Board Thread:Anime/@comment-24356739-20170701075622/@comment-2602:306:CFDB:F970:689F:B5FE:94E0:6497-20170702194740

Actually the more I think about it, the more it seems like... if time travel becomes possible and it's possible to change the present through changing the past... how the hell would you ever be able to tell which was the "real" and "original" history anyway? And how can you weigh whether any one history, one reality, is objectively better than another (ok fine, presumably "the history that doesn't lead to humanity blowing itself up in WWIII" would be preferable, but on any smaller scale than annihilation of all humanity, you do land in a moral grey zone of "better" just being better for some people/countries and worse for others)?

How would the saniwa protect himself from the possibility of not existing due to a time traveller altering his ancestors' past? How would the saniwa know if something got changed - if the change impacts the present reality from let's call it History A to History B, then the moment it's changed the saniwa would already have grown up living in History B and would therefore have no idea of the existence of History A, right? Does the saniwa - and his swordboy army - exist outside of time? What happens if the swords visit the exact same time period more than once? What if they run into their former or future selves - they would logically have to at some point, right?

I don't necessarily expect the show to consider these holes (frankly, pretty much all time travel stories have contradictions, and this is very obviously not even aiming for a serious/hard scifi story anyway), I just think it opens up some fun possibilities if the show does go there. I mean, it's the same studio behind Fate Stay Night so some subversion of heroic mission tropes wouldn't be entirely out of the question...

I suppose I could also ask why bother using swordsmen (on either side) when obviously this would be a better job for poisoners, assassins, saboteurs, or heck you don't even have to drop a person just send a freaking bomb and see how that fucks history - buuuuuut the obvious answer to that is cos swordfights are more fun to watch lol.