10-nenmae ni Time Leap shite Osananajimi no Ojousama wo Tasuketara Iinazuke ni Narimashita - Ch. 5

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Ah, I remember this girl's archetype from playing Tokyo Xanadu (Rion). Japanese culture's obsession with Idols is annoying.

Thanks for the translation.
 
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I have never read the source novel, and thus I'm not really spoiling anything, just making a guess.

If Minamori Sara is not remembered by the main character (“I don't remember it” on the 18th page, “there wasn't a girl like this before the time leap” on the 21st page, “I also don't remember her name” on the 22nd page), then we have one of the following three possibilities:

① She's a fellow time traveler. Unlikely. While this is not a decisive evidence, we nevertheless should notice that Enami Shuusuke seems to recognize “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara”, but not “Minamori Sara” the classmate. Hence the idoru must have been successful in the previous timeline (at least to the point of being easily recognizable). Unless I am wrong about his thoughts of “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara” and they should instead be treated as an early foreshadowing of who she becomes later in a story told much later about this timeline (like the meaning of the words “your mother” in a story of the “and that's how I met your mother” kind that is told to the children that are born later, for example).

② Enami Shuusuke have never seen her in the previous timeline because he was greatly depressed because of the death of his childhood friend and thus not interested in making new friends — to the point of not remembering a classmate.

③ She's a butterfly effect. She was never in his school in the previous timeline, but then Yorumiya Hina, just by being alive, somehow caused the idoru to appear in the same class. Or then Enami Shuusuke, by leaking some future events to the maid, prevented some obstacle on the idoru's career path. (For example, if the extended family of Yorumiya Hina somehow was an irreplacable investor in Minazuki Sara's career — so irreplacable that the family's perilous nosedive in the previous timeline could easily bring the whole Sara's career down with them. Imagine her immediate employer, some agency, being bankrupt in that crisis. And all the other potential employers are suddenly, like, “we aren't willing to buy your assets in this economy, the success of our own idoru is already greatly threatened by the artificial cuteness of virtual YouTubers and by the recent results of neural generation” etc.) Or right now Enami Shuusuke, by talking to Sara, prevents her feeling sick to the point of cancelling her live concert and then cancelling her enrollment to this school (the latter is either out of embarrassment or if the live concert was contractually essential to the enrollment somehow).
Those are all good possibilities, out of them, I think I see more likely and more interesting the third one.

The one that I pictured was that she would also have died without his intervention. She might not have returned to the class because she continued to fell nervous without their chat, so she never introduced herself during that activity they always do on the first day. She might have come the next day, but they never interacted, so he never heard her name. At some point, she got a stalker and they killed her, or something like that. The MC knew about her because she was on the news or her sister followed her and was heartbroken for her death.
 
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Don't tell me she also died in the past, or something like that, hence why he didn't immediately remember her. At first I thought it was because she came to this school as a consequence of the FL coming as well, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I mean, they are in the same class but he didn't knew about her, so maybe something happened and she never attended classes in the past.
 
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I have never read the source novel, and thus I'm not really spoiling anything, just making a guess.

If Minamori Sara is not remembered by the main character (“I don't remember it” on the 18th page, “there wasn't a girl like this before the time leap” on the 21st page, “I also don't remember her name” on the 22nd page), then we have one of the following three possibilities:

① She's a fellow time traveler. Unlikely. While this is not a decisive evidence, we nevertheless should notice that Enami Shuusuke seems to recognize “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara”, but not “Minamori Sara” the classmate. Hence the idoru must have been successful in the previous timeline (at least to the point of being easily recognizable). Unless I am wrong about his thoughts of “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara” and they should instead be treated as an early foreshadowing of who she becomes later in a story told much later about this timeline (like the meaning of the words “your mother” in a story of the “and that's how I met your mother” kind that is told to the children that are born later, for example).

② Enami Shuusuke have never seen her in the previous timeline because he was greatly depressed because of the death of his childhood friend and thus not interested in making new friends — to the point of not remembering a classmate.

