

We know that the Day of Severance had to have happened some time after Kureha
was born. Indeed, it must have occurred sometime after Ginko and Kureha became
friends (i.e. after they met on the snowy battlefield past the Door to
Friendship), since they could not have become friends in the first place had
Severance already occurred.

We also know that the Day of Severance happened before episode 1 of the show,
because, of course, that's how the narrative begins in the first place. I'm
pretty sure that Severance was also before Ginko and Lulu met.

Can we pinpoint when the Day of Severance happened any more accurately
(relative to other events in the story)? In particular, it's not clear to me
whether the Day of Severance was before or after the day on which Reia sent
Ginko back across the Door to Friendship.

(Or maybe I've got this all wrong? In episode 11, the way Kureha's classmates
harass her about her friendship with bear-Ginko [during a flashback] seems to
suggest that the Day of Severance had already happened - so does that mean
that the Day of Severance even precedes the day on which Kureha went across
the Door to Friendship to fetch Kureha from the snowy battlefield?)


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When was the Day of Severance?


I believe the Day of Severance is the day Ginko is sent out into the
battlefield . Before this, tensions were rising at each side of the Wall - The
young bears were brainwashed into thinking fighting in this battle would gain
Kumalia's love, And you can see the human's disdain for bears when Kureha is
picked on as a child for being a 'bear-lover'.

The Wall of Severance was erected after the battle (hence the Day of
Severance) to separate the two worlds.

There seems to be an oversight in the plot in regards to the Door of
Friendship and when it was built, which is what I personally found confusing.
It appears that the door of friendship was built prior to the day of
severance, but only discovered in the midst of the battle. It does seem a
little odd how this portal was overlooked for so long if it already existed,
and what use it served without the wall in place.

Neither world seems to know much about the portal, it seems to be a only known
about by Ginko, Kureha, Reia and Lulu. One theory is it could have been built
by Kumalia, another is that it's a plothole.


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