Joshua says that he's already collected the entry fee, with only a very slight hint of it being Shiki and Beat since that was the last thing he had done.
I don't personally see it, though. Wasn't Josh's line something more like "Hmm I didn't think he actually said "entry fee" in the sentence. Additionally, it seems wrong that they're the entry fee because they end up alive and with Neku in the end. We're accustomed to the idea of losing the entry fee when you lose the game from The Game. Especially since the secret reports mention that since Rhyme lost, she'd lose her fee even if she came back to life.
All that said, I can't imagine why else Shiki and Beat would suddenly be immobilized or what else that entry fee could have been. Hambo the Hog posted That's interesting to note. Assuming that Joshua wasn't lying about taking an entry fee from Neku which is what most of us logically do , he wouldn't have it anymore after that game. I wonder what it was I kind of always saw their immobilization as Josh showing off his Composer powers.
User Info: danieljarlson. It's just so obvious that it causes me physical pain that people can't comprehend That's Josh paralyzed Shiki and Beat in order to demonstrate his powers as the Composer to Neku, and his final game with Neku and the corresponding entry fee isn't even mentioned until about three minutes later, after an exposition-heavy dialogue and one FMV.
We can't move! Joshua: See? I'm the Composer! Oh yeah, I've already taken your entry fee. There's no mention as to what the entry fee was and no implication that it was Shiki and Beat. There's also the fact that when other humans were taken as entry fees, they vanished entirely or, in Rhyme's case, were turned into a pin , whereas Beat and Shiki were just frozen in place.
User Info: Afalseprophet. I think the last game's entry fee was Shibuya. If Neku shot at Joshua, failing the test of character, both he and Shibuya would have been erased. Afalseprophet posted But since Neku wins both his life and Shibuya are returned to him That More topics from this board Was it racist to have Beat speak ebonics to mimic rudeness and delinquency?
How do I un-curse the statue? Side Quest 2 Answers How do I unlock the last 2 pin slots? Side Quest 2 Answers Where can I find some scarletites? Her death was legitimate, and so was her erasure, even if both were tragic and selfless. She certainly didn't win a Game. The possibility of her revival wouldn't have even come up if Beat hadn't tried to cheat the system.
Or does it count as getting his entry fee back after defeating Konishi, even if the game is likely null and void? Josh and Mr H have no reason to be stingy, or obey the rules of the game. Beat, Neku and Shiki would be upset if Rhyme wasn't returned and technically she wasn't erased Because Mr H cheated the system by turning her into a pin , so you could argue that she won the game along with the other three.
Adding on to this, I think Joshua did it for the same reason he brought back everyone else - he'd been affected by Neku. He had no obligation to bring back any of them, but he did, so why not bring back all of them to make Neku's group complete? In fact, I'm pretty sure him bringing back Players that hadn't earned it is what he's facing the repercussions Hanekoma mentions from the higher ups for.
Joshua went beyond what he should have done, for Neku's sake. Of course, my bias may be showing. Rhyme: Partners with her brother even if she doesn't realize it. She is erased in one hit by a legitimate Noise attack. He is saved by seemingly motiveless intervention from Mr. He wins on the sideline as a result, and this gives him the opportunity to become a Reaper, bring her back illegitimately, betray them, etc.
In the end, she lives. Sota: Partners with his girlfriend. Taboo Noise an illegal creation starts attacking everyone. After more than five days of this, she is eventually overwhelmed and is erased. No one intervenes to save him, despite the rulebreaking that led to her erasure. He dies. Both befriended Neku. Both won at least one mission for him. Can you honestly say that Rhyme deserved to be brought back and Sota didn't? And even if this is Joshua's doing, isn't it odd that he never met Rhyme, yet had several conversations with Sota?
We didn't get to see everyone in Shibuya at the end. Neku talked to Sota and Nao, and probably liked them at least a little, but they weren't really friends and they probably wouldn't purposefully try to find each other once reincarnated. I like to think they got to come back, especially since Shibuya itself, not just Neku and friends, was implied to be fixed. I also like to think didn't stay erased— his death didn't sit right with me either.
