HEY! She did awesome things in Akane’s route and played a fairly good part for someone not-introduced in Common at all!
One of the bravest characters in the VN.
I don’t quite remember what she did. Care to refresh my memory? 
Showed Kotarou that he will never be good at summoning techniques through beating him with the Shimako corps, teamed up with Kotarou during the Key capture and had done a majority of the background work there if you listen to what is happening to her during it. And of course, her moments in the underground finally speaking to try and take the fate from Akane.
That final scene tho. Totally redeemed herself of the Holy Woman-ness.
I got some serious bro-feels with Yoshino when they met during the apocolypse, I had cast my mind away from Yoshino and all the scenes with him in gave more feels than the rest of the route for me.
I really quite liked most of the stuff once bad stuff happened, definitely my favourite route so far.
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[17:46:52] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: OH MAN ARE YOU EVER IN FOR DISAPPOINTMENT
[17:56:58] Bizkitdoh: Literally said the same thing before Akane
[17:57:04] Bizkitdoh: Bone liked Akane route the most.
[17:57:09 | Edited 17:57:11] Bizkitdoh: Baka Kanon.
[17:57:20] Bizkitdoh: Terra is awesome~
[17:57:23] Bizkitdoh: Enjoy~
[17:57:25] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: Akane’s route is literal garbage though.
[17:57:32] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: "Oh man-
[17:57:37] Bizkitdoh: Your taste is literal garbage.
[17:57:43] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: Hold on I’ll take it to the thread for spoilers
Aight so for one thing I don’t really like Akane’s route to begin with, but for the most part, I’d chalk that up to ‘eh, not my cup of bananas’, it’s mostly ok it’s just not for me.
But do you know what was pretty cool? That whole ‘muh blade is evolving’ thing. That was genuinely awesome…and theeeeeeen…
“Oh man this blade literally exists for the sole purpose of cutting the Earth Dragon and literally nothing else, I am explictly stating that it can only cut the Earth Dragon”
[PROCEEDS TO CUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE EARTH DRAGON WITH IT]
And that’s why Akane’s route is undefendable, bad writing doesn’t even describe that, it’s contradicting what you literally just said.
I mean hey, it’s so unbelievably idiotic I started to doubt it even happened while I made this post, so I went and checked, nope still there.
Wow holy crap that is pretty dumb, I completely missed that. God damn it writers.
I’d like to see this from a JP point of view. Rewrite Tanaka route’s are known to have glaring TL errors, but yeah that’s pretty problematic. Still doesn’t ruin the entire route. Heh. Kind of an extreme perspective you have, but it is what it is.
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Sounds to me like it’s mainly just other stuff.
No no that scene is just that fucking dumb, no excusing it.
You’d need some pretty phenomenal translation errors to make it ok.
Yeah he spends all the time to specialise them for the Earth Dragon but then his plan was to attack the Key instead so why did he even bother that much and how did it kill the Key?
I feel like her route was like a real novel, it has a lot of hidden things you have to think or you won’t come across them at all haha
I cried at the end with Shimako talking, that was heartbreaking.
Fun fact: Akane’s ending song is my favorite track from the whole game.
[quote=“Kanon, post:26, topic:47”]
[17:57:25] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: Akane’s route is literal garbage though.[17:57:32] ♪~I have an empty sauce packet in my poc~ket~♪: "Oh man-
[17:57:37] Bizkitdoh: Your taste is literal garbage.
[/quote]Rekt
I liked Akane’s route. It’s my second favorite heroine route. It had mistakes, and they missed out some character sprites, but that doesn’t really matter to me. It engaged me, gave me an idea of what this Kotarou wanted, and showed a lot of character development.
A lot of people don’t like how Akane wasn’t really the main focus in the route, but I felt like Kotarou was a much better focus anyway, and any small mistakes like Kotarou’s thoughts of Rewriting don’t mean much to me when the big picture of the route was so epic, similar to how in my favorite route (Lucia’s) the final battle scene’s Kotarou was the most annoying thing since Emiya Shirou, but the rest of the route was brilliant, so it balances out~
It was a good route, and it was fitting, especially since I read it just before Moon/Terra.
