Can someone explain Liminality?

Andy00 · Post by **Andy00** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:42 pm

Okay, I'm trying to follow the liminality series. I've seen the english dub/sub of the first two (along with the official US games) and fansubs of 3 and 4.

The people......

Mai Minase - Scary eyebrow girl. Her boyfriend, Kasumi something, is the player Seig. They were both attacked by Skeith because they ran into Aura, but since Mai is able to discern musical notes, was able to overcome the "hypnosis" that prevents one from taking off the headset before getting data drained.

Yuki Aihara - Little blonde girl. Mostly around to get in trouble. Somehow connected to Junichiro, but I'm not sure how.

Kyoko Tohno - Older curly haired woman. Seems to know a lot about Emma Weiland and the Epitaph of Twilight. I take it she was a friend of Yuki's?

Tokuoka Junichiro - Ex-programmer of the Japanese branch of CC. Upset that Cyberconnect is conspiring to keep the coma's quiet. Seeks out Mai in the first OAV.

Man in Black (Kuro no Bito) - Associate of Helba's. (For all we know, he might _be_ Helba.) Does _not_ wear a suit and ray-bans. Or anything black, for that matter.

I'm somewhat confused how Yuki, Kyoko, and Ai are tied to each other. Who's friends of who, who contacted who, etc?

Then there's Limanility 4. When they broke into Cyberconnect, what exactly did they do? All I understood was something about different servers, and Tokuoka getting evidence. Mai had her headset on, and seemed to be with her boyfriend and Orca, fighting...something.

I understand that this will involve spoilers for the games.

Tasogare · Post by **Tasogare** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:46 pm

In the first Liminality when Tokuoka accesses Seig's account a lot of messages come up from Yuki and Kyo.

YashaOokami · Post by **YashaOokami** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:49 pm

Yuki was one of the victims during that major crash with the computers in the entire district,where at the movie theatres she was at,on the screen while the movie was playing,it seemed to fade out and the words "The World" appeared on the screen,leaving the whole building in darkness,due to what happened in the game,from Mutation.

I'm not really clear on Kyoko's case...she said something about playing The World from before,but I might be wrong on that.

Xeno · Post by **Xeno** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:52 pm

Andy00 wrote: Mai Minase - Scary eyebrow girl. Her boyfriend, Tominari something, is the player Seig. They were both attacked by Skeith because they ran into Aura, but since Mai is able to discern musical notes, was able to overcome the "hypnosis" that prevents one from taking off the headset before getting data drained.close enough...

Yuki Aihara - Little blonde girl. Mostly around to get in trouble. Somehow connected to Junichiro, but I'm not sure how. Tokuoka found her and Kyo in Limanality one by breaking into Sieg's user account and reading his e-mails...
Kyoko Tohno - Older curly haired woman. Seems to know a lot about Emma Weiland and the Epitaph of Twilight. I take it she was a friend of Yuki's? Same as above...her, Yuki, and Sieg all played together. She's also an expert on the Epitaph of Twilight, so she may have minute connections to Helba.

Tokuoka Junichiro - Ex-programmer of the Japanese branch of CC. Upset that Cyberconnect is conspiring to keep the coma's quiet. Seeks out Mai in the first OAV. Correct

Man in Black (Kuro no Bito) - Associate of Helba's. (For all we know, he might _be_ Helba.) Does _not_ wear a suit and ray-bans. Or anything black, for that matter. have no idea what your talking about...

I'm somewhat confused how Yuki, Kyoko, and Ai are tied to each other. Who's friends of who, who contacted who, etc? I explained most of this above...they all played together

Then there's Limanility 4. When they broke into Cyberconnect, what exactly did they do? All I understood was something about different servers, and Tokuoka getting evidence. Mai had her headset on, and seemed to be with her boyfriend and Orca, fighting...something. Haven't seen liminality 4 yet...talk to Rhyste about that one.
I understand that this will involve spoilers for the games.

YashaOokami · Post by **YashaOokami** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:05 pm

Man in Black (Kuro no Bito) - Associate of Helba's. (For all we know, he might _be_ Helba.) Does _not_ wear a suit and ray-bans. Or anything black, for that matter. have no idea what your talking about...

He's referring to the guy in Liminality 4 that helps Tokuoka and the girls,break into the Cyber Connect place.

Rhyste · Post by **Rhyste** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 5:18 pm

At the end of volume four, Aura summons the comatose people to make a "big mega super awesome thunder jesus WOW" attack against Morgana/Corbenik.

Liminality is the boundary, mental boundary, of being one place and wanting to be another. You're always going to be "limited" to one place. Thus, "Liminality." The cast of Liminality is pretty much limiting themselves to the real world side of the Coma's in The World [the real world Era of the Twilight], while Kite is the one taking care of the game-side. It's a way of telling the story from two PoV's. As you notice, things that happen in the game affect the Liminality characters. Blah blah blah.

Andy00 · Post by **Andy00** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:20 am

I kinda knew about the mega attack.

I'm still wondering what the group in the real world were _doing_ though. Okay, Mai was helping coordinate the people in comas. What were they programming into the servers? What information specifically did Toukuoko get at the end of part 4? (That he kept, even though beaten by the police/security, whoever they were.)

BlackroseLover · Post by **BlackroseLover** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 3:13 pm

It is about the same thing the game is about.

the only difference is this is the people playing those inside the gameand what is going on outside "the World"

LiquidSnake · Post by **LiquidSnake** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 11:39 pm

Andy00 wrote:I kinda knew about the mega attack.

I'm still wondering what the group in the real world were _doing_ though. Okay, Mai was helping coordinate the people in comas. What were they programming into the servers? What information specifically did Toukuoko get at the end of part 4? (That he kept, even though beaten by the police/security, whoever they were.)

I'll take the gamble that whatever Tokouga got his hands on had to do with CCcorp's cover up of the coma situation. After all, if you recall the first episode of Liminality, that old geezer said that "you better find something you can use in court" if he wanted to challenge the company.

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Can someone explain Liminality?

Can someone explain Liminality?

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