Sekirei/Headscratchers

• The rules state that when a Sekirei loses, they also lose the ability to be with their Ashikabi. Also, there's a battle royale going on that states that they must all fight until one is left. It doesn't really seem to make sense to give Minato a harem of these Sekirei if he's going to lose all but one of them (maybe even all of them).
  • The Battle Royale only applies to teams, not individual Sekirei. Once Minato is the only Ashikabi with active Sekirei, he and his remaining Sekirei win, no matter how many are still active.
    • So it's possible for Minato to wing the 108 Sekirei by himself and have all of them carry him to ascension. Sounds great but I sincerely hope it's not how this is going to finish. Also, the biggest harem in history.
    • Except most of the Sekirei have already been winged and can't be re-winged.
  • Actually, there are a couple of lines of dialouge that indicate it is one Ashikabi to 1 Sekirei, and that this will come up as a problem later in the game.
  • And are you ignoring that mad scientist boss? It is possible for another way for more than one to survive, such as by blowing him away?
    • Do you really think he's not an Ashikabi himself? I bet my head he has like 7 Sekirei protecting him already.
    • As the crazy game master, I doubt that he would be part of the game. Besides, isn't it the Disciplinary Squad's job to protect him?
• #4 is the only thing standing between MBI and the people that want to stop them. She is a Blood Knight to boot. She and the rest of the disciplinary squad can be stopped easily by killing their Ashikabi. Yet this never seems to cross ANY of the main characters minds.
  • Except that most of the main characters don't prescribe to extreme acts just to stop the opposition (though what does happen to decommissioned Sekirei is questionable at times. While it is possible some other characters may choose that route, they haven't succeeded it appears. It's like owning a gun could end many a problem, but that is still illegal. Not that some Sekirei haven't tried to kill Minato.
• What the hell was up with Miya's flashback story? None of it made sense. We were told before Miya was found as an adult by MBI, with the other single-digits as embryos and the rest as fetuses, so how is it now that they could have existed some long space of time in the past and had descendants in the form of later Ashikabi? It doesn't particularly help that she keeps using euphemisms in that scene at the drop of a hat.
  • I didn't understand it beyond "you are descended from first Sekirei, Generation Xerox ensues". I assume it was intentionally confusing and that other characters explain it better than someone who is supposed to be a young girl at the time.
  • Because you read it wrong. The vision is not the people we know today; it's all different people who lived a long time ago. The only reason they look the way they do is because Minato is filtering their image to make the situation more understandable. That little Miya IS NOT the Miya we know, BUT the Miya we know can access the memories of that little Miya, which is exactly what is going on in those chapters. We are seeing the past through little Miya's eyes through current Miya. What we are seeing is Minato's Great x100 grandfather and his sekirei, cause Minato's ancestor was, in fact, the first person to recieve sekirei. Its because of this we find out that all Ashikabi and other humans are, in fact, humans with sekirei DNA, because of mating that took place between past Ashikabi and sekirei. There were 8 ships that each had 108 sekirei that were sent a LONG time ago. The thing is, all of the sekirei we know and see now, like Tsukiumi and Musubi, were never released when they were supposed to, because their ship fell into the river and stayed there for thousands of years until they were finally found by none other than Minaka, CEO of MBI. So, in reality, the 108 sekirei currently in the story are REALLY late to the party.
• Why did the anime adaption make Tsukiumi lose so decisively at the bridge to the punishment squad? In the manga she gives Haihane a Curb Stomp Battle and only fails to defeat Benitsubasa because Yume does it first.
  • Might be a case of Overtook the Manga.
• Why did Minato only take Kuu for the SS Minaka? Since it's pretty well established that the more scheming players will target Ashikabi to kill them and eliminate their Sekirei, it seems reckless to leave his other 5 at home for a major battle.
  • That is because he anticipated that some other Ashikabi will try to steal his MacGuffin while he is gone, and with him having allies in Seo and Sanada, it would be difficult for anyone to come close enough to Kuu to pose a threat. Or at least he thought so.