Since Sota and Nao were erased by Taboo Noise would their entry fees have been refundable? There presumably wasn't anyone around to get to Sota after Nao was erased. It just happened to be a stroke of luck that Hanekoma was present when Rhyme was erased. As we all know, Joshua was with Neku when they saw Sota and Nao getting erased. He took the brunt of Neku's anger and sorrow of not being able to help who he considered to be worth helping.
Since he's seen Neku's reaction, and since he's also seen Neku's change by the end of the Game, don't you think he would have revived those two, just for the heck of it? I mean, why not, right? If Beat wins, his entry fee is returned. If I recall correctly, his entry fee was his sister's love for him, or their relationship, or something along those lines. That can't be restored if she's erased, and Beat gets to have his entry fee back.
Also, maybe she's alive, but she doesn't have the most important thing to her anymore- which is implied to be her dreams. It's better than nonexistance, but it's not a perfect end.
What they meant was his entry fee for week 3, i. Rhyme's noise pin. Tying this into the questions above about whether or not Neku had to go through a fourth game week post-game, I've always liked the believe that if he did play one last time that Joshua raised Rhyme back up from Noise to Player to be his partner, and she won her way back to life then.
It might even be the entire reason that he got put through it one last time, if that's what happened, as Joshua doing one last nice thing buried under his usual jackassery; with how early she was erased Rhyme probably couldn't be outright resurrected without going through another Game in the seventh Secret Report it's mentioned that even Players who make it all the way through their Game end up being broken down into Soul anyway if their Imagination is too weak, and Rhyme's Imagination didn't get the full week to be refined , and Neku's reached a point where he can probably just fly himself and his Partner straight through a game week without much trouble so there wouldn't be any worry of her getting stuck with a sub-par partner and erased again because of that.
That can't be right. If you look closely at the people around Neku when he wakes up at the Scramble for the fourth time, you can see that people are surrounding him, rather than just walking over him. The fact that people in the RG can see him shows that he's not in the Game anymore. Not to mention, the Secret Reports mention that Rhyme didn't win her entry fee back, so she couldn't have played the Game again.
I assumed that technically, Rhyme DID manage to survive to the end of the week, but only after some severe rule bending from Mr. At that point Rhyme would still be considered "alive," and since her Noise form wasn't erased by Konishi until the third week, she would get by on a technicality.
I'm assuming. Arguably, not resurrecting Rhyme would be breaking his own rules - if Rhyme was dead, can her memories of Beat who survived, and thus should have had his fee returned be said to have truly returned?
After coming back. What happens to people after they come back to life? Do people forget that they were dead? It's really the only explanation, but the game never really talks about it. Theory is that either the Composer shifts reality so they never died in the first place or just erases everybody else's memory of their death.
Erasing memories or subtly shifting reality should be a cakewalk to reviving anyway. An alternate theory is that He or She shoves them into an alternate universe where they hadn't died, although I prefer the memory theory. And even if this is limited to non-Players, Eri is aware that Shiki died a number of days before.
Ultimately though, none of these theories are hinted at by the plot, unless you count how nobody acts like people routinely come back to life. Eri is aware that Shiki died while Shiki's still playing the game. Logically, memories of people's deaths wouldn't be erased until they'd won and chosen to come back to life. There's no proof that Eri remembered Shiki dying after she came back. Actually, there's no proof that even the Players themselves remember the Game in normal cases.
Neku and co. I don't recall Eri ever explicitly stating that Shiki was dead, just that she wished Shiki could come back. Perhaps all the Players are all actually comatose? That's one of the guesses. Joshua is pretty powerful, maybe he just let them remember? Eri does state explicitly that Shiki died. In an accident the other day. Kitaniji's hands.
