The Bugle Call: Song of War - Vol. 9 Ch. 28 - Happy

[lab000]

@lab000 @the_Bear_from_Bearcave @pdot1123 @alacaelum You guys don't see to be bothered by the time traveling, curious if you see a reasonable explanation for this.

i just feel like extrapolating or expecting too much from something that's only been shown a small portion of is kinda premature
we dont even fully know how the time travel works, it's limitations, etc
this is why i never engage with speculation on any sort of fictional media cause in the end everything is in the hands of the author
same with alacaelum, the thing that interests me in this manga are the characters rather than the setting and plot so even if they introduce some ass-pull plot-point, plot-devices, etc as long as the characters stay relatively consistent and have interesting dynamics and interactions i won't really mind it

 

[Isobe-jan]

So in one timeline, country A would be chugging along happily all by themselves while the other countries would be fighting with other countries because they moronically decided to crowd into the same timeline.

From what I understand there is no timeline bullshit in this story. If you go back to the past you literally rewrite the past. What happened in the future before doesnt stay preserved in some other timeline. It literally changes. That's why they are going on about people being erased. The different countries cannot go to different timelines. It doesnt completely make sense to me however because then as soon as one country goes back in time, the future/present changes and potentially stops other countries from also going back so idk but ig the time travel hasnt been fully made clear and also we dont know exactly how it all played out in the future/present

 

[heluba]

From what I understand there is no timeline bullshit in this story. If you go back to the past you literally rewrite the past. What happened in the future before doesnt stay preserved in some other timeline. It literally changes. That's why they are going on about people being erased. The different countries cannot go to different timelines. It doesnt completely make sense to me however because then as soon as one country goes back in time, the future/present changes and potentially stops other countries from also going back so idk but ig the time travel hasnt been fully made clear and also we dont know exactly how it all played out in the future/present

If there were no multiple timelines then going back to the past will immediately rewrite the present. Since country A went back in time first, with the intent of dominating the other countries, then none of the other countries would have survived in the present, meaning none of them would have been able to go back. Effectively whoever goes back in time first will be the winner. That's not what happened here.

 

[Isobe-jan]

If there were no multiple timelines then going back to the past will immediately rewrite the present. Since country A went back in time first, with the intent of dominating the other countries, then none of the other countries would have survived in the present, meaning none of them would have been able to go back. Effectively whoever goes back in time first will be the winner. That's not what happened here.

Yes that's what I said as well:

It doesnt completely make sense to me however because then as soon as one country goes back in time, the future/present changes and potentially stops other countries from also going back

But who knows we havent got a full explanation yet, maybe it's a secret third thing.

 

[mofuru]

The way i see the time travel and future prediction crap in this series is similar to how prediction model works. The father even say that the longer the branch is, the blury his vision become. But he can see the trend similar how trend in linear regression works. We can assume the future people also has this kind of technology to carefully intervene with the past. So instead of multiverse or multiple timeline shit. This manga has more grounded approach that probably can have more flexibility in writing since there will be no pretence that the timeline branch will diverge.