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 world created by Azami where time does not pass, and it swallows up anybody who dies on August 15. It is a central element of the Kagerou Project series.

Background

 * The Kagerou Daze was created when Azami, an immortal being, realized she was going to outlive her human husband Tsukihiko and their daughter Shion. The despair over this realization caused her to wish to stay with her family forever, and the Snake of Clearing Eyes answered her by suggesting that she create a place where "no pain, suffering and hopelessness existed" for them to move to. Following its instructions, Azami harnessed the powers of her ten Eye Abilities to create a new, eternal world where time does not pass,  which she later called the Kagerou Daze. Azami later taught its name to Kido, who then "named" the world herself a long time later.


 * How Azami enters the Kagerou Daze differs across the Routes of the series. In the Music Route, it is implied that Tsukihiko and Shion waited for Azami to return while she created the Kagerou Daze, but Tsukihiko died before she finished. As a result, she moved to the Daze alone out of heartbreak. Manga Route 2 and Mekakucity Actors show that her family agreed to enter the Daze, but Tsukihiko wanted them to have a traditional wedding before going and went back to his village to get Azami a wedding dress. However, his fellow villagers used that timeframe to attack Azami and Shion at their cottage. In the manga, Tsukihiko is seen returning to the cottage with the wedding dress as Azami was about to unleash her powers against her attackers. The exact moment when she enters the Kagerou Daze and why her family does not come with her are not shown. In the anime, Azami used her Eye Abilities to kill all the villagers but one, whom she used Stealing Eyes on to see that Tsukhiko was detained and tortured by her attackers earlier. Afterwards, she decided to enter the Kagerou Daze alone to not cause any more suffering to her family. Unfortunately, that world was revealed to be terrible, as Azami had been tricked by the Snake of Clearing Eyes.


 * Centuries later, Azami's daughter, Shion, and granddaughter, Marry, were murdered by humans,   and Azami ordered the Kagerou Daze to swallow them, keeping them in a state between life and death. There, the Snake of Clearing Eyes told her that she could save one of them by giving her Azami's Snake of Combining Eyes, which is the only snake that either were compatible with.  At Shion's insistence, Azami gave Marry the snake, which acted as a replacement for her life and allowed her to return to the real world    while Shion remained there.


 * However, the Snake of Combining Eyes, also known as the "Queen Snake", is ultimately responsible for controlling all of Azami's other snakes and the Kagerou Daze itself.  When Azami gave this snake to Marry, she lost control of the Kagerou Daze, which continues to carry out her last command to swallow those who die on the same day Shion and Marry did: August 15th.

Description

 * The Kagerou Daze is a world where time does not pass in the same fashion as in the real world, and instead it repeats itself endlessly.  Several hours, days or even decades may pass in the Kagerou Daze while only a second passes in the real world.


 * The Daze will physically take anyone who dies on August 15th in or near the area where Shion and Marry had originally died, which encompasses the forest they lived in, Kashiwa City, a beach   and an archeological site.  While it is possible to enter the Kagerou Daze alone,    because Azami specifically ordered the Kagerou Daze to swallow "two people on the brink of death", pairs that die together will enter the same "area" of the Kagerou Daze and experience the same settings together.    It is possible for even three people to enter the Kagerou Daze together, though it is unknown if larger groups can.   It is common for those who return from the Daze to not be able to remember their experiences there,   and those who can usually refer to what they went through as "nightmares".  Its victims are not limited to humans.


 * The entrance to the Kagerou Daze is depicted as and referred to as a "mouth" that "swallows" its victims and "spits out" those who return, whose exact visual details vary across the different media.  When it opens, it has a tangible range in the real world that can be visible even to those who aren't entering it.  The amount of time passed in the real world between one being swallowed by the Daze and being spat out seems to vary by situation. In some accounts, hours seemingly pass in the real world before a person returns from the Daze, while, in others, only a few moments or even seconds pass by instead.


 * Due to the loss of Azami's "Queen Snake", the rest of her snakes began to leave the Kagerou Daze through humans who enter it.  If someone who enters the 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 replacement for their life, thus giving them access back to the real world and the snake's Eye Abilities.  However, because of how rare it is for any of the remaining nine snakes to find a compatible host, many people who were swallowed by the Kagerou Daze are trapped there. A primary goal of the Mekakushi Dan is to learn more about the Kagerou Daze "phenomenon" to find a way to free the people trapped in it,   although so far nobody without a snake has been able to leave that world. One can choose to stay in the Kagerou Daze despite having a snake in their possession.   It is implied that, as long as they have a snake and it is August 15th in the real world, one can leave the Kagerou Daze no matter how many years passed since they entered it, even if it is not their first time being trapped there.