Why doesn't Kitaniji wear gloves? It seems like it would be easier for him, and they'd suit his suit if he got the right kind. Does he need them? Nobody noticed that he had a timer until seconds before his death. Besides, they don't lend themselves well to snake forms. Well, assuming that the timer was visible to other people, gloves would make it a lot more plausible that no one noticed in that month. Maybe his "snake" form is actually a Japanese dragon , as they're usually depicted as serpent-like.
That snake form is called Anguis Cantus. Therefore, it's pretty clear that Anguis Cantus is supposed to be a snake. Secret Report 1: 7. Another Secret Report Headscratcher: Week 1 Day 7's report discusses the multiple options available for winners of the Game. Being converted into Soul, becoming a Reaper or Angel, or, if the Composer deigns it so, reincarnation.
What bugs me is that every Player in the game acts as though reincarnation, which is described by the report as an oddity, is the only option. Several Players say that they'd gladly risk themselves multiple times for a chance to come back to life, even though many Reapers and the one Angel we see have RG lives as well. Shiki considers giving up and losing which would also kill Neku when she thinks that she has nothing to go back to, rather than aiming for a nice afterlife.
Kitaniji pulls an entry fee stunt on her to hide the fact that the Composer can't reincarnate her, when he could offer an alternate option. Someone's opinion of reincarnation is poorly informed, and I'm not sure whose. Well, I would assume that they have trouble with the idea of feeding off of innocent Players in order to stay alive.
This doesn't really explain why they couldn't just become Support reapers, other than the fact that standing in one spot waiting for some loser to ask you to remove a wall is incredibly boring. Innocent Players? Neku is the only truly innocent Player. Let's put it this way. If none of the Reapers or the UG existed, what would have happened? Shiki gets into an accident after her argument with Eri Beat tries to save Rhyme from an incoming car No one deserves to continue to exist, but the game offers the opportunity and the sorting algorithm.
All they have to do is earn it. And those that earn it are given the duty of testing the others. It really shouldn't be that undesirable. Otherwise, it seems that they have successfully devised an afterlife system in which the act of not dying is preferable to even the best possible reward.
And even for those who do die, it's better to die young than to become elderly. I guess that would explain why there aren't any religions devoted to the Reapers. Depends on who is saying, innocent.
Then again, while the Reapers have to erase players to continue to exist, the players typically don't need to defeat Reapers to return to life, except for the Game Master at the end of the week. Thus, most battles between players and Reapers are Reaper-initiated. The problem with Beat was that he was going after Neku and thus hindering his attempt to bring Shiki back , in order to bring Rhyme back.
Well, Reapers attack Players with Noises, and Noises are formed from bad emotions and all that. Not being defeated by said emotions is a good test of character, right? After all, the objective of the game is make the Players grow. Shopkeepers and red pins. Why aren't the shopkeepers affected by the red pins in the endgame? You'd think that Mick, at the very least, would have one, seeing as he was very involved in that subplot. In fact, the shopkeepers must never leave their stores; they never comment on the fact that every other person in Shibuya is standing around muttering about paradise.
This is especially true for the elderly man who runs the herbal remedy shop just east of the scramble. Assuming you have befriended him enough, he asks you if you've met his grandson Shuto. You have; you've played him in several Tin Pin Slammer matches. More importantly, he's standing right outside that building , saying stuff about righting the constant wrongs of our day.
Look out the window occasionally, old man! The old man also has a granddaughter, who's trying to reach his store in Week 1, tries to find the man who helped her in Week 2, and succeeds in Week 3. She's also somewhere among the brainwashed massses. Well, if you get the Samurai Helm in Week 3, Day 7, by going to see Ken Doi who apparently left boxes all over town for you over the past three weeks , he briefly succumbs, then goes back to normal and acts confused.
