showing them off as other rewinds. This route originally reveals that Shintaro was given Retaining Eyes in Manga Route 2 by Marry. It ends with the defeat of the Snake of Clearing Eyes. Jin has stated he wants to write a novel version of Mekakucity Actors before moving onto the "next phase" of Kagerou Project.

08.15. -<5 Years

 * Ayaka and Kenjirou die in a landslide, and the latter receives the Snake of Clearing Eyes.

Before 08.15. -2 Years

 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes, acting towards Kenjirou's wish to see Ayaka again, makes a plan to bring all the snakes to the real world to create a new Medusa that can merge the Kagerou Daze and the real world together.
 * The Snake of Clearing Eyes begins its plans to kill Takane and Haruka to make them contact the Kagerou Daze.
 * Ayano and Shintaro meet in middle school as classmates.


 * Takane and Haruka present their game "Headphone Actor" at their high school's culture festival.
 * Kano and Kido visit their classroom, though they do not introduce themselves.
 * Shintaro beats Takane at the game with a perfect score.
 * Ayano befriends Takane and introduces herself as Kenjirou's daughter and her future schoolmate.
 * Ayano learns of the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.
 * Ayano and Shintaro enter high school and befriend Takane and Haruka. Takane starts having feelings for Haruka.
 * Ayano has Kano go to school while feigning to be her with his eye ability, and uses the opportunity to look for information regarding Azami and her snakes in order to conjure a plan to stop the Snake of Clearing Eyes's plan.

08.15. -2 Years

 * Ayano commits suicide to gain Favoring Eyes and stays inside the Kagerou Daze to prevent Clearing Eyes from gathering all the snakes in the real world.
 * Kano is forced to act as Ayano's corpse by the Snake of Clearing Eyes.
 * Clearing Eyes causes the deaths of Haruka and Takane, bringing Awakening Eyes and Opening Eyes into the real world. Kano is shown their bodies by Clearing Eyes.

After 08.15. -2 Years

 * Shintaro becomes a shut-in.
 * Kano, Seto, and Kido leave home to their base and Kano has them become the Mekakushi Dan again. He has them use code names and makes Kido their commander.
 * Ene journeys through technology and the internet. After about a year she sends herself to Shintaro's computer to help him, which was Ayano's last wish to her.
 * Momo debuts as an idol.
 * Konoha lives with Kenjirou.

08.14.00 (Present Day)

 * Shintaro spills soda on his computer, so he and Ene go out to buy a new one in the mall and get caught in a terrorist plot.
 * Momo meets Hibiya, and later meets Kido, who was sent to find her by Kano, and joins the Mekakushi Dan.
 * Kano and Seto are with Shintaro during the attack (Seto is usually not in this event).
 * Shintaro has Ene hack the system while the Dan distracts the terrorists, and he passes out (In other routes he's grazed by a bullet then passes out).
 * Shintaro dreams of the Snake of Retaining Eyes he possesses.

08.15.00

 * Hibiya spends the day with Hiyori.


 * Shintaro wakes up, meets with the Dan.
 * Shintaro leaves the base and meets Konoha, who's looking for Hibiya and Hiyori. The later are found being kidnapped and Konoha goes to save them, but they're hit by a truck. Shintaro observes them getting swallowed by the Kagerou Daze.
 * The Mekakushi Dan go to Ayano's grave. Ene reveals her past.
 * Seto runs into Shintaro and Hibiya and informs the Dan.
 * Kano takes Ene to her physical body.
 * Momo, Marry, and Kido go the hospital where Seto and Shintaro are, and meet Hibiya who has now gained Focusing Eyes.
 * Hibiya is taken back to base where Momo, Shintaro, and Kido discuss what they know about the Kagerou Daze. Marry is tasked with watching Hibiya, but falls asleep.
 * Hibiya wakes up and overhears the conversation, and runs away, and Momo and Kido chase him down.
 * Shintaro walks to the room Hibiya and Marry were in and sees the picture of Ayano with the Dan, causing him to activate his ability and regain his memories. He most likely then kills himself to enter the Kagerou Daze to get to Ayano.
 * Hibiya, Momo, and Kido are kidnapped by Clearing Eyes' goons. While in their cell, Momo uses her ability to draw everyone's attention outside to get the other member's to help them, while Kido hid it from everyone in the building.
 * Konoha instinctively finds his way to the Queen Snake carrier, Marry. They then are drawn to Momo's performance on the TV, and decide to go to her.
 * Kano, Seto, and Takane are drawn in by Momo's performance and go to where they are, leading everyone but Shintaro to them.
 * In the Kagerou Daze, Shintaro gets to Ayano to bring her out. He also goes to Haruka.
 * The Dan then confront the Snake of Clearing Eyes in Kenjirou's body, who then shoots Konoha and takes control of his body, and attacks the Dan.
 * Marry starts to gather snakes to rewind time, but is convinced by her friends they can beat him.


