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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

- Unfortunately, that brings to the part where I complain about alternate realities for half the post. I'm seriously shocked how alone I seem to be in feeling like I do, so if there's some secret to how this works that I'm missing, please tell me. But as far as I can tell, aside from the presence of Sento and "our" Ryuuga, it would've made no difference whatsoever whether this plan to merge two worlds succeeded or failed. This "new" world seems to be identical in just about every way to what "World B" was presumably already like anyway. This whole final showdown was supposed to the ultimate confrontation between Evolt's destruction and Build's creation, an almost mythological conflict between two diametrically opposed beings with everything on the line, but when it came time for Build to actually build something, he basically just stole something that already existed instead. And those people screaming in fear as giant math equations send chunks of the Sky Wall raining down on them don't exactly look like they're being "saved". It's extremely frustrating because this ending, wild though it may be, is actually super thematically appropriate, but because of the way it was executed, it also feels like the exact opposite of that. There's all these questions being raised that aren't important to the story, but still manage to detract from it.

- Why does having Evolt's DNA make Ryuuga want to dye his hair?

You're definitely not alone in this. Me personally, friends I've talked to and some other losers on other sites have all expressed some deep ambivalence towards this ending for exactly these reasons. The merge feels like it's largely in name only, as everyone we knew is essentially gone forever, and there is no indication or reason to believe the versions of the characters we see weren't already that way to begin with. Especially in regards to "our" Misora and Sawa, who were essentially completely overwritten by our hero's own hand. It's particularly troubling because it's clear no one really had a clear idea of how the merge would actually work, and Misora herself brings up earlier whether merging the worlds won't just mean one version of them disappears. I guess the idea is that that didn't "actually" happen, but functionally, from the viewer's perspective, there isn't a meaningful difference. That's basically what we got.

As for Banjou's hair, I think the idea is just Banjou's DNA made his hair lighter to begin with, which hey, may even tie to Evolt-Sento's white hair. Probably not because he possessed plenty of other people with no similar changes, but eh.