Now that you have rewatched the anime are you going to decide a timeperiod of which ANK takes place or are we gonna continue pretending there is a timeline?
There is a timeline! I never really talk about it because I didn’t speak openly of ank on this blog until recently and he doesn’t talk about it on his blog because he’s blissfully unaware of it but here’s the gist I guess full of stretches, ass-pulls, and canon barely-compliance:
the keikaku begins and light volunteers to be confined
he never gives up full ownership and keeps his memories
rem doesn’t find anyone in this verse as good as higucci was so the note just keeps passing from person to person and the yotsuba arc is just dead end after dead end after dead end
light is handcuffed to L post-confinement like in canon and they’re searching for Kira just like in canon they’re just....really fucking bad at it.
surprise! he’s also stuck in a time-loop and doesn’t know it and every time he turns 20 it loops again and he’s back to being almost 18
this blog has been up for about 5 years now which is why he’s 18 again, because year one- 17, year two- 18, year three- 19, year four- 17 and year five- 18.
it’s still 2018 though and time didn’t go back to 2013 because i said it didn’t and i’m the god of this world
every interaction with a different L is in a different verse, and all verses exist independently from each other as does each time skip, but light maintains vague remnant memories of each that occasionally hit him like deja vu, or unreasonable biases against people who might have fucked him over in a past universe (for example, janus in apologistverse. he even fucking hates the janus in roman mythology now).
anyway you know how when you watch one of those animated shows for adults like family guy or american dad and no matter what happens characters never actually grow or develop? and no matter what happens (getting hit by a car, losing a limb, dying, getting married, having a life changing existential discovery) by the time the next episode happens all traces of it are gone and they’re back to being static? and they never age? that’s how ank is.
tl;dr: ank is stuck in a world where he can never win and can never catch a fucking break, and his life is carefully crafted and maintained for our amusement. it’s set in yotsuba arc but light has his memories and they don’t successfully find kira, and he’s perpetually stuck in the awful 17-19 age range everyone hates because his universe resets every time it gets stale.
