SPOILER ALERT
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ALONG WITH EXPLANATION
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.Basically they're in a computerized world, Toki and Kon were pulled into the world by other means then the way all the other people in that world were so they can defy the 'rules' of the virtual world. Treat it more like a rpg that the main 'player' got tossed into and all the NPC's happen to be real players stuck in an NPC curse that holds them in their role until the 'special players' unlock their memories like so.
From what I've gotten the plot is 'God' Teiten [or however it's spelled too lazy to go look] is actually an organization that kidnaps people and those people go missing, when they turn up it's with mental issues because of their experiments with the virtual world. With me so far? Ok well that organization funded the virtual museum that Toki and Kon disappeared during, the minutes in the real world is like months in the virtual world. Hence when Toki last saw Kon til the moment he appeared in the virtual world on the bridge was well over a year's time.
Here's the kicker, every person human, youkai, spirit, ect are all a person from the real world. You just don't know who is who in the real world, they look nothing like they should and memories only started showing up in them with Toki since he's fighting the system so hard to find a way to save everyone after all.
So to sum it up the story line is a mystery, psycho-therapy, horror, and definitely seinen with a history twist. You have to be able to keep up with it's jumps with flash backs, they don't alert you at all so you have to go "oh this is a time flash to let you know some information" it didn't click until they were at the place setting up for the museum.
If you're still confused you can just ask questions on where you're confused I'll try to answer with what I know from what I've read in this story, it's not all that confusing to me since I've read a bunch of tales that really mess with your mind like this and worse lol.
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Wowwwwwww!!!!!! Genius! Your explanation is so easy to understand.
I actually watch the anime 3 times and read the manga 2 times. Still, I can't imagine that it's actually like that. Speechless. ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄
I thought they were gone to the past or some other dimension... ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
I understand now. Maybe I go re read it again with your explanation in mind.
BTW, your explanation is actually better than the summary itself. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Lol, why thank you. Glad you understand it much better now and well the summary let on that it's a game world, but I can also see how it can be looked over lol. Hope with this explanation you read you can understand everything much better and see it all with clearer thoughts. I love the characters in the series lol.
So confusing. I don't understand the plot and I actually re-read it.