 * Shintaro brings Ayano out of the Kagerou Daze and has her project his memories of the routes to Marry, who then opens the Kagerou Daze and swallows everyone.
 * Kenjirou is reunited with Ayaka, granting his wish and leaving the Snake of Clearing Eyes in need of one.
 * The Mekakushi Dan manage to finally overcome the Snake of Clearing Eyes and Haruka forces him to grant Konoha's wish to save Hiyori, thus making him become a surrogate for her and he loses his sentience.
 * Marry talks to her mother before leaving the Kagerou Daze.

After 08.15.00

 * All Mekakushi Dan members are alive besides Konoha, and Haruka is shown among them now using Konoha's body.

Route XX
Route XX is shown in Losstime Memory and follows Shintaro in a black hoodie in events that occur in the Music Route, according to official timeline guides. In Route XX, Shintaro remains depressed in his home with Ene, who is shown in the outfit she wears in Jinzou Enemy. On August 15th, after dreaming of Ayano (possibly the Snake of Retaining Eyes) and being woken up by Ene, he kills Ene and then commits suicide by stabbing himself in the throat with red scissors. In the Kagerou Daze, he briefly meets Azami and then Ayano, but he is incapable of moving forward and begs her not to leave him. The Losstime Memory PV ends Route XX with Shintaro shown laying awake in his bed.

Route 1
Depicted in Losstime Memory, Route 1 follows Shintaro in a red jersey leaving his house on August 15th and going to the Mekakushi Dan's hideout to meet them. He briefly hears Ayano (possibly the Snake of Retaining Eyes) calling out to him and turns towards her direction, but he does not see anything. Later, the Mekakushi Dan observes the Snake of Clearing Eyes taking over Konoha's body. Konoha, briefly gaining control, puts a gun to his own head, but Shintaro pushes him and takes the shot instead, dying instantly. In the Kagerou Daze, he walks past Azami and confronts Ayano with a smile. Ayano smiles back and gives him her scarf, and his eye ability activates.

Kagerou Daze -in a day's- Route
It's unclear when this route takes place, though likely after Manga Route 2 due to Shintaro having his eye ability. Sidu said this route has a sequel called "route-2", but did not go into detail. Besides character design changes, this is an alternate version of the terrorist plot. There is notably a member of the terrorist group that has an eye ability, which Shintaro noticed. He and the Dan mistook the leader as having the eye ability, but after the incident he realized it was someone else. A bomb goes off in the building at the end of the movie, leaving what happens unclear.

Post-Good End
Eventually, the Snake of Clearing Eyes is defeated, with the Mekakushi Dan (besides Konoha) and Haruka surviving. This outcome is currently only shown in Mekakucity Actors' Route and in the ending theme Summertime Record. It is shown in Mekakucity Actors and in the post-Summertime Record chapter Lost Day Hour that Ayano and Hiyori survive as well. Jin has expressed interest in writing about a "new Mekakushi Dan" in the future. In a November 28, 2018 interview he said he wants the next story to be about a "future saga" and is currently experimenting on a new light novel and might do a new manga series as well.

Manga

 * Lost Day Hour

Music

 * Shissou Word (partially)
 * Lost Day Hour
 * Remind Blue

Kagerou Daze No.9
A spin-off set 3 years later titled Kagerou Daze No.9, was announced on June 8, 2019. It also consists of Music, Manga, Anime, and Light Novels, with one currently being written. It'll be screened in January 2020 and show a different "angle" not shown before.