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Bumpan.

Finally, her death. while the mass media may numb us, and desensitize us to violence and death, it is quite impossible to fully desensitize us to it. I have mentioned earlier that even The Passion Of The Christ never failed to send people to tears at the depiction of Jesus’ death. But what similarities can we pull out from Reverie’s death, in comparison to Jesus’ ?

1. She felt pain.
It is quite evident that Reverie’s death was rather violent, just like Jesus’ . While it is quite evident that robots feel no pain, pain comes in many forms. Jesus felt not just the physical, but also emotional pain, upon seeing himself shamed and maltreated by the people he came down to save. While Reverie never felt pain when half her body got blasted to bits, being unable to see your loved ones is one of the most painful things anyone, or anything could ever experience. Heck, even the cold-hearted /b/tards had an outpour of emotions, something that /b/tards have in short supply, when they heard Nurse-kun’s story. If that isn’t a powerful-enough example, I don’t know what is.

2 . She was innocent.
Like Jesus, she led a faultless, blameless life. And up till her moment of death, she had hoped, with all her heart, that people would come to the planetarium, even though she knew otherwise. Don’t prod me for the details. I don’t really wanna play it outside of the assigned date. But her innocence, which is one of the factors linking her to Jesus, is readily apparent here.

Even the lolis want to grope Revvie.

I do realize I am crazy for even trying to draw parallels between these two events, but I know, deep down, that planetarian is not just a decent visual novel. I feel that it’s trying to tell us something, but no one has ever bothered to try to decipher it. It is a shocking look at our world today, and a glimpse into the future we do not like to see. Ironic as it may seem, coming from a country where a siginificant part of the population is in the dark about the Divine. Or rather, being led to believe in the wrong kind of god. I still don’t know all of it myself, but I do know that if I don’t try, I’ll never forgive myself.

That’s one of my gifts to the world, and I hope no one rejects it. Even if I may be called crazy and be disbelieved, then again, most of the great prophets and scientists were termed crazies before they were given the recognition and praise they deserved.

I only do this in the service of the father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.