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To be fair, Ixrec is probably the best fan translator you could ask for. he literally goes out of his way to translate the really hard VNs, and does a pretty damn good job of it too; so I wouldn’t expect TOO many errors. there are definitely a few out there though.
Also, I’d like to point out to everyone here (not gonna quote anyone because more than one person was talking about it and I’m lazy) that swords are SPECIFICALLY made to kill people; but that doesn’t mean we can’t use them to cut wood and start a fire. We can also use them to kill animals if need be. Just because something is explicitly made for one use doesn’t mean it can’t be used for other things.
He does make a big deal about the fact that he won’t be able to use his blades for anything else ever again though.
I thought about this but I haven’t reread it.
Still though, he makes a big deal on saying that they’re /made/ for this purpose and says a bunch of shit to reach that end- But that still doesn’t mean that they can’t be used for anything… Right? Like, they still exist. They don’t just phase through shit they touch that aren’t Earth Dragon. Saying they’re grown for that sole purpose means they’re possibly the only tool perfect for the job- BUT they’re still blades. Strong ass fucking blades too! 
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No see that’s the excuse people have given me for this before(hurr kagari is flimsy as shit if it can break the earth dragon it can break her), it doesn’t apply here because:
Kotarou says several times things to the effect of ‘man I ain’t gonna be able to use this for anything else, oh well fuck it’.
Being so specific fits with the evolution thing going on, he was making the literal perfect counter to the Earth Dragon at the cost of everything else. Evolution cares not for unnecessary elements to the ultimate goal in mind, ‘cutting things that are not the Earth Dragon’ were unnecessary elements, trying to include them is going to slow the evolution down, a luxury that could not be afforded. Seriously this was such a cool idea and he FUCKED it in the ass with that ending.
For a WILDLY out there comparison, the utterly useless Pokémon Shedinja happens to be a completely perfect counter to the best two of the three Pokémon in the game, Kyogre and Xerneas, who never, ever carry moves that can actually hurt it. Shendinja has no place in even the most garbage of teams filled with crappy normal types from the first route, it’s that bad, but it just so happens to be utterly invincible against the kings among gods.
It’s like that, the Earth Dragon is Kyogre and Xerneas, the Blade is Shedinja. It’s it’s absolutely specific purpose.
I don’t know what to feel about this route at all. It’s not terrible, but it’s not spectacular either.
When I first played the common route, it was hard to like Akane’s character. She seemed to me a true witch, cunning, cruel, and sickeningly depressing to reason with. She was my least favorite character in the game for quite a while. Now…I still think she’s my least favorite character, but I do respect her a tad more than I used to.
I can see why everyone wanted me to choose this route last. Out of all the routes, this one feels the most epic, and by the end of it, many things change drastically. This route definitely handles the transition from micro to macro very well. In fact, if there’s anything this route reminds me of, it’s Log Horizon. Political agendas are everywhere, there’s a good deal of fighting, and Akane is quite the strategist (even if her decisions aren’t always the best). She really knows her way with words, but she puts herself down quite a bit. She was born mentally handicapped, and even after undergoing the process of transcription, she exhibits a lot of anti-social behavior and low self-esteem, which explains why she’s always so pessimistic and calculating. When Gaia starts crumbling after the Key’s supposed death, Akane’s resolve also crumbles to dust. She only finds hope in ‘Salvation’ and refuses to move on, which even Koutarou finds appalling. She ends up causing more long-term damage to herself in the end, and probably would have committed suicide if it weren’t for Koutarou.
If this route was trying to get me to understand what Gaia does and why it chooses to value the Earth over humanity, it didn’t really convince me all that much. By this time, I had seen the full face of Guardian through Chihaya, Lucia and Shizuru, but didn’t know much about Gaia until now. Akane’s semi-biased explanation of how the two groups think still leads me to believe that Guardian is the more honorable group. My reasoning for it comes straight out of my notes while reading this route.
