Ruka is not even acknowledged in Second Light, even though she was Hiori's Reflector partner and close friend. They receive more character development than even Ruka and Hiori, the main protagonists. Those two are arguably the best characters in Ray. Interesting Reflectors introduced in Blue Reflection Ray like Niina Yamada and Momo Tanabe are completely absent in Second Light. So how does Hiori get them back in Second Light? Why can't Mio and Uta transform in Second Light? Why does Hiori use twin blue swords in Second Light but only uses a single sword throughout BR Ray? At the end of BR Ray, all Reflectors except Uta lose their powers. The climactic fight with Uta, Hiori sharing her fragment with Mio and the two sisters reconnecting with their missing mother are all NOT shown in Blue Reflection Ray. Even in the first half, most of Hiori's fights were with Niina and not Uta. In the second half of BR Ray, Hiori does not have any fights with Uta. BR Ray does not show Mio and Hiori reconnecting with their mother nor does it show Hiori and Mio fighting Uta. In Second Light, both Mio and Hiori recall Uta lying to them about where their mother is, and then finding out that their mother abandoned them because she felt like a failure. AASA is mentioned in BR Ray and Kokoro makes a cameo appearance but we don't get any information on what AASA does. BR Ray doesn't show any Ash creatures and the only thing that even resembles Ash is the snow falling at the end. In Second Light, all the other Reflectors besides Hinako and Ao mention the Ash falling and battling creatures that were created by the Ash. There was no confirmation that Mio's fragment was permanently destroyed by Shino but it may be the reason why she was not with the others at the end. She succeeds but Shino blasts her and her fragment. Instead, in the final battle against Shino, she uses her own fragment to destroy Shino's defences. The anime does not show Mio destroying her fragment. In Second Light, Mio says that she destroyed her fragment and the reason why she and Hiori share the same Heartscape is because they both share Hiori's fragment. At the end of the anime, the Common is restored along with its boundaries and all seems well, except that Uta is still on the loose and has her powers and Mio is apparently missing.īlue Reflection Ray still doesn't completely explain the events between Blue Reflection and Blue Reflection Second Light. The protagonists are forced to realize that just like their enemies, they need to force open the doors to the Common to return the Fragments to their owners. The anime also tells us that once a Fragment is taken from its owner in the real world, it cannot be returned and the damage may be permanent. These cases, along with her failure to stabilize her own sister's fragment in the original timeline, would eventually lead her to conclude that Reflectors can't really save anyone - her reason for choosing the dark path and implementing Shino's plans in the new timeline that was created when the world was reset after Hinako defeated the last Sephira.īy the start of Blue Reflection Ray, the boundaries between the real world and the Common are weakening and fragments now can manifest in the real world. Mio, a new Reflector who was tasked with helping these girls was instead slowly overwhelmed by despair and helplessness when she encountered all these complex cases almost immediately after becoming a Reflector.
Niina grew up physically abused, hungry, dirt poor, abandoned and homeless, Uta never understood the feelings everyone has and grew up obsessed with pain and Shino's cultist mother forced her to watch her twin sister's murder before making her drink her dead sister's blood, and all that was after years of brainwashing for her and physical abuse for her sister.
The dark reflectors' backstories make a compelling argument for this view. The anime on the other hand, tells us that it's not so simple - some people may have serious problems that will recur and merely stabilizing their fragment once will not treat the underlying problems in their lives. She does this by going into the Common, finding their fragments and stabilizing them by understanding their feelings. The first BR game shows Hinako helping troubled girls whose fragments have gone rampant. I liked how the anime expanded on some ideas introduced in the original Blue Reflection game. I just finished watching the anime Blue Reflection Ray and I'm left with more questions than answers.
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