 * Marry can use the Snake of Combining Eyes to open a portal to the Kagerou Daze and have it swallow people on the brink of death outside of August 15th with at least two of Azami's snakes, including Combining Eyes itself, in her possession. She does so by shouting "Bring it on, Kagerou Daze!". With at least five snakes, she can assume control of the Kagerou Daze and change its very nature, such as having the Daze swallow living beings like the Snake of Clearing Eyes in Konoha's body  and the Mekakushi Dan.

Locations and Events

 * 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, and areas can seamlessly transition during said visits. Haruka also notes that the Kagerou Daze tends to depict people as they picture themselves, no matter how they actually look. Apparently, people cannot feel physical pain, hunger, feel sleepy or get tired in the Kagerou Daze,  but it seems to be possible for them to feel nauseated, be out of breath or in pain by other reasons.


 * The description of known Daze areas is shown below.

Azami

 * Azami is depicted being restricted in place by yellow ribbons in Outer Science's MV. This could be related to how she is depicted at the Daze by the time of Marry and Shion's deaths, her body kept in place by countless black snakes, which form a pillar where she hangs from. The Snake of Clearing Eyes stands before her, its form surrounding a floating rock. After she gives Combining Eyes to Marry, the snakes contract around Azami, bringing her pain.


 * According to the novels, by the time Kido is swallowed by the Kagerou Daze, Azami uses Opening Eyes to navigate through that world with her spirit-self while her body is presumably immobilized, as described above. When meeting Kido, Azami lived in a replica of the house that Tsukihiko built for her. Azami remarks that, in her current state, she only had access to Opening and Favoring Eyes. It is said that, once she gave those snakes to Takane and Ayano, respectively, Azami "disappeared".


 * In Manga Route 2, when Marry enters the Daze, she has a brief conversation with Azami, who is in a completely dark area.


 * The daze and days MVs also show Azami presumably in the Daze. In days, she is first shown in a dark area where a red light occasionally flashes, from which she seemingly can use Focusing Eyes to look at the real world. In daze, she is depicted in an area full of urban elements such as light poles and stop signs, similar to Hibiya and Hiyori's Daze area, in which the floor is distorted, akin to the real life phenomenon of a 'heat haze'. In both MVs, she is afterwards shown in an area with a bright blue sky and white clouds, holding a calendar page where August 15th is highlighted.

Tsubomi and Rin Kido

 * In Mekakucity Actors, Kido and her sister's Daze is shown as an endless maze of stairs, corridors and doors with fire by all sides, a direct reference to the state of the Kido mansion at the time of their deaths. The two of them navigate the place together, trying to open the doors to find an exit to the place. Eventually, Rin points to a door that serves as Kido's exit. Kido walks through the door, presumably leaving the Daze.


 * In the Novel Route, Kido finds herself alone in a completely dark place. Eventually, she spots a faint light, which guides her to Azami's house. While there, Azami tells Kido about herself and her history and comforts Kido over her trauma. To help with that, she teaches Kido how to use Concealing Eyes to forget traumatic memories.


 * Kido remembers seeing a portal to the Kagerou Daze opening when she died.  In Manga Route 2, she seems to have some recollection of her experience inside the Kagerou Daze, while in Novel Route she does not remember it.

Kousuke Seto

 * Seto's Daze has not been shown in any media so far. He does not remember either being swallowed by the Daze or his experience during it.

Shuuya Kano

 * According to the novels, Kano's Daze is a nighttime town where he could not spot any familiar elements to him. The sky is described as inky black, with only the moon standing out. The winds blows coldly and neon lights shine in the background.


 * While Kano walked around this area, the Snake of Deceiving Eyes approached him, and as it did, the whole scenario whirled into pure darkness, and the snake's words suggest that the whole townscape may have been an illusion created by its power. Kano feels himself be swallowed by the darkness, and before he loses consciousness, he hears the snake say that, from now on, he must "deceive them all".


 * Kano remembers being swallowed by the Daze, but not what he experienced while inside of it.

Marry and Shion Kozakura

 * When Marry and Shion are brought to the Daze, they are held in place by snake pillars in the same fashion as Azami. It is an area with a dark red sky, and several other snake pillars stand close by. In Mekakucity Actors, the three pillars holding Azami and her family stand above a torii. Once Marry receives the Snake of Combining Eyes, the pillar holding her in place bursts in a flash of light coming out of her frame. In Manga Route 2, after she is freed, Marry gets to grab the key to the Kozakura house hanging from Shion's neck before returning to the real world.