[quote]A summoner’s power comes from the inner mind, working from desire. (Houjutsu?) The reason and intent used can affect the summoning process. A dissatisfaction with the world but being unable to change it becomes a dark feeling, a terrifying monster called a familiar. It can be strong enough to consume a person.
People who encounter a problem they cannot solve can instead improve themselves until they can solve it. The only person they can trust is themselves, and strengthen themselves until they conquer their problem. These people are superhumans.
But if that’s true…Koutarou has no business being in Gaia. Since familiars can’t change the world, Gaia’s cause is hopeless, but Akane also says that Guardian’s cause is also misplaced because ideals are unrealistic and are just a way of avoiding solving the problem altogether. It is a solid argument, but it isn’t one that exactly puts Gaia in a better position. Koutarou is the kind of character, in my eyes, that is more of an idealist and optimist that always does what is necessary to achieve what he wants. He works so well with people like Lucia and Shizuru because they aren’t willing to just let what people call ‘reality’ stop them, even if that cause seems hopeless. [/quote]
I wrote all that during the explanation in the first third of the route. Over the course of the route, Koutarou himself begins to doubt Gaia’s teachings, but blindly sticks to them until the bitter end, which in part assists in the destruction of the world through a forced ‘Salvation’. To quote my notes again,
[quote]Gaia’s summoners believe that since the world has rejected them, they decide to change the world to fit their own desires, which is just as unrealistic as trying to achieve ideals. Akane knows this, but she can’t do a thing about it because she’s in a similar position. She’s anti-social, [and Kashima Sakura’s memories make her depressed to the point where she intends to carry out Salvation herself.]
[Guardian wants] to destroy the Key because they would rather ensure that humanity lives on rather than let the Earth decide that.
So Gaia believes that becoming a wiser, more righteous people will help sway the Earth’s favor? I can respect that, but you’re doing a terrible job at it.[/quote]
In the end, Gaia is just another corrupt religion, and Akane is just the corrupt leader/final boss.
Since I’m around the topic, let me talk about ‘The Question’ from the common route. Looking at this from a different angle than what the novel presents us with, neither choice is bad. Choosing to change the world rather than oneself puts a lot of responsibility, but having the skill and dedication to do so can benefit many lives. Lucia’s recycling ideal is one example that, unfortunately, never gets touched upon in her route. However, choosing to change oneself is usually the first step to changing others. If you hate yourself and what you’ve done, how can you love or help others? How can you accept the love of other people if you don’t feel like loving back? Akane goes through this dilemma in the latter third of the route, where she has to learn to accept and atone for what she’s done before she can fully love others, especially Koutarou.
If I were to choose, personally, I would choose changing myself. Many terrible and frightening things have happened to me over the past three years: life-changing traumas, serious sins I had to atone for, and the growing responsibility that comes with adulthood. How could I stomach all this without changing myself? So, that’s what I did. I decided to learn to come out of my autistic shell, started working on non-sedentary activities (even though much of what I do every day is sit in front of a computer), and changed my outlook on life. Before I met you guys, trying to engage in conversation with others was a struggle (and it still kind of is to this day). I lost many friends through trial and error, and had to start from scratch every time I messed up. Perhaps my efforts ended up working out in the end…But I digress.
As for other problems I had with this route, I felt it was a tad too long for its own good. By the final third of the route, I was beginning to wonder when this route was going to end. The long period where there’s a huge focus on Koutarou’s actions and Akane is nowhere to be found is probably the worst part of this route, and probably would have been irredeemable if it weren’t the fight with Takasago. There’s a few other things I could nitpick about, but this post’s too long already, so I’ll spare you guys the details.
In the end, Akane’s route is a decent-enough bookend that helps set up for what else is to come. With all the character routes complete now, it’s time to move on to Moon.
If Rewrite were an RPG, would Akane be the final boss?
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There actually is a bit of Harvest Festa which is sorta an RPG, called Rewrite Quest.
I’m looking forward to it a lot!
