The World Ends With You

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The World Ends With You
The World Ends With You
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The World Ends With You

Prologue is the opening chapter of NEO: The World Ends with You. It contains no battles and is mostly novel sections and cutscenes.

Story[]

Rindo Kanade is looking for his friend Tosai "Fret" Furesawa in the Scramble Crossing, and runs up to the 104 Building (district) to meet him, where Fret passes him a "Reaper Pin" which he says has become a hot item in the city. Rindo accidentally drops his, and an unknown stranger returns it to him. As they head up to Dogenzaka for curry or ramen for lunch, Rindo is contacted on FantasyGO by his friend Swallow who mentions that she is in the Scramble Crossing. As he heads there to meet her, he briefly notices a Support Reaper near the lower end of Dogenzaka, although he does not recognize him as such. When he enters the Scramble Crossing, he is shocked to see a serious of explosions, and people apparently fighting strange monsters (Noise) with lasers. He believes this to be a film being made but sees people actually being harmed and he and Fret decide to flee when a Noise hits a truck, causing it to flip over and apparently crush Fret. As Rindo panics, he suddenly finds himself back at the moment when he arrived in the Crossing, and prevents Fret running in the direction where the truck hit him.

Foreshadowing and notes[]

There are a number of forward references in the Prologue that are relevant to events later in the game.

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  • Both of the restaurants that Rindo and Fret choose between are available to Players in the UG, meaning that the point at which Rindo and Fret enter the UG as a result of wearing their Reaper Pins could be any time after Fret hands them over.
  • Fret's Remind was foreshadowed through his involuntary first useage of the psych when he struggles to remember what psychokinesis is, but instead causes Rindo to remember the term instead as he is in range of the psych.
  • Rindo returning to the time before Fret was hit by the truck represents his first involuntary activation of Replay.
  • The stranger who gives the pin back to Rindo after it drops by their feet is not explicitly revealed, but they are in fact Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu. The legs that can be seen match his design.
  • Rindo goes to the Scramble Crossing to meet Swallow, who had told him she was there. Although he is distracted on the way, he does in fact meet Shoka Sakurane there at the beginning of Day 1.
  • RG objects can normally only hit people in the UG if they are controlled by a psych such as a Psychokinesis pin, or summoned by Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu's attack. There is thus some confusion in the scene where Fret is hit by the truck, since Fret is in the UG and the truck should have passed through him. However, both Rindo and Fret are unaware of the existance of the UG and RG at the time, and Rindo's panic at seeing his friend apparently killed is understandable regardless.
  • Likewise, it would not have been possible for a Noise to collide with a truck in the RG. However, 🡒urbaNlegendZ (Week 2, Day 4) later establishes that Noise can cause emotional shifts in people in the RG if it interacts with them, so likely the Noise's presence caused the truck driver to panic and slam on the brakes even though the driver could not see it.
Days in NEO: The World Ends with You
Prologue Prologue
Week 1 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7
Week 2 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7
Week 3 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 77 Part 27 Part 3
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