 * Marry does not remember her experience while in the Kagerou Daze.

Momo Kisaragi

 * Momo's Daze has not been shown in any media so far. She does not remember being swallowed by the Daze or what she experienced while inside of it, and she does not make the connection between her death and her Eye Ability until meeting the Mekakushi Dan.

Takane Enomoto

 * Takane's Daze is a metaphorical representation of her mental state towards the prospect of Haruka dying.


 * In her Daze, Takane wears her outfit from the Headphone Actor game in most Routes except Mekakucity Actors, where she instead wears her school uniform. She does not seem to remember the circumstances of her death while there. A voice in the radio announces that, before the day is over, the world will end, causing widespread despair across the populace. Birds can be seen flying against the crescent moon in the sky (blue in Headphone Actor's MV, deep violet in the Novel Route, orange in Mekakucity Actors), which appears alongside the setting sun. Takane is on a corridor, ready to give up on everything over the news, when she hears her own voice coming from her headphones (visually represented by Ene's visage in the MV and the manga). It tells her to get over a hill in twenty minutes if she wishes to survive. She begins to run, and as she does so, the city crumbles behind her. The voice guides her path and grows more urgent as the remaining time diminishes, reminding her that there is someone she needs to see. When Takane finally arrives at the hill, she realizes that the whole town is a simulation, with a giant wall over the now red sky.


 * In the Music Route, scientists explain to her how her whole life was a makeshift scenario, before casually destroying the town with a bomb. The voice apologizes to Takane. In Manga Route 1 and Novel Route, the voice gives up from the world, while Takane tries consoling her, saying that at least she came to figure out her true feelings. The sky crumbles to the ground and the programs burns itself away, as Takane sees her form connected to wires coming from her head. In the Anime Route, Takane's form dissolves in pixels while the city is now completely crumbled. She is then seen wrapped in wires while standing upside down in front of Azami for a brief moment, before being swallowed by a snake, presumably leaving the Daze. This could be related to the mention, in the novels, that Azami personally gave Opening Eyes to Takane.


 * In Manga Route 1 and the Novel Route, Takane remembers the events she experienced while in the Kagerou Daze in great detail, while in Mekakucity Actors, her memories are fuzzy.


 * After Takane dies during the confrontation with the Snake of Clearing Eyes in the Novel Route, she is seen in her Daze, where she talks to Haruka about her behavior towards him. It is described there as the ruins of a city, and she appears in her Ene form.

Shintaro Kisaragi

 * In Losstime Memory's MV, both Route 1 and Route XX Shintaro end up in what appears like a white void after dying. Route XX Shintaro is then seen sitting on the floor in front of Azami, while frames from the MV flash behind them. Route 1 Shintaro walks past Azami instead.


 * In the Novel Route, Shintaro arrives at the Daze after dying in a mostly empty white void, save for a pile of rubble over which a TV sits. He does not remember the events that transpired from the day he first went out for the first time in two years, August 14th, onwards at first. The TV plays what seems like the credits of a movie, but in a gibberish language. Eventually, Shintaro recognizes his own name at the "starring role" listed in the credits, and it is implied that the TV was playing out the events of his life. After meeting with Haruka, Shintaro comes to remember the events from August 14th up until he was killed by the Snake of Clearing Eyes.


 * Later, Shintaro's personal Daze area is shown to be the road he took to and from high school, whose equivalent in the real world is depicted in other media.  He has a conversation with Ayano there after the Mekakushi Dan collectively decides to rewind the world, regarding the Snake of Clearing Eyes' true goal with its plan, the likelihood of the existence of previous Routes, and Shintaro swearing not to forget the events of Novel Route, which he feels he might be able to do somehow.

Hibiya Amamiya, Hiyori Asahina and Konoha

 * Hibiya and Hiyori's Daze is an urban landscape where environmental elements are spread halfhazardly, such as stop signs, street poles, wires and semaphors. It is an area with a color scheme of bright red, white and blue. During their stay in the Daze, Hibiya and Hiyori relived the events of August 14th and 15th several times over the span of decades, with one of them always dying by the end of August 15th, be it by being hit by a truck, being impaled by poles or other ways.   Their awareness of the loop varies across the Routes. In the Music Route, both of them are aware of the deadly timeloop, while in the Novel Route only Hiyori seems to be aware of it, and in the Anime Route only Hibiya displays the awareness. In the Music and Mekakucity Actors Routes, a cat interacts with them during this event.


