Talk:Collection of official statements/@comment-2A01:CB15:816C:D000:D4C7:62B8:FD02:42B4-20180621084810/@comment-2A02:1810:4F0B:500:C436:9503:788C:4743-20180621120620

About 1)

- I had that translated by a woman who speaks Japanese and she said that in the first line it could be ita, the past tense for to be, but it also could be itta which is to die, but she thinks it might be ita because that's used for typical starts of fairytales. So that's where you're right. HOWEVER, she does also say that the dialogue continues a bit further with 彼が微笑を浮かべて逝ったことを, which does literally say that Lelouch died with a smile. So the epilogue is very much about Lelouch's death.

- The plan was called Zero REQUIEM, the word requiem means a mass or song to soothe the souls of the dead, or to remember the dead, so it is clearly tied to people being dead.

- Furthermore, this new epilogue (well, "new", it's from 2009) fits perfectly with all the interviews and official statements the creators have made about Lelouch truly being dead. There's even a interview which is a perfect match with C.C.'s words here: "Knowing that Lelouch does not hate her for giving him the Geass, she is now able to show her true feelings. With the realization of "Zero Requiem", her time with Lelouch, who was able to forgive and accept her, came to an end, but the memories created with him has, without doubt, saved her from eternal loneliness."

- Lastly, the reason why I used these translatiosn (the "A young man dies") is because they're the official subs. If they were deemed accurate enough to be on the blu-ray, they're accurate enough to be used by fans.

2) You're wrong about your interpretation. There's nothing more important to a story than its ending. If the hay cart scene was vital to understand its ending, it wouldnt have been dropped. That would be like recapping Lord of the Rings and dropping the scene where Gollum takes the Ring and falls in the lava. It's vital to know that the Ring was destroyed, otherwise you have a completely different story. Therefore, by logic, you can deduce that the hay cart scene is NOT needed to understand the ending. On top of that, they didn't just drop the scene for tie, they RECPLACED it, they created a whole new scene, which costs time for the recap (and money), a scene which completely contradicts the interpretation by some of the hay cart scene, a scene which, as said in the article, matches perfectly with the interviews.