Don't forget, all of the shops that you can go to have the skull symbol in front. I think the symbol is what protects them from the red pins not the player pin it's self. It would also explain why ken Doi succumbs, he walked outside to give Neku the box. I can tell you about Mick. On Week 3 Day 3 when you walk to you see him moaning about his Business, then Eiji Oji show up and tell him about to wear whatever feel right to him.
Now if you play the card right, you see him back to himself, and I think he isn't wearing the Red Pin on himself, Lucky him. My guess is that the shop decals act almost like the Player Pins; both of them have the ability of protecting the subjects from the frequency of the Red Skull pins.
This is made even more obvious by Makoto himself; if you did the events as described by the person above me, his shop, Shadow Ramen, will open on W3D5. Befriend him enough, and he'll start selling Red Skull pins as Trade items. An unlimited supply. You'd think that would be enough to tempt him to succumb.
Actually, the Secret Reports state that the marks lower the vibe of anything that enters. Presumably, the marks disrupt the Conductor's imprinting vibe. Joshua's parents. If I can recall, Joshua's nickname was given to him by his parents as he mentions in his introduction. He says "Mother and father call me Joshua", Just who are his parents? What happened to them? It's possible that Joshua being The Composer was some sort of Chosen One deal, and that Joshua was chosen for this role and ascended to some higher plane of existence.
Some of his lines sound like suicide ideation. He could be a winner of another Game in the past, most likely promoted by Hanekoma after showing some promise. Rhyme pin. You can have more than one Rhyme pin. In fact, if you go for all the secret reports, you will have two, and to get to the credits sequence a second time to see the full fruits of your efforts, you'll end up with three.
And that's if you save trying for Beat, Day 7's Boss symbol battle until after you've accomplished all the other requirements. Oh, and you can equip this pin during the second playthrough, as well, which means you might be wearing it when Rhyme is "alive" or at least, as alive as any Player is , when Beat is attacking you, and even when you and Beat are chasing and fighting Konishi and Uzuki, briefly in order to get the pin back.
You can't cash any of them in, as they're "worth more than all the yen in the world" Or will the other two or more be kept around as pet ferrets? No matter how you slice it, this has some seriously weird implications. On a pragmatic level, the pins are received already mastered, and of course, you can only equip one at a time, so having more than one seems to only exist as a means of counting how many times you've defeated Konishi.
That's nothing. I have nine. Even that is nothing. You can buy Rhyme pins at Shadow Ramen. You can buy them. Fighting Reaper Beat with the pin is probably one of the most sadistic things you can do, though it's not addressed in the game. Also very impractical. He's a very quick enemy, and using that pin tends to require your enemy to hold still long enough to land the hit. Maybe Hanekoma liked the Rhyme pin, so he created several more, much like the fake one given to Uzuki.
Said pin just happens to be an additional drop for Konishi, and since Neku has one real one and several fakes that summon a regular old Noise, well It's in a junkyard, parts of it smashed into a car.
LOL, it's so ironic! Nice going, Neku. Also, if I recall correctly, they're Gatito pins You recall incorrectly. Rhyme, like all Noise pins, is Unbranded. Shiki's clothing. At the end of the game, you see the real Shiki, and she's dramatically less good looking than her UG counterpart. I only got a quick glimpse of her, but if memory serves correctly, the reason she's kind of plain looking is not because she's really fat or has acne or something, it's because she's got an unattractive hairdo, round glasses, and loose fitting, untrendy clothing.
That is, it's a fashion issue that makes her unattractive, not a body issues. Which is strange, because Shiki is supposed to be very fashion-conscious.
Shiki only claimed to be fashion-conscious, that doesn't necessarily mean she is. She either said that because she was still imitating Eri, or was simply in denial about her lack of fashion sense.
Besides, Eri had told her she wasn't cut out to be a designer. Perhaps this may be a matter of personal taste, but I found what I saw of Shiki's appearance more attractive than Eri's. Shiki's whole arc was about jealousy stemming from low self-esteem.