 * It is implied that the Snake of Focusing Eyes talks to Hibiya during his stay in the Daze in the Music Route, being the voice described as the "heat haze" itself, which mocks Hibiya's horror over the constant deaths by remarking that what he is going through is not a dream. Alongside it, Hibiya meets Ayano inside the Daze in the Novel and Anime Routes. Ayano teaches Hibiya about the existence of the Eye Abilities and other details about the Kagerou Daze, while Hibiya asks her about her hero ideal.


 * Konoha is shown entering the Daze alongside Hibiya and Hiyori in many Routes, but he is described as an "outsider" to their Daze, thus unable to interfere with their repeating deaths despite his constant efforts to do so. In the novels, Hibiya claims that Konoha just stood and watched the events while doing nothing to help.


 * Hibiya remembers his experiences inside the Kagerou Daze in most Routes.  In Manga Route 2, he does not remember his experience at first, likely out of trauma, but comes to recall his time there after meeting Ayano in the real world.  In that same Route, Hiyori is shown not to remember what happened there, and trying to do so is what triggers her activation of Focusing Eyes for the first time.

Haruka Kokonose

 * Haruka's Daze resembles an operating room. The entrance is a door with a red light over it, which stands by itself with no walls surrounding it. In the room, there is 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, and an eletrocardiogram monitor beeps at the background. When Haruka is in his Daze, he is unable to move from the bed.


 * When Haruka first arrived at the Daze, he found himself on the bed, with Konoha's lifeless form standing beside him. A voice then asks him if that was the body he wished for. In the Novel Route, this voice belongs to the Snake of Awakening Eyes, who explains to Haruka that, because his "spirit" is too "meager", his new body rejected him. The snake explains how glad it is that Haruka could serve as its new "master" and the dynamic regarding the snakes' need for wishes to grant. In Mekakucity Actors, the voice is accompanied by a sillhouette resembling Azami, suggesting that she is the one talking to Haruka. He explicitely rejects the body created by Awakening Eyes in this Route. In both scenarios, Konoha is swallowed by darkness and is sent to the real world with the Snake of Awakening Eyes assuming control of it, while Haruka stays in the Daze.


 * While he is in the Kagerou Daze, Haruka's senses are directly linked to those in his body, allowing him to be aware both of what he personally experiences and what Konoha does.  However, that connection is severed when the Snake of Clearing Eyes moves to Konoha's body, although that might not be an absolute fact, as seen when Haruka apparently intervenes during Shintaro and Ayano's confrontation with the Snake of Clearing Eyes in Mekakucity Actors. In the novels, when Konoha is brought to the Kagerou Daze alongside Hibiya and Hiyori, Haruka seemingly retrieves his body temporarily, but is unable to control it. During that event, he talks to the Snake of Awakening Eyes, whose personality has temporarily reverted back to its original snake-like one. Once Hibiya is picked as the host for the Snake of Focusing Eyes, Haruka loses his body once again, as Konoha returns to the real world alongside Hibiya.


 * In the novels, Shintaro meets Haruka in his Daze, where the two of them talk about Haruka's last year of life in the real world and the events that led him to become Konoha. Haruka then claims that Konoha, and by extension Haruka himself, "XXXXXed" Shintaro. Shintaro, remembering how he died, remarks that it was the Snake of Clearing Eyes who actually killed him, but Haruka blames himself for having wished for a supernaturally strong body to begin with. Shintaro comforts him over that, and while doing so, Ayano arrives to visit, which he mentions to happen sometimes. Whenever she visits, her Daze area superposes his, freeing Haruka from his bed. Haruka mentions that Ayano was the one who taught him about the details regarding the Eye Abilities and how the Daze works.


 * In Mekakucity Actors, when Shintaro and Ayano meet Haruka in the Daze, the area superposition does not happen. Shintaro says that he came to bring Haruka home. Haruka asks about Konoha, to which Shintaro replies that Konoha is a nice guy who tries following to Haruka's ideal. As they ponder about Konoha and Haruka's fate, the heart monitor flatlines.