③ She's a butterfly effect. She was never in his school in the previous timeline, but then Yorumiya Hina, just by being alive, somehow caused the idoru to appear in the same class. Or then Enami Shuusuke, by leaking some future events to the maid, prevented some obstacle on the idoru's career path. (For example, if the extended family of Yorumiya Hina somehow was an irreplacable investor in Minazuki Sara's career — so irreplacable that the family's perilous nosedive in the previous timeline could easily bring the whole Sara's career down with them. Imagine her immediate employer, some agency, being bankrupt in that crisis. And all the other potential employers are suddenly, like, “we aren't willing to buy your assets in this economy, the success of our own idoru is already greatly threatened by the artificial cuteness of virtual YouTubers and by the recent results of neural generation” etc.) Or right now Enami Shuusuke, by talking to Sara, prevents her feeling sick to the point of cancelling her live concert and then cancelling her enrollment to this school (the latter is either out of embarrassment or if the live concert was contractually essential to the enrollment somehow).
I think you're right about Shuusuke having saved her by talking to her. In the original timeline she probably felt too sick to come to class that day and her live performance was either cancelled... or she threw up on stage, basically ending her career as an idol. Of course she never came back to school out of fear of being recognized (so Shuusuke never met her). Her throwing up on stage would be news among highschoolers. She probably quit school after that and became a shut-in, as changing schools would solve nothing and highschool is not mandatory in Japan. At best she lived as a shut-in for a few years until everyone had forgotten about her, then started working as a part-timer in some convenience store, but changing her hairstyle so that it obscures part of her face, still afraid of being recognized. At best. At least that's my speculation, adding to your point.
 
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I have never read the source novel, and thus I'm not really spoiling anything, just making a guess.

If Minamori Sara is not remembered by the main character (“I don't remember it” on the 18th page, “there wasn't a girl like this before the time leap” on the 21st page, “I also don't remember her name” on the 22nd page), then we have one of the following three possibilities:

① She's a fellow time traveler. Unlikely. While this is not a decisive evidence, we nevertheless should notice that Enami Shuusuke seems to recognize “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara”, but not “Minamori Sara” the classmate. Hence the idoru must have been successful in the previous timeline (at least to the point of being easily recognizable). Unless I am wrong about his thoughts of “the popular idol, Minazuki Sara” and they should instead be treated as an early foreshadowing of who she becomes later in a story told much later about this timeline (like the meaning of the words “your mother” in a story of the “and that's how I met your mother” kind that is told to the children that are born later, for example).

② Enami Shuusuke have never seen her in the previous timeline because he was greatly depressed because of the death of his childhood friend and thus not interested in making new friends — to the point of not remembering a classmate.

③ She's a butterfly effect. She was never in his school in the previous timeline, but then Yorumiya Hina, just by being alive, somehow caused the idoru to appear in the same class. Or then Enami Shuusuke, by leaking some future events to the maid, prevented some obstacle on the idoru's career path. (For example, if the extended family of Yorumiya Hina somehow was an irreplacable investor in Minazuki Sara's career — so irreplacable that the family's perilous nosedive in the previous timeline could easily bring the whole Sara's career down with them. Imagine her immediate employer, some agency, being bankrupt in that crisis. And all the other potential employers are suddenly, like, “we aren't willing to buy your assets in this economy, the success of our own idoru is already greatly threatened by the artificial cuteness of virtual YouTubers and by the recent results of neural generation” etc.) Or right now Enami Shuusuke, by talking to Sara, prevents her feeling sick to the point of cancelling her live concert and then cancelling her enrollment to this school (the latter is either out of embarrassment or if the live concert was contractually essential to the enrollment somehow).
There's also a more-remote possibility in that her family was tied in some way to Hina's pre-time skip death accident and that the Yorumiya family took her family down or made it tough for them. This would be like the reverse of the Yukinoshita family owing Hatchiman a favor in SNAFU.
 

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