She's probably saying the truth when she says she knows all the trends, but that's an entirely different thing from being confident enough to wear a mini so mini your hip bones jut out. It's well established that she feels inferior to Eri in a lot of ways, and that's why she decided to take her form in the Game.
In the Game's terms, she just isn't Brave enough to pull it off. Which can also be Fridge Brilliance : Shiki's high Bravery stat can be because she feels more confident under disguise. Shiki in week 3. Shiki won the game in Week 1, so why does she still have Eri's appearance in Week 3?
Kitaniji probably just never gave it back, considering that she was basically nonexistent for two weeks. In the Composer's absence the rules of the UG were invalidated, so he had no real obligation to return her entry fee anyway. Probably so that Neku would recognize her when he saw her in the Shibuya River, and thus have difficulty fighting her; if she looked different, and then attacked, it would be easier for Neku to psychologically distance himself.
Kitaniji presumably doesn't know that Neku knows that Shiki has Eri's appearance. Or we can take Joshua word for it in another day, That we see what Neku see, but Beat on the other hand Met her during the first week several times. The same may very well apply to him. We're kind of forgetting that Kitaniji, as the Conductor, doesn't have the power to bring people back to life; only the Composer does.
It's safe to assume that the Conductor can't return the entry fee to the Players either. Not true. Kitaniji returned Neku's entry fee at the end of Week 1, and the Secret Reports say that Beat's entry fee was returned as well.
I'm assuming Joshua was the one who returned Beat's entry fee, as Kitaniji has been erased by the time they are reincarnated, but it's true that he DID return Neku's as well. Perhaps he didn't feel the need to return Shiki's entry fee since he couldn't bring her back to life anyways, and was probably counting on Neku to be erased, making his entry fee null and void.
Trap at Towa. What would have happened if all of the Players had realized the mission to reach Towa Records with no time limit was a trap, and thus avoided going there? They'd probably get erased. Just because there's no time limit doesn't mean that the Reapers can't decide that they've had more than enough time, or maybe it'd be an automatic game over if the RG day ended. An automatic game over would probably occur at the end of the week since they're told the game lasts sevens days at the beginning.
Plus, the players would still be assigned a new mission each day. Tin Pin Slammer. I was just wondering How on earth would one play Tin Pin Slammer in real life? And what the heck does Shooter use the Red Kaiser for? Shooting pins? How does that help you in the game at all? I like to think the pins were controlled semi-psychicly, a-la the Beyblade anime.
It would naturally follow that the Whammies are actually low-level psyches, and the entire purpose of Tin Pin Slammer is to help people develop their latent psychic abilities, with the intent of strengthening their Imagination to give them a better chance in the Reaper's Game. Several lines in Another Day support this - Beat mentions he feels more badass just by wearing his, and Shiki finds hers to be rather fashionable. Presumably, they imprint on people in a similar way to CAT's graffiti or the Red Skull pins in order to encourage people to wear them.
Of cousre, this theory blends the two continuities a bit too much to be plausible, until you consider that pins and Tin Pin are heavily integrated into the Game, and that Another Day's Game could actually involve playing Tin Pin in order to earn a second chance at life.
The above troper is right; when Red Kaiser is smashed in Another Day, Shooter is depressed, but admits that he can play without it, as it does nothing at all , just being a training brace; this surprises even Neku, who had previously said that Shooter could play without it. Maybe pins have built-in chips and work somewhat akin to Amiibos the game was developed for Nintendo platform, so it has some amount of sense in a digital game?
Accidentally, that also accounts for inflated prices - they are not just regular useless dozen-on-a-dime pins, but game pieces of different rarity tiers. Shiki and Neku's fashion. Does anyone else find it ironic that Shiki mocks over Neku's modified "Jupiter of the monkey"-outfit, while she herself, in real life, wears a badly assembled mix of "Mus Rattus" most unpopular brand in Shibuya and "Natural Puppy" clothes? Reconsidering it again, why hasn't Eri already desinged her better clothes yet?!