Ayano Tateyama

 * Ayano's Kagerou Daze is a wooden school classroom drenched in the light of the sunset, similar to the classroom she and Shintaro attended back at school. 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. A gentle breeze comes from the windows.   Mekakucity Actors' depiction of her Daze has the classroom stand over a structure similar to construction poles, with a water like surface covering the ground level. A pillar stands inclined alongside the classroom, on which a clock's second handle ticks without ever moving forward. Ayano wears her middle school outfit in all Routes where she is seen in the Daze,   despite the fact that she died during high school.


 * Ayano is often depicted meeting different characters across the Daze, such as Shintaro, Hibiya, Haruka and Azami. In Losstime Memory, she meets both XX Route and Route 1 Shintaro. She admits that she is dead and apologizes for that. XX Route Shintaro, unable to accept her passing, begs Ayano not to leave him. Route 1 Shintaro, on the other hand, shows her that he has managed to move on, and Ayano smiles in response, wrapping her scarf around him.


 * In the novels, when she arrived at the Daze, Ayano met Azami, who was in a "pretty bad shape". Azami used Favoring Eyes to share her memories with Ayano, which she sympathized with. Ayano comforted Azami as the latter "disappeared" by giving Ayano that Eye Ability. This meeting explains the knowledge about the Eye Abilities, snakes and the Daze that she is able to share with other characters in this Route. When she visits Haruka while Shintaro was with him, both Shintaro and Haruka cry over their reunion. Later, Shintaro and Ayano discuss the actions that led her to end up in the Daze, and Ayano explains to him about Favoring Eyes. Shintaro then brings up the plan he came up with to have Hibiya use Focusing Eyes on Momo's phone in the real world to reach his own phone in the Daze.


 * In Mekakucity Actors, Shintaro arrives at Ayano's Daze by climbing a flight of stairs, then tells her that she does not have to fight alone anymore. Ayano cries in response, and the frozen clock in the pillar starts to move again.


 * A variation of this Daze is seen in Additional Memory's MV. In that song, Ayano's Daze has a more abstract and somber aspect, with desks appearing both on their normal location and hanging upside down from the ceiling, white chrysanthemums blooming all over the floor and a predominantly monochromatic color scheme. Ayano's eyes glow red throughout the MV, suggesting that the song's message might be her feelings being carried over with Favoring Eyes. Her demeanor is more melancholic than usually depicted, and she expresses feelings of regret over not having said the things she wanted to say while she was alive, such as, for example, her affection towards Shintaro. She seemingly recalls the moment of her death by jumping from the building several times during the song. Ayano is shown spending her time in the Daze by making paper cranes, in a similar fashion that she did back in the real world.


 * Additional Memory's MV also depicts some imagery related to her Route 2 self, such as a frame where Ayano is kneeling on the floor in front of Marry, in her Medusa form, who does the same. In this scene, a snake emerges from Ayano, which could be an allusion to her transformation into the Snake of Retaining Eyes in Manga Route 2.


 * In Manga Route 2, Ayano is held on a snake pillar in a similar fashion to that seen with Azami and her family during her stay in the Daze. She has Azami's thousands of years worth of memories projected over and over in her mind, to the point where she thought she was going to become insane.

Kenjirou and Ayaka Tateyama

 * Kenjirou and Ayaka's Daze has not been explicitely depicted in any media so far. It is unknown how much Kenjirou remembers about his experience in the Kagerou Daze.

Other shown areas in the Daze

 * In the seventh novel, Ayano has a conversation with an unidentified conversation partner in the Kagerou Daze, possibly Hiyori judging by pronoun use and by conversational cues. They discuss a plan that involves reaching Azami's feelings, before Ayano says that she is off to meet "someone she considers a hero". There are no descriptions of the physical space this conversation takes place.


 * In the eighth novel, the Mekakushi Dan members stuck in the Kagerou Daze (plus Rin) group around Shintaro when he contacts Seto in the real world thanks to Hibiya's Focusing Eyes. Shintaro starts the conversation checking on Seto, before everyone else present sends a message of their own. An illustration depiciting this moment only shows a white background. Once the others finished their conversation, Hiyori uses the opportunity to talk directly to Hibiya, asking him to save her from the Kagerou Daze in the next world.


