totally agree with you, I think the memories series kinda exploded really. I think hino just wanted to give us some cute stories to lessen the pain of the actual end, but since vampire knight was and is still kinda popular... she had to continue? Like the first chapters where random moments of their life’s and such and suddenly... we’re getting a full new story itself OO
The story certainly takes place in some kind of Japan... Kaname made that joke about “Ren” and “Ai” being “Renai”, like obviously their names are Japanese and such but like for the characters to show awareness of their language, it think it’s sigh enough?? Sorry it’s so hard to explain ooph
The only technological change we’ve seen is that motorbike. Thinking about all the research Aido has done, the tech.progress should be much more advanced, also they know about “space” (the vampire lady who held that soiree said something about “escaping into space”)
Your comment really showed me some different ways to think about the world of vk tho... thanks for sharing your thoughts!
It feels like Matsuri Hino suddenly wants to expand the universe of this series and make it all alternative history, but we know next to nothing about the current factions and the political landscape on the human side of things. She probably thinks setting it 1000 years from now means she can create stuff as she likes, but then she threw out "Year 1120" as if we would have any idea what that meant. It implies that the original Vampire Knight did not exist in our timeline, which is a FIRST FOR ME GIVEN THAT I READ THE WHOLE STORY THINKING IT WAS SET IN MODERN-DAY JAPAN, but if that's the case then what exactly differentiates it from our universe other than the existence of vampires? WHERE does the story take place, then? And if it is in fact in our universe, 1) Why has literally nothing changed technology-wise in 1000 years, and 2) What event led to the calendar being reset so we're in the 1000s, not the 3000s?
She doesn't have all the pieces in place and yet she's moving forward with this second-generation story. She's world-building basic things like geopolitics when that should be the first thing you do. It would be like if Kishimoto wrote Naruto but didn't introduce the different countries until Boruto. Σ( ￣□￣||)