The two are supposed to be BFF aren't they?! Just like the odds are that your favorite webcomic artist or fanfic writer is really a fat virgin nerd , it's highly likely that Shiki just doesn't take the time to do nice things for herself. Say, ever think that that the shopkeepers are ex-players themselves. I mean why would they sell "pins" that have better psychs than the starter pins?
Or how the clothes they sell act like Armor and Accessory for the games? And why no one just cleans up that tag that let the RG see the Player?
The Reapers send them the stuff to sell. They are clueless about what it does. The Reapers control Shibuya's fashion. The shopkeeprs are the ones who tell you what your threads do, so obviously they know. Also, the reapers may control the available items, but its the players who control the trends. Visible in certain stores.
How does it make sense that the players are visible in certain stores? I mean, let's take an example: Shiki goes shopping in with Neku. Eri goes shopping at the same time in Eri sees Shiki in her body. I'm just here, playing a game for my life in your body, because I like my own so much!
Makes perfectly sense, doesn't it? Excuse me, I'm off to faint, over there in the corner! Next example: Beat and Rhyme go shopping. Their parents go shopping. The parents see their dead children. Heart attack, period.
What is the point in making dead people visible in shops, when everybody knows that they're supposed to be, well, dead?! Don't think too hard on it, it's just a game. How else would they shop?
Practically speaking, every time there's been an event in it's been incredibly crowded. Odds are good that it would be difficult to see anyone specific who wasn't standing at your elbow. If the Pins did that, Neku wouldn't have been able to become Shooter's rival. It only works if you're not directly interacting with someone or extremely visible. I'm going to go with the most logical response here: What are the actual chances of somebody you know, that knows you're dead, shopping in the same store as you at the exact same second, in a place like Shibuya, which is a shopping mecca??
Astronomically slim, that's what. Just because we only have access to a dozen or so stores in game, that doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of others around for other people to be shopping at, instead of where you are. Not all that slim. Eri and Shiki probably buy in the same places, and better yet, what if Prince took a photo of Shiki when they met and posted it in his blog?
Besides that, Reapers can visit the RG too, and it's implied that they were players. So, can't they go meet their family for example? Or, in the case of , if their families are still alive, do they have to avoid fame so they wouldn't be spotted?
On a more mechanical note, why are cars less durable than bicycles? They always seem to deliver less hits when used with Psychokinesis pins before blinking out. Furthermore, I'm not sure what kind of weirdness censor the RG people have, but I don't think they could miss a car flying through the air and then falling apart inexplicably. I also don't think objects can have their vibe adjusted in the same way that Players and Reapers can, which means that if a car exists in the Noise Plane it probably exists in the Real Ground too.
My guess is that the cars and such in the Noise Plane are created by people similar to how the Noise are created. And well you use more Telekinesis on a Cars than a bicycles. You don't see some in the RG.
Well, there are some Car passing by at Dogenzaka, but still. Actually, if Sho's trash heaps are any indication, objects can be adjusted to exist on individual planes.
After all, Konishi states specifically that his "works of art" were spotted around the UG. I get how BPP works; you face Noise I'm guessing Mingle PP is your characters interacting with other players espers , living people in stores civvies , and aliens. Shutdown is either "Recharge" PP Get some fugging sleep! It's Anti Poop-Socking , of course. It can go beyond the realms of logic.
Killed while shopping. What would happen if a Player was killed while shopping? The shops count as both part of the RG and the UG. You can't "do" certain things in the RG like killing people or players , so the likely answer is that somebody would be in for a whole lot of pain once the higher-ups found out. I think he's referring to "what if some random loser robbed one of the stores and attacked a player with lethal results?
But will they have to pay another entry fee? Okay, so the players eat. And you can even get a special sticker that allows you to eat anything in the game without becoming full.