 * In Mekakucity Actors, when Marry has the Kagerou Daze swallow everyone in the Snake of Clearing Eyes' laboratory, they are taken to an area with a white background, monochromatic street poles and a floor covered in lilac water, which crashes as waves in some corners. Bells ring from afar. In this location, Marry confronts the Snake of Clearing Eyes about his plan being put to an end. The snake protests, saying it can still work on Kenjirou's wish, but Kenjirou retorts, saying that his wish has already been granted. He is then seen alongside Ayaka in a starry field, before walking away with her. The Snake of Clearing Eyes has a breakdown, begging for a wish for it to grant, as the Mekakushi Dan watches. Haruka appears and brings up Konoha's final wish of saving Hiyori. Konoha's reflection appears in the water below the Snake of Clearing Eyes, and their forms merge together in the water as the Snake of Clearing Eyes "disappears". Marry is then seen talking to Shion in this same area, with the addition of black, spinning circular arches sprawling across the scenario, plus an orb whose surface resembles a blue sky hanging from above. Azami is seen standing over an arch, but does not talk or interact with anyone else.

Areas of unknown nature/knowingly not belonging to the Kagerou Daze

 * By the time Takane has the conversation with the Snake of Opening Eyes in Manga Route 1 and Novel Route, she had previously described the events that transpired while she was in the Kagerou Daze in vivid detail. That conversation, therefore, happens after she had already returned to the real world.


 * When Ene dies in Manga Route 2, there is a brief scene afterwards where Takane meets Haruka again in a similar fashion they did back when they were both hospitalized, by playing videogames together at the hospital's courtyard. It is not known whether she met him in the Kagerou Daze or if this was meant to be a dying "dream".


 * Shintaro and Ayano share a brief scene in Manga Route 2, where they stand together in what appears to be a white void. As Marry is resetting the world, Shintaro wonders if he will forget the events of this Route. Ayano, who by this point had already offered to be turned into the Snake of Retaining Eyes, responds in a vague way, before sharing Marry's and her own final messages to Shintaro. It is not known whether this conversation took place in the Kagerou Daze or not.


 * The Snake of Retaining Eyes is often seen talking to Shintaro in locations with properties similar to those seen in the Kagerou Daze, such as abstract architecture and shifting scenarios and outfits. However, considering the context in which these conversations happen, they most likely happen in some sort of mindscape in Shintaro's mind. In Manga Route 1, she appears to Shintaro after his death in a setting resembling their high school classroom, with the two of them wearing fitting uniforms. After having a study session with him as if she were her human self, the Snake of Retaining Eyes asks Shintaro what was the reason for the death, with the scenario changing to a funeral service for Ayano. The Snake of Retaining Eyes proceeds to tell Shintaro about the events of Manga Route 2. When she is done, she reveals her identity as Shintaro's snake and eye ability. Both she and Shintaro return to the outfits they wore in Manga Route 2, before she wraps her scarf on his neck, activating his eye ability. In some unknown Route, the Snake of Retaining Eyes watches the events that transpire from Shintaro's perspective from the windows of a classroom, inside of which she makes paper cranes, until he dies and meets her in this room. In Mekakucity Actors, Shintaro talks to the Snake of Retaining Eyes atop a giant gear like structure, upon which sit two school desks. Several other gears fill the background of this space.


 * In the fifth novel, there is an illustration depicting Kenjirou on his knees in front of a gaseous figure, with no details in the background. It is unknown whether this illustration is a depiction of an event transpiring inside the Kagerou Daze or not, or what the gaseous figure is meant to be.


 * Marry giving Retaining Eyes to Shintaro is depicted at first as occurring in what looks like a white void, on which Shintaro ends up at after having seemingly met Ayano in the Kagerou Daze. The next time the scene is depicted, Marry and Shintaro are seen on a background filled with a cosmic scenario, where planets and stars are visible. It is unknown whether this scene happens in the Kagerou Daze or not.

Trivia

 * The locations where each character is shown for the first time in the anime are the locations of their individual deaths, excluding Marry.
 * There are discrepancies regarding the informed dates for when some characters got into contact with the Kagerou Daze.
 * In Manga Route 2, Shintaro says that Momo's drowning incident happened five years before present time. However, when a flashback sequence to the incident is shown later in the same Route, someone remarks that Shintaro had just entered elementary school. In Japan, children enter elementary school in the April after they turn 6. Since Shintaro's birthday is on April 30th and he is 18 years old, he would be 7 years old by August 15th of the year he entered elementary school, which would set Momo's drowning incident as having happened eleven years in the past. This is a discrepancy of six years.
 * Also in Manga Route 2, Ayano says that the landslide incident that killed her and her parents happened three years before present time. However, it is later shown that Ayano got to attend high school before said incident. All other Routes show that Ayano only entered high school two years before present time,   so if Manga Route 2 Ayano has the same age as her counterparts, then the landslide incident would only have happened two years before present time. This is a discrepancy of one year.