

On the 6th episode of Mekakucity Actors, there was a scene where Takane was
directed by, presumably, her own voice to escape the city, which was falling
apart. Now, there was a similar scenario in the song the episode was based on
with the same title in the Kagerou Project, which was what the entire anime is
based on.

I'm not sure I understand what the purpose of this is. Because it doesn't seem
like it's real. The city she lives in is not literally falling apart, I don't
think. Otherwise everyone else would have died. So it must be symbolic for
something. Am I missing anything here? What is the purpose of the song and the
scene in that particular episode?


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What does Headphone Actor represent or mean?


The town falling apart isn't 'symbolic' of anything. The story premise was
that since she was brought into the Haze artificially she got looped in with
Hibiya and Hiyori's Haze the same way Haruka/Konoha did. Hence the line from
the song "Rioting people, a sobbing girl…" which is accompanied by the image
of the classic blue and pink spots that normally represent Hibiya and Hiyori.

The town falling apart was the end of the loop she had entered during and
because she was artificially stuck into their loop she wasn't going to enter
the second loop in the same manner of repetition that Hibiya would. It is
stated in the song Kagerou Days "With that, like a cricket’s sound being
disturbed, the light blue of summer darkened away…" Hibiya basically just
passes out and wakes up with the previous day repeating.

Because Hibiya followed the standards of normally entering the Haze, the loop
was customized to him. Takane/Ene would have to go through the day and upon
the town falling apart she would wake up the next day in the same situation in
the same spot as the day before to continue the loop. The crumbling town was
the destruction of that specific loop that would carry into the next loop upon
rebuilding the area from the beginning.

The reason that this wasn't repetitively shown is that she exited the Haze
before the loop completely ended, and through which she entered the computer
and then the story continues into Ene's Cyber Journey (Ene no Dennou Kikou).


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