I suppose the other players could go use the bathroom while Neku's shopping at least the restaurants have to have toilets , but Easy, they just switch off. UG is on a different frequency of existence - like a different radio station. Plus, the kids are, you know, dead. Why would they body function as a living person's should be? They're Souls that retain human shape and mind, and when they show up at a shop or a fastfood junction, it probably counts as being a very tangible ghost.
There's another thing. You know how every food item has a certain amount of bytes, and that you have a certain amount of bytes you can digest per day? And you digest food by fighting. So when you eat and then fight, food bytes slowly become your own, thus adding a point to whatever stat the food is raising. I think it's kind of like an expansion to the Soul - it gets bigger or more dense the higher your stats is, and you get higher stats by eating food or wearing items.
Selling pins. When you sell your pins, who are you selling them to? Not a shopkeeper, because you can't sell pins while in a shop. Certainly not a random bystander— they can't see you. The trash can. A Vendor Trash Machine. The Assimilation Plot seems to happen gradually, and one of the Secret Reports seems to suggest that this is because it takes a while for everyone to get Red Skull pins.
How does the rest of the population get them if anyone they could possibly buy them from is busy standing in one place and talking in red text? For that matter, why does nobody else notice? When you scan the remaining people, they have normal thoughts. Is that guy so distracted by that girl's outfit that he doesn't notice her glowing red eyes? Is the post about "princess training" on Princess K's blog really stranger than the posts about shining a light of true redemption?
And the one that notices you reading their mind and is paranoid about mind control has no excuse. The one who was paranoid about mind control probably left Shibuya. The Conductor began spreading the red skull pins across Shibuya during the first week, but they weren't activated yet. When the third week came, they had been issued to the Reapers as O-Pins and by then pretty much everybody in Shibuya had one. So come the third week, he activated the pins and the pins slowly took effect, resulting in mass brainwashing without the suspicion.
Other players. What happened to the other Week 3 Players after Neku and Beat won the game? The Composer reset the three weeks, I think. Therefore, everything that happened is now nothing more than a memory. To the people of Shibuya, it's like a Canon Discontinuity. If Shibuya was indeed reset, wouldn't this cause problems?
For instance, if someone who was in Shibuya at the beginning of the three weeks but had left by the end of the third week, the reset would cause two copies of that person to exist. Or maybe the fee wasn't the potential players, themselves, but instead the possibility of any other players?
In other words, Neku himself was the one and only player until Beat came along. How many people die in Shibuya in a week, anyway?
Of course, that being Week One and considering that apparently there isn't a Game every week, those may have been built up over time. Which, come to think of it, makes me wonder how long some people sit around waiting for a Game to be held. Are they conscious for it? I suspect they're treated as though they never entered, and got another chance to play through.
Each other as entry fees. What would happen if two player's had each other as their entry fees? Instant Game Over? Not possible. They might take your memories of each other, but not the actual person. Kitanji only does this with Shiki to cover his ass. Perhaps it would depend what about that person they valued.
If it's companionship, for example, they might be put on separate teams and unable to see each other. This is very obvious. It is explained during Day 8, and can be inferred during the entire first week as he cannot remember anything besides his name. Shiki - Her appearance. This is obvious as well. It is revealed during Day 6 when Neku and Shiki see Eri in the crowds.
Beat - Rhyme's memories of him. Not quite as obvious until the final day. It is said by Konishi that this is the case. Rhyme - Her goals, ambitions, and dreams. Though not said outright, it can be inferred that this is true. She admits that she "had never had a dream" during Day 4. Beat later says during Day 17 that she had lots of dreams before she died, and that he lied about is dream about becoming the best skater in the world.
Megumi - His ability to roam Shibuya. This seems likely, as he is very concerned about Shibuya's existance, and utters, "The streets I know and love This is a bluff on Megumi's part, as he couldn't restore Shiki to life. However, ironically, this is enough for Neku to focus everything on this game to win.
Revealed on the first day of this Game. Beat - Rhyme. Konishi takes Rhyme's Noise as his entry fee. This explains how Rhyme appears at the end of the game, alive and well.
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