The Kurugaya true epilogue became like unnecessarily convoluted in this version. It’s something like: The Kurugaya that narrates the summer epilogue is the part of Kurugaya that loves Riki who was locked away in some dream world/time bubble. And when that personification of emotions gets a message from Riki, then we go to the confession in autumn which may or may not be the real world. Dammit, Tonokawa, why you gotta do this?
I guess people may have complained about the original because Kurugaya is supposed to be in the hospital at the start of summer, but is this seriously the better alternative? Tonokawa seems to have been slightly obsessed with making people understand the “rules” of the dream worlds, whereas less would have been more. And how did Riki send a message and apparently go to that world yet still be surprised when she confesses. I very much don’t like this ending nor these edits. Even if it made no sense before, adding more cryptic bullshit won’t help.
(For context, the original went from “I had a premonition” to “I had thought it was a promise.” Everything in between was added in the EX update. )
